PeaceKeeper natural, gluten-fee nail paints are back!
I’m sorry for their disappearance, but thanks to a healthy supply of Peacekeeper paints at Drugstore.com, Naturally Dah’ling once again links to one of the best nail companies on the planet!
So whether you paint at home or bring your own polish with you to the manicurist, toss out toxic formulas in exchange for these healthier, long-lasting, gluten-free nail beauties.
A hot topic on Twitter this week has been Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s promotion of her book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide
Of course, whilst all this drama (that I’m not sure I agree with) has been going on–Elaine Monarch of The Celiac Disease Foundation announced that: the inaccuracies in this book are potentially dangerous and detrimental to celiacs and to those yet to be diagnosed if people self diagnose and start eating GF–I have been busy on my quest to find a safe gluten-free dog food for our adopted GWP Waylon. Waylon seems to be better off with less gluten in his diet, but I am also being a bit selfish in the matter and trying to avoid contaminating myself three times a day as well (via handling his food).
Isn’t it just amazing when you consider all of the small and unexpected ways in which you can get glutened?
Anyway, it’s a bit off topic from gluten-free beauty, but handling your pet’s food can most certainly cause you to ingest some amount of gluten, so do be careful!
I’ve started trying out some of my samples and have these reports thus far:
100 Percent Pure Body Cream-It’s no secret, I already ADORE this product, but I don’t usually look beyond my fav. scent of Honey Almond. So the Fuji Apple and Coconut are new to me, and unworthy of stealing the crown for My Favorite Scent. The Coconut is nice, not too sweet or powerful, and the Fuji Apple is somewhat sweet, and not overpowering, but neither will be stealing the spot from my top scent. All of these scents, however, are gluten free!
Suki Exfoliate Foaming Cleanser-This is a product I’ve sampled before. After a solid recommendation I once purchased a trial kit of Suki’s very highly regarded products. While there were some hits and some misses, this was one product that I did like, but just did not love. It’s a unique product in that it is a sort of sugar scrub for the face, which also foams. But in my opinion the sugar could be ground finer and I believe I’d prefer if this product were more of a paste than it is now. As far as the ingredients state, this product is gluten-free, though I would contact the company to be sure.
The other samples that I’ve recently tried out are some from Ann Marie Borland. I tested out the four part Regeneration Series and was actually quite impressed. What I am not impressed with, however, is a) the fact that I’ve contacted their company and had great difficulty in reaching anyone to verify that these products are in fact gluten-free, and there are enough ingredients in each to want verification and b) if shopping online, you cannot simply order from Skin Botanica, but have to use Drugstore.com or the Borlind Boutique which frankly, is not quite so easy to find.
Today I received just a little reminder of why I use the products that I do. After having run out of my Hamadi Leave-In Conditioner a week or so ago, I grabbed for an “organic, gluten-free, paraben-free, sulfate-free, glycol-free” conditioner that I have had stored in the back of bathroom cabinet for longer than I care to admit.
After several uses though, my scalp seems in quite a bit of disharmony, it is as if my scalp is protesting–I won’t grow beautiful healthy hair as long as you use this junk on me! Seriously. So I have stopped using it, but since it is labeled as “gluten-free” I am not sure why my head hates it so.
And then I did a bit of research into the ingredients. And found one in particular that I was unfamiliar with, and do not want to be:
Nice. You know, when I bought this (relatively cheap) product in a drug store, I did think it was too good to be true, and it was. Needless to say, I have just ordered more Hamadi.