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Category: Chemicals

Welcome 2012 & Resolutions For A Healthier Life

Posted on: Jan 3, 2012

Filed Under Chemicals, Website News | 5 Comments

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Happy 2012! I had a little down time over the holidays to reflect on what I’ve done with SafeMama.com the past 4 years and I am always overwhelmed with lovely emails from readers thanking me for the content on this site. I have a lot of ideas and subjects I want to research this year [...]

American Moms Will Be Watching To See If Congress Will Make Products Safer

Posted on: Nov 17, 2011

Filed Under Chemicals, Take Action | 3 Comments

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Today the U.S. Senate will be holding a hearing on The Safe Chemicals Act. A bill that American moms have been waiting for, for years. The Safe Chemicals Act, sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg, is a bill that will finally address our severely outdated laws surrounding the issue of chemical safety and regulation in our every day household products. [...]

Greenwashing 101: What Companies Will Do To Get Your Dollars

Posted on: Nov 4, 2011

Filed Under Chemicals, Green Mama | 30 Comments

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I was lying in bed last night watching Vampire Diaries (don’t judge me… I like angst ridden teen television.) when a commercial for Pantene Nature Fusion Shampoo came on. It was the typical Eva Mendez flipping her unnaturally shiny hair around and pouting her big lips at me trying to sell me shampoo to make my hair [...]

I’m a Mom For Cooties

Posted on: Jun 16, 2011

Filed Under Chemicals, cleaning products, Healthy Schools | 6 Comments

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I was reading one of my favorite blogs this morning Phd in Parenting and she posted about a campaign floating around called Moms Against Cooties. It’s a campaign launched by the Water Quality and Health Council (which they don’t make very obvious). According to their website they are a group sponsored by the “Chlorine Chemistry Division of the American Chemistry Council, an industry trade association”. Which means to me that it’s funded by groups with a monetary interest in the success of people’s fears turning to chlorine products like Clorox to obsessively bleach the heck out of everything we come in contact with.

Help the EPA Ban Triclosan

Posted on: Jan 18, 2011

Filed Under Chemicals, Take Action | 6 Comments

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I’ve written about Triclosan before (and please forgive the long silence here on SafeMama, I’ve been working on some new material for you and haven’t had a chance to post anything worthy).. Anyway, it’s no secret that Triclosan is a chemical worth avoiding and for various reasons. In the same way we all fought for [...]

New Report Surfaces: BPA On Money

Posted on: Dec 8, 2010

Filed Under Bisphenol-A, Chemicals | 4 Comments

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A while back we all found out just how much BPA is present in a simple store receipt and several people blogged about it, bringing it to the forefront. It’s become more apparent that BPA lurks in places we don’t realize. So is the case with paper money too. My friends at SaferChemicals.org published an [...]

Hopscotch Kids Safe Non-Toxic Nail Polish for Kids (Giveaway!)

Posted on: Aug 27, 2010

Filed Under Chemicals, Giveaways Coupons, Green Mama, Product Reviews | 145 Comments

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I had a chance to learn about the Hopscotch Kids brand at the Green Soiree earlier this month. As a girlie girl, I was so impressed with their story and their products that I was excited to share them with you. I had but one problem. I have two boys. Neither of them were willing [...]

Parents New Challenge: Banning Microban?

Posted on: Jul 14, 2010

Filed Under Chemicals, Product Safety | 20 Comments

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I’ve been aware of Microban for a while and I have discussed it somewhat briefly with Jennifer McNichols from ZRecommends last month. With the “back-to-school” posts surely being worked on right now (we are too) I wanted to look into the use of Microban and perhaps raise some awareness about it before school shopping begins. [...]

FAQ: Why Is TruKid Sunny Days Sunscreen Missing From This Years Cheat Sheet?

Posted on: Apr 16, 2010

Filed Under Chemicals, FAQ, Product Safety, Skin Care | 5 Comments

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We’ve been getting this question a lot since I released this years Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet so I wanted to clarify my decision to exclude it in this years list. I want to preface this by saying one statement. I do not know everything. See? I’m just like you. But I spend a lot of [...]

FDA Re-evaluating Triclosan

Posted on: Apr 12, 2010

Filed Under Chemicals, Healthy Home, Product Safety | 1 Comment

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Last Thursday the FDA updated their website regarding Triclosan and whether it should be a safety concern. Since Triclosan was last evaluated by the FDA it had “no harmful effects” on humans and they deemed it safe. However, new research has popped up that suggests that Triclosan can alter hormone regulation as well as make [...]