What is Natural Living? and Why You Should Adopt This Lifestyle

In recent years, more and more people have followed a natural-living lifestyle as it has a lot of appeals, such as improving health, reducing stress, saving, and minimizing environmental impact. Let’s say you also want to start a natural living lifestyle. So, what do you need to do, and where do you start? Here are some simple ways to begin your natural living journey.

What is natural living?

Natural living does not mean living in the middle of the jungle, eating berries, or diving in the river to catch fish. Well, the definition of natural living is somewhat different for everyone. Basically, it is a set of lifestyle choices people can make to either minimize the environmental impacts of their daily consumption or reduce the toxic load of the modern lifestyle.

Natural living can be both easy to adopt and extremely complicated at the same time, but for someone who has never heard of natural living before, we will keep our tips as simple as possible.

Reduce toxic load

In today’s modern world, we are all attacked by a “toxic soup” with many different chemicals and toxins every day. Nowadays, you can find chemicals in nearly every product and food you purchase. So how exactly can you minimize or at least reduce your toxic load to have a natural lifestyle?

Prepare your own meal

In a rushing life routine, people tend to purchase ready-to-eat foods from convenience stores, but those processed foods harm your health. Eating processed food means you are essentially consuming “empty calories” as processing rids food of most essential nutrients and makes it have no nutritional benefits. Nonetheless, ready-to-eat food packs with salt and sugar will not benefit your body. It also contains many chemical compounds, such as artificial flavor, sucralose, and other chemicals. While they are tested safe for human consumption, you will soon crave more and re-buy more, then why not go back to natural nutrition?

It is very simple:

• Just buy whole food ingredients.
• Search for some simple recipes online.
• Start preparing your own meal.

It will not only taste better but be healthier for you. Also, why not consider some of our kitchen and dining products to add more fun to your meal? Learn more about our coconut bowls, rattan serving trays, table placemats, and wooden handicraft products here.

Consider using essential oils.

Essential oils bring many health benefits, such as reducing stress, helping you sleep better, and smelling great, meaning they can clean your house’s air and make your living space much more comfortable. However, make sure you use 100% pure essential oils and not synthetic ones in the market, as they contain artificial substances and plants.

At Simple Decor’s office, our staff love to use pure lavender essential oil to make our working space more relaxing and comfortable. However, make sure to dilute essential oils in water, use a diffuser for maximum effect and follow the manufacturer’s instructions.

Reduce waste

Reducing waste can help you save money and save our planet at the same time. Here are a few ways we’ve done it.

Say NO to single-use plastic

Nowadays, plastic pollution is considered to be one of the most critical environmental issues, and plastic materials can be found everywhere, from shopping bags, kitchen utensils, cups, drinking straws, food packaging, housewares, etc. 

So how can we replace single-use plastic or at least reduce our plastic consumption as much as possible? Consider buying bulk food and fewer packaged products to reduce single-use plastic packaging. As supermarkets are packed with throw-away packaging, consider purchasing loose products, carrying your own reusable non-plastic bag, and going to your local greengrocers for fruit and vegetables, local butcher for meat, etc., and storing them in airtight glass containers.

What more can you do?

Have you ever noticed plastic can be found nearly everywhere in your house? It’s not your fault as it is the way our modern world is. However, you can join hands and start your natural living simply by seeking alternative products to plastics.

For example, why would you choose the plastic one if you are currently looking for new laundry storage baskets? Consider baskets made 100% from natural materials such as rattan, seagrass, bamboo, etc.

Explore more: Storage Basket Designs Wholesale – A Push For A Sustainable Lifestyle

As people have become more aware, plastic drinking straws have been replaced with paper drinking straws in recent years. However, I believe many of you have problems with paper drinking straw as it isn’t durable and tends to be softened if you leave them in your drink for a short amount of time; then why not consider our reusable bamboo drinking straw? It can solve all your issues, and most importantly, it is reusable and harmless to the environment.

Final thoughts

Well, there you have it! There are some tips for you to start your natural living lifestyle. But remember, having a natural lifestyle is a journey, so you don’t need to change your habits, houseware, etc., in one day. In fact, making changes is not that challenging but sticking with them is the challenge. Don’t overwhelm yourself by doing everything at once; make it a pleasant journey that you will love forever.

At Simple Decor, every one of our team members is grateful for what mother Earth has to offer, which is why we have adopted the natural living lifestyle not only in our daily life but also in our products, and we plan to keep it this way!