If you counted the number of times my reviews have stated that moms love being pampered... well, it might start to sound like a cry for help. As we all know, motherhood is a 24-7 job, and when we finally get some down time, we deserve th…
My girls have this ridiculous obsession with lip balm. Considering how it's actually on their lips (and thus, entering their digestive system, let's be honest) I tend to be more conscientious about lip balm ingredients than even things l…
Now that forced hot air and dry radiator heat is less a part of my days (hallelujah) I can already feel my skin starting to adapt. It's time to put away the heavier, winter moisturizers and transition to something lighter. The brand-new …
New mothers are a special breed and require a special regimen. On the feeding front? Give them whatever they want and back away slowly, telling them how beautiful they are. And when it comes to caring for them, you can't go wrong pamperi…
Long before I had kids, I was buying Seventh Generation products to clean my little apartment. I liked their earth-friendly business practices , their mindful selection of ingredients, and the fact that I could grab what I needed from th…
What can destroy the yearly family photo calendar, ruin the shoulder of your holiday sweater, and repel grandmothers in a single bound? Answer: It's the little kid with the green snot waterfall and the gnarly red snot rash. And that, dea…
Luxe alert: I was introduced to the 100% natural, nontoxic Tata Harper Skincare at Canyon Ranch this summer. It was a moment of seriously posh pampering in my otherwise ordinary life, and an incredibly soothing experience. Luckily, it's …
Every square mile of our oceans has an average of 46,000 pieces of plastic swirling around there. It's killing nearly one million sea birds a year that swallow it, and another 100,000 turtles, dolphins, whales and sharks. I don't know ho…
My daughter turns six next week, and that means I'm feeling extra nostalgic --even about my stretch marks. Back then, I didn't know the importance of keeping growing belly skin supple, and now I'm suffering for it. If only I could send a…
My kids entered a phase around 4 when bug bite creams and sting-stoppers terrified them. I'm sure it had a little something to do with the one we "promised them" wouldn't hurt but turned out to be made with alcohol. (It wasn't totally ou…
Traveling as much as I do , I don't know why I wasted so much time agonizing about 3-ounce bottles of leaky cleansers and travel-sized samples of sub-par skincare brands, when there's a whole world of fantastic cleansing cloths out there…
This sunblock is so good, so easy, and so waterproof that my kids call it only "the good one." Well, not my three-year-old. He calls it "dat good can dat you spray." Translation: winning product. The brand is MD Solar Sciences, which bil…
We all know how important it is to protect our skin from the sun. But the confusing thing is that some sunscreens contain scary ingredients that may actually cancel out their sun protection benefits. I'm always on the lookout for a more …
You know that feeling, that smell, those results (!!) of the skincare products from a really high-end spa? That's just what we were hoping for when we tried out the Medik8 skincare line. But we had a few questions--what kind of skin is i…
If you haven't discovered the joys of body oil, let me tell you why it's the bomb. 1. It's all-natural with no fillers. 2. It has tons of uses. 3. It comes in spray form! And now I may have found a new favorite, should you be interested …
If you're like me and on your second or third (or more!) kid, you already know which products will keep you feeling beautiful while you're pregnant, and keep baby bouncy once she's out in the world. You probably also hiss and hide behind…
I learned two things painting faces at an Easter party: little boys really like to be painted as zombies, and wow, tweens and teens have seriously oily skin. So oily that you have to blot it before you can paint it. Yowza. I'm so glad to…
We may be beauty and fashion fanatics to some degree, but chasing after kids and working full-time means that we have less time than we like to spend on taking care of ourselves. Why do you think we're such fans of online shopping? The o…
Whether you're battling windy weather or baby skin conditions like eczema, we've got two great, all-natural lotions for keeping skin supple and decidedly un-lizard-like. Both of them contain the healing properties of calendula, and both …
Hand-washing is big in our house, especially after that last bout of stomach flu, which has cured my son forever of licking the bathroom floor at Michael's. (I kid. Mostly.) It's easy to take something as simple as a bar of soap for gran…
I've often wished that I could buy samples of items before trying them because with my luck, I end up grabbing the biggest bottle of something and then hating it later. Well with this new service from CMP fave Abe's Market, you can do ju…
It always scares me when I see a laundry list of unpronounceable ingredients on my baby's personal care packages. Especially when said product is a diaper wipe, meant to touch the delicate nether regions of my little one. Thankfully, the…
" I got water in my eyes! " my son wailed. But he wasn't crying. Actually, he looked like he was trying to cry and couldn't. "Doesn't hurt, does it?" I said smugly. And he shook his head no. A perfect chance to pitch a fit, lost to produ…
Is petroleum jelly safe? Well, let's say since having children, we've switched to kinder, gentler beauty products . No sulfates, no parabens, no horrible-things-that-might-cause-cancer-or-dye-the-children-pink. The one product I couldn't…