3 Toxic Chemicals Your Baby Doesn't Like

Welcome to the February 2014 Natural Living Blog Carnival: Naturally Beautiful. This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Natural Living Blog Carnival hosted by Happy Mothering and Crunchy Farm Baby through the Green Moms Network. This month, our members are talking about skincare and other personal care products. You'll find a variety of posts about choosing natural beauty products and even tutorials on how to make some of your own! Be sure to read all of the posts listed at the bottom of mine to learn how to keep your beauty routine safe and natural.

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If you are already a Tribal Mama, you know how bath products can be toxic for both you and your baby.  But where to start?  PEG-100?  Polysorbate 80?  Sodium Lauryl Sulfate? Or... Sodium Laureth Sulfate?

No need for a panic attack.  Here are three simple places to start weeding your baby bath products (and Mama beauty stuff!).

Tribal Mama: BABYBEARSHOP Giveaway hosted by Green Resolutions 2014

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Green Resolutions Giveaway Hop, hosted by Happy Mothering and the Green Moms Network! Each of the participating blogs is offering a prize package to help you start your New Year on a green foot, so you can stick to your resolutions!

After entering my giveaway, be sure to hop around and enter all of the other giveaways listed on the linky at the bottom of this post! And don't forget to enter the grand prize over at Happy Mothering, where she is giving away two amazing grand prizes! First prize is a Pure Echo Organic Cotton Natural Twin Mattress from mygreenmattress.com. This safe mattress is made from GOTS Certified Organic Cotton and Natural Wool and is free of fire retardants and other harmful chemicals. You will rest easy knowing your child is sleeping on a safe mattress from mygreenmattress.com! Second prize is a huge package of glassware from Mighty Nest to help you swap your kitchen plastic for glass! This package includes 8 pieces of glass food storage, a set of glass measuring cups and 2 glass bistro pitchers! Wow!

I just LOVE this brand.  BABYBEARSHOP's products have healed and cleansed my body naturally for two years now.  I am super picky about what to put on my body.  If it can't go in my body, it doesn't go on my body.  My exception to this rule is essential oils in the right proportions for its use.  Ya definitely can't eat them all, but using them on the skin is great.  This brand does both.  It has only organic oils and the right proportion of organic essential oils.  The company is vegan-certified, which is an extremely difficult certification to obtain.

Shh... Pre-opening of the store

Hey baby lovers!

I have gotten my store www.sophieclean.com and running early!  Hooray!  The site is committed to providing safe and sustainable alternatives to our usual (toxic) bath products.  It's not as beautiful or perfect as I would like, but there are items to buy!  My favorites:

Babybearshop's cheeky baby butter
It's a rich creamy butter that is so hydrating with such a tiny bit!  I personally love to use it on my hands in the winter, and is great for dry baby skin (including eczema).  It has a hint of orange and lavender scent that comes only from essential oils.

Sum-Bo-Shine's veggie crayons
Ok, so it's not a bath product.  But these crayons are made from cocoa butter and real vegetable pigments!  They are also shaped perfectly to fit in a toddler's hand without too much coordination (even 8-month-old Xavi can color using these) and are stackable.  And I love crayons!!

Episcencial's sunny sunscreen
This sunscreen is one of EWG's top-rated sunscreens.  With summer on the horizon, we gotta keep our skin safe!






Because the site is pre-launching and is not as pretty as it will be, and because I just love you all, I will give everyone 15% off!  Just use the checkout code open15 and automatically get 15% off.  Let me know what you think of the site and how your overall ordering experience was.  What kind of beauty products would you like to replace with non-toxic items?

Happy Monday!
Jaye Anne