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My Favorite Products

Welcome to my curated list of tried-and-true products that I use and love! Since holiday sales are on, I thought you might want to explore some of these options.

I've organized everything by category to make it easy to find what you're looking for. Many of these items are available with special discounts—read the full newsletter if you want the links. (emails full of links tend to be rejected by spam filters so I thought I would send you to my website for links.

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Personal Care & Beauty

Oral Care

• FYGG Toothpaste has the preferred microcrystallized hydroxyapatite ingredients that remineralizes teeth.

• Dr. Tung's Smart Floss - not perfect, but comfortable and devoid of fluorinated compounds present in many commercial dental floss options.

Skincare

• CRUNCHI — a cosmetics company devoted to safe products

  • Sunscreen

  • CLARILight Cleanser

  • Golden Light Multi-Peptide Facial Serum — anti-aging!

  • Nightlight Advanced Youth Activating Facial Cream — also anti-aging.

Body Care

• Pure Haven Body Butter with Pre- and Probiotics, Cupuacu Butter, and Mandarin Orange — general moisturizer

• EP Grade Lanolin - Skin Protection and Recovery Balm; replaces petroleum-based products when it is critical to keep skin well-hydrated (for radiotherapy treatments for example). Some lanolin has pesticides from treated sheep wool, this is one option that tested safe. The lavender essential oil makes it delightful.

Home & Cleaning

Hair Care

• Pure Haven

  • Supergreens Shampoo

  • Supergreens Conditioner

Cleaning Products

• Dr. Bronner's Liquid Soap

• Humble Suds All-Purpose Cleaner (Hyper-Concentrated)

• Humble Suds Powdered Laundry Detergent

• Koala Eco Natural Dish Soap

Kitchen & Cookware

Cookware

• 360 Cookware — is highly recommended by my go-to resource Irina Webb

• Le Creuset — I am in love with mine but it does require some TLC

• Stargazer Cast Iron — I researched this a while back and it was my favorite, but most cast iron pans will last you forever.

• All-Clad Pots — Again something that lasts forever and works so well.

• I am not a fan of any non-stick cookware; after a few years, all the companies so far have ended up in court discussing ingredients they failed to disclose.

Tableware & Storage

• Glass Cups, Plates, Bowls, and Teapots.

  Unfortunately, too many ceramics leach heavy metals and other toxins, and few companies care to disclose this. I am especially enamored of double-wall borosilicate glass and have an eclectic collection of several that were on sale at Wayfair over the years.

• Glass and Metal Canisters for the Kitchen

  I live in earthquake prone Bay Area so I keep glass canisters on lower shelves and metal canisters on upper shelves. I’ve found good options at The Container Store.

• Ball and Mason Jars, Pyrex and SnapLock containers.

  I tend to shop from original websites and prefer to bypass the usual suspects.

Seasonings & Staples

• Diamond Crystal Kosher salt: Unfortunately some salt has a high heavy metal content, and this one tested as one of the safer ones.

• Simply Organics spices and herbs: are tested for heavy metals, which makes them one of the best bets

• Lundberg rice (especially white rice) is lowest in arsenic

• 365 brand whole flaxseeds are lowest in heavy metals

• Terrasoul cocoa is highest in beneficial flavanols while low in heavy metals

• Terrasoul also has discounted organic almonds for making almond milk, and cashews for vegan sauces, and good prices on many good quality food items

• Seatopia fish are so low in mercury they are lower than chicken

• Viberi New Zealand organic blackcurrants: powder and freeze-dried

• Nuts dot com or Terrasoul when I can’t find organic nuts or seeds locally

Food & Beverages

Oils

• Laconiko Zoi Olive Oil — biophenols 1400 this year! You need to like the bitterness and spice (I love it but I also suspect one gets used to it). Use my code for a 15% discount if you decide to buy this: DRASHE15

• P.J. Kabos Olive Oil — presently selling the 2024 harvest that is still very high in polyphenols but not as bitter and spicy.

Tea & Coffee

• ALAYA Assam Black Tea — sadly closed their doors, looking for new organic Assam tea.

• TEALYRA Green Tea Bancha

• Grounds for Change Organic Decaf Espresso — I could not find organic decaf espresso in stores anywhere.

Organic Produce

365 brand frozen wild blueberries are truly organic, as opposed to some that I won’t name.

Home Essentials

Linens & Textiles

• Organic Sheets from The California Design Den

• Organic Towels from Garnet Hill

• 100% Wool Rugs sometimes from discount sources

Water Filtration

• Aquagear Water Filter Pitcher; I would be a fan of under-sink water filters, but a system I had previously leaked all over my kitchen sink cabinet and created a very expensive mess that required full mold remediation. I later found out that this is not uncommon for under-sink filters. Also, reverse osmosis filters are good but remove too much magnesium from water, and waste 5x the quantity of water you are drawing.

• Soda Stream - our favorite way to dilute store-bought kombucha or make lemon fizzy water

• Air purifiers: there are three brands I trust. Air Doctor for the smallest particles, but also Clean Air Kits for lower priced air filters. Austin Air for VOC filtering as it has a lot more carbon, but doesn’t work as well to filter the smallest particles.

Shopping

Books from Bookshop: sometimes I want to order a book and not have to drive to my local bookstore — and I don’t want to pile on to the usual suspects websites. I love this option that supports our local bookstores.

How to Get Discounts

This same newsletter — with links — is available here. If you see here anything that would be of use to you, please click through. I hope you like these! Let me know what you think.

Disclaimer: PJ Kabos and Clean Air Kits are affiliate links. I only recommend products I personally use and love. I am not famous enough (yet!) to be of interest to companies just to promote their products. Pique Life is the exception. It is an advertisement. Some of my illustrious colleagues recommend them but I have not tried them yet — looking forward to!