DETOXING YOUR HOME – Part 1
Detoxing your home is also about detoxing your body. There is very little point in doing a liver detox, colonic or fast if you are immersed in a toxic environment.
Your home is surprisingly polluted.
Indoor air quality in many places is hazardous to health for several reasons:
- Many homes, particularly the newer “energy efficient homes” are not well ventilated. This is a problem because whatever is lingering in the air is being breathed in by you, over and over again. Adequate ventilation is vital! More on this later.
- The air in your home can become polluted by moulds and fungi – fungi is NOT a fun guy, far from it. Can you smell dampness anywhere? Can you see mould anywhere? If you answered “yes,” then we have a problem.
- Furniture smells – have you noticed the way that a piece of new furniture has a particular smell to it? This is the off-gassing of what is known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Chipboard is particularly problematic – all those little pieces of wood are held together with formaldehyde! (Formaldehyde? This causes cancer, it is a carcinogen.)
- Carpets smell – not only do they off-gas VOCs, but they are havens for dust, dust-mites, petro-chemicals and many other things that are traipsed through your home on your shoes.
- People – people add humidity, and sometimes pathogens (if they are sick). People also off-gas – their personal care products mingle and give off a smell.
All of these factors contribute to the air quality of your home (and workplace and car!)... And considering you spend (on average) 90% of your time indoors, that's a lot of pollutants that you are inhaling.
Jojoba is now grown in Australia. It is extracted via expeller pressing and filtration.
It is used widely in the Truly Inspired! range, including Nudie Non-Scents - for its healing, soothing, and protective properties.
A Sneak Peek at Jojoba
(Simmondsia chinensis)
Despite being referred to as “jojoba oil,” jojoba is actually a wax, not an oil. Being a wax makes it more stable, as oils oxidise quickly. Also, this means that jojoba can add a barrier over the skin, and thus protect skin from the elements.
Jojoba very closely resembles the oils that are secreted by our skin, which is the main reason it is absorbed so well. It can provide much moisture to skin and rebalance the pH of the skin.
The use of jojoba in skin care and cosmetics became more widespread when whale oil was banned in the 1970s.
In 1822, British botanist H.F Link first recorded the jojoba plant when he visited North Mexico. He named it Simmondsia chinensis, after fellow botanist T.W Simmonds.
The trees generally live for more than 100 years, and it is thought that some even live for more than 200 years. Simmondsia chinensis is an evergreen desert plant that can grow up to 3 metres tall. It bears fruits, of which 50% is the prized jojoba oil. When ripe, the green fruits split open and release the seeds (usually only 2 or 3), which are brown and wrinkled.
It is used widely in the Truly Inspired! range, including Nudie Non-Scents - for its healing, soothing, and protective properties.
