Chemical Free, Natural Skin Care – How Can You be Sure?

Wildcrafted Herbal Products have been actively taking part in educating the general public and informing them of the potential dangers of not reading the labels carefully and just buying their skin care products based on advertising slogans and marketing strategies which are often misleading if not down right false…Below is the report (in part) which was aired on Channel Seven’s Today Tonight:Expert warns of toxic cosmeticsREPORTER: Glenn ConnleyBROADCAST DATE: September 21, 2005 – Read more

Non-toxic Cleaning Around the House – Part 2

Sodium Carbonate (aka Washing Soda) Soluble in water and very slightly soluble in alcohol. Pure sodium carbonate is a white, odourless powder that absorbs moisture from the air, has an alkaline taste, and forms a strongly alkaline water solution. It is one of the most basic industrial chemicals. Sodium carbonate decahydrate, Na2CO3·10H2O, is a colourless, transparent crystalline compound commonly called sal soda or washing soda. Because seaweed ashes were an early source of sodium Read more

The Message behind Silent Spring and DDT

During the time that Silent Spring was written and published DDT was one of the most widely used pesticides in the world. But the origins of DDT went back to the last quarter of the 19th century, when it was first synthesized by a German chemist in 1874. It wasn’t until just before the Second World War 65 years later that its true potential as an extremely effective pesticide was realized. In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson cleverly writes about the almost casual way DDT was used as an Read more