As far as the eggs are concerned, what I have found is that eggs are very healing. They are little powerhouses of nutrition, and can help in the detox process. As the skin is the biggest ‘detox’ organ, any rashes or reactions coming out through the skin are good rather than bad – even the eczema was a detox reaction, despite it being very uncomfortable. Your little man’s body was obviously trying to get rid of some thing/s it considered toxic

I, and many others I know have managed to add eggs to our diet by adding them very slowly, starting with maybe just a teaspoonful of egg yolk and gradually increasing a little at a time over the course of several weeks. I now eat at least 4 eggs a day!

I have just discovered your blog and am so excited to find somebody interested in healthy, natural foods. I am just now learning about sprouting (where have I been all these years) and a whole new world has opened up for me. I wanted to comment that washing hair with your own homemade soap or some from the farmers market or online works really well if you have a container with about a teaspoon of lemon juice or cider vinegar to 8 oz water as a final rinse. Leaves the hair squeeky clean and shiny. Soaps made with jojoba oil and pure essential oils are especially nourishing to hair and scalp. Just make sure you use pure natural soap and not the stuff in the supermarket.

Blessings,
Pat

We use baking soda quite often instead of or with soap.

I made the bold move to NO deodorant about 3 years ago. About the same time that I went to NO soap. I know, crazy, huh? Here’s my observations and what I do use:

Just as Suzanne says, there is about a 2-week detox period in which you should expect to stink. I’d recommend you plan to start when you don’t intend to have any social engagements.

I started this right at the beginning of summer, so I really did put it to the test even right off. Instead of deodorant, I filled a small coffee cup with baking soda and used an old blusher brush to dust my armpits with baking soda. Initially, and now also in the depths of a heat wave, I would do this just out of a shower while my skin was still damp and then again before I got dressed. I was so impressed at how I could wear a shirt for at least 2 days with no stink! Every time I removed my shirt, I’d check for stink. I was sniffing my armpits daily for about 6 months with astonishment. I kept asking my husband to sniff, but he wasn’t interested. Took him about a year before he decided to give it a shot. My man is a hard worker, and does a lot of manual labor in his job as well as at home. But he discovered (after his detox period), NO STINK! Now, for him, when he’s working hard, he can’t go more than a day without showering and refreshing the baking soda. HOWEVER, he also still uses soap. There have been a few times when I could FEEL myself sweat – you know, the drip in the armpit feeling. BUT NO STINK!

About 6 months after I started using baking soda for my armpits, I stopped using soap. Somebody on a forum I was a part of suggested that part of the reason our skin stinks is because of the soap buildup or residue mixing with our skin’s oils and perspiration. Yes, I still wash in the shower. But if I feel I need more than just a scrub down with water, I’ll spray my skin with diluted apple cider vinegar that I have in a spray bottle in the shower.

Baking soda doesn’t work for everybody. My best friend suffers from eczema and the baking soda gave her a rash. My mom hasn’t tried baking soda, but she just wipes her armpits with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol. (Not exactly non-toxic, but healthier than aluminum in pit sticks.) I’m excited to share the above coconut oil recipe with my friend to see if it will benefit her.

This is what I use and love it because it’s completely clear and leaves no residue on your skin, so you don’t have to worry about getting it on your clothes (which I can imagine would be a problem with any homemade recipe that uses oils and powders and such). When you switch to a natural deodorant, you need to give yourself a 2-week detox period, because regular deodorants clog you up, so when you switch to a natural deodorant, all those toxins come out of your pores. That’s why you smell.

Give the Crystal Stick 2 weeks and I think you’ll be amazed. It’s also really affordable, I’ve had the same one for 7 years and it’s still not gone!

It does contain an ingredient called “alum”, which some people think is the same thing as aluminum, but it’s not. Alum is a very plentiful element found in nature (we ingest a lot of it everyday in water and food) and it is 30 times larger molucule than water so, even though it would be perfectly safe if it did absorb into your skin, the molecules are actually too large to be absorbed, so no need to worry.