Using natural skincare products allows you to avoid the synthetic chemicals found in traditional skin care options.

But how do you know that the skin care you're using is truly natural?

Today we'll discuss how you can make the best decisions when it comes to your skin care.

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 in the field.

If you like what you hear today, rate, review,

and subscribe wherever you listen. We always appreciate hearing from you. Today we're excited to talk to

Jennifer Gilman about choosing the best natural skin care options. Jennifer, thank you so much for being here with us today.

It's great to be here with you. To start off, can you help give us a little bit of clarification

on what does natural skin care really mean? That is such a good question, Annie. First, I do need

to dispel the myth about the word natural.

Natural doesn't always mean good for us. And so calling any kind of beauty product or skin care with

that label natural legally means nothing. So it becomes important for each person to define what natural means to them.

So I'd love to share with you what it means to me. Is that okay? Yes, please. The word natural

skincare to me means reducing my skin's exposure to any toxins, whether it be environmental, like synthetic fragrances or topical, like products

that may use animal byproducts, where the animals could have had hormones and antibiotics,

or toxins like internal, like the foods that we eat or the supplements we take.

So I don't strive for perfection,

but definitely reducing all of these toxins is important to me. As a wellness advocate, I love,

love, love to coach and mentor people to create their success formula for their skincare goals.

And we work on five areas to develop a plan of action. And this, honestly, Annie,

came from me having successes over 20-some years of what has actually worked for me. And now I just

...