How to save $$$ and get healthier at the same time?

I don’t know about you but I spent lots of moola on skin care amongst other daily necessities and I don’t even put any make up on. If you were to count how many skin care products you currently have sitting on your dressing table and in the toilet plus calculate how much money you spend on these products on average, you could probably save enough money to travel overseas or a nice short getaway. Truth to be told, we are brainwashed by companies out there thinking we need all these “magical things’ that can make our skin radiant etc, where in reality we just spend heaps of money on things made of synthetic chemical that are completely harmful to our health. 

I never realised the extent of harm these daily products are until I started my swap to low tox options few months back. I am still learning new things everyday when it comes to green living. Now I stop buying all of those skin care products and completely make my own, courtesy of the workshop that I attended last year. Given the options, would you choose to make your own skin care products or still buying them? I challenge you to google the ingredients listed on your current skin care products and read through what each ingredient does to you.

If you are still sticking to the conventional products, hey it’s your choice. I am not judging you, truthfully I don’t think anyone cares especially if you don’t even care about it yourself. I care so I made the conscious decision to change for the better.

We are now surrounded by so much chemical in our lives in the air, in the daily products that we use, in the water that we drink, and it’s like there is no way out. The only thing we can do is to minimise our exposure to them. Aside from skin care, beauty products, body care products, the other main source of chemical products are found in our household cleaning products. Kid you not, the ingredients that listed in each of these cleaning products should really be banned from entering our home. Again, do me a favour and start researching the safety data sheets (SDS) for the cleaning product you have in your cleaning cupboard and see what they can do to your health. Some can cause damage to our eyes, irritate our skins, and some are very toxic to marine and aquatic life. People often did not realise that every thing we flush down the drain eventually end up in the ocean. It is that scary. I actually first learnt about researching the SDS from when I was working as the Workplace Safety Coordinator at the company that I previously worked for. It was a big part of the safety components that need to be followed through to be legally compliant. Strangely enough I still didn’t think of the consequences of using these products back then even though I obviously know what it can do to our health. It was not until I changed my lifestyle these past few months where I finally realised how brainwashed I was, thinking that all these cleaning products are good and we need them in our lives. That is a big BS. We can totally ditch all these products and either make our own cleaning products or opt for low toxic ones that now readily available on the market.

Again I am not here to judge you and your life choices but if you do care about your own and you family’s well-being, I really suggest you to do your research and make informed decision about which products you should use in your home.

The fact is making DIYs save me a lot moola ($$$) and it seriously not that hard. Some products require less than 5 minutes to whip up and may consist of 2–3 ingredients. The most important part is that you have the ultimate control over what you put in each product that you are making and you know for certain that these are completely safe for you and your loved ones. Nothing is more precious than your and your family’s well-being.

Here are my DIY skin care products I use at home. 😌

So if you are interested, drop a comment and follow me on my journey where I can show you what I have done so far.

Why do we bother with sustainability and how i started my own journey?

If you have been paying attention to what has been happening to our environment, you should not be even asking this question. We have seen so many natural disasters happening around the world. In Australia alone, the bushfires had devastated many lives, the community, the environment and wildlife, and the economy. The plastic pollution, the melting ice and rising sea-level, the river and ocean pollution. The list goes on. we really cannot stay passive and wait for others to take action. WE need to take action.

After seeing the movement started by Greta Thunberg and so many distressing posts on social media about the effect of pollution have on our planet, I got really inspired to change my lifestyle to a sustainable and low toxic journey. For me, it is not just for the environment, but for myself, and people I love. It has been a life changer for me and I have been loving all the processes, the changes, and the results.

I actually started my sustainable journey from stumbling upon this beeswax food wrap workshop that I decided to attend. Really random but it was fun to connect like-minded people and make something pretty awesome for daily use. We can use beeswax wrap to replace cling-wraps, something we use a lot at home and got thrown to the landfill immediately after, this will cut down our plastic usage. It is the first easy step in reducing plastic in our household.

The second workshop that I attended was the natural anti-ageing skin care workshop. This was a absoulte gem, totally life-changing for me. I learnt to make my own face skin care routine from scratch and they are totally low toxic, natural, and much cheaper compared to buying conventional skin care available in the market. This workshop introduced me to the magical world of essential oils and that opened up so many new possibilities for me. Nowadays we have so many skin care products sitting in our counter where most of them cost a fortune and filled with many toxic chemicals. We are probably never question what exactly is in each product that we use at home and the scary things are they probably contains loads of chemicals that can cause cancers, hormone disruptions, etc. After the workshop, I totally ditched all my skin care products and made them myself, I save so much money, cut out so many toxic and synthetic chemicals from my life, my skins are now amazing and really, I never even consider of going back to those conventional products.

Since then I have completely ditched all my cleaning products for my skin and my household, my perfumes, and also started on other things like composting.

All in all, there are so many benefits from converting to sustainable and low tox living such as saving money, reducing our carbon footprints, saving the environment, promoting better health for ourselves and our family, feeling good for accomplishing all these amazing things all while inspiring others to follow our footsteps. There are now so many people going into the lifestyle and it is something we need to celebrate as sustainability are about collective effort. If everyone starts taking action, no matter how small it is, we will eventually make a big difference.

Being sustainable is not about following a trend, it is something life-changing and requires commitment and continuous effort. It is a marathon, not a sprint. Most importantly is to know what is it that important for you and why. Some people go sustainable because they are concerned for their children’s welfare in this chemical-laden environment. Some changed because they are genuinely want to save the environment because they see the devastation around us. So before you start your own journey, find out the what, how, and why for yourself and start making the change in your own pace.

If you have decided to make the change, come and join me in my journey where I can show you my stories. Together we can make this work.