Bathroom and Health

In the bathroom aisle and at the pharmacy, you spend hard earned money on mostly unnecessary products, often full of toxins, that leave a trail of pollution and destruction in their wake.

Here are some ideas for growing or making your own safe, simple, ethical, natural, and more economical alternatives.

CONTENTS

Using Fresh Aloe Vera Leaf to Treat Burns at Home

Let’s Choose a More Empowering Story

The People’s Medicine

Transitioning from Toxic to Natural

Essential Oils: Some Things to Consider

Nature’s Original Toothbrush

Yarrow for Oral Care

Yarrow for Wound First Aide

The Dominant Healthcare Approach vs Marginalized Alternatives

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1

Using Fresh Aloe Vera Leaf to Treat Burns at Home

Aloe vera is so easy to grow and so useful when you need it. Here is a story, mostly told in pictures, of a nasty chemical burn and how aloe vera came to the rescue.

Using Fresh Aloe Vera Leaf to Treat Burns at Home

Let’s Choose a More Empowering Story

Our ancestors’ ingenuity and know-how kept them alive for untold generations – long enough for us to come along. Everything they knew is still available to us. We’re just not using it because it’s gone missing from the stories we tell ourselves.

Let’s Choose a More Empowering Story

The People’s Medicine

Home-based herbal medicine is an easy, accessible practice. Here are 9 quotes from herbalists about the oldest and simplest medicine in the world — so simple, a child can do it.

The People’s Medicine

Transitioning from Toxic to Natural

Switching from synthetic personal care products to simple, natural alternatives means giving up superficial attributes like foam, fragrance, and texture, which are achieved using toxic ingredients. This article explores how we got so dependent on these products and shares 3 ideas we can rely on in our efforts to get back to natural.

Transitioning from Toxic to Natural

Essential Oils: Some Things to Consider

Essential oils are highly concentrated and extremely powerful, are harvested and processed on an industrial scale, have big impacts on plants and communities, and should be used sparingly, with caution and respect.

Essential Oils: Some Things to Consider

Nature’s Original Toothbrush

Tooth cleaning did not begin with plastic toothbrushes or medieval concoctions. We’ve been cleaning our teeth since probably before we walked upright on two legs. Here’s how it was done (and in many parts of the world, still is).

Nature’s Original Toothbrush

Yarrow for Oral Care

How I came to swear by yarrow (Achillea millefolium) for oral health care and particularly for gum health.

Yarrow for Oral Care

Yarrow for Wound First Aide

The herb yarrow (Achillea millefoleum) has many uses. Its particularly well known for its ability to quickly stop blood loss and help heal wounds.

Yarrow for Wound First Aide

The Dominant Healthcare Approach vs Marginalized Alternatives

In our culture, control and separation are given more importance than compassion and relationship.
To illustrate what I mean, here’s a comparison between the dominant approach to healthcare and the marginalized, “alternative” approaches.

The Dominant Healthcare Approach vs Marginalized Alternatives

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2

Why the modern healthcare system undermines our families and communities, and how we came to be so dependent on it.

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 2

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1

A brief discussion about modern, quick-fix healthcare versus the slow lane – at-home healthcare that calls for a foundation of healthy living and a healthy social network (not the Twitter kind).

Two Different Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their continuing connection to land, waters, sky, and community. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. I pay my respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, histories and cultures, and to Ancestors and Elders past, present, and emerging.

Inclusion: You are unreservedly welcome here regardless of whatever superficial differences there might be appear to be between you and I.

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