Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Weekly Green Tip: Back to the Bar (soap)

Modern families have become reliant on liquid shower gels and plastic-pump dispense liquid hand soaps. But really, is all that plastic packaging necessary? And think of how often the average family goes through these products, only to have to buy yet another container. Much of that plastic gets thrown out and ends up in a [...]

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Friday, March 13th, 2009

Formaldehyde found in popular baby skincare lines

If any of you parents out there still haven’t made the switch to natural, chemical-free shampoo, soaps, bodywashes and lotions for your families, a new study should help convince you.
A report by the  Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, released yesterday, found major brands such as Johnson & Johnson, Baby Magic, Huggies and Mustela to be contaminated [...]

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Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Back to the blog

Hello everyone and happy (belated) 2009!  I can’t believe i haven’t blogged in over a month!  Apologies all around. December got busy with Kai Kids at shopping shows, plus our own kids, Christmas celebrations and then our family got felled by a horrid virus that left us all sick over Christmas and New Years, reeling, [...]

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Phthalates in baby lotions and shampoo

As if parents don’t have enough to worry about already what with toxic baby bottles and lead in toys, this week it was reported that many common brands of baby shampoo, powder, creams and lotions contain high levels of dangerous pthalates, a chemical used to stabilize fragrance and soften plastic.It’s the same chemical found in [...]

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