EWG....A Resource You Need to Know About!

I try and live the best holistic life possible and am super disappointed when I feel that I have been fooled into buying a product that I thought was clean. I was watching, of all things, Keeping Up With the Kardashians and was reminded of the company EWG. The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American activist group that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of agricultural subsidies, toxic chemicals, drinking water pollutants and corporate accountability.

It's pretty obvious that government and even groups like the EPA do not always have your best interests at heart. Money makes the world go round, unfortunately. Millions of Americans are walking around sick. Never in history will our children, statistically, not live as long as we will...until now. Irregardless of the fact that we are eating the SAD, we are also surrounded by an onslaught of chemicals and toxicity. In the products we eat, clean our homes, and clean our bodies with. More than 200 chemicals are now found in umbilical chord blood. So, before we are even birthed, we are being bombarded by toxins! Per their website, "The Environmental Working Group’s mission is to empower people to live healthier lives in a healthier environment. With breakthrough research and education, we drive consumer choice and civic action." This isn't about political lines and it isn't a hippy dippy thing. It's people who just want to eat, clean, and live with food and products that won't hurt them or make them sick.

The website is easy to navigate and you can look up many things. From personal toiletry items to cosmetics to cleaning supplies to food...its all there! Each with a special grading scale so you can see, specifically, why a product harms or helps. Makes for a more informed consumer. The number one product I was most disappointed with was Method! I use many Method products and I was under the impression that it was a solid, holistic company but I was wrong. Here are a few examples with their "grades" next to them:

Method dishwashing tabs (C-Moderate Concern)

Method dish soap (D-High Concern)

Method Bathroom Tile Cleaner (D-High Concern)

Method Metal Cleaner (D-High Concern)

Method Hand Wash (C-Moderate Hazard)

As a frame of reference Dawn dishwashing liquid was a "C"! SO, I could have been buying conventional crap all along and been safer! BUT, when you know better, you do better. Not only can you go to the EWG site and enter products you already have, to check them out, but you can also just look at the categories and get a list of "clean" products. Through that I have found a company called Attitude that I have bought many new toiletries and cleaning supplies from. Below I have posted the sites for the EWG. I hope you will take a look at them. Especially if you have kids.

EWG MAIN SITE:

https://www.ewg.org

EWG FOOD:

http://www.ewg.org/foodscores/

EWG CLEAN:

https://www.ewg.org/guides/cleaners

EWG PERSONAL:

https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

The importance of this cannot be underestimated! Know what your products contain and be an advocate for your health.