Wow, what did I just find? Cosmetics Database

The Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
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Results are categorized as follows and include links to the research studies which drew those conclusions
Cancer
Developmental/Reproductive Toxicity
Violations, restrictions, and warnings
Allergies, immunotoxicity
Contamination concerns

Lesser or emerging concerns for this ingredient:
Neurotoxicity, Endocrine disruption, Data gaps

Three Kitchen Ingredients that Clean Every Room

The goal is to avoid xenoestrogen compounds found in common household products.
My mother was big on Tips from Heloise.  I didn’t even have to google to remember the Top Three Kitchen Ingredients that Clean Everything:
Vinegar, Lemon Juice, and Baking Soda
Vinegar
Use vinegar as a natural fabric softener. Add ½ cup of vinegar to the rinse [...]

Real Life Journal - Take Care of Yourself

I’m sitting in front of my brother’s computer, working on my blogs while doing my laundry.  The plumbing in my house is in need of repair so I catch up over here every few weeks.
He has three purebred Himalayans.  Now, I have long-haired cats, too, but I never noticed this much long fur floating in [...]

Who is Peter Eckhart, MD?

Peter Eckhart, MD, is the author of a booklet on a natural progesterone skin oil called “Progestelle”.  I recently purchased a bottle from the Women’s Therapeutic Institute, LLC, and was curious about his background and credentials.
Peter Eckhart, M.D., is now conducting an experimental therapeutic trial of natural progesterone as a treatment for prostate cancer.  Source: [...]

Hospital-acquired infections (HAI)

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2 million patients contract hospital-acquired infections each year–and 90,000 of them die as a result, more than from auto accidents and homicides combined. 
A different source reports that the rate of 6 HAI per 100 hospital admissions, 6%, has remained stable over the last [...]

How am I doing with diet and avoiding estrogens and xenoestrogens?

This is the end of my first full week after learning that I do, indeed, have a meningioma. It was suspected three months ago but now it is sure.
In priority order:
My religion calls for no coffee, tea, alcohol, tobacco so it’s not hard to avoid the coffee, tea, and caffeine foods! Unless you count chocolate, [...]

Avoiding Xenoestrogens (Chemicals and Foods that Act as Estrogens)

Some of the best instructions of concrete changes that I can immediately begin to make as I turn my body towards healing it’s own estrogen-sensitive tumors (fibroids and meningiomas) come from a booklet created by Dr. Peter Eckhart, MD, via the Women’s Therapeutic Institute, LLC.
This is all about avoiding the chemicals and foods that act [...]

Diet

The following excerpt from the University of Colorado Breast Cancer Center contained such useful information on fighting estrogen-related tumors that I had to list it here.
Fighting Breast Cancer with a Fork, Part 2 of 2
Colleen Gill, MS, RD, University of Colorado Cancer Center

As we discussed in the first part of “Fighting Breast Cancer with a [...]

Such a bad headache

You know, while you’re dealing with trying to self-heal and manage headaches, real life marches on.  I do have a day job, church and family responsibilities, and my “sidelines” which have to do with safe pet food and animal rescue.
Wednesday and Thursday this week, I had a WHOPPIN’ bad migraine.  Maybe it wouldn’t have been [...]

Reality sinks in

Yesterday, the reality hit me. I have a brain tumor.
I was thinking my new little friend was just a speck of dust, that’s what I was telling people. Wrong.
My retired math-and-reading teacher dad and my computer-geek brother (who can convert metrics to inches in his head!) told me the real numbers and then I confirmed [...]