on today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast. When you think about the cleaning product aisle at the

grocery store, really, it's kind of like a bunch of chemicals. It's a bunch of water with a few

drops of pretty toxic chemicals, including synthetic fragrances and endocrine disruptors.

And unfortunately, every other aisle is regulated, but this one is not. So yeah, we have to really

be our own advocates for sure.

Hi, guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Swan.

And, ooh, I just did it. I'm saying and a lot and I'm becoming very aware of it. And I'm trying to not do that.

Calling my own self out. You know, if I can't, who will.

So today's episode is with one of the co-founders of a company called Branch Basics. And you may be wondering why I'm interviewing someone who founded a cleaning product company. You're going to quickly find out how this pertains

to our health. We go to the ends and outs of what is in our commercial cleaning products and

our beauty products. There's so much talk these days about non-toxic cleaning products and

non-toxic beauty products. There's just a lot of talk

in general about non-toxic. I also think there's a lot of confusion around it. So I wanted to bring her on

to really break that down and help people understand why this is so important. And even though this is

not particularly food, we're still being exposed to these chemicals in our cleaning products on a

daily basis, whether we're inhaling them through our lungs or we're putting them on our skin,

they're getting sprayed in our house. If we have pets or babies crawling around on the floor,

they're going to be exposed to any of that kind of stuff that we spray on the floor.

And this has real serious consequences for our health.

So I'm really stoked about this conversation.

She is so amazing, so informative.

And it's just a, it's a really interesting conversation.

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