A Little Less Toxic

A Little Less Toxic Health/beauty
Teacher on hiatus raising my littles. Believer|Wife|Mama
One day, one meal, one product at a time making our home & life A Little Less Toxic®

If you’re not ready for bluing, or just want more tips so you too can ditch the bleach confidently, here are my tried an...
03/04/2026

If you’re not ready for bluing, or just want more tips so you too can ditch the bleach confidently, here are my tried and true favorites.

As always, no secret products or mystery links here. You can easily find ALL my favorites and any discounts I have to share on my page here as well as on my website that I update regularly but if you prefer the robots I’ve enlisted to help to send you some links in your inbox you can comment ✨ LAUNDRY ✨ and enjoy the fruit of that autobot experience 🤖

Grannies had a lot of wisdom we should be applying today. Liquid bluing has been around for a long time for good reason....
03/04/2026

Grannies had a lot of wisdom we should be applying today. Liquid bluing has been around for a long time for good reason. A $6 bottle lasts me a couple years or more and makes a huge difference in keeping our clothes and linens in good shape for longer.

Have you used bluing yet? For laundry? Hair? Pets? Something else?? I’ve been raving about this stuff since long before I started sharing stuff on the interwebs. It’s so great seeing so many more know about its goodness!

I’ve got all my favorites linked up for you with discounts when I can get them on my website, so make use of that along your ALLT journey as needed. All these tips and a bajillion more are in my first book, A Healthier Home, so make sure you keep that handy!

If you want the robots I’ve enlisted to send you links to the bluing and my favorite detergents to your inbox,
✨ just comment LAUNDRY ✨
and they’ll hopefully obey human orders.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you . . . your wannabe overlords.I thought it was time for a refresher on this.It...
02/20/2026

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you . . .
your wannabe overlords.

I thought it was time for a refresher on this.

It’s always a good time for a reminder that the government isn’t coming to save you.

I’m not telling you to blindly mistrust every aspect of these agencies or to throw the baby out with the bath water. I’m stating that these entities have broken our trust. Thankfully my trust was never in these agencies. My trust is in the Lord and He’s given me discernment and wisdom and a brain to think critically and to make informed decisions and He has given you one too.

As citizens and consumers, we have the power to make informed decisions for ourselves and for our families to steward our health well. As consumers we also have great power of influence with our dollars where we vote each and every single day with the things that we purchase and the things that we do not purchase and all we choose to invest our time and energy in.

Every single one of these industries is influenced by the power of the dollar. Be wise with yours and use yours for good. For the good of the health and wellness of yourself and your family and for those around you. We get to help shape a better future for all.

Big Government is not our savior. Jesus is. Our hope is in Him. These bodies and the ones we’ve been entrusted to care for require our own personal governance. Do what you can, with what you’re able, and as it makes sense for you. Steward these temporary homes well.

The interweb has felt increasingly annoying to me. Like … it’s kinda … toxic? Anyone else?Wether it’s someone posting so...
02/12/2026

The interweb has felt increasingly annoying to me. Like … it’s kinda … toxic? Anyone else?

Wether it’s someone posting something in a way they’d never say to a group of people sitting before them or another human’s actual face, or commenting incredibly rudely to strangers on a screen, or people caving to algorithms and opting post shock and rage bait to try and engage an audience, or falling for the tricks and being sucked into and consumed by it all… it’s all yikes. And not real life. There are many actually unhinged and unstable people in the real world, no doubt, and most of them hang out in these internet streets. Let’s acknowledge that too. There’s also a ton of bots. And Basement Bobs. And lonely, resentful Aunt So-And-Sos. Most of us aren’t that. So let’s not allow some with poor behavior define how we spend scroll time, okay? Don’t get sucked into the extremes and the rage factories. You’ve got an actual real life outside of the screens that try and suck you in and steal from you. And it’s so much better.

There are also a LOT of healthy, balanced, helpful, honest, upright people trying to do what they feel called to do online and in real life. I’m so grateful for them staying the course and know from my own personal experience trying to do the same that it can be very trying at times. Those of you who show up with encouragement and support through your likes, considerate and thoughtful comments, shares, and kind messages are blessing them for sure, but you are also helping set the tone for what these spaces can be.

I know I personally feel less discouraged when I see you out here being the encouragers you are, not just to me, but to others too. It matters more than you probably realize. You’re the best. For real. Thank you for making the interwebs AND real life better.

Two verses that came to mind:
““but test everything; hold fast what is good.” ‭
1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭5‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭ESV‬‬

02/10/2026

Funnel cakes are a classic nostalgic memory for me from visits to Knott’s Berry Farm as a kid. Topped with their iconic boysenberry syrup. I can’t eat theirs anymore without getting sick so I haven’t had them in many years and my kids have never tried them. I have been meaning to remedy that and finally did it and don’t know what the heck I was waiting for. So easy and even better than the Knott’s version.

Gluten free, real food, homemade funnel cakes:

This recipe made us 6 mini, personal sized funnel cakes so I’d say this is good for 4-6 people. Double for larger funnel cakes or larger crowds.

Ingredients�1 cup gluten free 1:1 flour blend (I like Bob’s Red Mill) �1 tablespoon arrowroot or tapioca starch for that crunchy exterior�1 tablespoon coconut sugar�½ teaspoon baking powder�¼ teaspoon fine sea salt�1 egg�¾ cup milk (dairy or dairy free)�½ teaspoon vanilla

For frying�coconut oil (I used refined here because it’s what I had but unrefined is probably great too. Will report back…) is my preferred oil for desserts but you could USA avocado oil too.

Instructions�Heat about 1 to 1½ inches coconut oil in a skillet to about 350°F. If you don’t have a thermometer just let it get nice and hot and test a drop of your batter like I did in the video before going all in.
Whisk dry ingredients in a bowl.�Whisk egg, milk, and vanilla in a second bowl.�Combine wet and dry until smooth. Batter should be pourable like slightly thin pancake batter. Add a splash more milk if needed.
Pour batter into a squeeze bottle or pour through a funnel with your finger covering the opening until ready to drizzle.�Carefully squeeze or drizzle batter into hot oil in a crisscross swirly pattern.�Cook about 60 to 90 seconds until golden, flip, then cook another 30 to 60 seconds.�Transfer to paper towel or cooling rack.
Dust with powdered sugar and serve with warm berry compote.

Warm Berry Compote recipe is in the comments.

Not even sure who’s playing this year (Seahawks and someone?) but I’m not one to pass up an opportunity to bring people ...
02/04/2026

Not even sure who’s playing this year (Seahawks and someone?) but I’m not one to pass up an opportunity to bring people together nor am I one to miss out on a feast. I also will not miss the Puppy Bowl XXII if I can help it!! Our visitor, Puppaccino, is rooting for Button … errr Team Ruff this year.

I don’t usually do most internet trends. But this one got me reflecting and increased my gratitude and joy. Sharing a li...
01/16/2026

I don’t usually do most internet trends. But this one got me reflecting and increased my gratitude and joy. Sharing a little with you.

I’ve been answering a lot of DMs from you all going through this winter bug. We just came out the other side of it too a...
01/08/2026

I’ve been answering a lot of DMs from you all going through this winter bug. We just came out the other side of it too and this time around we fared much better than last year, praise God.

Here are some of the things my family used and continue to keep in our medicine cabinet to support our bodies through sick season. I’ve also put them together in one easy infographic roundup, with discounts where I have them, so you don’t have to hunt.

Comment “cabinet” to have that sent to your inbox 🤍

Conventional medicine can be life saving. Medical intervention has a time and a place, and staying in regular contact with a medical professional is wise and important. And your gut instincts are God given and can also be critical.

Last year during a wild and relentless virus, our family doctor checked on my little one twice. Between the second visit and what was meant to be a routine follow up, my own gut and observations told me something was off. No new symptoms showed up. None of the red flags I was told to watch for were present. But I had a pulse ox at home, and the information it gave me showed that the situation had suddenly turned life threatening.

My instincts, paired with a simple $20 device, prevented a much worse outcome and likely helped save my child’s life.

If you get nothing else from this post, please consider keeping a pulse ox in your medicine cabinet.

Everything I mentioned is in a one page roundup I made for easy reference, including discounts where available 🤍 comment “cabinet to have that sent to your inbox 💌

Amen.
01/07/2026

Amen.

Amen.
01/07/2026

Amen.

Living is more than food and products. What we consume includes what we watch, read, listen to… In 2024 I wanted to be...
01/02/2026

Living is more than food and products. What we consume includes what we watch, read, listen to…
In 2024 I wanted to be on screens less and reading paper books more. AND I wanted what I read to be ALLT too 😉 and her Baxter family series got me back into reading fiction for fun and showed me that S**t Free Fiction can (and should!) be excellently done. That series accounted for 22 of the books I would read in 2024. And that series got me moving so that I would continue to read good stuff in 2025. I had hoped to read 40 books last year (last year is weird to say about 2025!) but 23 quality reads is awesome! I know finding s**t free fiction that is actually good quality writing can be challenging sometimes. I add every s**t free fiction I loved to a list in my Amazon shop called, you guessed it, S**t Free Fiction. You can find some great reads there if you need some inspo or recs. You can also find me on Goodreads, I think?
Gonna share a few IG book rec follows I love too!


read.collective



I know I’m forgetting a couple. I’ll edit to add them!

and and (kids/tweens/teens book recs)

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