Cheap and simple ways to start caring for your body and skin, whilst reducing toxicity

🥦 Order a weekly local organic vegetable box- limiting pesticide exposure. Pesticides are linked to a range of serious illnesses and diseases. All this organic veg costs just £12.

💧Add salt to filtered drinking water- by adding salt to drinking water it helps to replenish lost electrolytes, promoting better water absorption and preventing dehydration. Which is cheaper than purchasing electrolyte sachets or supplements.

🥚Find local eggs- Supermarkets can be difficult to trust when it comes to egg sourcing. Even “free-range” eggs may come from flocks of up to 16,000 hens per shed, with access to the outdoors limited to small openings in the perimeter. Additionally, the chickens’ diet plays a role in the quality of the eggs, especially in balancing the omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. For just £1.15 more than a dozen Aldi eggs, opting for eggs from a local, small farm can be a worthwhile investment.

🦠 Swap plastic chopping boards for wooden- every time we chop on plastic boards we release microplastics onto the ingredients we are preparing. These are from ikea and under £10.

🥣 Swap plastic food storage boxes for glass- plastic lunch boxes leach harmful substances into the food they contain, including phthalates, PVS, and BPA. These chemicals are known endocrine and hormone disruptors. These are from Ikea and under £10.

🍵 Swap afternoon caffeine for nettle and peppermint tea- stinging nettle has been used for centuries as a natural remedy to support healthy hormone levels. Nettle is believed to be a powerful blood air purifier that removes toxins from the body. Swap your £5 Starbucks for a pack of these from Waitrose for 95p.

☀️ Soak up Vitamin D- It’s free! Vitamin D is crucial for various immune functions, mood and brain health. Seeing the sun first thing in the morning is so beneficial for your circadian rhythm. Helping reset your body’s clock & trigger the release of hormones that help you wake up.

🫐 Prioritise breakfast in the first hour of waking up- there is evidence that getting a meal into our bodies within the first hour of waking can start the circadian clocks present in our livers and digestive organs, priming us for a day of abundant energy and good digestion. Our bodies are more insulin-sensitive in the morning and therefore more able to use food for fuel, rather than storing it as fat, at that time of the day.