Janey Lee Grace Natural Beauty Recommendations i.e. decholorination balls - any good?

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Is anyone a fan? I got her Imperfectly Natural Woman from the library and wonder if anyone follows any of her tips? I tend to go as natural as possible in some areaa - Ecover washing up liquid and cleaners etc - but haven't really thought of natural toothpaste cleaners, using coconut oil as a moisturiser, natural shampoos or dechlorination balls. Her main point seems to be that there are so many potentially toxic chemicals in all of these products that the build up could cause all sorts of nasties. These seems to make sense to me but I'm not very scientific and imagine scientific friends of mine reading this and tutting that it is nonsense.

whatever else you do be very careful about toothpaste - don;t give up fluoride in your toothpaste - you will develop cavities!

I loved the book and bought the cleaning ball things for the washing manchine, used them religiously for about 3 months until my DH came home from work one day with some Persil tablets. Most unusual. He said he was sat in a meeting at work and thought someone smelt a bit and then realised with horror that it was him! We are now back on 'proper' washing poweder though my ecoballs are still sat under the sink waiting for another chance to show what they can do. Same with her tip about using bicarb and lemon juice instead of jif for kitchens and bathrooms - I tried I really did but we just weren't that clean!
The coconut oil as body moisturiser and hair conditioner is pretty good though.

I changed hair colouring = now use Daniel Fields totally natural colouring. It is amazing and really reasonable at £5 per go!

i loathe that woman and her stupidly named kids

Thanks for your replies. I too found out about Daniel Field from the Janey Lee Grace book. philopastry - it's interesting what you've experienced. Can I ask where you got the coconut oil?

Got my coconut oil from holland and barratt

Thanks murphyslaw - will give that a go.

Karl, I have met her once or twice in RL (long time ago). She actually seemed ok - though agree about the kids names. However, I know at least one of her boys shares a name with an oldie Mnetter so must be careful what I say!

I bought my coconut oil from Neal Yard but H & B sounds like a wiser buy.
What on earth are her poor kids called?!

I'm with Karl on this, plus she pissed off my mate so am female solidarity loathing too

I am intrigued to know her dc's names now?

she's a bit too zealous for me

Sonny 9, Buddy 8, Rocky 4, and Lulu 2

(I don;t mind the names tbh)

buddy and rocky are a bit

I know a little Rocky and he is gorgeous, so doesn't seem so I guess

Thanks for all your replies - and for letting us know the names of her kids - I was also wondering what they were called.