#216: How to Avoid Toxins in Personal Care Products
Today, I am thrilled to welcome Rachel Downey, a health and wellness advocate, to discuss how to avoid toxins in personal care products. Rachel, a mom of three, began her journey eight years ago, driven by her desire to make safer choices for her children.
Rachel shares that her journey started when her daughter experienced reactions to certain products, prompting her to explore and switch to safer alternatives. She emphasizes the importance of making "swaps," or replacing commonly used products with safer options. For example, when shopping for baby shampoo, instead of grabbing a familiar brand, she advises turning the product over and examining the ingredients.
Many of us are aware that toxic ingredients in beauty products can cause issues like dry eyes. Rachel highlights some com...
#215: Eliminating Toxins from Your Personal Care Products
Today, I am thrilled to welcome Rachel Downey, a health and wellness advocate, to discuss how to avoid toxins in personal care products. Rachel, a mom of three, began her journey eight years ago, driven by her desire to make safer choices for her children.
Rachel shares that her journey started when her daughter experienced reactions to certain products, prompting her to explore and switch to safer alternatives.
What's a "Swap"?
Rachel emphasizes the importance of making "swaps," or replacing commonly used products with safer options. This is the simple act of swapping out one of your regular personal care items for another that contains less toxins. Overtime, using one product that is better for your health after another, you can notice significant changes to the way your skin and ey...
#196: Is Your Skin Care TOXIC? Enhance Your Eyes Naturally with Oculaire Skincare
Let's dive into the world of Oculaire Skincare, the ultimate destination for eye-enhancing products that promise to make you feel, look, and even see better!
Today, I'm joined by Jessica Rosales, a skincare expert from Oculaire Skincare, who will take us on a journey through their incredible product line designed specifically for sensitive eyes and skin. Get ready to unlock the secrets to youthful and radiant eyes naturally!
Oculaire Mousse d'or - The Gentle Foaming Face and Lid Wash
Jessica introduces us to the wonder of Oculaire Mousse d'or, a foaming face and lid wash that's perfect for daily use. Mousse d'or is a calming formulation that helps eliminate demodex, alleviate symptoms of blepharitis, reduce lid swelling, and address skin inflammation. Its gentle and scent-free formula...
#191: How to Get Rid of Eye Irritation from Makeup
In the last blog, I shared with you the ways in which your eye makeup could be causing dry eye disease. If you missed it, please click here. In this blog, I will discuss three ways you can treat your eyes when the dryness eye disease is attributed to makeup.
No. 1) AVOID TOXIC INGREDIENTS
The United States bans only 11 ingredients from the product lists of cosmetics. However, the European Union bans over 1600. Many of your favorite products contain ingredients that are toxic to the ocular surface.
In order to avoid toxins, you will need to start reading ingredient labels. I’ve compiled a list of the ingredients you need to eliminate from your makeup in this handy list. You can download the list here. These are particularly toxic to your eyes.
No. 2) REMOVE YOUR MAKEUP
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#190: How Does Makeup Wear Cause Dry Eye?
Patients come to me every day because they can no longer wear their eye makeup. Their eyes are irritated, red, watery. They apply their makeup and later find it running down their face. They're frustrated because they can't wear the products that they love.
This happens so often. I want to give you three reasons that this is happening:
REASON #1) INFLAMMATION
Some eye makeups cause inflammation to your eyes. Have you ever put your mascara on and then your eyes started to burn? This is happening because the ingredients in that mascara were irritating to your eyes.
Did you know that women apply mascara nine times a week on average? That's more than once a day. Women are applying mascara multiple times a day. And if that mascara contains irritating ingredient, it will cause inflamm...
#131: Clean Beauty with Dr. Diane Hilal Campo
Today I have a very special guest with me, Dr. Diane Hilal Campo. She is the founder of Twenty/Twenty Beauty, a new line of beauty products that have been very helpful to my dry eye patients. The reason my patients have had so much success with her products is because they avoid all of the most common toxic ingredients. If you would like to see a list of common toxic ingredients, download it here.
I am so pleased to have Dr. Campo to help explain her views of clean makeup and how her products are solving problems for dry eye patients who haven't been able to wear makeup, maybe for years now.
WHAT IS CLEAN BEAUTY
Clean beauty means that the products that you're using for your beauty routine do not contain anything that can harm your body. The beauty industry is not well-regulated....
#101: Best of 100 Blog Posts
WooHoo! We made it to 100 Blogs! I am so grateful that you are here with me. We couldn't have done it without you, the readers. Join me as we review the best posts of the past 100. Let's dive in...
Most Referenced Blog: 4-Step Dry Eye Relief Plan
There is a 4-step treatment process that I recommended my patients to do at home for the maintenance of healthy eyes and eyelids. Utilizing these 4 steps is a daily regimen to give your body the support it needs to function properly. Taking these steps daily will help you to restore and maintain healthy, comfortable eyes and clear vision.
Hydrate, Harmonize, Heat, and Heal: Performing all 4 steps on a daily basis will go a long way in healing your eyes and helping them to stay healthy, happy, and hydrated. Check out the full post here...
What does Clean Makeup Mean?
Most of my patients ask me lots of questions about how to make their eyes look younger. How can we turn back the clocks and make ourselves look years younger? Well, if I knew how to do that, I would be lounging on a private island by now. I don't have a magic wand to wave to erase the effects all those years have had on our bodies.
But, I do know that using Clean Makeup will help decrease the signs of aging around your eyes. Now I've caught your attention. It's true, using the average makeup found at the drug store or at the department store counter is filled with toxic ingredients that will increase inflammation of your tissues and increase the signs of aging.
What is CLEAN Makeup?
Clean makeup is defined as beauty products that are made without ingredients shown to harm human hea...
