How do your baby care products stack up?
June 20, 2009 by Jennifer
How toxic-free are the baby and child bath products at your house? Many conventional store-bought bath products are full of things your tot sure doesn’t need (pesticides, chemicals, fake colors, and more). Right now we’ve got a great Earth Mama Angel Baby Giveaway going on, and Liz, blog coordinator for Earth Mama Angel Baby, sent me the following challenge to pass on to my readers.
This is a really cool challenge, and something I suggest you try. I personally use Skin Deep all the time to make sure products are safe and green. If you haven’t tried Skin Deep before, now is a good time to start.
The Earth Mama Angel Baby What’s Your Score? Challenge
1. Gather some of the most common personal care products you use regularly on yourself or on your baby. Personal care products include shampoo, lotions, soaps, diaper cream, stretch mark oil, etc.
2. Go to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics’ Skin Deep database and enter a product name in the search field. Add up the Skin Deep toxicity rating for all the personal care products that you use on a daily basis to find out what your score is.
3. When you have your score, consider the following questions…
- What was your Skin Deep toxicity rating score?
- How did you feel about your score and/or ingredients?
- Were you surprised at how high the toxin score is for any products labeled “natural” or “organic” ?
I think you’ll be surprised at how high (higher = more toxic at Skin Deep) most bath and beauty products score, even those labeled “green, natural, or safe” On the flip side, Earth Mama Angel Baby products all score 1 or less (that’s an excellent rating on Skin Deep). All the more reason to try some of their products.
Read more about Earth Mama Angel Baby:
- About the company – eco-perks and more.
- Green Product Review: I Love My Mama Gift Set
- Green Product Review: Angel Baby Kit
ENTER the Earth Mama Angel Baby Giveaway!
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Oh yeah! I have been meaning to do this and have been (slowly-darnit) trying to replace our “old” skin and hair products for more natural ones! Great challenge! We do use baking soda in the bath, but I need shampoo and conditioners. We also use Topricinkids for aches and pains (all natural pain cream without any of the harmful junk) and am also looking for a bug/sun spray or cream. I have read many articles on the sun screen debate and which ones are recommended, there’s just so many opinions to sort through. Anyway- love this challenge! Caroline