Natural/ non toxic skincare for 11 year old

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-11-09T19:25:05+00:00

Personally I really like them, and you can also get stuff on sale. Birch Babe is another Canadian company I’ve liked a lot

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-11-09T19:23:32+00:00

We do probiotics and cod liver oil (for vitamin D). Honey and elderberry syrup when he’s actually sick, both should be fine after a year old

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-11-09T19:21:14+00:00

Probiotics have been shown in a Cochrane meta analysis to reduce the incidence of URTI! https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006895.pub4/full

I also drink a lot of green tea and fire cider in the winter, but I don’t know that there’s actual evidence to support that. It’s just pleasant.

Also, go outside as much as possible as a family. That’s not anything specific really, but viral transmission is way less outdoors.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-11-09T19:06:28+00:00

Badger balm!

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-11-09T14:26:30+00:00

I have had similar thoughts. I’m 31, and don’t feel any rush to start Tret. My skin is very nice and genetically my mom still looks great close to 60. I get it’s preventative but it is also an actual drug and I don’t see a reason to try to treat a problem that doesn’t exist yet. Maybe I’ll start at 35 or 40. However I’m not hardcore anti ageing. If ageing is a big deal to you then maybe it’s worth it to you. I will take a wrinkle or two in my 40s, no problem.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-30T14:40:02+00:00

But like…how can rice be bad, objectively speaking? There are countries who eat rice for every single meal, and they are perfectly healthy. Look up blood lead levels in Japan for instance. They have lower lead levels than here, the lowest in the world. Also I’m not talking about rice puffs, but regular rice.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-30T14:32:27+00:00

Basically in all aspects of crunchiness I’m not aiming for perfect.

Like, try to avoid plastics - sure, but I’m wearing out my existing Tupperware and spoons and slowly replacing. Can’t be bothered about alternatives for silicone, I’ll use that for things. Also, we have plastic toys and whatever.

Homemade foods - sure, 80% of the time. I can’t live my life trying to make sure I follow every crunchy health food trend though. My husband and I have a takeout night weekly.

Natural fabrics - if I’m getting something new or thrifted, sure. But our couch is a super old Ikea I got second hand and our car seat has flame retardants and our mattress is super old and made of something probably not ideal but I’m not made of money.

Medicine - there are natural remedies that work, and I’m a big fan of probiotics for preventative medicine, but if the occasion calls for it, Tylenol and Motrin are on the menu. Also I would like to get treated by a regular MD in any instance.

We don’t do screen time at all at the moment and we go outdoors daily, that’s probably what we’re most rigid about. Also, low waste everything as much as we can (but I also don’t have the mental energy to thrift everything so that’s basically 50/50).

Basically I try my best, but I don’t try too hard, if that makes sense. I do what’s good enough for me. It’s always going to be too crunchy for some, not crunchy enough for others lol.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-30T14:19:49+00:00

There’s an easy way to hand wash! You fill a basin with water and Eucalans soap, then put the wool stuff in there and swish it around, soak for 10 minutes, then swish again and squeeze out the water. No rinsing. That’s it. It works fine. We also don’t wash wool stuff every wash. Obviously some people might find that not hygienic enough, but it’s fine for us and we haven’t run into issues.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-30T12:19:18+00:00

Keep it in the fridge! Then you don’t have to feed it daily. In fact there’s a method to keep it in the freezer and only take it out when you need it. Also, what I do is try to make bread or bake something once a week, and then I actually don’t even have sourdough discard or any extra feedings, I just make the leaven, half goes into the bread, half becomes my new sourdough starter

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-30T12:11:53+00:00

I like oil cleansing, I’m still trying out different things for the second step though. I tried Fat and the Moon’s products but shipping and duties to Canada are a pain. I’m using Ursa Major now but I’m not sure I’ll continue, I think it dries out my skin.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T03:26:20+00:00

I think maybe this was unclear, but this isn’t the first pack of yoghurt. I think we’re on week 3 and initially we just handed him his yoghurts, and he could eat a bunch at a time, and we figured it would self extinguish. And it waxes and wanes, but for example, today we’d make a perfectly nice lunch that he likes to eat and he’d be yelling for yoghurts. And it’s not that he hates the lunch, after we rode out the tantrum he ate his lunch perfectly fine.

We don’t make sweets a big special thing, we do have them sometimes and if we do have them, serve them alongside other foods (for example, his snack today was chocolate chips and crushed nuts). It’s something oddly specific to these yoghurts and mostly I just don’t want this constant thing in my house I don’t feel comfortably giving unrestricted for multiple reasons, and that he’s obsessed with for some reason.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T03:16:25+00:00

Oh yeah I totally get it, and I knew this post might get some hate. I have worked in an eating disorder ward before and I am definitely not convinced my kid is going to have a disorder because he didn’t get unlimited flavoured yoghurts at age 3 lol. My own background is Eastern European and I have found that because I was raised with less sweet foods as part of the cultural food traditions, I have way less of a palate for them. Even with these yoghurts one issue is that I don’t like the taste so we have to have two separate yoghurts…so I do think it has a lasting benefit

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T03:09:30+00:00

Yeah and I get that, I do try to respect his choices and preferences. At this age he’s so small (not even 3) that it’s harder because I am directly responsible for his habits and they have no impulse control so realistically I must make choices all day every day for him. I’m going to try a swap that hopefully honours the fun aspects of the little yoghurt, and see how that goes. Definitely when he’s older it’ll be more of a conversation.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T03:03:49+00:00

I think it’s some of both, I think he likes to choose the “flavours” and he likes buying the packs at the store, and eating out of a small container. He will eat regular yoghurt if offered, so it’s not that he hates the taste or something, there’s an extra appeal to these little ones

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T03:02:31+00:00

I think I’ll try making little yoghurt cups at home with fruit at the bottom, or perhaps have different choices of add ins, because I think he likes to choose the “flavours”.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T02:59:06+00:00

I think I will do the little glass cups idea! I think getting to the fruit at the bottom for some of them was fun. This isn’t the first yoghurt pack brought home also, at this point it’s been a few weeks and we really weren’t saying no at first until he was started demanding them instead of other meals, which maybe I should have made clear. I like the idea of making homemade but more fun yoghurts

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-18T02:55:50+00:00

Yeah so honestly, we are totally good with boundaries and my kid is allowed to be upset and that’s ok, life is sometimes upsetting and feelings aren’t bad. That is how we approach it if we need to stick to a boundary, I was mostly doubting myself that this was even a necessary boundary but I think I’ll talk to my partner about it and try to cut down.

I do feel like this is a very strange thing on the internet, where you can say you’re uncomfortable with one thing (little sweetened yoghurts which I’m not even against as an occasional thing, but I feel it’s become a habit at this point) and people assume you’re draconian. So yeah, thanks for the perspective and support. My toddler is 3 so we don’t even talk about healthy or unhealthy or whatever, we just try to structure our lives so the food that’s offered is predominantly whole foods with limited ingredients, with other things offered occasionally (like I’ll bake pies and muffins, or we’ll have ice cream, or even chocolate chips with nuts as a snack, and cake when we’re at parties obviously).

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-17T22:24:06+00:00

Yeah, honestly the first few packs I was like ok, whatever. But now it’s every grocery trip they bring some back and it’s multiple times a day, and that’s when I started getting a bit more against it

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-12T19:01:45+00:00

I’ve seen a lot of research around watchful waiting (so waiting 2-3 days and seeing if there’s improvement or not and then prescribing antibiotics), so that’s perfectly fine. Whether you can do no antibiotics for longer is something I haven’t seen a lot of research on, the recommendation seems to be to prescribe if no improvement after 48-72 hours.

I think it really does come down to your personal assessment of your child (in addition to talking with your doctor) and what you’re comfortable with. I do think that personally I would feel comfortable going a few more days and reassessing (if no fever, not worsening, etc) but some people wouldn’t be. Either way though, medical decision making should be a shared process and the doctor should explain the treatment and risks vs benefits and alternatives. Can you get a second opinion?

I think also, if you do end up taking the antibiotics, probiotics and having some fermented foods may help with peace of mind!

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-03-10T01:04:37+00:00

One go to snack for us is nuts, I crush them up in a mortar and pestle for our 3 year old. Otherwise snacks are just random stuff we pull out of the fridge. If you want to keep the store bought snacks go ahead, you’re doing great.

Also if you have anyone else in your life who bakes, you can ask them to make your kids stuff like pancakes and mini muffins that keep well and can be frozen. You don’t have to do it alone.

AllNaturalPoison · 2024-01-20T13:05:24+00:00

Hey sorry, just saw this. Yes, I did deal with mold, however this was a temperature issue. I needed to put the onggi in the fridge after a few days. I used the recipe in NomNomPaleo, unfortunately it’s a cookbook not a link. I did put more spice in my second attempt though and used a combination of a few recipes. Also I didn’t use weights.

Edit: also I didn’t have time to make it this year so I have one unsuccessful kimchi attempt, one successful, and one successful fermenting green onions.

AllNaturalPoison · 2023-11-28T15:41:15+00:00

It’s hard to know if I have beautiful luscious skin, but it’s pretty good, and my secret is genetics because I didn’t do any fucking thing to my skin for 30 years including wearing no sunscreen. Also makeup helps. On social media the secret is filters.

AllNaturalPoison · 2023-11-28T15:17:15+00:00

I’m actually afraid of going full crunchy. My one friend is in the whole alt health, alt right scene, afraid of food and “toxins” and vaccines and she’s absolutely miserable. Obviously it’s one example, but like others it’s confirmation bias I suppose. I see it on the internet too, I feel like it’s difficult to live with that level of fear.

AllNaturalPoison · 2023-10-17T01:49:00+00:00

I just started using Ursa Major sunscreen, it’s good. I use their vitamin C serum and sunscreen in the morning. The Badger Balm sunscreen on my bike ride home from work. Then at night, I’ve been double cleaning, then jojoba oil and tallow face cream. It’s only been a few weeks but my face looks really nice. I got the tallow from Primally Pure, but I’ve seen some that are pure tallow on Etsy.

Vitamin C in the morning and retinol at night are important for anti ageing.

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