Seed Oils & Sleep: A Practical Guide To Detoxing Your Home And Habits

How Does Somebody Start The Detoxing Process In Their Household Without It Being Overwhelming?

Feeling pressured to “detox your home” overnight? We break the myth of perfection and show how real change happens with education, timing, and tiny swaps that compound. Marissa Parchman, founder of Timeless Skin & Wellness, maps a calm, sustainable path: cut seed oils without panic, learn labels at the most effective moment—when you replace a product—and stop letting fragrances and additives run your day.

We start in the kitchen, where seed oils and hydrogenated fats hide in nut milks, faux butters, dressings, and snacks. Marissa explains why shorter ingredient lists and stable fats matter for bloat, acne, and energy. Bread becomes our case study: when a staple stretches to 30-plus additives, your body pays. Choose loaves with four ingredients or find a bakery with transparent practices. Then we move to the laundry room and cleaning cabinet, exposing how synthetic fragrances create constant exposure. If your partner loves that “fresh” smell, we offer a playbook for buy-in: lead with better options, control what you can, and let better food reduce cravings for chemical-heavy products over time.

From there, we zoom out to the habit that moves every dial: sleep. Consistent bed and wake times power detox pathways, brain recovery, and stress resilience. We share practical boundaries—screens off by a set time, dimming lights, placing phones outside the bedroom—and explore how this one shift reduces caffeine dependence. You’ll hear how EMFs and constant stimulation add invisible load and how simple routines create headroom for repair. The thread through it all is compassion and strategy: swap-as-you-finish, don’t purge in panic, and focus on changes that your family can live with.

Walk away with a clear plan to lower toxins, improve sleep, and make upgrades that actually stick. If you’re ready to trade overwhelm for momentum, follow the steps we outline and start with the single next swap you can make today. Enjoyed the conversation? Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a calm reset, and leave a review to help others find the show.

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Transcript

Welcome & Purpose Of The Show

SPEAKER_00 0:04

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SPEAKER_01 0:41

Creating a detox-friendly home does not require perfection, just small intentional steps that build a healthier environment over time. Welcome back, everyone. I'm Julie Schwenzer, co-host and producer, here again with Marissa Parchman, the founder of Timeless Skin and Wellness. Marissa, it's always a pleasure. Hi, Julie. Yes, I am always happy to be here. So good to see you. Very good to see you. And to continue our conversation from the last episode, can you please share with us how does somebody start this detoxing process in their household without it being overwhelming?

Education Over All-Or-Nothing

Cutting Seed Oils And Labels 101

Swap-As-You-Finish Strategy

Bread, Additives, And Real Food

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Yes, we have talked about this before. This topic can easily become very overwhelming. And with the individuals that I personally work with, sometimes it does require a huge overhaul. But often it's just somebody that's looking for the information on how to do exactly that. Make it not so overwhelming. And the easiest way to do that is to educate yourself without going absolutely crazy. Um, the education piece is huge. One, you don't want to go and throw everything out in your house without understanding why you're doing that. But also, you don't have to do that. You don't have to go throw everything away when you start to understand that some things might not serve you or might be toxic to the system. One of the biggest things that we always have to circle back to is the fact that our bar our body has a strong ability to detox toxins. We are exposed to toxins all the time. And our body can, for the most part, detox those. It's when our body becomes super compromised and our detox pathways become compromised that we start showing signs of an imbalanced system. And then the conversation might become a little bit more dramatic when it comes to what needs to be completely eliminated from the home. However, if somebody's just trying to do a little bit better, one thing that really, really helped me was not looking at ingredients until I was ready to throw something away. There were certain things like seed oils. When I started to understand the effect that hydrogenated oils have on the system, I went home and I threw everything that had hydrogenated oils away. I was consuming almond milk that had seed oils. I was consuming fake butter that had seed oils, cream cheese, fake cheeses, crackers. Pretty much I had decided to cut seed oils out of my system. And everything I was consuming had some sort of seed oil or canola oil, some sort of hydrogenated oils. So if you're making that commitment to yourself, great. But what I started to do after I cut out seed oils, there were other things that I was slowly cutting out. I started to look at the label when I was throwing it away. So instead of going and throwing away all of my entire laundry room, I continued to use those products. And then when I was ready to purchase new laundry sheets or purchase new bleach or purchase new OxyClean or purchase new just laundry soap that I was cleaning every piece of my laundry with, that's when I would look at the label and be like, oh my gosh, okay, I'm gonna educate myself on some of these ingredients that I'm putting on my skin in my laundry, you know, every single day that's touching my skin. So if I am washing my laundry and something every single day, then it is affecting me every single day. So looking at things as you're throwing them away, not obsessing over things until you decide, okay, I'm not gonna be exposed to fragrances on a daily basis. So I'm gonna finish this cleaning product. And then when you're ready to buy cleaning product, maybe you're gonna look at the label and be like, oh my, I'm not gonna order that cleaning product again. Um, same things with seasonings, seasonings and salad dressings, you know, those things are an investment. Like you might have a lot of those things. So I continued to use a lot of those things. And then at the end, I would look at the label and be like, oh my gosh, that's also poison in my life. So um, the good thing is, is there are options. I don't ever want anyone to feel deprived in this journey. And making sure that you know there are options. You know, I was told that I couldn't eat gluten, dairy, corn, soy for a very long time. And my body was super compromised and I had terrible bloat on a daily basis anytime I ate anything and I had terrible acne and other skin conditions. And, you know, for me, I had a system that was just screaming for help. But I had people leading me in such a wrong direction of how to handle those things. And I've realized I can eat everything. I can eat gluten and dairy and corn and soy, but getting to a place that my body is fully balanced, I have cut out all the toxins. I can't go just eat these ingredients at any restaurant. Why? Because they're not whole food ingredients. Bread is the perfect example. If you are buying bread at the grocery store, you are choosing to poison yourself. The bread in the United States is so offensive. Bread should have three or four ingredients. It should not have 34 ingredients. And it's highly offensive and it's something that needs to be talked about more. And it is such a problem. So making little changes and understanding that bread is a huge thing that we consume in the United States, in the world. And we don't need 35 options from whole foods. We need one good option that is going to fill our household with a nourishing option that is a whole food option because bread is not toxic. It should not be toxic unless you're buying it from all these different, you know, grocery stores and having you know what I mean. I'm just rambling now.

Partner Buy-In And Fragrance Fights

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Oh no, it's all good. And I wanted to ask you for your advice too on how you helped um detox the household because you know you are with your family and you are probably like leading the way in this effort of, you know, kind of cleansing the house. How did it work?

Control What You Can Control

SPEAKER_02 6:45

Was it was everybody like on board or it's very interesting how attached people are to certain things. And I see this in my household and with my clients when I'm trying to help my clients get rid of fragrances or laundry detergent. And in my house, my husband really did not want to change our laundry detergent. And for me, I was like, oh my God, like we have to get this smell out. Like, I can't believe we're using fragrances in our laundry detergent. And for him, it's something that he really, really missed. And recently he brought it up again. He was like, I think I'm gonna buy something to put in the dryer with my laundry. And I was like, You mean something with fragrance? And he was like, Yeah, something to make it smell good. And I was like, Oh, I'll buy you something. So sometimes I think it's about just standing really strong on something that you're passionate about. For me, it's a non-negotiable. You know, if I am gonna be arguing my defense in something that improves my health based off of conditions that I have struggled with and things that I've suffered from over the last several decades, then that's a partner that obviously is not taking me that seriously. And I understand that, you know, it's a team effort and we need to be on the same page. And that becomes a challenge, I think more often than not, is trying to be an influence in changing somebody else's patterns. And we've had to find a happy balance in that. One thing that we don't agree on is protein powder. Um, I would never drink the protein powder that my husband drinks, but with that said, I have noticed that all the positive changes I make that I can control, like making our dinner when I can, and filling the house with all of these other healthy snacks and making sure that there's not toxic bread in our house. And controlling what I can control has really gone a long way because as you naturally fill your body with nutrients and not chemicals, your body is going to crave the chemicals less and less. And that is a fact. If you fuel your body with more whole foods than processed foods, then eventually your body will not want the processed foods. So my husband used to buy one of the huge um whey protein powders, very popular protein powder brand, probably like once a month. And the one we have right now, I mean, he's probably had it for three or four months. So I think naturally, if I'm filling the house with all these other good things, he's just eating the toxic things less and less. So it's just even though it's there in our cabinet and I'm not, you know, gonna obsess over that one thing, it's just other things just naturally make such a big difference. So having the conversations, educating your partner, making sure that you're not just going in and being crazy and throwing everything away and being like, oh my God, I can't poisoning ourselves. Like it can be very overwhelming when the light bulb finally clicks and you're like, oh my gosh, my poor system is just so compromised. But it takes changes that are sustainable and slow and consistent changes that make the biggest difference long term. So being really crazy and irrational and changing everything at once, everything probably isn't gonna stick. So just education followed by good practices.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

And in previous podcasts, too, you've stressed how um important it is to sleep and stay hydrated. What about continuing all this? And and along with just moving your body, if we lose that routine, is it harder to just detox overall? Have you found that for yourself and clients? Or, you know, good habits?

Screens, EMFs, And Night Routines

SPEAKER_02 10:19

100%. And I feel like everything I say, I say this is the most important. But sleep is the most important. Um, along with so many things to keep our system in balance. There are studies that show falling asleep at the same time every day, getting the same amount of hours of sleep every day increases so many things. It increases longevity, it increases your body's ability, it increases endurance, it increases your body's ability to literally move, it increases the functionality of your detox pathways, it increases neurological function, it decreases stress. So sleep is so, so huge. My mother has worked 12-hour night shifts for a very, very long time. Um, I look at her as a very healthy 65-year-old woman, somebody who takes care of herself, somebody who is doing most of the right things. And I always think about her inconsistent sleep habits because it's a fact. It's a fact that inconsistent sleep habits have negative effects on your system, your nervous system. And I don't think people realize that we're running on caffeine, we're on our screens until right before we go to bed, we're going to sleep and we're sleeping next to our cell phones that are plugged into something that have the most EMF exposure that we're exposed to on an airplane or in something that's plugged in, radiation, EMF exposure, all these things kind of go into the same category of an invisible rainbow of things that we're exposed to. Um, so another form of toxins that we are just unaware of, a whole nother conversation. But when you think of it from a perspective of sleep, so many people don't know why they're not sleeping well. And if that is a conversation that comes up with my clients, it's the number one thing that we start to focus on.

SPEAKER_01 12:11

But yeah, that's amazing advice. Um, and you know, I'll just end it with this. Any any other tips like what about clutter and just having things on all the time? You mentioned electronics, just like having the TV on constantly and things like that. Do you have any uh uh words on that? Yeah, I mean, the biggest clutter is probably just in our brain.

Boundaries, Blue Light, And Mornings

Coffee Dependence Vs Real Rest

SPEAKER_02 12:29

And I had to set some serious boundaries for myself recently, and I wanted to have these boundaries, very strong set boundaries for myself. And one of them is to be off the screen at a certain time. And I didn't want to break it and I wanted that time to be seven o'clock, but I made it 7:30. And I'll still look at my phone. You know, sometimes I'll pick up my phone and set my alarm and I'll, you know, make sure I'm signed up for my workout class or whatever it is, or look at my calendar for tomorrow. Um, I'm more talking about scrolling and getting your brain in this very distracted mode. Um my workouts are a priority for me and I do those workouts at 7 a.m. I'm up at 5:45 and takes me 30 minutes to wake up. 100% of the time, if I am not off of my screen by 7:30 and I break my rule, then I need extra sleep. If I'm waking up to an alarm, I'm sleeping until that alarm. If I am off my phone, I'm waking up before my alarm, I'm getting out of bed and feeling refreshed. It's like we don't realize how compromised our systems are. I talk about the detox system so much, but our neurological system is so stressed out and we don't realize how much our patterns have an effect on that. Like we talk about it, you know, everyone's like, oh, I know it's not great for you. I need to scroll less. It's like, no, it's an addiction and it's something that we have to really set a boundary. And if you can be on your phone till 10 and you can wake up at six without your alarm and you can feel super refreshed. And I mean refreshed without a coffee. Having a coffee, that's okay if you choose to have a coffee. But do you need that coffee because you literally cannot function that you're just like, oh my God, I would die if I didn't have my coffee? That's what we need to break. Like when I want my third coffee, I'm not tired. I'm just like, what's wrong with me? I could really use a coffee. But running on the coffee is a different conversation. Making the conscious decision that, oh my God, I had a little bit too much coffee is different than I literally cannot live without this coffee. And typically the person that can't live without their coffee is not sleeping enough, they're not resting enough, there's they have no time to themselves. It's just your typical American that's working 40 hours a week and has children, really.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

40 plus hours a week. Absolutely. Those are good points. Well, Marissa, thank you so much for this. And I think a lot of people can take away, you know, something really important from this. Because these are really practical steps that could make such a big difference, right? Right.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Yeah, they really are. Easier said than done, but it really shouldn't be overcomplicated.

Practical Takeaways & Closing

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Okay, well, thank you. And uh, we look forward to the next episode with you. Absolutely, Julie. I will talk to you soon.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

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