Why Safer Skincare Matters
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 December 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Everyone's health and wellness journey unfolds differently, and the things we choose to focus on first can vary. For me, it was food and movement that came first. Several years later, I finally began to think about what I was putting on my body – my skincare routine – as a piece of the puzzle (especially considering I have endometriosis and I'm more mindful of the products I use now).
In this episode, I'm sharing a bit more about why safer skincare options matter for your health and talking about which product was the first thing I switched. In particular, I'm sharing the three-step sequence I recommend when it comes to prioritizing safer skincare products...because let's face it, most of us aren't independently wealthy and changing everything all at once is a daunting prospect.
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On this episode:
- Why safer skincare matters to health
- How personal care products are regulated
- Greenwashing terms to look out for
- Tips for switching to natural deodorant
- 3 steps to make safer skincare switches in your routine
Resources from this episode:
- Join my Safer Skincare newsletter
- EWG Skin Deep Cosmetics Database
- Think Dirty App
- Join the Harder to Kill Club on Facebook
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hey there. Hi, welcome to episode 160 of Harder to Kill Radio. This is |
| 0:07.8 | Def Goudro, your host. It's Fierce Love Friday. Thanks for hanging out with me today. I'm really excited that you're here and today's |
| 0:17.0 | topic safer skin care. So if you've tuned into the last couple of Fierce Love Fridays, |
| 0:26.2 | you'll know that basically now you know |
| 0:29.7 | most of what you need to know about me. |
| 0:32.0 | Two weeks ago, I talked about being a highly |
| 0:34.0 | sensitive person and then last week it was all about my journey with endometriosis. |
| 0:39.8 | Yeah, shit got real. And as I mentioned in episode 158, I don't purport to have all the answers to these things. |
| 0:49.0 | All I can do is share from my point of view, even though I get really scared as fuck sometimes because I don't want to |
| 0:56.5 | upset you I don't want to make you feel wrong for your experiences all I'm here to do is share |
| 1:05.9 | What I've been through and hopefully through that we'll find common ground support you won't feel alone etc. So we're going to |
| 1:11.6 | lighten it up a little bit this week, although I don't know. I think there's a there's a bit of a serious component to this as well. |
| 1:18.6 | But this week's topic is safer skin care and this is really important to me and I'll kind of |
| 1:26.8 | mention again episode 158 talking about indemetriosis because being mindful of sort of estrogen excess in this particular |
| 1:39.3 | condition, right, hormones can affect this it's basically an autoimmune condition |
| 1:47.0 | inflammatory condition affected by hormones |
| 1:50.0 | and so you know as a woman living with this condition, and I, you know, I started to go down my |
| 1:56.8 | mental checklist of all of the things that I do and I do not live a perfect life. |
| 2:02.1 | Oh my God, nowhere near it. |
| 2:04.1 | And I've talked about that in confessions |
| 2:06.8 | of a health coach episode. |
| 2:10.0 | But you know, I do what I can. |
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