As we enter the final hours of the decade, I am looking back on the last year to see what you guys read about and bought most (this helps give us direction on what to investigate, write about, and stock in our store this year!). Here are the Top 10 Gimme lists, if you'd like to check them out.Please comment below with what you'd like us to write about (or bring into our store) in
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Safe, Non-Toxic Toy Guide
This post may contain affiliate links. Please read our disclosure page.UPDATED: December 2019Toys, like evvvvverything else, can introduce toxins into your home, to say nothing of the environmental impact of producing and disposing of ALL THAT plastic. I'm certainly guilty of buying my fair share of cheap plastic toys, but I am always trying to do better, and after researching and
2019 Natural Gift Guide
It's that time of year again! We are proud of this natural gift guide, which was months in the making. We've beaten prior records and this year have 99 gifts to recommend at a variety of price points.A few of these gifts area available in our online store, where we will cover shipping if you spend $50. The rest of the items on our list are available online and are all sold by companies we love
Two Ways to Not Catch Your Kid’s Cold: Natural Cold Remedies That Work
Go ahead and smother your sick kid in kisses--I truly think I've discovered the secret (via natural cold remedies!) to not catching their viruses. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor and nothing I'm about to say should be confused as medical advice. I'm simply telling you what finally worked for me a few winters ago, when things were really bad. The Winter of My Discontent The winter of 2017 was
Toxins in Coffee: How to Detox Your Morning Brew
Some of us at Gimme are big coffee drinkers, so we recently went on a quest to find the cleanest possible organic coffee in toxin-free packaging. We quickly discovered that while organically grown coffee beans are widely available, they are, unfortunately, almost always roasted, packaged, and brewed in ways that can add all sorts of unwanted chemistry to the beans.This means that by the time
How to Avoid Toxins in Tea
Have you seen the headlines about micro-plastic contamination in high-end tea bags? I'm a big tea drinker (on my third cup of green as we speak!), so this is a good reminder of why I've recently switched to loose leaf tea rather than tea bags, so I can some of the potential toxins in tea . What Are the Sources of Toxins in Tea? Unfortunately, there a bunch of ways that toxins end up in your
Honest Review of Beautycounter Anti-Aging Products
Above is a photo of my nightstand, and on it you'll see the three Beautycounter anti-aging products I'm currently putting on my skin before bed. A lot of you have written in raving about Beautycounter's new Countertime line, so I was eager to try it myself--and to give you guys my honest review. (Spoiler: of the three you see pictured there, I love two and don't like one.)Are Beautycounter
Safe Disposable Diaper Guide
My original introduction to this section read something like, “Sure, we all know we should use cloth diapers, but how realistic is that, especially here in New York City where many of us don’t even have washing machines? Thank God for these biodegradable diapers from Seventh Generation!”This was back in 2010, and I was using cloth diapers about 25% of the time (and my husband was using them
Healthy Cereal Guide
Overall Best Healthy CerealFood for Life Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Crunchy Cereal packs the most nutritional bang per spoonful. (Read more about this brand under Good Stuff below.)[amazon asin=B000LKTMLM&template=Add To Cart]As a child of the 50’s, I ate cold cereal for breakfast on most mornings. We could help ourselves and my mom was free to do other chores.My father
Is Most Wallpaper Toxic?
Many of my private consulting clients are looking to wallpaper their homes. Unfortunately, almost all wallpaper currently on the market is coated in vinyl (AKA PVC, which contains endocrine-disrupting phthalates).What follows are the brands I've found that are free of PVC. Please comment below with any others you've found! (There are a bunch of other considerations if you want your wallpaper
