17| Clean Body and Home with founders of Butter + Lye and The Green Laundress

Have you ever looked at the ingredients on the leading beauty or cleaning products? It's a long list of chemicals that most of us struggle to pronounce. Ingredients like parabens, sulfates, and phthalates are commonly found in these products, and although they're approved by the FDA, they are known to disrupt hormones, harm fertility and reproductive organs, and increase the risk of cancer. The US has a long way to go regarding the safety of ingredients included in our beauty products, cleaning products, and food, but that's a topic for another day. Today we're chatting with two small business owners, Monique Garraud Kofsky of Butter + Lye and Erica Ahmed of The Green Laundress, who are creating non-toxic products to clean our bodies and homes.    Shop Butter + Lye: https://butterandlye.com/ Follow Butter + Lye on IG: https://www.instagram.com/butterandlye/  Shop The Green Laundress: http://thegreenlaundress.com/buy-now.html Follow Butter + Lye on IG: https://www.instagram.com/thegreenlaundress/  Donate to Sustainable Brown Girl on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sustainablebrowngirl Subscribe to Sustainable Brown Girl on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMTYdJ87UUbMxgkx_WwNzag Visit the Sustainable Brown Girl Website: https://www.sustainablebrowngirl.com/ Follow Sustainable Brown Girl on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablebrowngirl/ Join the Sustainable Brown Girl Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/259424485303892/