
Organic Christmas Tree
🎄Christmas Tree: Real or Fake?
We all want the safest Christmas tree. Which one is really the safest option? How do we choose the safest Christmas trees for our family?
Whichever way you decide, I recommend adding this air purifier to remove possible mold and pesticides or PVC.
Which Christmas Tree is better for the environment? Real or Fake?
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A.C.T.A~ The American Christmas Tree Association, representing sellers of Fake Trees claims: The environmental impact of a fake tree is lower than that of a real if you use it for 5+ years.
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N.C.T.A ~ The National Christmas Tree Association, representing the sellers of real trees claims: a tree made out of oil, turned into PVC plastic in China, and shipped over a boat, cannot be better than growing a real tree.
🎄Fake Trees
❌PVC Artificial trees: worse option
Let's start to say that Artificial trees are made of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) a type of plastic. It can contain harmful additives such as LEAD a neurotoxic and PHTHALATES, hormone disruptors, and both are classified as “carcinogenic to humans”. Plus they have flame retardants. They often come with CA prop 65 warning
According to CNN: " "If the artificial trees are used for a longer lifespan, that balance changes," Finton told CNN. "And I've read that it would take 20 years for the carbon balance to be about equivalent."
That's because artificial trees are typically made of polyvinyl chloride plastic or PVC. Plastic is petroleum-based and created at pollution-belching petrochemical facilities. Studies have also linked PVC plastic to cancer and other public health and environmental risks."
❌PVC - alternative Christmas trees: worse option
Made of polypropylene (PP) or polyethylene (PE), even they are safer types they may still contain lead and flame retardants.
A newer alternative is made with 64% polyethylene.
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They are made with plastic PVC
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They contain Lead
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They contain flame retardants
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They are not recyclable
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They end up in landfills.
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90% are shipped from China
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They are carbon emitters
While the purpose of a tree is to clean the air. 10 million artificial trees are purchased each season.
🌟🎄Real Trees
The issues with Conventional Real Christmas Trees are the pesticides and herbicides, but they are still a more eco-friendly and safer option than fake trees made with petroleum coming from China.
🎄Cut Tree: not the best option
When are sold cut they are a waste of resources: planting, fertilizing, and watering need to be taken into account for real trees.
According to CNN: "The real tree grows, it absorbs carbon dioxide from the air. Protecting forests and planting trees can help stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis by removing the planet-warming gas from the atmosphere.
If trees are cut down or burned, they can release the carbon they've been storing back into the atmosphere."
7 million real trees will be dumbed in January rather than recycled.
🎄Potted Tree: a better alternative
Even they make you believe that cutting down a tree for the Holidays is not a big deal since these Christmas trees are not cut down from wild forests on a large scale but they are crops grown on-farm like lettuce or corn, I don't agree with this! They could sell them potted and be less polluting by not creating this use and throw away system. A potted tree can be reused for years.
A live tree is better than a cut tree! I always felt sorry fr these abandoned trees left on the street after the holidays.
A 5-6 FT tree takes just under a decade to grow. The trees provide many benefits to the environment, cleaning the air and providing watersheds and habitats for the wildlife. They grow best on rolling hills that are unsuitable for other crops.
Three are expensive right now because fewer were planted during the recession in '08.
Another reason to buy a potted tree, they are too precious to be cut and be discarded on the curbs.
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✅ PVC-free
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✅ Lead-free
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✅ Flame retardants-free
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✅ CA Prop 65 warning free
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✅ They are Biodegradable
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✅They are a carbon sink
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✅They smell so good
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✅ They are real
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✅ They can be repurposed
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✅ 15-30 million harvested each season from the farm
In conclusion
According to Medical Medium: Even Christmas trees are sprayed with a concoction to keep them green as long as possible. Even fake Christmas trees are treated with nanotechnology solutions that can set someone off.
Real Christmas trees are a much more sustainable choice than artificial trees. You can buy or rent it.
🎄Live Potted Tre ~ Good option: when you buy a live potted tree is better from a responsible, local tree farm. Ask them their practices, if they use pesticides. Let them know you prefer organic trees. We demand and support organic farming.
Potted Christmas tree is the better choice, it is more authentic, has a real smell, it has been working to improve the environment until it reaches your door by purified air and absorbed C02. It is life and you will have fun by taking to care of it. New York Time
🎄RENT a Live Potted Tree ~ Better option:
in the USA
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The Living Christmas Company ~ Southern California
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The Original Potted Christmas Tree ~ Portland and Eugene, Oregon
CANADA
Evergrow Christmas Tree
In the UK
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Cotswold Fit
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Rental Christmas tree
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Festive Tree Hire
🎄Organic Live Potted Tree ~ Best option: the best option is a Live Potted Tree from Organic Farming, you can enjoy it year after year or plant it outside when it is too large for your outdoor decorations!
✅ Organic Christmas trees locations Pesticides and herbicides - free
MOLD REMOVER
Whichever way you decide, I recommend:
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This approved Air purifier to remove possible mold, pesticides, and other contaminants or PVC. Running this Air purifier in the same room as the live tree generates cleaner air, especially around sensitive or allergies individuals, in order to reduce your mold exposure and lessen the effects of your tree allergies. Same if you have an artificial tree to reduce the PVC effects.
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This approved Mold Remover Product manages mold grown around an indoor Christmas tree. EC3 Mold Solution Spray is a natural botanical that treats indoor environments for mold and mycotoxins. Highly effective and ready-to-use, EC3 Mold Solution Spray is safe for all materials, surfaces, and fabrics, and contains no harmful chemicals.
Air Doctor HEPA Air Purifier
I recommend adding this air purifier near your Christmas tree.
It helps with mold and pesticides found in Live Christmas trees and PVC from synthetic tree
AirDoctor captures mold spores. However, mold spores in the air usually mean that there is a mold somewhere in your house. You should make sure to find the source and get rid of the root of the problem with professional remediation, if necessary.AirDoctor is a classic. Powerful enough to protect the air in bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens and more.
Yes, AirDoctor’s activated carbon filter captures VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds), which include gasses emitted by building materials, furniture, carpeting, paint, cleaning, and personal care products, gas stoves, gas heaters, ozone, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, CO2, etc.
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UltraHEPA Filter
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Dual Action Carbon/Gas Trap/Voc Filter
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Auto-Mode & Air Quality Sensor
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Sealed System
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Change Filter Alert
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Quiet Performance
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Micro Balance EC3 Mold Solution Spray
🍃If you are concerned about bringing mold at home through your Live Christmas tree, then this product is for you.
Since Christmas trees are coniferous softwoods, they can hold much moisture that could generate mold grown especially in a warm household environment. They also collect mold during transportation and shipping. According to this article: The mold count from a live Christmas tree rose to 5 times the normal level 2 weeks after the tree was brought indoors, and that can prove problematic for people with mold allergies.
🍃This product helps to manage the mold grown around an indoor Christmas tree. EC3 Mold Solution Spray is a natural botanical that treats indoor environments for mold and mycotoxins. Highly effective and ready-to-use, EC3 Mold Solution Spray is safe for all materials, surfaces, and fabrics, and contains no harmful chemicals.
🍃This product is safe for all materials and designed to treat mold and bacterial contamination on all of your hard and soft surfaces including, floors, walls, furnishings, clothes, shoes, car interiors, and even pets. It works best when used frequently to maintain healthy mold levels and to prevent a general build-up of mold in your home, office, or car.
It's also best to store your tree (and any other Christmas décor) in a temperature- and humidity-controlled area to prevent mold growth.
INGREDIENTS: Made with a proprietary natural botanical blend of citrus seed extracts, Distilled water, Vegetable glycerin
Peppermint Twist Essential Oil Candles
✨Are you looking for a truly organic candle for the Holidays? Their smaller size 6 oz. Tins make a great stuffing idea!
🍃 Great! This only MADE SAFE® certified candle on the market is for you! Free of any and all toxins are known or suspected to harm human health, animals, or ecosystems!
It is Handmade in the USA, without paraffin (petroleum derived), no artificial oils, no lead, and soy-free (pesticides)!
Beautifully made in their smaller size offered: 6 oz. Tin and burn time: 20 - 25 Hours and with its characteristic wooden wick
✨Made by Fontana Candle Company, it is the only candle on the market that has all certified safe ingredients, including the wooden wick!
🌸 Their steam distilled Peppermint oils are blended with Sweet Orange oils to create the beloved holiday scent of candy canes.
💫Naturally hypoallergenic, with a calm, steady flame 🔥, this candle cleans and purifies indoor air with aromatherapy! It melts releasing a super relaxing fragrance. Even when it is off, you can feel its fragrance!
INGREDIENTS: Cleanest ingredients on the market: 100% natural, made with beeswax, pure coconut oil, essential oils:
Peppermint oil: MENTHA PIPERITA (steam distilled)
Sweet orange oil: CITRUS SINENSIS (sweet orange)
Natural Sloth Organic Pure Beeswax Taper Candles
🍯 Get ready to make any space much cozier with this beautiful handmade Taper Candle Set. Each set comes with two taper candles, and they are made with pure unscented yellow beeswax and an organic raw, lead-free cotton wick.
🐝 They work with a small beekeeper, and the beeswax was never bleached, and no chemicals were used. Each set is hand-poured in small batches to maintain the quality of the natural ingredients.
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The average burn time: is one hour per inch
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Candles measure 10 inches
🌱 MADE IN THE USA: Handmade with love in Texas.
🌱 SUSTAINABLY SOURCE: From small family bee farms to wildcrafted essential oils.
INGREDIENTS: Pure Yellow Beeswax and Organic Cotton Wick
Natural Sloth Organic Christmas Tree Room and Linen Spray
🌱It smells like you’re walking through a Christmas tree farm! This scent is clean, fresh, and outdoorsy with notes of balsam fir and pine.
Refresh every room in your home with this Non-Toxic room spray made with pure essential oils. You can use the spray to replace traditional toxic air fresheners. Spray-on, clothes, linens, air, and anywhere in the home. This spray can also be used as a body mist.
🌱 MADE IN THE USA: Handmade with love in Texas.
INGREDIENTS: Essential Oils of
Balsam Fir • Abies Balsamea, Steam Distilled
Pine • Pinus sylvestris, Steam Distilled
Cedarwood • Juniperus virginiana, Steam Distilled
Organic Cane Alcohol
Distilled Water
Natural Sloth Organic Christmas Tree
🌱It smells like you’re walking through a Christmas tree farm! This scent is clean, fresh, and outdoorsy with notes of balsam fir and pine.
These Candles are made with pure essential oils and have a lighter scent when burned than candles made with artificial fragrances. Because these candles are hand-poured slight variations are to be expected. They are non-toxic and clean burning. They work with a small beekeeper, and the beeswax was never bleached, and no chemicals were used.
🌱 MADE IN THE USA: Handmade with love in Texas.
The approximate burn time:
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4oz amber jar is 22 hours
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9oz amber jar is 50 hours
INGREDIENTS: Yellow Beeswax, Organic Coconut Oil, Essential Oils of: Balsam Fir • Abies Balsamea, Steam Distilled Pine • Pinus sylvestris, Steam Distilled, Cedarwood, Juniperus virginiana, Steam Distilled, Wooden Wick.
Sjaak's Organic Christmas Candies
🎄Looking to sweeten your holidays with organic chocolate?
🍬Here is my favorite chocolate brand! I discovered this brand years ago, it was sent a chocolate box as a gift with an organic shampoo company order.
🍃I was glad to see that they were USDA Certified Organic. I never heard of them before. We tried and we were amazed by their taste: they tasted natural without that over-sugared taste! 👏
It was a collection and all tasted sooo good, 😋 so I decided to research them online and I discovered so many great things about them!
1. Their entire collection is USDA Certified Organic.
2. Their sugar is made without bone char. (Sugar bleached with animals bones, found in conventional candies and chocolate!)
3. They are VEGAN, they are able to create everything without animal products! That means they are more eco-friendly than other brands!
4. They offer allergy-free products such as nut-free portions!
5. Women-owned company making candies that they would give to their kids!
6. Their packaging is super cute and PLASTIC-free!!
7. California prop 65 warning free.
8. Gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, gelatin-free, corn-free
9. Hand made In California
10.🍃They also focus on soil biodiversity and water preservation!💦
💖For all these reasons, they are my number 1 choice and recommendation!
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They have a super cute Christmas collection! 🥳