Mommy Mondays: Natural Baby Products

Sometimes Mom's know best.

I remember growing up, my mom always use to tell me "Natural is better". Of course, at the time I ignored her. I grew up in a time of "the Body shop" So from soaps to body washes and fragrance lotions, I had to have it. There seemed to be (and maybe still is) a notion that The Body Shop products are natural. They are not.

Fast forward several years decades, and I find myself expecting my first baby. All of the sudden, finding natural products not only for my daughter, but for myself as well seemed very important. But if I start talking about all products...this will be a very long long post. So I will stick to just baby products for this post.

When I started on my quest, I was naive. I assumed that if a product said "all natural" it really was all natural. That was until I found out that there are no real regulations governing the use of "organic" and "natural" on products in North America . I was already warned to avoid Aveeno Baby so the first product I bought for my little one was from the line "Live Clean" http://live-clean.com/

Even though the product says it's paraben and sulfate free, after carefully reviewing the ingredients, I was disappointed to learn that it had many of the same harmful chemicals that all other lines had. I contacted the company for clarification, but no one got back to me (yup...I'm THAT person) so I moved on.

Next I stumbles about a great website http://evolvingwellness.com/ and met a wonderful and helpful lady named Evita Ochel who helped me find safe and natural baby products to use on the little one.

I should point out, that on most occasions I use good old fashion water and olive oil, or coconut oil, but there are times I need something more (body/hair wash sunscreen etc) I decided to go with products by a company named California baby http://www.californiababy.com/. These products are truly as safe as it gets. and rates from 0-2 on the Skin deep Database which is a great website that give a numeric value of 0-10 in relations to a products toxicity level. 0-2 is very very low. Try typing in some of the products you use to see how they measure up.... you might be scared!  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

I'm happy to report that my daughter hasn't had any reaction to these products, and I feel good about using them on her whenever needed . I never thought I would be so obsessive passionate about finding natural products until I became a mom! 

Anyone else turn into a hippie once they became pregnant? 


UPDATE: Since writing this, I was advised (see comments below) That California Baby has recently reformulated it's products and are not as "chemical free" as they used to be!! Thanks Ms Fantastic for pointing that out! The ones I am currently using are pre reformulation so once they are used up, I will be finding a new skin care line. See the comments below for great suggestions! Thanks ms. Fantastic and Evita!