How many products do you use every day? Do you know exactly what's in those products?

Personal care products contain thousands of different chemicals.

With all of the different personal care products we use each day, the chemicals can add up and contribute to your toxic load. But today, we're going

to talk about how to avoid this extra burden on your toxic load. Welcome back to essential oil

solutions with Dutera, the podcast where you'll hear exciting, useful, and simple everyday uses for essential oils from experts

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We always appreciate hearing from you. Today, we're excited to talk to Melissa Herman about avoiding toxins in your personal care products

and the options Dutera has for you. Melissa, thank you so much for being with us today.

Hi, thank you for having me. I'm so excited to be here. I've loved Dutera. I've been using the

Dutera products for over 11 years now, and it's been very impactful for our family.

That is incredible. 11 years, so you've been around almost since the beginning.

Yeah, yep, on the one year anniversary. That's amazing. So with this topic of detoxifying your personal care, one of the biggest

questions that I think a lot of people have is what kinds of ingredients should I watch out for

in my personal care products? That's a really great question and a really hard one to answer

because the list is so long.

So as I think about that, I think about what are some of the big things that when I pick up a product at the store and I look at the ingredient label, what am I really

not going to touch with the 10 foot pole?

And those would be things that contain any form of paraben, any fragrances, because those synthetic fragrances are so hard

on the body.

If you think about walking down the candle aisle, some people might get headaches from it,

and some people don't.

When I was younger, I didn't.

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