Green Product Review: I Love My Mama Gift Set
June 15, 2009 by Jennifer
We’re midway through our Earth Mama Angel Baby Giveaway right now, so it’s about time we looked at some various products.
Product: I Love My Mama Gift Set from Earth Mama Angel Baby.
Details: This gift pack is especially designed to pamper new mamas and soon-to-be new mamas. The set includes Happy Feet soothing organic foot soak; Mint Herbal Lip Balm for kissable lips; uplifting, queasy-quelling Happy Mama Spray (1 oz); Earth Mama Body Butter (2 oz); and nurturing Natural Nipple Butter (1 oz), all packaged in a reusable pink organza bag.
Ingredients: Nothing you can’t pronounce. I’m not up for listing the ingredients in all five products, but each is made with up to 100% organic ingredients (the rest natural) and all EMAB products are listed on Skin Deep with a score of 0 or 1, which is awesome.
Cost: $34.95
Eco aspects: This is an extremely eco-friendly company, but I already posted these facts earlier. See all the eco-perks.
What I think:
Being that there were five items, I’ll just go through each separately.
Happy Feet soothing organic foot soak: Soooooo pretty. I love flowery little soaks, and this one is lovely. With 100% organic herbs, flowers, essentials oils, and sea salt for soothing ankles and feet if you’re pregnant or a new parent. This soak smells amazing and my guy tester (soaks are good for daddy feet too) loved how it smelled as well. It’s fresh and natural, and not too girly. It made my whole bathroom smell like a herbal, flower filled tea shop and of course your feet feel fresh after use as well.
Mint Herbal Lip Balm: I thought the lip balm was a nice part of the set. I’m not sure I’d buy it alone, because I’m more of a gloss girl, but this would be perfect during labor. It’s got a touch of minty goodness, but nothing too strong, and gives you a little uplifting perk when you use it. It lasted a while too, so you’re not constantly putting new lip balm on.
Happy Mama Spray: I LOVED the spray and can totally see this used for your labor. The mix of pure lime and ginger essential oils and flower essences smells amazing and really does make you feel more relaxed right away. The ginger makes this a good spray for women with morning sickness, and it’s also made to combate baby blues.
Earth Mama Body Butter: Not so much a butter as a lotion, but still good. This lotion has a subtle lemon orange minded scent and goes on smooth. It’s vegan, cruelty-free and toxin-freewhich makes it one of the purest lotion for pregnancy stretch marks around. Of course, you can’t fight stretch marks entirely but this lotion will make it a pleasure to try.
Natural Nipple Butter: This clinically tested, hospital recommended, organic, all natural, vegan, plant-based nipple balm is made without lanolin, and is totally safe for mamas and babies, so you don’t need to wash it off before breastfeeding. This is a pretty rich, but oddly light butter. If used often, I’m betting it would keep your nipples moisturized and protected from frequent cracks and soreness.
Anything I didn’t love?
Well, I thought the nipple butter smelled a little too oat-like, but my second female tester loved the scent. Even though I didn’t adore the scent entirely, I’d still use it if I was breastfeeding, it wasn’t obnoxious or anything. I also thought that the body butter could be longer lasting. For instance, some lotions leave your skin feeling moisturized all day, and I didn’t think this one did. That said, it still worked for a long time, and the smell is fantastic.
Overall score:
Five out of five little happy trees!
There were only minor things I didn’t love about this gift set; it’s so eco-friendly and non-toxic for mamas and babies, that it’s getting a five anyhow. I also love that this set comes ready to give in a pretty little bag and that it’s not expensive considering all the fun, useful, organic goodies you get. The set would be perfect for a baby shower or as a new mama gift.
Don’t forget to enter the Earth Mama Angel Baby Giveaway today – you could win some of your own EMAB products to try.
Hi Jennifer,
I have a question for you. I’ve decided to start going green slowly, as you’ve suggested, and have focused first on body and cleaning products. With both of these, I am finding some difficulty in figuring out what products are actually green and which are not. Some products say they are biodegradable, some say eco friendly, some talk about fair trade, and as I’m sure you know the list goes on. How do you choose what types of products to use? Since you seem to really know about these things, I’d love to hear your point of view on this.
Thanks!
Karen.
@karen – I posted your question w/ answers: http://www.treehuggingfamily.com/reader-question-how-to-choose-green-body-care-products/