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Finding a Better Way to Be Healthy Abroad: featuring Dr. Bronner’s Soap

4/8/2018

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When you’re traveling and spending a lot of time in countries far outside your own, health issues can and will arise, and it can take a special approach and understanding to know how to prevent as well as treat them. Maintaining a healthy routine and a balanced mind is important to keeping your immune system up, as is proper diet and positive cleanliness. Using organic soaps and lotions, and other botanicals will take you a long way to staying happy, healthy and moving, which is why I reached out to Dr. Bronner’s infamous soap company to assist me.
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A few years ago, I spent nine months backpacking from Spain to Morocco, then along the Mediterranean before moving inland to experience some of Austria and Germany, before flying north to experience Belgium, the UK and finally Iceland, with several smaller countries in between. And so I had plenty of time to become thoroughly entrenched in the different cultures and ways of life, ultimately coming down with a serious sinus infection and cold, complete with vibrant green phlegm that had me concerned.

On this trip, I learned a lot of about the differences in general food quality, body care products and overall health, from the places I visited versus the USA, and I learned that a lot of products that are available in our stores are full of harmful, toxic chemicals, preservatives, and other carcinogenic additives. So at that point in time, after feeling awful for awhile, I decided to switch up my lifestyle and approach by eating healthier, only using organic botanicals on my skin and inside my body, as well as aiming to boost my immune system above all else. I searched out a natural health shop and asked a slew of questions until I understood how best to think about this whole ordeal. Yes, I was sick, and it was affecting my trip, so of course I had to do something.

Based on their suggestions, I employed a variety of natural herbal supplements, teas, and I switched out my toiletry kit contents so that I had clean and organic soaps, tooth paste, and lotion. At the time, I was too sick to care if I was being sold something fake, but truth be told, I began to recover, quicker than I thought possible. And for the rest of the trip, no matter what conditions I was subject to, I remained healthy and energetic, and my trip blossomed from my ability to stay healthy, and I became better educated about our current world’s predicament between what is manmade versus naturally created in nature.


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Now, I still use a lot of their products, finding their organic and fair trade ingredients to be powerful, pure, smelling awesome, and working very well for me. Their pure castile soaps are created with vegetable oil rather than animal fats, and comes super concentrated so a little goes a long way. Dr. Bronner offers a range of soap scents, like that of peppermint, lavender, almond, citrus, tea tree, rose, eucalyptus and unscented. Every time I smell their tea tree soap, I think of my time spent in Europe.

Only recently have I began checking out their other products, like their organic virgin coconut oil, hand & body lotion, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, and lip balm. They also make a variety of other organic and fair trade products like their magic balm, biodegradable hard cleaner, shaving soaps, sugar soaps, bar soap and other hair care options. You may have recognized their products in stores like Target, if you’re in the states, and may have been curious about their bottles, which are covered in poems and religious messages; click here to read further. While I do not support the view, I appreciate the all-one message that the original Dr. Bronner had intended to share with the world. All in all, I’m a big fan of their products because their made well, they work well, they smell intoxicating, and because they believe in a more peaceful world, as I very much do.

If you would like to learn more about Dr. Bronner’s, click here.

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4/12/2018 05:37:25 am

Great work.

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