I love the way my kids smell after their bath; all of their products -- shampoo, soap, lotion -- have light, fresh scents. Bath lines for grownups can be cloying in comparison, but baby bath products don't work on my super dry skin. Than…
I'm a strong, empowered woman, and I hate asking for help, but...sometimes, I need help. Like when the yogurt is pushed all the way back in the case at the store and there's a baby strapped to my chest. Or when I'm trying to wade through…
I first discovered Fairy Tales Hair Care when our one awesome local kids hair cutter - the one who didn't cut my girls' bangs on a 45-degree angle with what I imagine to be a rusty butter knife - insisted that it was the greatest stuff o…
Sometimes I have a major case of the Holden Caulfields when I'm looking for bath products worthy of my children. They say "all-natural", and I cry, Phony! Fake! Liar! and snarl at the petrolatum and mineral oil hiding behind the organic …
We saw a whole lot of baby gear (a lot) at the ginormous ABC Kids Show in Las Vegas last summer, but very little stays with us all these months later. One exception however, is the cheerful European Hoppop Baby gear, which Kristen, Julie…
My daughter has a crazy affection for her little bathrobe, especially now while the mornings are cold. She throws it on over her pajamas for breakfast, and there's something so sweet about it to me - as if a bathrobe makes every morning …
I've got a bottle of hand sanitizer in my purse, as I'm sure all of you do, too. It feels like an imperative, even though I'll pick actual soap-and-water hand washing over hand sanitizer whenever I can. So when I first heard about "a new…
The ordinary rubber duck received a needed makeover a few years back, when BUD luxury rubber ducks started invading bathtubs. Funky and fun, they didn't just look cool, these Australian born duckies ditched the phthalates long before any…
We have a tradition of visiting friends and family on January 1 - now that we have kids. And we're not quite so hungover that day. For a New Year's gift , I love the idea of grabbing one of the natural, small batch handmade Soaptopia gif…
I don't know why I've spent all this time thinking about BPA in plastics but it never once crossed my mind to look into what's in my kids' toothbrushes. (Of course our friend Jen at the Smart Mama was thinking about BPA in kids toothbrus…
You don't even want to know where I find my kids' toothbrushes. I'm delighted that they love them so much that they carry them all over the apartment, but still. Ew. So when I discovered the Zapi toothbrush sanitizer from VIOlight I was …
The first thing that struck me when I saw Cleanup Soap was how cool the shape was - graphic, and symmetrical and...wait a minute. Is that a...land mine? Indeed, these naturally scented, paraben-free soaps were created by Parsons design s…
As I was walking through the beauty product aisles at the NY Gift show recently, amidst all the thickly perfumed lotions and soaps that smelled like an ice cream shop explosion, boy was I happy to have stumbled into the McEvoy Ranch boot…
I suppose if you're pregnant and avidly avoiding microwaves and runny cheeses and car exhaust, it makes sense to avoid things like parabens and phthalates too. Which is why I was intrigued by a very caring company called Nine Naturals wh…
It seems like every week there is a new list of chemicals that I should make sure are not in my family's bath products, and frankly it gets hard for me to keep track. But Original Sprout has got worried moms covered. They have a fabulous…
Just when I thought I could get away with absolutely nothing plane related in at least one room in my house, I happen upon the new acrobatic airplane hand towels exclusively at Mahar Drygoods. Granted, I don't necessarily need to buy the…
Baby eczema = not the most exciting of all the things a new mom gets to learn about. Having a daughter with moderate eczema myself, I get it. I know how carefully we have to pick out bath soap, shampoo, and body lotion , and that even th…
Thanks to the lovely stench of PVC shower curtains, I absolutely dread buying new ones. I've always sworn those things have got to be at the top of the environmentally unfriendly list. Turns out, I was right. So here's an awesome alterna…
When my son was born there weren't really tons of organic or eco-friendly baby products like there are today. Honestly I thought I was being environmentally responsible by making sure there was no lead paint on his crib. Who knew a scant…
The best part of bathing my baby is breathing him in afterward -- but it does call into question exactly what's in those bubbles and that bum cream anyway. The skin care artisans at Sweet Knee keep no secrets -- all of their carefully-se…
When my local supermarket carries twenty different baby skin care lines, it's clear there's a lot to choose from out there. I can't keep track of what should or should not go on my baby's skin and who is or who isn't using the most envir…
When I was in Maine a couple of years ago, I found the most incredible handmade goats' milk soap at a farmer's market. I'm such an idiot for not scribbling down the name, because I haven't been able to track it down again. But recently, …
Honestly, I'm not that into bath salts and scrubs and fancy pampering- maybe because my shower lengths are too often determined by how long I can stand to hear the baby cry. But I do understand the advantages of smelling nice, which is w…
I don't know about you, but I can only reprise the entire Annie soundtrack for so long without wishing for amazing tricks to keep my daughter motivated to scrub. And now, I can. By whipping up amazing dinosaurs (yes, dinosaurs) with Jura…