I love herbal ingredients in my products, but I have to be very careful when choosing herb- and fruit-based products. Why?
Because I am allergic to the healthiest fruit and the most soothing flower. Talk about luck.
When ingested, pomegranate and chamomile can take me down in minutes. So can certain kinds of whipped cream, but that’s another story I’m still trying to research. As for the pom and the cham, well, they are on the Don’t-Dare-Buy-Ever list. Problem is, they are prevalent in many of the natural products I’m finding. So I’m curious: if I am allergic to an ingredient when I consume it, will I also be allergic to the ingredient in body products? I have to admit I’m a little hesitant to find out.
My allergies run parallel to my mother’s, and we are noticing that my son shares our reactions to some of the same triggers. Now granted, these allergic reactions are certainly not life-threatening. Our symptoms typically include scratchy throat, coughing, and the nose going haywire. All the stuff that makes a winter cold so darn miserable happens to us instantly upon consumption of these ingredients. If you have any experience with similar food allergies and related ingredients in body products, please let me know. I’m curious to know if I would be safe buying a pomegranate moisturizer or having chamomile in my body wash. I want to be natural, but I don’t want to mess with Nature, ya know?
Lori, you're gonna want to check this out first, but...
ReplyDeleteI saw a naturopathic physician once who told me that allergies (to anything) are basically the body responding to benign substances as if they are harmful (e.g., pollen - it's not harmful, but lots of people's bodies seem to think it is!). She said allergies are caused by our systems being out of whack because of unhealthy eating, toxins in the environment and our food, vitamin and probiotic deficiencies, etc.
And to a limited extent, I can definitely see that she's right - once I started eating healthier and more organically, a lot of my allergies went away or were drastically reduced in severity. So maybe since you're overhauling your lifestyle to get rid of toxins, maybe you're no longer (as) allergic to pomegranate and chamomile? I can totally understand why you wouldn't want to test this theory, though!
You know, this makes a lot of sense. I can see this working like the doctor said. I can already tell a difference when I consume not-so-natural foods, so I am curious to see if my allergies will dissipate. I feel like I can test it first with chamomile, but I'll give it a while still. Thanks for this information!!
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