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Summer is a time to go outdoor and enjoy nature. Parents shall encourage kids to explore nature and nature projects for kids is one kind of fun summer activities. If your kids have studied about plants, flowers and animals in their science subject, it’s time to go outdoor to make some observations and collect specimens during summer. What tools kids need to have in their observations:

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If your body doesn’t feel right such as digestion problem or feeling tired, it may be a time for detoxification. Our body has a natural cleansing system through liver and kidney but the level of toxins in our body can be overloaded and need external help such as detoxification. Detoxification means cleansing or removing toxins. If we never detox our body, we put our kidney and liver in danger.  For parents to be, it is important to detox your body prior to conception in order to have a healthy baby.

Chemicals are the source of toxins

Air pollution is not the main source of toxins. The processed food and drink, synthetic multi vitamins, personal care products such as  bath/skin/hair  and the household cleaning products contain chemicals that may jeopardize our health.  Even stress can build up toxins. People have turned to organic food, natural health supplements and eco friendly  household cleaning products for safety. It’s advisable to wash fruits and vegetables with eco friendly fruits and vegetables pure wash that contains no chemical. This pure wash can remove the pesticides, waxes and kill germs. Visit Green Living for more info and articles.

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The Danger of common household cleaning products for your health

Do you know that toxic chemicals in your home pose more health problems to your family than outdoor airborne pollutants? We have heard that infertility, asthma and cancer are on the rise and the cause of these problems is from common household cleaning products in our home. The fume from household cleaning products increases the incidence of asthma and wheezing in kids and adults as well. The artificial fragrance found household cleaning products such as laundry detergent is made from Petroleum distillates. This artificial fragrance can cause minor effects such as allergies, skin and eye irritation and long term effects such as lung problem, cancer and reproduction system problem that leads to infertility and birth defect.

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If you have early signs of sore throat and you ignore it, it can get worse. You finally have to take antibiotics for the treatment. Antibitotics destroy good and bad bacterias in our body. We need good bacterias for our immune system. Although taking antibiotics heals bad sore throat, our body becomes weaker and we will catch another illness easily. After a course of antibiotics, you shall take prebiotics and probiotics.  Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients that stimulate the growth of good bacterias in the digestive system. You can find prebiotics  added in cereals.  Probiotics are commonly consumed as part of fermented foods with specially added active live cultures; such as in yogurt or dietary supplements. Probiotics are to improve microbial balance in the intestine.

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Being a home based working moms enable us to work from home and we no longer pay attention to our look. Work, stress, pollution and toxins from the environment can take away the beauty of our skin. The green living tips today is about what nature wonders can do to nourish skin.  The degradation of collagen in our skin leads to aging and wrinkles. To simplify, collage is the main protein of fibrous tissue mainly found in skin. Collagen is responsible for the strength and elasticity of the skin.  As we are getting older, the ability of our body to create collagen deteriorates, causing dry and wrinkles in our skin. We need to rejuvenate our skin. Let’s take a look at the secrets of nature wonders from plants for skin nourishment:

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Green Living is about how we live to depend on Eco friendly natural products which are safe for our health and our environment. Please take a look at the following green living tips to compare between toxic household cleaner and Eco friendly natural product.

Toxic Household Cleaner

What do you read on the label of your household cleaner? Most commercial household cleaners in the market give you the straight solution: kills 99.9% germs, tough on stains (means remove stains fast). Many household cleaners rely on chemicals to get rid of the dirt/stain and germs. Chemicals are inexpensive ingredients to produce and they work on stains and germs effectively. The cleaning products that kill germs are even more dangerous than the germs themselves. Your skin can absorb the chemicals when you are in direct contact with the liquid. Some release their toxins as fumes, therefore they have strong odour. Mothers who breast feed and young children should be cautious when they use toxic household cleaners at their home.

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The environment that we live in is vital for our survival. How we treat the environment has a direct impact on the quality of our lives. A lot of green living awareness is being raised about Eco friendly products. This Eco friendly product is designed to keep the environment clean and green.

Eco friendly products are goods and services that are manufactured in an environmental friendly manner. The production and use of Eco friendly product leaves no negative impact on the environment.

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