15 Beauty Products, Ingredients & Services to Avoid When You’re Pregnant

May 21, 2018

When I was pregnant, I prepared myself for the whole no-alcohol, don’t-eat-sushi thing, and it was surprisingly easy to forego my glass of rosé and a yellowtail roll. Here’s what I totally was not expecting: scaling back on my beauty products!

Turns out, in addition to making sure your cheese is pasteurized, pregnant women have to be a lot more diligent about checking labels on…

Alex Richards is a Brooklyn-based young adult writer with a background in photography and television production. She loves making no-budget horror flicks with her friends, cooking, crafting, exploring, and being silly with her two kids, awesome husband, and lazy cats. In addition to her young adult novel, Back Talk, Alex writes for New York Family Magazine, and works with ASAP, a South African organization supporting rural communities of women caring for vulnerable children.