Last December 2008, I was able to give my donations to Haribon Foundation which I have posted about before.  What I donated to them were the funds I've collected through my Charitable Handmade Soaps and I also included some of my handmade soap scraps.  

I am very much into anything natural -- natural products, natural alternatives, natural make-up (sigh...if only there were more good ones out there). Being the natural fanatic that I am, it made me stay away, as much as possible, from regular, commercial products.

Until now, I am in a constant search for good natural alternatives for the things my family and I use on a daily basis. It hasn't been so easy for me, especially now that the words "natural" and "organic" are showing up on almost every product label and advertisement, most of them having no truth in their claims!

Now, what's a mother to do???

Before I leave tomorrow (for a 5-day vacation, yahoo!), let me just post this list of synthetic/chemical preservatives I found from the web: .