Mind Mart Mind-Body Health

How many cleansers do you have in your home? One of my pet peeves is the number of cleaning products that are marketed to people. Do you have a soap for the dishes, another for floors, shampoo for your hair, the dog, and on and on? I’ve narrowed down my soap collection to just Castile soap. It’s so versatile that you can use it to bathe a baby or clean the toilet. You don’t need every new cleaning product on the market. Not only are they environmentally unfriendly, but they don’t really clean any better than homemade recipes. Many people hesitate to use simple home-made cleansers because they feel it’s not really clean if you don’t use strong chemicals. In fact, the opposite is often true. Commercials cleansers often leave behind a residue for the dirt to cling to and the surface gets dirtier quicker.

The Fall always brings a bountiful harvest of pumpkins. We usually only think of pumpkins in terms of pie, but they’re good for a lot more. As their deep orange color suggests, pumpkins are packed with vitamins A and C, potassium, dietary fiber, folate, omega-3 fatty acids, and many B vitamins. With all that [...]

The American Psychological Association recently conducted an annual survey of 7,000 Americans. The results show just in the past five months, anxiety about the economy has jumped from 66 percent to 80 percent. Americans are stressed about their personal finances and the economy, and to cope with stress, the survey found that up to 48 [...]

Slightly less than half of world’s cocoa beans are grown in West Africa, where 284,000 children work on cocoa farms under abusive labor conditions.
This year, why not choose Halloween chocolate that is sweet for the kids next door as well as the kids in cocoa bean producing countries. Just look for the Fair Trade label [...]