| 1. Make your own deodorant.You can make your | | | | toxic products on our hair, for instance. We |
| own deodorant by adding together equal parts of | | | | believe that a product used outside our body will |
| baking soda and cornstarch. This is a wonderful | | | | not affect the inside of our body. This is not true. |
| recipe for deodorant, and it works. The baking | | | | Therefore, if you would not put a product in your |
| soda absorbs the odor. The cornstarch absorbs | | | | body (eat it), please do not put it on your body. |
| the wetness.2. Perfumes are not necessarily your | | | | The reverse holds true.7. Less is more.Many of us |
| friend.Perfumes can be costly and may contain | | | | have cabinets full of cosmetics and so-called |
| toxins. Pure essential oils can keep you smelling | | | | health products. We are bombarded constantly |
| heavenly. Essential oils have also been proven to | | | | with products that promise to make us healthy, |
| have many healing benefits.3. Read the | | | | youthful and beautiful. However, the truth is, less |
| label.Sometimes it is as simple as reading the label. | | | | is more. Find products with the least amount of |
| Though many labels are purposely misleading, | | | | ingredients. Single-ingredient products, such as |
| reading the label will help us know whether a | | | | coconut oil, Shea butter or various clays, are |
| product is one that we want to put in or on our | | | | superb products. Likewise, an occasional meal that |
| bodies. If you see a long list of ingredients, and | | | | consists only of one nutritious food will give your |
| you don't know what most of them are or what | | | | digestive system a rest.8. Research.We spend a |
| they do, you probably want to avoid that | | | | great deal of time in researching vacation spots |
| product.4. Check your kitchen.The best products | | | | we want to travel to. We will ask in-depth |
| for our beauty and health are often in our | | | | questions about whether the car we're thinking of |
| kitchens. Nature provides wonderful fruits, | | | | buying gets good mileage and drives well. |
| vegetable, seeds and berries, any of which make | | | | However, we spend little time researching the |
| the best cosmetics and body-care products. | | | | products that we put in and on our bodies. Our |
| Somehow or other, we have learned to doubt | | | | bodies are our temples. Learn about your body |
| Nature. We feel that we know best. We have | | | | and the food and products you consume.9. Talk |
| gone against the laws of Nature in favor of | | | | to your elders.Many of our ancestors knew the |
| commercialism.5. Wash new clothes before you | | | | health and beauty secrets of the plants and the |
| wear them.The clothes you buy go through many | | | | earth. Over the years, however, we have been |
| processes and many hands before you buy them | | | | taught to discount their knowledge of health and |
| yourself. If the garment is washable, please be | | | | beauty as old-fashioned. The beauty and health |
| sure to wash it before you wear it for the first | | | | industry would love you to believe this. Do not let |
| time. This will ensure that excess chemicals, | | | | our elders take these secrets with them to the |
| pesticides, dyes and bleaches are removed | | | | grave.Wambui Bahati "Miss Inspiration" is a |
| before it meets your body.6. Our body is one | | | | professional speaker and entertainer. Her mission: |
| unit.We often forget that our body is one unit. | | | | Reminding you of your magnificence. |
| Many of us have the idea that it is all right to use | | | | |