Typically for our Provider Spotlights, we feature area businesses that we have connected with through our lens of maternal physical and mental health in the Triangle. And this month is no difference, but just a slight switch up: We our featuring US!
We now offering Beautycounter!
What is our WHY for becoming a Beautycounter consultant?
This May marks three years since my husband and I started trying to conceive our second child. Our first was so easy, scary easy in fact, we were not ready for that positive test after a month of thinking we wanted a baby. However, this second one is acting more like her or his Dad and being very stubborn about joining our family! Through this journey, I have learned so much about my own body is as actually been pretty amazing. At first, so much focus was just placed on my reproductive system and trying different treatments that would help me get pregnant. However, last summer, I started seeing a new practice that wants to figure out why I am not getting pregnant! Seems like such a novel concept, but not a standard.
We are started looking at what was different this time around, and how my body has changed. My doctor has found that my Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) is slightly elevated meaning that my thyroid is needing more stimulation and not making T3 and T4 like it should. Furthermore, my DHEA-S is elevated, meaning my adrenal glands are overworking. Plus, I have been having some symptoms of inflammation is my pelvis, either from my past cesarean or something else. While my doctor is trying to fix these issues from the inside (i.e. medication), I am trying to fix them from the outside. I have been working out more, I am limiting gluten, dairy and sugar (trying for completely gluten and dairy free but pizza and quarantine go together like David and Patrick (Schitt’s Creek fans know what I am talking about!), and most important to this post, I am focusing on my skin care (and makeup once I go in public again).
Our skin is our largest organ and exposed to many known endocrine disruptors that can impact the thyroid, the adrenal glands, the ovaries, inflammation in the body, and our entire endocrine and reproductive systems. Beautycounter has one of the highest standards for what is put in their products, so it just seemed natural in my quest to learn all of the things about fertility that I also learn about how to help increase my own fertility at home! Especially with COVID closing! So becoming a Beautycounter consultant was an obvious choice.
Beautycounter has banned 1,300 (and growing) chemicals from their skin care and make up.
Of those 1,300 chemicals on the Never List for Beautycounter, there are many known endocrine disruptors. These endocrine disruptors are so common in skin care, baby products, and so much more. So this means, on a daily basis, we are using KNOWN chemicals that can interfere with body and even our children’s bodies. I think it important to really let that sink in for a second.
We are so aware of the quality of food we eat, the level of activity that we get, and the amount of sleep we get. but skin care, baby shampoo, baby bath bubbles? Eh, NBD.
Beautycounter is bring these products and these issues to the forefront of people’s minds! I am so excited to be on this journey!
Fertility and Skin Care
So I am by no means saying that by using one of the safest brands of skin care and make up, infertility will be cured. But, why not? Why not give it a try. It literally cannot hurt, and is pretty fun! I mean, who doesn’t love getting fun stuff in the mail to make you skin look AMAZING and feel pretty (especially right now)!
I am hosting a Mask Morning In on May 21st and Pop Up and would love to have you join me! You can RSVP by emailing me!
If you can’t make the Mask event, feel free to request samples anyway! Also, Beautycounter offers a 60 day no question asked refund policy, so if you don’t love your product, you are under no risk at all.
