A new employee of mine, Casey, recently made the crazy decision to volunteer to make a gingerbread house with my kids. So on Friday evening, Casey came over, along with a couple of our other friends, a couple bottles of red wine, and big plans of making a healthy and delicious gingerbread house. The video below…
Did you guys catch me on The Dr. Oz Show yesterday? I was invited to speak about phthalates in macaroni and cheese. Whether or not you saw the segment, I thought you might want to hear my thoughts on the scary headlines. Real Quick: Here’s What Phthalates Even Are The chemical compounds know as phthalates (pronounced f-THAL-…
Sonett Natural Floor Mopping Fluid protects waxed, oiled, and varnished floors with a natural wax film without build-up of layers. It’s also suitable for tiles, stone, cork, parquets, laminates, linoleum and plastics.
Badger’s Anti-Bug Natural Bug Spray is an organic and all natural DEET free bug repellent. It uses pure essential oils to naturally keep bugs, mosquitoes and insects away from you and your family.
If you know us by now, you know that we are always trying to find products and solutions that keep toxins away from our homes and families. Sometime there are problems difficult enough to make us pay even closer attention. A good example of this is the problems with ticks and the diseases they spread….
Farm aesthetics Sweet Milk and Orange Peel Exfoliate is gentle enough to use in daily cleansing, or apply weekly as a mask to further the effects of the milk’s natural lactic acid to soften, brighten and revive the complexion.
I’m not much of a product junky, but one of the perks of this job is that I get lots of samples! Most of these products are nice enough, but every once and a while I find something I truly love and incorporate into my regular skincare routine. Such was the case with Lumion. Introducing Lumion…
UPDATED: 2018 When I first wrote this post on non-toxic shampoo, I also stopped using shampoo. I was closeted “no-pooer” for a while, and you can read about the no poo method here. Despite the fact that my hair genuinely looks better when I’m not washing it (see the picture on the left), I can’t seem…
As I’ve mentioned a bunch, my husband and I recently bought a property in Lancaster, PA, which we are renovating to be a non-toxic retreat. Because I’ve lived in New York City my whole adult life, it’s been fun to spend so much time in the ‘burbs–I love sending the kids out to play in a…
MamaSuds Natural Hand Soap uses simple and pure ingredients that are safe for your family and safe for our planet. MamaSuds Hand Soap leaves your hands feeling nourished and soft, and not dried out.
Babo’s Calming Shampoo, Bubble Bath & Wash is perfect for your bedtime routine. Contains a soft, soothing scent of French Lavender to relax, soothe and facilitate more restful sleep.
I don’t believe that we need to slather ourselves head-to-toe in natural body lotion after every shower, but there are few things more satisfying than rubbing hand cream into parched palms. And in the winter, my legs and arms become dry as well, and I like to have something around to moisturize. Of course, most…
1. Babo Botanicals / 2. Carina Organics / 3. Lafes Organic / 4. California Baby / 5. Earth Mama / 6. Beautycounter / 7. Made Of / 8. Poofy Organics Updated: November 2016 Hair washing was a pretty pointless exercise for Felix for the first several years of his life; he was bald until 2. Wolfie has a bit more hair, so we use a tiny dab of Farmaesthetics Fine Herbal…
1. Green Goo / 2. Babo Botanicals / 3. Earth Mama / 4. California Baby / 5. Poofy Organics We were pretty lucky in the diaper rash department, but if your baby is afflicted, you’ll want to find an organic diaper cream without chemicals (common culprits are parabens and BHA). Do Cloth Diapers Prevent Diaper Rash? My hunch is that cloth diapers are less likely to cause…
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