by McKenna Gordon | Aug 6, 2016 | Essential Oils, Home, Family & Personal Care, Recipes
Many parents love using baby oil because applying a baby oil while skin is still wet after a bath can lock in more moisture more effectively than applying lotion to dry skin. It’s also great for a bonding baby massage. But commercial baby oils can do much more harm...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 24, 2016 | Essential Oils, Natural Home Cleaning
Most people’s go-to toilet cleaner products contain toxic ingredients. That’s why instructions say that we must avoid any direct skin contact and must be keep out of reach of children because when ingested, it can bring catastrophic, sometimes deadly consequences. So...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 19, 2016 | Essential Oils, Recipes
Most DIY recipes frustrate me because they involve a lot of steps and weird ingredients. Sometimes that’s necessary, but usually it’s not. It can be very easy to make your own baby lotion, taking less than 10 minutes including clean-up. I feel that...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 13, 2016 | Beauty, Essential Oils, Recipes
The beauty industry encourages us to use all sorts of products to exfoliate, peel, strip, degrease, and moisturize our faces. But the problem this often creates is a dependency on these products. Our skin gets so off balance from its natural ability to cleanse its own...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 13, 2016 | Beauty, Essential Oils, Recipes
Washing hands regularly is so important to health and especially in preventing the spread of illness. But antibacterial soap chemicals not only kill bad germs, but also the beneficial bacteria that make up a good part of our immune system. Fortunately, scrubbing hands...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 10, 2016 | Essential Oils, Well-being
Diethyltoluamide or DEET has caused some speculation over the years regarding its use. Author of “Is Bug Spray Dangerous” Remy Melina mentioned in his article in LiveScience that, ”Although the Environmental Protection Agency re-approved the use of DEET in...
by McKenna Gordon | Jul 6, 2016 | Essential Oils, Well-being
Essential oils are all the rage right now and a lot of people are wanting to learn how to use them during births. I have been using essential oils for a decade now and as a doula I can say that it’s important to know that if used correctly and diluted properly,...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 21, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Well-being
Five Beings We have 5 aspects to our being: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and energetic. It’s really important to not neglect any of these if we want to make a true change in our life. I think it’s crazy when we are told to just throw willpower at...
by McKenna Gordon | Jun 7, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Parenting, Well-being
It’s a completely normal scenario: your child starts flipping out over something seemingly small, like being given the the pink cup instead of the green cup. Or having to get off the swings at the park because it’s time for dinner. They go from fine to...
by McKenna Gordon | May 30, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Well-being
What percentage of your average day is spent in stress? What We Have to Worry About Vs Our Ancestors Compared to 50-100 years ago, we are taking in a LOT of data every day. Did you know that every single day, the average person takes in the equivalent of...
by McKenna Gordon | May 18, 2016 | Nutrition, Parenting, Well-being
Our natural summertime habits can actually make our kids lose weight and it’s not just because they are more active. If your kids are in school or even being homeschooled, they’re waking up early, you’re on a regimented schedule, you’re getting...
by McKenna Gordon | May 18, 2016 | Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting, Well-being
When you have underweight kids or athletes who need to put on some weight, dietitians and pediatricians tend to recommend cereal bars, Carnation instant breakfast, and/or ice cream every night before bed and lots of chocolate milk throughout the day. This really...
by McKenna Gordon | May 16, 2016 | Mind & Soul, Nutrition, Well-being
J.H. Tillden said, “All sickness, all disease, all death is caused by the progressive accumulation of toxins in the body and blood.” However, as much as we don’t want them in our body, this accumulation is unavoidable. Compared to our ancestors, we...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 6, 2016 | Beauty, Essential Oils
My one beef with natural personal care products is that they take too long to make, are often expensive, and—sorry—but they don’t always do a good job. Oh, was that 3 reasons? I guess I’m a little ornery about it. Which makes me happy to share with you...
by McKenna Gordon | Oct 14, 2015 | Beauty, Essential Oils, Recipes
I whipped up (literally) some of this amazing foot butter today for my husband and thought I’d share the recipe here. He’s been asking for a refill for a week or two now because of how much it helps his cracked heels. I think I’ll be stealing some of...
