Primal Life Organics Blog

The top two New Year’s resolutions people make are 1) become more active and 2) lose weight; very common responses when you ask individuals “so what are your New Year’s resolutions?” These are great goals to set for yourself, but let’s face it, they can be TOUGH to achieve. Primal Life Organics can help ensure your weight loss goal can be achieved.

According to UW Medicine, some reasons as to why it is so difficult to lose weight is because “when you begin to lose weight, your body fights to defend the old, higher body weight.” Also, “genes and environment play a huge role in whether or not someone gains weight.” These both sound like things that are out of your control, but you have the ability to overcome your body’s defense mode, change your environment, as well as practice tactics to change the way your genes hinder your weight loss abilities. 

The stress that comes with the belly pain, bloating, leaky gut and discomfort of digestive issues can literally send a person right into a “meh” existence. I AM VERY familiar with all of this, as I have struggled with SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth).

A few years ago, I was placed on antibiotics for 9 months that destroyed my gut ecosystem and left me with a digestive mess.  As I am on the journey to improve my health and my digestive brain, I am sharing a smoothie with a secret ingredient that will heal and soothe your gut with each slurp: Aloe Vera.

It’s well known from extensive research that fragrance is a common sensitizing ingredient for all skin types. Yet, despite this information, fragrance is common in more skincare products than you can imagine.

Many people don’t realize the damage fragrance does to your skin and your body… and if you think you are “safe” because you purchase “unscented” products, think again.

Many synthetic ingredients used in skincare (natural products included, especially water-based skincare) have a horrible odor.

In order to cover up the bad odor, so you will apply it to your face or body, companies will use fragrance (the F-word of skincare) to neutralize the bad odor… odor eater chemicals if you will.

So, when it comes to your beauty care products, the magic rule of thumb is the first 5 ingredients are the ones that matter the most. After the fifth ingredient everything else is probably below the 1% line. This is where a lot of “questionable and obscure” ingredients hide.

What? 1% line?  What the heck is that?

Simply put, any ingredient that is less than 1% of the total recipe can be listed in any order.  This is a great marketing ploy and a way companies can make you believe the ingredients are “better” than they really are.

How to find the 1% line?

Hey beautiful. 

Are you feeling like a Clean Beauty Snob (CBS) yet?

Today’s lesson is going to open your eyes to what clean really means.

Natural sounds healthy right?  But when you take a closer look, does natural mean toxin-free? 

Not when you are a CBS.

Water-FREE skincare is a must! It doesn’t matter if you have sensitive, dry, oily, combination, acne-prone, or all of the above skin!

Water-based skincare will not make your skin healthy, bouncy, or vibrant.  It will definitely make it appear older looking, wrinkled, thin, and even congested or frustrated.

Believe it or not, the only skin type I believe in is “healthy skin”. I believe all others (oily, dry, combination) are made up by the skincare industry because of the harsh ingredients they possess - to get us to purchase more products. (More on this later)