Common Home Remedies for Allergies
Hay fever and other forms or seasonal and atmospheric allergies can make life a pure misery, especially during a flare up. Although the irritants may differ from person to person, the results are often the same: itchy watery eyes, sneezing, fluid retention, and swelling. In some extreme cases, sinus congestion and irritation can even result in life threatening infection.
This is perhaps why the allergy industry is a billion dollar one. Every pharmaceutical company has devised their own miracle cure for allergy suffers. The problem is, some of these remedies can cause a host of side effects, including drowsiness, which adds to the allergy symptoms. Read more
Natural Mattresses Improve Health
Getting a good night’s sleep is really important to your health, we all know that. But did you know that your bed mattress is likely full of toxic materials? Most bedding manufacturers are more interested in dollars and cents than your health. Chemicals are added to make fabric and materials softer and smoother – nice to sleep on, nice to touch, but not so great when you consider that these toxins are what you and your children breathe in on a nightly basis.
Natural mattresses are mattresses made with natural or organic matterials. Though some companies claim that their materials are “natural”, that’s not always the case. Natural latex mattresses do exist, but they are usually in the $1500 dollar range – beyond the price of most consumers. So %100 natural latex mattresses aren’t made by many companies. It’s simply too expensive, in fact, it’s the most expensive material in the bedding industry to make beds with.
Natural memory foam is a very healthy option for natural bedding. Created from rubber tree sap, this non-toxic mattress does not give off chemical gasses or odors. It is extremely breatheable – meaning it airs very well. Best of all, it’s biodegradeable and won’t clog up a landfil for hundreds (or thousands) of years when you are done with it. Affordable, healthy and eco-friendly – who could ask for more?
Organic Pet Food – Helping Animal Welfare
We are a nation of animal lovers. From dogs of all sizes to just a small goldfish in a tank in our room, we all love our pets. An extension of that is understanding what we are feeding them. Because pet owners have been looking into just what they are buying for their pets they are starting to see some of the horrible conditions that livestock are being kept in.
It is this realization that is further feeding the growth of the organic pet food market. The very fact that we care for animals enough to have pets also means that we become disgusted when we hear about the conditions that battery chickens live in, or the small size pens that cattle are forced into.
This is not a debate for vegetarianism, this is a belief that all animals deserve a certain standard of living that many just don’t get at the moment. Battery chickens, for example, are force fed growth hormones whilst living so tightly packed that the ammonia from their waste burns of their feathers and burns their skin.
Organic pet food is a step towards changing those conditions. For a food to be called organic it has to live up to certain standards, including standards of living for the animals it raises for the food. It ensures that chickens are able to move freely and are treated well, that cattle are not trapped in pens the same size they are – it stops them being fed growth hormones simply to make them bigger than nature would otherwise allow.
In short organic pet food allows for a greater level of animal welfare. As pet owners that is something we should give some serious consideration to.
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