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Baby Stepping to Natural Products at Simple Organic

January 14th, 2012 · 4 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living

If this week’s Monday Mission of throwing out all your parabens is a huge step for you right now – like it would have been for me a few years ago – check out my easy reading article at Simple Organic today. (It’s actually well under 1000 words; I get teased a lot because of [...]

Monday Mission: Parabens Bite the Dust

January 9th, 2012 · 106 Comments · Monday Missions

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get rid of your junky personal products, once and for all. I told you last week that we’d take "Back to Basics" topics and give them a one-up, a challenge for those of you who have already taken many basic steps to securing a real food [...]

Your Frugal Solution to Natural Skin Care

November 10th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Natural Health

I shake my head in awe. I’ve learned so much just skimming the first half of Crunchy Betty’s Food on Your Face for Acne and Oily Skin already. I’m really looking for the spot on pimple cream to nab this annoying and painful zit on my cheek – my first since giving birth, darn hormones [...]

One Big Ol’ {GIVEAWAY-NOW CLOSED} to Keep You Clean ($225 Value)

November 1st, 2011 · 21 Comments · What to Buy

You’ve been waiting for this giveaway, haven’t you?! One lucky winner will receive these 11 prizes from a wide variety of sponsors to help them keep a clean home and hygiene, naturally. The total value of the package is around $225. Usually I write any product reviews separately from a giveaway just to keep kosher [...]

Monday Mission: Find and Replace SLS

October 31st, 2011 · 41 Comments · Green Living

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to read your soap and cleaning labels, seek out "sodium lauryl sulfate" and "sodium laureth sulfate," then begin to look for natural alternatives. (Can you see why I just wrote "SLS" in the title?) Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides Since last year’s natural personal products [...]

How to Naturally Get that Halloween Face Paint Off – with No Tears!

October 25th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Green Living

When your little clowns, pirates, witches and kitty cats are tuckered out and ready to hit the sack next Monday, how will you get their face paint off? For young children especially, a tear-free method, without stingy soaps or sandpaper-esque scrubbing, is a necessity. The first year my little guy wore Halloween makeup, I wasn’t [...]

How to Make Your Own Homemade Safe Baby Body Wash {GUEST POST}

October 19th, 2011 · 46 Comments · Cleaning, Green Living

This is a guest post about how to make your own soap for baby by Erin Odom of The Humbled Homemaker When I became a mother, I starting thinking about my family’s health and nutrition for the first time. I breastfed (until my first daughter was almost 2 and still going with my second at [...]