Episode 15: Ep 15: How Our Personal Care Products Can Affect Our Health + Clean Product Swaps + Infertility Struggles

This week, Shannon chats with Adrienne Altman, who is a working mama with two littles, on a mission to educate and empower busy parents, and parents to-be, on how to make smart choices to remove toxins from their everyday products and home without overwhelm. After losing her father to cancer and suffering with fertility issues, she was shocked to learn about the links between specific harmful ingredients in personal care products and overall health - links to fetal development, fertility, cancer, hormonal health and more.Adrienne’s approach is to ditch the overwhelm and empower you take small simple steps in the right direction based on YOUR priorities. Its about making education choices for your family in way that works for YOU and how you live.

Topics discussed:

1. How Adrienne discovered clean beauty and why she's so passionate about it
2. Ingredients to avoid in personal care products
3. How what we put on our skin/in our hair etc. can affect every system and organ in our bodies
4. How to take small steps to incorporate clean products into your regime
5. What the term "natural" actually means on a label
6. How to navigate the personal care isles at the store/online
7. Can some of our symptoms be linked to our personal care products?
8. Making your own personal care products at home
9. Adrienne's personal journey with infertility
10. Adrienne's tips for de-gunking your personal care routine

Links mentioned in this episode:

• https://www.instagram.com/adrienne_altman/
• https://www.instagram.com/getthegunkout/