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Is the movement towards clean beauty products a gimmick? 

How do you start cleaning out your cabinet of personal care products? 

Why does what we put on our bodies impact our fertility? 

Bridget chats with Elizabeth Marcolini, Entrepreneur, NYT Best Selling Author, and Executive Director with Beautycounter, to talk about her personal journey to swapping out her products for cleaner alternatives and what motivated her to make the change. They share their own mishaps and struggles with switching to clean, apps they recommend for cleaning out your products, and practical tips for making changes that are budget-friendly. Elizabeth shares some of the reasons why she works with Beautycounter and what research ultimately made her decide to work with Beautycounter to make a difference in women's health care and personal care product journeys. 

Additional resources discussed: 

• Beautycounter: https://www.beautycounter.com/
• The Never List: https://www.beautycounter.com/the-never-list
• Environmental Working Group Skin Deep App: https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/
• Think Dirty, Shop Clean App: https://thinkdirtyapp.com/
• Hermosa Study: https://cerch.berkeley.edu/research-programs/hermosa-study
• Toxic Chemicals Finding Their Way into the Womb (2010): http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/06/01/backpack.cord.blood/index.html

Interviewee bio: 

Elizabeth Marcolini is an Entrepreneur, NYT Best Selling Author, and Executive Director with Beautycounter. Elizabeth holds a Masters in Theological Studies from the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Dallas. She was also a John Jay Fellow, an Alliance Defending Freedom Areté (A-RAY-te) Fellow, and has spent many weeks in Africa doing educational mission work, with a specific focus on faith formation. Her greatest joy is being a wife to her husband, Matt!