Green Tip: Buy Chemical Free Products This Year, Here’s Our Chemical Free Product List

This marks the last green tip from Summer in our 31 days of  Red and Green here on Mom Start. Hopefully Summer will grace us with many more green tips and steps on making our lives more eco friendly in the future. Her last tip is about buying chemical free products and these are her chemical free product selections.

Are you ready to begin the New Year? Moreover, is your house ready for the New Year? Try and make yourself greener in the New Year by purchasing products not tested on animals and chemical-free. It is ok to start off with small changes in your toiletries. You know, small changes like in your shampoo, conditioner, make-up, lotions, toothpaste, etc. are a great place to start. I’ll share with you some of my favorite chemical free products:

Shampoo, Conditioner, and Body WashTrader Joe’s Refresh (for about $2 a bottle it’s a steal)

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LotionsSt. Ives lotion

Deodorant – Arm & Hammer Essentials Natural Deodorant and Tom’s of Maine (make sure there’s no antiperspirant and that it’s aluminum free)

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Lip Balm (and Other Beauty Products) – Burt’s Bees Lip Balm
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Diaper CreamBurt’s Bees Diaper Cream
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ToothpasteTom’s of Maine

In finding and using products like these I feel good about my body and the environment. If needed, take little steps to introduce products such as these into your home. These are products I actually use and love. Be sure, as with any new product, that you test new products on a small area of skin if you have sensitive skin or believe you may have a reaction on a product.

Thank you for joining me in my red and GREEN December 2010 adventures! Hope I gave you some great ideas that made you and yours healthier and happier. Happy New Year!

 

About Summer:

Summer is the President of our Local MOMS Club chapter, she is the mother of two adorable active boys, and is always thinking of ways to help others. She is a friend, a wife, and always busy as all mommies are. She is very active on Facebook, addicted to Geocaching and very interested in organic and green living.

Wash them grow with Suave and a chance to Win #giveaway

 

Last time my husband went to target he purchased some Suave soap. I found it hilarious when I found out a few weeks later that I was accepted into a Blog Tour with Mom Select and Suave to try out all four of their different body soap scents. It just ticked me that my husband picked out the same brand that we are now testing. It’s a brand that everyone is familiar with. The only difference is the packaging and the scent names. They have a “new look”, animals are on the bottles instead of kids. In the picture below you can see the berry flavor hiding behind the four new ones. It has a yellow lid and the flavor is listed on a yellow bar instead of the blue bar.

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A money saving tip that I can give you is that if you head off to Target in the next few weeks, as these new bottles are heading to shelves, you’ll be able to find the older bottles on clearance. Target always puts old style packages on clearance. Great way to save money!

Suave Kids bath products have a nice tear free formula and a great fruity smell. We let each child pick out which one they wanted to use for bath time. Zoe picked the pink bottle completely based on color. She did notice that there are monkeys on the bottle too though.

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Miles picked the one that was easiest to grab because he wanted to be just like his sister.

suave3When they were in the tub they each received some soap on their hands so that they could wash themselves. I’m such a proud mommy because I get so excited to see them both be so independent. We still do our own washing but feel it’s important to let them be independent too. Helps them grow. We don’t follow the recommended usage amount. Suave recommends that you use only a small amount, the size of a quarter. We just give the kids a blob and use a blob or two ourselves. I suppose if I was being frugal I would be using the recommended amount.

 

The Suave Kids® Wash Them Grow campaign encourages you to recognize your child’s bath time routine as an opportunity to teach, nurture and transition your child through the stages of growth and cleansing. When your child washes with Suave® Kids, you’ll experience the joy of milestone bath time moments with every single fun-loving splash, no matter what the stage of childhood.

 

Bath Time Tips exclusively from Suave Kids®:

  • Nurture Your Baby’s Firsts- While enjoying all your baby’s firsts, nurture skin with Suave Kids Free and Gentle Body Wash.  It provides a gentle clean with its dye-free formula, leaving skin clean and fresh.
  • Start teaching at bath time-Show kids how to get clean all by themselves and have fun int he bath with Suave Kids Body Wash.  Pour a little extra body wash in the tub to make fun and fragranced bubbles for them to play with and which also makes the bathroom smell great!
  • I can do-it-myself-When your child declares “I can do-it-myself”, Suave Kids Tear-Free Body Wash makes independent bath time less slippery with easy-to-use grip bottles.  Playful characters and fun scents like Strawberry and Berry will creat giggle-worthy, bubble-bearded bath time moments.

After bath time I asked Zoe if she knew what the smell was on her skin. She told me, “I smell like strawberries”. I was glad that she could recognize the fruit flavor. (might be that the monkeys were holding strawberries now that I think about it, but I’ll take it as pure genius anyways). Both of my children smelled so sweet. They still smelled quite fruity the next morning too.

You can enter a sweepstakes hosted by suave:

Grand Prize:

An 8-day/7-night trip for four to Orlando, Florida. Grand Prize trip includes round-trip coach-class air transportation from the major United States airport in the 50 U.S. or D.C. nearest to Grand Prize Winner’s home, 7-nights hotel accommodations (based on quad occupancy), tickets to Sponsor-selected theme parks in Orlando for the length of stay and a $500 check.

Weekly Prizes (5 total, 1 per week):

A family e-Keepsake Kit, including: a Sponsor-selected laptop, a mini digital camcorder and a Sponsor-selected Digital Camera.

To Enter:

Visit Wash Them Grow Sweepstakes to enter.

The MomSelect blogger who drives the most traffic to the sweepstakes will win a year’s supply of Suave Kids® products and a $100 gift card to Build-A-Bear Workshop –

AND

I’ll get to choose 10 of my readers who will each win the same fantastic prize!

The winner will be announced after the Suave contest concludes on February 22nd.

Here is my unique contest URL:

https://www.washthemgrow.com/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=Weblog&utm_content=Mom%2BStart&utm_campaign=Wash%2BThem%20Grow

Please click on the link so that I can host a giveaway for 10 people to win a years supply of Suave kids products.

I wrote this post as a participant in the Suave Kids program sponsored by Suave and MomSelect.

Caress Body Wash Giveaway

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Get the Look: Silky
Feel irresistible every day with Caress Daily Silk Silkening Body Wash and Beauty Bar. With triple-silkening moisturizers and white peach and silk blossom, they’ll leave your skin irresistibly silky and luxurious. Try them in the shower for everyday silky, smooth skin, and to perfect the look of chic work outfit.

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My Thoughts on the Soap:

The soap is thick unlike most soaps. It coats your skin and smells very refreshing. I love the smell actually, I also liked how it lingered on me for a few hours. It’s nice to smell clean. I also like the scrubbing you get from the beads in the soap. It’s a nice body wash. It was relaxing and quite a treat to have 20 minutes to soak in the tub with a great smell as a break from being a mom.

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