A Guide to Safe Sunscreens for the Entire Family

Summer weather is here. After memorial day, it feels like we are knee deep in all the summer activities.

And that means you are likely applying sunscreen often on yourself or your kiddo, especially if you spend time outdoors. Sunscreen is important to protect against UV rays and preventing sunburns. But just as important is the type of sunscreen you are applying to yourself and your children. This can be confusing, with so many sunscreens on the market!

I wanted to share my tips as you buy and apply sunscreen for your family. 

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Easy Fruit Pizza Cookies

This recipe for easy fruit pizza cookies seems like the perfect one for summer and the summer holidays (memorial day, fourth of july, labor day). Or also just because. It’s a fun one to make any time of the year. Fruit pizza is my childhood favorite. The fresh fruit over a cream cheese frosting and a soft cookie crust suddenly becomes the perfect combination when you bite into it. And it’s relatively easy and fun to make! Especially with kids.

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10 Ways To Reduce Your Toxic Load for a Healthier Life

In today’s world, we are constantly hit with a lot of chemicals all of the time. From the bed you sleep in, to what you apply to your body, brush your teeth with, use in the shower, wear as clothes, your makeup, what you put on your hair, all the way to what you drink and eat out of, what you wash your clothes with and what you scent your home with. Chemicals, including those that are not good for you, are around us constantly. And they are accumulating throughout the day. It becomes a cocktail of chemicals we wear and breathe in throughout the day. And no one really talks about it. I don’t necessarily know why people don’t talk about it, but I feel like it’s because large companies who use these chemicals don’t want us to talk about it, and money speaks in large ways sometimes.

So, naturally I am over here talking about it.

I wanted to highlight 10 ways we can reduce the toxic load on our body in our daily life.

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