The Green Living Gurus Blog
What’s On Your Face? The Toxic Ingredients in Common Makeup Products
Perhaps you're blessed with naturally glowing, zit-free skin that needs no help. But many of us use makeup to cover undereye circles and acne, highlight our best features, or simply have a bit of...
What’s the Real Story Behind Big Ag and GMOs?
Many green-living advocates recommend that consumers avoid genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and any produce or meat treated with herbicides, pesticides, hormone boosters, and antibiotics....
12 Ingredients to watch out for in Personal Care Products
As you shop for personal care products, you may be drawn towards the packaging, or words like “natural or “free of“. But it is the real ingredients that will tell the story. Even products listed as...
How Green Living Can Ward Off Disease
In just a few centuries, our world has irrevocably changed. Along with the conveniences of modern life come a host of new chemicals with potentially devastating effects on our bodies. It's no wonder...
Enjoying Nature’s Fermented Gifts with Fewer Chemicals
You probably know the benefits of fermented foods and beverages. Nature has gifted us with yeast and other organisms that transform food into savory probiotic delights such as kombucha and kefir....
Who is the ‘Head Guru’, Therese Forton-Barnes
I’m writing to introduce myself and ‘spill my guts’. (That is a horrible saying by the way.) I am a one-man band with three wonderful interns along with my sister that help me manage...
How to Buy Non-Toxic Carpeting
Here are some things to consider when buying a carpet for your where your children will be playing: There are chemicals and other potentially harmful materials in carpets and the pads beneath...
The price of convenience: how processed foods affect your body
In our hectic, modern lives, it's difficult to find time to prepare nourishing meals from scratch for your family. The grocery stores are filled with convenience-based foods: boxed dinners, pouched...
EFFECTS OF TOXIC CHEMICALS ON HUMAN HEALTH
Aly Cohen, MD wrote a book along with Frederick S. vom Saal PhD(see link for their book) NON-TOXIC GUIDE TO LIVING HEALTHY IN A CHEMICAL WORLD. The book is a guide on the effects of toxic chemicals...
What Causes Lung Cancer?
Lung Cancer: How to be on the lookout for cancer causing chemicals that can be affecting your lungs and breathing even if you are not a smoker. I hear all the time about people getting lung cancer...
Why Buy Organic Tampons?
By Samantha Trafford, Community Manager for the Green Living Gurus Organic Tampons: What’s in Them? Natural and organic...isn’t that what we should be putting inside our bodies? The answer is YES!...
Time to do a “Wellness Check”
As a health and wellness coach I look at the entire BIG picture of someone’s life and not just what they eat or if they exercise. When I hear “But she was so healthy” or “He didn’t even smoke” I...
Fragrance – and why it is not always a good ingredient
By Therese Forton-Barnes, Head Guru According to the dictionary it is 'a pleasant sweet smell'. But when it is in a product you put on your skin, hair, or body it is possibly very toxic to your and...
Why Switch to Non-Toxic Deodorant and Never Use Anti-Perspirant
By Samantha Trafford, Community Manager for the Green Living Gurus Everyone has had that feeling. A warm summer day or even a cold winter evening, hanging with friends and family. Then you smell it...
Therese’s ‘Top Ten’ List of Ingredients to Avoid in Lotion
Therese’s ‘Top Ten’ List of Ingredients to Avoid in Lotion
Pregnancy and Avoiding Chemicals
More and more research is linking chemicals to birth defects, cancer, thyroid disorders, acne, asthma, diabetes, obesity, allergies, infertility, and even ADHD.
Suntan Lotion and Safer Choices
Sunscreen: A very talked about subject as it should be since the sun is baking these ingredients into your skin.
Dryer Sheets – Why You Need To Ditch Them!
Why dryer sheets can be harmful to your health