{"id":443964,"date":"2010-03-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/18\/benefits-of-natural-beauty-products\/"},"modified":"2010-03-18T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:00:00","slug":"are-natural-beauty-products-the-best-for-your-bod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/443964","title":{"rendered":"Are Natural Beauty Products the Best for Your Bod?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/health\/\" rel=\"tag\">Health<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/natural.jpg\" \/>We spend so much time thinking about what we put into our mouth, but what about the stuff we smear across our body? Nutritionist and holistic lifestyle consultant <\/span><a  href=\"http:\/\/www.meghantelpner.com\/\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Meghan Telpner<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, who is hosting an upcoming workshop on natural beauty products, explains why we should use natural beauty items and offers a few of her favourite recipes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q: Why do you recommend natural body products?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A: What we put on the outside our body will end up inside our body. There is not much sense in spending so much time being concerned with what we are eating if we fail to also take into account what we are absorbing through our skin. There are loads of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=toxins\">toxins<\/a> in our environment that we can&#8217;t control, so why not be a little more careful about the things we <em>can<\/em> control?<\/p>\n<p>We have a layer of fat that surrounds our body, just below the skin&#8217;s surface. These fat cells serve to insulate us and lend a little padding and protection for our internal organs. Toxins collect and store in the fat cells. When products absorb through our skin, those fat cells are the first places the toxins will land and that will ultimately affect the appearance of health on our skin&#8217;s surface over time. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q: How can making our own body products at home improve our health?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/18\/benefits-of-natural-beauty-products\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>Are Natural Beauty Products the Best for Your Bod?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/18\/benefits-of-natural-beauty-products\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19390474\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/18\/benefits-of-natural-beauty-products\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Advice, Health We spend so much time thinking about what we put into our mouth, but what about the stuff we smear across our body? Nutritionist and holistic lifestyle consultant Meghan Telpner, who is hosting an upcoming workshop on natural beauty products, explains why we should use natural beauty items and offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}