LIVING, the Go Organic way
Home is your refuge, make yours free of chemical toxics.
Each step we take toward embracing a toxic-free lifestyle and home is an investment in our family’s health and a healthier safer planet. As consumers, our organic purchases increase demand and drive supply for pesticide-free products.
By gradually including organic products into our lives and homes—from baby care, beauty and cleaning products to clothes, linens, bath towels and even toilet paper—we can make a difference!
You may know your daily intake of calories.
What’s your daily intake of pesticides?
Pesticides are all around us, even inside our bodies.
As Americans, we are exposed to over 5,000 different toxic pesticides–64 million pounds annually–through the food and water we consume, the products we buy for our homes, in our air, soil, and waterways.
Science is conclusive: pesticides are making us sick.
Pesticide exposure is linked to rising cancers, respiratory diseases, dementia, obesity, cognitive problems, autism spectrum disorders, infertility, Parkinson’s disease, auto immune diseases and other troubling health conditions. Those pesticides, which are hormone-disrupting chemicals, damage chromosomes that are passed on, making our offspring more prone to cancer for generations to come.
For the research studies, access the Maryland Pesticide Education Network research archives.
Pesticide exposure is far worse for children.
Children’s smaller body mass and developing brains make them more vulnerable to pesticide damage. Life-defining impacts, including autism, learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, cognitive and behavior problems, have been linked to pesticide exposure. Sadly, adequate testing for impacts on children is often not required before products are allowed on the market.
It’s strawberry season, download this fact sheet on pesticides and strawberries, their impacts on children and how to avoid them.
Doesn’t the EPA protect us?
Unfortunately, the EPA’s ability to protect Americans has been eroded by the agro-chemical industry’s powerful influence on our government, for decades. A recent example–in 2017, the US EPA’s Secretary Pruitt overturned his own agency’s 2016 recommendation for a ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, despite overwhelming scientific evidence proving damage to babies’ brains and that chlorpyrifos is unsafe at any level in our food. See how EPA routinely allows ongoing use of untested pesticides.
Find healthy alternatives to products you use daily.
Starting with Products Closest to Our Bodies
Organic Skincare & Cosmetics
The trend for organic skincare products has gone mainstream.
Here’s a round-up of product reviews and steps to help you get started.
Your skin is the largest organ of your body, yet when using personal care products–shampoos, soaps, cosmetics–do you really understand the chemicals, preservatives, fragrances and colorings you are applying? Organic products are a safe way of avoiding toxic pesticides and the variety of chemicals that we may or may not understand. By switching to organic products, you are choosing cleaner and gentler products with superior quality ingredients, often containing vitamins and minerals that the body recognizes and absorbs.
Organic product reviews by leading magazines and websites.
- NEW! Grove Collaborative delivers eco-friendly home essentials, including household cleaning, personal care, baby, kid, and pet products. Check out their bamboo-based paper towels.
- The Good Trade’s 11 Best Organic Skin Care Brands for 2026
- Cosmopolitan Magazine’s 2021 Organic Skincare Picks
- 100% Pure Skincare Products
- 6 Organic DIY Beauty Recipes
- Sunscreens
- Toothpaste Guide
- 10 Organic Makeup Brands
- Organic Essential Oils
- Organic Personal Care Products round-up by Dr. Mercola
- 8 Organic Tampons and why to make the switch
The Organic Healthy Home
Avoiding Toxic Household Chemicals
Check your house for common toxic chemicals and choose safer alternatives.
Non-toxic and organic products can be less expensive than you think.
Organic Home Goods
From Linens to Flooring
Organic baths, kitchens, bedding and more.
Cotton is considered the world’s dirtiest crop, using 8 of the top 10 pesticides classified as highly hazardous by the World Health Organization. Choosing organic clothing and home goods is an important step to a better home and planet.
Chemical Cotton – what you should know about the effects of cotton
- Green Diapers – buyers guide
- Mother Earth Living Buyers Guide to organic kitchen and bath linens
- Dr. Mercola offers organic clothing, organic cotton bedding and organic cotton towels
- Recycled wool? Patagonia Woolyester recycles thousands of pounds of discarded wool garments into its clothing line, as part of its Responsible Wool Standard
- Under the Canopy – organic home textiles
- The Good Trade’s review of 10 organic bath towels
- Organic mattresses, crib and mattress pads from Dr. Mercola
- Green Building Supplies – flooring, paints & coatings, home goods
Enjoy the outdoors, mosquito-free and pesticide-free.
Everything You Need for Managing Mosquitos Safely, Effectively & Pesticide-free
Maryland Pesticide Education Network
- The comprehensive resource – visit our web page: “What you need to know about pesticides & mosquito management”
- NEW study finds patchouli essential oil is as effective as DEET in keping mosquitoes away.
- Download the fact sheet: Managing Mosquitoes Without Pesticides
- Stop mosquito breeding this year by scattering your own dry granulated garlic or garlic-pepper tea in problem areas such as garbage cans, tall grass, turf, or consider Mosquito Barrier
- Recipes for essential oils mosquito spray repellants
- 8 plants that repel mosquitoes
- Watch a video – 25 backyard plants that help to repel mosquitoes!
- The Unconventional Guide to Mosquito Control
- Repel mosquitoes with these 10 plants that you can grow in a pot or other container
- Grow lemon grass in pots or your backyard to repel mosquitoes
- Here’s 13 plants that can help repel mosquitoes in your front and backyards