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Embracing a Healthier Lifestyle: My 22-Year Journey with Wellness Store Products

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After 22 years, I am still loving the Wellness Store products I purchase each month. My journey began slowly, swapping everyday items one at a time. Back then, the selection was limited to about 50 products, but now there are over 400, and the company keeps expanding its offerings!

Are You Making Healthier Choices for Your Family?

I decided to prioritize my family’s health 22 years ago, and I haven’t looked back. It brings me joy to know that we are using healthier, less toxic alternatives compared to what we used before. Improving our overall health was my goal, and it just made sense to switch to this brand and ditch the toxins.

And let’s not forget about the clean beef options—they are a game changer!

The Hidden Dangers of Conventional Laundry Detergents

I used to rely on brands like Tide, Gain, and Baby Dreft, unaware of their toxicity. Consider this: you are in contact with your laundry soap 24/7. You wear the clothes all day, dry off with towels, and sleep on bed linens treated with these products. Every day and every night, your skin absorbs what it comes into contact with. In just 26 seconds, those substances can enter your bloodstream, affecting your health.

Tide and Gain may smell good, but they often harbor harmful chemicals. Just look at the warnings on the labels—red flags that I ignored until my children started experiencing acne and eczema. That’s when I began searching for a safer brand.

The Harsh Reality of Conventional Detergents

Many laundry detergents, including pods, have been linked to various health issues, such as hormone disruption, fertility problems, rashes, lung damage, and even chemical burns. Here’s what you’re actually paying for with Tide:

  • Water: Over 80%
  • Sodium Alcohol Ethoxylate Sulfate
  • Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate
  • Fragrance Perfume and many more harmful ingredients.

It’s alarming to think about the environmental factors contributing to cancers that can’t be blamed on genetics.

A Better Alternative

The MelaPower line is just one of over 400 products I’ve swapped out on my Wellness journey. Two decades later, I can confidently say that I love this company and its products just as much now as I did when I first discovered them!

I’ve seen many lives improve because I was open to learning about simple changes, like replacement shopping that saves time and money.

My current detergent boasts a formula with zero:

  • Chlorine bleach
  • Formaldehyde
  • Phthalates
  • Parabens
  • Chemical fragrances

What You Get with the Wellness Shop Club

With Wellness Shop Club, you receive:

  • Coconut oil-derived surfactants
  • Plant enzymes
  • Essential oils

The containers are half the size of the competition because the products are super concentrated, which also reduces shipping costs. And yes, everything is made in America!

We have ditched Tide, Seventh Generation, Gain, Dreft, and all the other toxic brands, and we have never looked back.

An Eye-Opening Read

If you’re interested in learning more about the dangers of conventional products, check out this eye-opening article: The Hidden Dangers of Household Products.
Let’s take steps toward a healthier future for our families. Join me on this journey of wellness!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396757/

Can you even believe it?

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When your family sized load of laundry calls for less laundry detergent than your cookie recipe calls for vanilla…you know you’re going to be saving money. To be exact, this load takes two teaspoons of detergent per large load. My cookie recipe calls for two and one half teaspoons per batch.

It’s certainly a small amount of detergent, yet my clothes and linens always come out super clean.

Why should I pay for water-filled detergents when the machine adds water already? And, why should you?

Laundry factoid

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Did you know that 90% of the energy used for a load of laundry comes from heating the water? Not washing the laundry—heating the water!
Luckily for me, my favorite non-toxic laundry detergent is designed to work in any water temperature, so ! can wash my things in cold tap water and save around $22 to $25 per month on my electric bill. Not to mention my non-toxic detergent is also a lot less expensive than Tide, and you only need a small amount per load.
Like I always say, some swaps just make life easier—better for your home, your wallet, and the planet!

Just thought I would share

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These jeans were filthy! Would they ever come clean?
See for yourself.
I pre-treated with Pre-Spot and then gave them a good spray with my fabulous all-purpose cleaner, Soul-U-Mel, and then two pumps of Mountain Fresh Mela Power!
I think it worked. I love these products!

What is affecting your skin?

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Before I started my healthy journey, I was oblivious at the fact that everything added to the laundry wash and dry cycle is ABSORBED into our skin.
Thinking about that makes my skin crawl…especially after recently hearing about the cancer-causing toxins found in Aveeno and Neutrogena products.
My laundry soap, scent booster, stain remover, bleach alternative, fabric softener and dryer sheets from my online shopping club are all eco-friendly,
non-toxic and scented only with essential oils!
I will never judge anyone else’s choices, because I am far from perfect. but I will try to encourage you to join me in trying to do better. If I could encourage you to swap one item to a safer alternative I would start with your laundry line. Detergent, fabric softener, melaboost, and dryer sheets!

A better way to shop

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I can’t share this often enough. I think it’s the best, You see, it only takes one pump per load. This petite container? It does 96 loads.
No junk ingredients. No fillers and it’s highly concentrated.
It’s also the only stuff I will use for products that touch my family member’s skin! Smells heavenly and is excellent on hard stains!
Every month of the year every dollar counts.

Tide — .42 cents a load.

Dreft — .41 cents a load.

Melapower — .20 cents a load.

Works better too. What more can I say?

Relief for troubled skin

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This morning, I was watching the news and saw a commercial for Dupixent for eczema and sin rash. Most of the people in the commercial were kids, aged 12 or younger. I understand when your kids are suffering, you ache for them to feel better — often medication like Dupixent is prescribed.

For myself, I found an alternative doe my eczema with a few simple changes to products tI use everyday with no new hit to my budget.

These two products — Melapower Detergent and Renew Lotio — from the online Wellness shopping club where I shop monthly have made a difference for me and I no longer use Dupixent. My eczema has been alleviated with this laundry detergent and this skin lotion. Neither contains formaldehyde, parabens, chlorine bleach or other chemicals..I do think it’s important to get chemicals out of your home. What we breathe and what we apply to our skin is important. I’ve personally seen the difference.

This is all it takes…

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Yes, this is all it takes for a load of laundry.
I know, it’s pretty impressive.
It’s a good thing because I have about a thousand more loads today after being gone for a two week road trip.

Did you know most liquid laundry detergents are full of water? Check your ingredients! Not only will you be unable to pronounce most of them but WATER is usually the first one! That’s just another reason I love this concentrate—I don’t have to pay for the water I already pay for! It’s super affordable for a container that can clean 96-loads, plus the compact size makes it easy to lift and carry. I ordered my detergent today and it will be here in two days! Amazon prime doesn’t hold a candle to this deal.

What makes it special for me is that it contains:
• No Chlorine Bleach
• No Formaldehyde or Carcinogens
• No Phthalates
• Biodegradable
• No Harsh chemicals
• No Fillers

It is so much safer for me, safer for my family and better for us all because it’s all made right here in the USA.

Baby detergent

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𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗼𝗺𝘀

Draft baby detergent, is’s good, right? Well, not necessarily. Many of you probably use a different detergent for your baby’s clothes, and you probably assume this detergent is a special formulation. This is very rarely the case

Any laundry detergent you use will leave a residue on clothing and linens, which is then inhaled and absorbed (via skin) by the people who come in contact with it…and most conventional detergents, be they marketed for baby clothes or grownup clothes, contain some combination of the following:

• synthetic detergents, which are often made of petrochemicals;

• phenols (established endocrine disruptors, of which BPA is the most notorious);

• fragrance, which often contains phthalates;

• optical brighteners, which are often made from benzene, a definite carcinogen;

• bleach, which contains chlorine (an environmental toxin–and possibly a carcinogen and endocrine disruptor);

• phosphates, which break down minerals and render detergent more effective, at the cost of harmful environmental ramifications.

Another one of the many reasons I switched stores.
The link below lists Dreft Baby Detergent ingredient by ingredient and shows the various ingredients and toxins it contains. 

https://stage.dreft.com/en-us/detergent-ingredients

When we know better, we do better. Safer for your home. 

A quick comparison

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Of laundry detergents.

First, let me mention the the only thing these two brands have in common is that they both wash the same number of loads.
96 loads — and that’s as far as it goes. The size difference is due to water. You’re paying for all the extra water in the package when you buy big name brands!

Not only that…

• The one on the left is powered with natural plant enzymes, is non-toxic and eco-friendly.

• The one on the right is filled with chemicals that can make you and your family sick.

• The one on the right costs 28 cents per load while the eco-friendly option is 19 cents per load! A difference of nine cents. Its may seem small potatoes, but just one load per week adds up. Besides, who really only does one load per week? My tiny package lasts me 11 months (I’m a one person plus chihuahua household) an average of two loads per week. An estimated savings of $187 on just detergent in 20 years. I think these products, detergent, fabric softener and brightener have helped my asthma over the years. With no formaldehyde or other harmful chemicals when compared to the brand-name laundry products I have been breathing easier for the past 20 years using Mela Power and companion products.

If you’ve thought about shopping for EcoSense solutions, but think that it somehow wouldn’t be worth it, or it would be too complicated, my advice is to just see for yourself!

I’m so confident… if you don’t love it, I’ll eat my socks!