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Go chemical-lite!

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If you'd like to reduce the chemical load on your body – in your beauty and personal hygiene routine and in the products you use to clean your home – here's how. We've put together a list of chemical-lite and chemical-free products, and where you can find out more about them.

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Body and Home

All the below websites offer a wide range of beauty and hygiene products for all the family and some household cleaners.

elave
www.elave.co.uk
elave is safe skincare, developed with the most reactive skin conditions in mind; eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis. elave skincare formulations have been developed formulations without known irritants and worrying chemicals.

Green People
www.greenpeople.co.uk

PureNuffStuff
www.purenuffstuff.co.uk/

Babies

Green Baby
www.greenbaby.co.uk
Green Baby extends beyond hygiene and cleaning products into clothing, toys and furniture for babies.

Personal hygiene

As well as deodorants from the companies above, PitRock natural crystal deodorant is available from Boots, Superdrug and Asda.

Find out more about the full Pitrok range at: www.pitrock.co.uk

Crystal Spring Classic Deodorant is part of the Crystal Spring range of body and home products at www.crystalspringltd.co.uk

A wide range of toothpastes and other beauty, cleaning, foods and supplements are available from Goodness Direct at www.goodnessdirect.co.uk.

Cosmetics and perfumes

Lily Lolo
www.lilylolo.co.uk
Lily Lolo is a range of cosmetics based on crushed minerals, such as zinc and titanium, instead of traditional chemicals.

Avea
www.avea.co.uk
Parabens and phthalate-free cosmetics and hairsprays are available from Avea.

Primavera
www.primavera.co.uk/
The Primavera range of plant based cosmetics, perfumes and bath products are also free from chemical preservatives.

The chemical-lite hair dyes used in How Toxic Are You came from ranges by:

Tints of Nature
www.tintsofnature.co.uk

Henna Plus
Logona: www.logona.co.uk

Household products

Fresh & Green
www.freshandgreen.net/
Antony Worrall Thompson's Fresh & Green range include All Purpose Cleaner, Bathroom Cleaner and Limescale Remover, Stain remover, Kitchen and Hob Cleaner, Toilet Cleaner and Limescale remover, Washing Up Liquid, Air Freshener, Laundry Liquid and Fabric Conditioner.

Products are currently also available from the WWF website (www.wwf.org.uk) and Asda, Waitrose, Budgens and Robert Dyas stores.

Bio D range of household cleaning products can be found at the following websites:
http://ecotopia.co.uk
http://shop.wwf.org.uk/eco-household
www.earthlets.co.uk/

Laundry products can be found at the following sites:

Ecover washing powder
www.ecover.com

Soap Pods
www.soapods.com

Ecoballs
www.ecoballsdirect.co.uk

Air Freshners
www.citrusmagic.co.uk/
From a range of hygiene and household products based on citrus fruits.


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