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Category: ** Cheat Sheets!

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 Laundry Detergent Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Jun 8, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, cleaning products, Cloth Diapering | 41 Comments

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For years and years, I was a Tide girl. I loved my Tide in all its stain fighting glory (especially with a husband who is a habitual leaver of lip balm in his pocket and my rule is, I do the laundry, I don’t check pockets) and optical brightening power. Then I read about phthalates [...]

Cheat Sheet: Safer Cleaning Supplies

Posted on: May 25, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, cleaning products, Eco-Mama, Healthy Home | 8 Comments

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One of the first things that went in my house when we started to green (during the whole BPA boom of ’07) was conventional cleaning products. Since then, we’ve tried many green cleaning products. And of course, what do we SafeMama girls do best? That’s right, my friends, cheat sheets. We’d be remiss if we [...]

Cheat Sheet: BPA Free Baby Food, Baby Food Creation and Storage Tools

Posted on: Feb 5, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Food Safety | 8 Comments

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Having a 6 month old means I am in the midst of the baby food jungle.. starting to introduce cereals and purees, which he is really loving and doing so well on them. I’d love to say I carve time out of my day to make all my own baby food but realistically, we all [...]

SafeMama Cheat Sheet: Dishwashing Detergents

Posted on: Jan 28, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, cleaning products, Suggestion Box | 16 Comments

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Well hello there! I know I’ve kind of slacked off on writing anything. And like Kathy so kindly pointed out, we’ve been kind of going through a learning curve being new moms of two. I’ll tell you, I don’t know how people have more than two children. You all are saints! That said, I’m really [...]

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, [...]

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

Posted on: Oct 6, 2008

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

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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

Filed Under Product Reviews, Product Safety, Skin Care | Comments Off

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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 [...]

SafeMama: Wipes Review

Posted on: Jun 10, 2008

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In the midst of trying to detoxify our lifestyle, the last thing I even thought to look at was what was in our baby wipes. Until one day I turned over my trusty refill of Huggies Supreme, only to see parabens on the ingredients label. It prompted me to take a closer look at the [...]

SafeMama’s Safer Sunscreen Showdown!

Posted on: May 14, 2008

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Update Note: We published an updated cheat sheet for sunscreen which you can find here: SafeMama’s 2009 Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet – please refer to the new version with many more brands to choose from. We here at SafeMama™ consider ourselves to be pretty picky when it comes to sunscreens. Heck, we’re pretty picky when [...]