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Category: cheat sheet

Cheat Sheet: Safer & Eco-Friendly Lunch Gear

Posted on: Aug 4, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Food Safety, PVC Free | 13 Comments

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A while back we did a quick write up of safer alternatives to lunch boxes when all that “lead in lunchboxes” hoopla went down. Since then there are so many great alternatives to lunch boxes available that it totally warrants a new cheat sheet. Lunchboxes are perfect for little and big kids and help reduce [...]

SafeMama’s 2010 Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Apr 9, 2010

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SafeMama™ Sunscreen Criteria: All sunscreens we approved needed to be free of Parabens, Phthalates, PEG’s, Propylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Benzoate, Dimethicone, SLS and a bevy of other chemicals I won’t bother listing. Brands exhibit a very respectable ingredients list. The sunscreening ingredient we mainly avoid is the synthetic chemical oxybenzone. Oxybenzone is an [...]

Cheat Sheet: Natural Toothpaste & BPA Free Toothbrushes For Kids

Posted on: Feb 11, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Bisphenol-A, Product Safety, PVC Free | 12 Comments

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We get a lot of questions about toothpaste and fluoride and “my Dentist says my son needs fluoride drops” here and I am still kind of wishy washy about fluoride. Especially after having read the great articles on SAFBaby regarding Fluoride… it really makes you wonder whether it’s the best thing. Whether you are anti [...]

SafeMama Diaper Rash Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Aug 12, 2009

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Product Reviews | 7 Comments

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Welcome to the SafeMama Diaper Rash Cheat Sheet! We got this request a dozen times so here we go. One of the inevitable things about having kids, is diaper rash. I’ve been lucky so far with my son never really getting diaper rash, though he’s had his fair share of weird patches, oozing eczema on [...]

SafeMama’s 2009 Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Apr 13, 2009

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Eco-Mama, paraben free, Phthalates Info, Skin Care, Toy Safety | Comments Off

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Please visit our updated 2010 Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet for more brand recommendations! It was high time to redo last year’s Safer Sunscreen Showdown.. spring is here and summer is around the corner! So here’s the scoop: SafeMama™ Sunscreen Criteria: All sunscreens we approved needed to be free of parabens, phthalates, PEG’s, propylene glycol, SLS, [...]

SafeMama Pocket Diaper Comparison

Posted on: Oct 23, 2008

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When my son was first born, there was no way on earth you would even have gotten me to consider cloth diapering. And in my mind, cloth diapering was something that was done in the “olden” days. It seemed like a big hassle and I couldn’t see the costs outweighing the benefits. But as my [...]

What is Melamine? A Crash Course

Posted on: Oct 7, 2008

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Lead is so 2007. This year it’s all about Melamine. All the cool kids are worrying about it. First it was found in dog food, then baby formula, then Mr. Brown coffee and now, the FDA is recalling Blue Cat Flavor Drinks. We’ve gotten a lot of questions about melamine dishware in the past weeks [...]

Safer Dishware Cheat Sheet: BPA, PVC & Phthalate Free Dishes

Posted on: Oct 6, 2008

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We’ve gotten the request for a cheat sheet for dishware so here is our list of favorites. We made sure all the items listed are free of Bisphenol-A (BPA), PVC and Phthalates and we listed as much of a diverse selection as possible for those who are looking for alternatives to plastic we made sure [...]

SafeMama Report: Safer Bug Repellents!

Posted on: Jul 7, 2008

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This has been requested a zillion times and I’ve kept promising it will go up. Here it is finally! Our recommendations for safer bug repellents. It’s probably not a shock that products containing DEET, are not on our recommended list. DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) is a widely used active ingredient in insect repellents. Biting insects are attracted [...]

Contact the Manufacturer!

Posted on: Apr 25, 2008

Filed Under Product Safety | 2 Comments

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One of the most frustrating things about all of this unsafe plastic business, is that sometimes there’s just no real clear answer. So the only thing to do, is to contact the manufacturer directly and ask them. We encourage people to call the manufacturer more often than not, because if we don’t know the answer, [...]