Author: Nicole

🌍 What’s Happening? In the last few years, researchers have made a startling discovery: microplastics — tiny plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters — have been found in human placentas. These particles are so small they can enter the bloodstream, cross the placental barrier, and reach developing babies. Sources: 🔍 Where Are They Coming From?…

Why This Matters:Microplastics — tiny particles under 5 mm in size — are now found in our food, water, air, and even human placentas. Studies link them to: While we can’t avoid them entirely (yet), we can dramatically reduce our exposure and help the body flush them out. 🏡 Step 1: Remove Microplastics from Your…

What You Need to Know (Especially if You Have an Autoimmune Condition)By Mama Naturally 👋🏻 Let’s Talk Honestly… If you’re anything like me, you want to know exactly what’s going into your body — and your family’s. You read ingredient labels. You avoid harmful chemicals. You care about what’s in your food — not just…

(That I Actually Use on My Little Ones) When Livi was a newborn, I remember scanning baby lotion bottles in the store, overwhelmed by the claims: “gentle,” “hypoallergenic,” “pediatrician approved.” But when I flipped them over? Yikes—parabens, synthetic fragrance, phenoxyethanol, PEGs. That was a hard no.  As a registered nurse I know—our skin is our…

When I first heard about Apeel and its organic counterpart Organipeel, I was absolutely disgusted. Appalled, really. How could something like this be approved by the same government agencies we trust to protect our food supply—without any long-term safety studies on human consumption? All in the name of “preventing food waste.” Translation? Boosting shelf life…

When my daughter Livi was just a few months old, I remember cradling her in one arm while trying to read the back of a baby shampoo bottle with the other. It smelled sweet and looked gentle enough, but the ingredients list read more like a science experiment than something I’d want on her delicate…

🧴 Why Make Your Own Bug Repellent Balms? When it comes to protecting our families from pesky bugs, most of us reach for the nearest spray bottle and hope for the best. But what if that quick spritz is loaded with hormone-disrupting chemicals, synthetic fragrances, and skin irritants? Making your own bug repellent balm is…

Take your couch from this…to this! Let me paint a real-life picture for you:It’s 8:07am.One kid is painting on the coffee table (which is somehow now the art studio), the other just dumped his entire snack cup of freeze-dried strawberries onto the couch. There’s juice dripping somewhere, someone stepped in it, and I’m pretty sure…

I had just stopped pumping after 8 straight months of nursing my daughter, Livi. I chalked it all up to postpartum hormones at first — the emotional swings, the hair falling out in clumps when I brushed, the bone-deep exhaustion, the racing thoughts that never stopped, and the weird heat that radiated from inside me…

Let’s rewind to a few years ago — I’m standing in my husband Anthony’s side of the bathroom, scanning product after product… and y’all, I was shocked. I had just started learning about hidden toxins, and suddenly every label looked like a chemistry exam. From his shaving cream to body wash, everything was loaded with…