Since changing my diet to heal my body from the effects of Lyme Disease, I have discovered that our dependence on manufactured products with harmful chemicals has lead to an assortment of auto-immune problems in thousands if not millions of people. From artificial sweeteners to chemical-filled make-up, we subject ourselves daily to toxins. I recently began experimenting with essential oils through a relative who sells Do'Terra, which, roughly translated, means "Good Earth." I learned that something as simple as replacing cancer-causing air fresheners with lemon, orange, or peppermint diluted with spring water in a diffuser can lighten a mood or even help sell a house. Recently, I mixed coconut oil and lemon to produce a moisturizer that acts as a lasting perfume. I suppose convincing us we need Corporate America brings big profits for the corporations but at what expense to the consumer? When I learned how easy it was to make all these products myself, with the added benefit of letting me change fragrances on a whim for pennies a day, I wondered how I had become so convinced that I needed expensive bottles of manufactured chemicals to achieve inferior results? The word brainwashing comes to mind . . . .
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Mother, writer, reformed culinary disaster, Andrea Mosier shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Award for Fire Eater and was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award for prose in 2014. "The Illuminated Man" will appear in the first edition of Serendipity. Her legendary potato salad recipe appears here on the June 5 entry. Archives
February 2019
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