When my sons were babies they both suffered from colic.  The only way we could get my eldest son to sleep was to take him for a ride in the car.  However, everytime the engine stopped he would wake up.

We gave him gallons of gripe water and Infacol but according to an  article from the UK publication “What Doctors Don’t Tell You” that probably wasn’t a wise move.

Apparently the Infacol contains saccharine and parabens as a preservative; and an average daily does of gripe water contains the equivalent amount of alcohol for a baby as five tots of whiskey for an adult! 

Probiotics are brilliant for babies.  They can be added to their milk, juice and dusted on nipples for breast feeding mothers.

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I frequently get e-mails with instructions to forward on to a certain number of people. I’m sure you get them too.

Sometimes I consider them worthwhile and this is one of them.

Everyone wants to be beautiful, purely because we live in an age where people are often judged on their appearance.

Apparently when Audrey Hepburn was asked to share her beauty tips she wrote the following.  It was read out at her funeral many years later.

For attractive lips  - speak words of kindness… 
For lovely eyes  - seek out the good in people. 
For a slim figure - share your food with the hungry. 
For beautiful hair - let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day. 
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My friend was complaining to me this morning about her broken shower. It has been out of action for the past three weeks, which has meant she’s had to wash her hair in the bath.

She confided it wasn’t good for women to do that and she was now suffering the consequences.  She said she’d spoken to other women who’d said the same thing.The problem was that sitting in water containing the chemicals only normally applied briefly to her head were having a very painful and annoying result on a different part of her anatomy, if you get my meaning.

She asked if I ever suffered the same problem.  I don’t, at least not anymore, and it’s not because I don’t wash my hair in the bath because I do.  The reason I am okay is because I use certified organic skincare and personal care products, which are absolutely free of harmful synthetic toxic chemicals. I can actually read ALL the ingredients on the label and as they come from a food source know exactly what they are.

It wasn’t always so, but circumstances in my life have made me realise you can’t take everything at face value and need to question all sorts of things.  The fact that items appear on our supermarket shelves does not make them safe, and if consumers were to read the back of their skincare and personal care items in the same way they do their food items, they would realise how many toxic chemicals they are actually putting on their body.

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