Growing up, there were certain cosmetics and household products your family swore by! Raise your hand if Vaseline, Comet, and Clorox were/are in your family’s home. Traditionally, these are trusted family staples! When you become an adult and move into your own place, you naturally start incorporating what you grew up with without regard to the ingredients.
Think about it – grandma always used this to wash the dishes, so this is what we use in our family!
Or…
You’re at the beauty counter in your favorite department store, and the lady is raving about a tiny yet expensive bottle of moisturizer that’s supposed to change your life.
Are you really going to take the time to read the labels? Are you going to stand in the middle of the store googling each ingredient? I won’t even pretend I know how to pronounce most of them!
If it’s being sold in stores, it should be healthy for me to use, right?
As a kid, you don’t think about these things. I didn’t. I would sit at my grandmother’s vanity and play with her beauty products like they were dolls! I was running full three-act plays while my grandmother watched her nightly shows. Ahhh… to a child in the 90s. It wasn’t hard finding something to keep myself entertained.
But grown up me does think about the products I use.
Figuring out what’s healthy can be tedious and overwhelming, so I’m really grateful I stumbled upon this app called Think Dirty.
Last weekend, I was the definition of *washed sitting on the floor, getting a head start on spring cleaning, with a trash bag, listening to a new podcast, Black Girl in Om, trying to figure out what to keep, which products were considered toxic, and what would be a safer alternative. Think Dirty helped me sort through my clutter of cosmetics, and here’s why I think you’ll love the app too!
Think Dirty is an app that compares personal and cosmetic items to help you determine if they’re safe or potentially toxic.
Here’s why I love using the app!
5 Benefits of Using Think Dirty
- You can scan or enter a product you use, and it rates how amazing or terrible the product might be.
- It gives you their grading criteria and a list of the product’s ingredients.
- It gives you alternatives for better options.
- You can shop the items in the app.
- The app is free.
This is pretty dope! Don’t you think? This is probably the easiest way to make sure the products you use in your home are safe. Just because a brand says it’s all natural doesn’t mean the ingredients aren’t harmful.
If you have health issues or even if you feel just fine, I strongly suggest researching this app and seeing if it’s a good fit for you. Think about what you’re exposing yourself, your kids, bae, and your pets to! All the constant exposure to toxic ingredients can affect how your body functions. Look, I looked up the brand of tampons I talked about here, and they scored an impressive zero!
As Black History Month ends and March Madness begins, find some time to spring clean to make sure your home only has the good stuff. I hope you’ll find yourself on the floor of your bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room checking out the ingredients in the products you use.
So, have you started spring cleaning? Click here to download Think Dirty from the App Store!
*washed – doing something “lame” like staying in and doing something calm instead of being out late at night, running the streets and partying.
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