Apps that will change the way you shop

Have you ever thought about what is lurking in the products you have in your cosmetic drawer? Or even in your cleaning supply cabinet? Truthfully, unless you have set your life on educating yourself on chemicals and ingredients, it is likely that you don't. Most of the time that I read ingredients, I think to myself "wtf does that even mean?."

Living a healthy and cleaner lifestyle can help you least limit the chances of illness and disease. What you put on your body counts just as much as what you put inside your body.

Over the years, I have spent time reading ingredients listed in my food and products. Now that I have a baby, all this ingredient reading and searching is heightened.

There are three apps that are designed to assist you with learning more and making sure you are buying quality products with safe ingredients for you and your family.

1. "Think Dirty" App

2. "Clean Beauty" App

3. "EWG's Healthy Living" App

Think Dirty Each allows you to scan products & see what they are rated by an ingredient scale. It also has many recommendations on different clean products. This app does have in app purchases to access certain info, but there is still a lot of free info that you can access and use!

Clean Beauty is a free app that has created an "Analyzer", "Ingredient Glossary", "How your cosmetics are formulated", and "Why Ingredients are controversial". Each of these give you information on your beauty products and allows you to choose whether or not you think it is right for you.

EWG's Healthy Living App is also free. It is a giant search engine that will give you information about your product and the health hazard concerns.

Obviously balance is key. We are not going to always be able to afford every single "clean" and "organic" product or food; we may not even think some of these work for our skin as well as our usual products. However, being informed and educated will help us make better choices when we can.