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Category: ** Cheat Sheets!

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 [...]

2010 Infant Formula Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Mar 29, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Food Safety, Product Safety | 9 Comments

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This one was really hard to write. It was a bit of phone calling, a lot of digging and a lot of reading. I had no real intention of doing a baby formula cheat sheet but Healthy Child Healthy World asked me to help out and then I became so engrossed in it that I [...]

SafeMama Baby Pool Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Mar 22, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, PVC Free | 10 Comments

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Last year we had gotten the question about baby and wading pools for small kids. What better way to spend a summer afternoon than sitting in your backyard with some friends and letting the kids splash around? It’s a nice cheap afternoon. The kids are having fun, you’re working on your tan (in moderation of [...]

SafeMama’s Safer Baby Skin Care Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Mar 15, 2010

Filed Under ** Cheat Sheets!, Product Safety, Skin Care | 1 Comment

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Welcome to the next generation of the Safer Baby Skin Care Cheat Sheet! As we’ve grown and learned, we have become more aware of other ingredients, aside from parabens and phthalates, we wish to avoid. We also realize that there are different trains of thought (how many chemicals you’ll tolerate) and budgets to consider so we [...]

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 [...]

Baby Wearing: Baby Carrier Round-Up

Posted on: Feb 10, 2010

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When we were preparing for the arrival of our son, three years ago, I never really got into the whole baby wearing thing. It’s not that I didn’t want my baby close to me, I just didn’t realize that there were many options beyond the BabyBjorn-like carriers. Being that he was my first, I didn’t [...]

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 Diaper Rash Cheat Sheet

Posted on: Aug 12, 2009

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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, [...]

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