Clean Eating Leads to Clean Cleaning

Is anyone else trying to get healthy before the holidays? I know I’ll be baking up a storm come late November, so I’m definitely trying to kick up the fit factor now. Whenever I get determined to make healthy choices, my first go-to is clean eating. I am a huge fan of fresh, natural ingredients, and I can tell a significant difference after only a few days of cutting processed sugar. One of my favorite ways to eat clean in the a.m. is either juicing or making smoothies. I recently discovered a delicious clean banana coconut smoothie that has become a new staple breakfast during my week.

Once I start eating clean, I try to avoid putting anything unnatural into my body, even at the brink of flu season. I’ve been swapping out some over the counter medicines for Young Living essential oils lately and am really happy with the results! For small cluster headaches I rub peppermint oil on my forehead and feel relief instantly. I also use peppermint on my stomach to help with digestion and even put a drop in a glass of water to drink after eating. As for cold- and flu-like symptoms, I’ve had success rubbing Purification in my ears and behind my ear lobes to fight off ear aches and also rubbing Thieves inside my mouth and drinking some in tea with honey to ward off colds. My friend also has a great flu bomb recipe. If you want to order any oils of your own, email me and I’ll send you a discount code for $20 off your first order.

After I started getting back into the clean living groove, I soon realized that I was sitting in my kitchen eating agave nectar muffins, diffusing Peace and Calming, and cleaning the counter with n-Alkyl dimethyl ethyl benzyl ammonium chlorides. Something is definitely wrong with that picture! Now, I’ve seen the homemade detergents and cleaners on Pinterest and I know there are several essential oil recipes for cleaning, but they are so much work to put together, and I just don’t have the time for all of that DIY. Like any good daughter would, I went to Mama O&O about my dilemma and she told me about these fantastic cloths by Norwex that clean and sanitize using only water! Apparently, the cloths contain silver in the microfiber, which removes bacteria from the surface you are cleaning. Upon further research, I discovered this pretty impressive video comparing Norwex’s performance against regular microfiber cloths (without silver) and paper towels using generic household cleaner. *Spoiler alert: Norwex wins!

Mama O&O then pointed out that if I’m really aiming for a clean lifestyle, I need to look not only at the products I’m cleaning my house with, but also my face! She promptly gave me a Norwex makeup cloth that uses the same silver/microfiber technology to remove make-up with only water. I am allergic to parabens, so I already have a hard time finding cleansers that don’t make me break out. Now that I can clean my face with just water, I am totally hooked!    

If you’re interested in getting your hands on some of your own miracle cleaning cloths, you can order them here. Just add my name, Victoria Swider, as your host at checkout. If you want to learn more before taking the clean cleaning plunge, Facebook message me and I’ll invite you to a live online info session this Thursday night (October 30) from 6-8pm (EST).

Do you have any other clean living advice? Comment below, tweet, or Instagram it using the #overdressedovereducated hashtag. 

Naturally,
    Victoria