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Personal care

Fighting Pregnancy Acne

April 13, 2010

Before get­ting preg­nant, I’d always heard about “that preg­nancy glow.” Lit­tle did I know that the “preg­nancy glow” is caused by increased oil pro­duc­tion due to hor­mone fluc­tu­a­tions. For women who have oily or com­bi­na­tion skin, preg­nancy can mean a return of acne like you haven’t dealt with since high school.  For some women, pregnancy […]

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Helping my little one off the nappies...

June 15, 2009

I have been think­ing long and hard about post­ing about this very del­i­cate sub­ject. It works dif­fer­ent for every­one. It took us now just over two months to get to the point where I can say with rea­son­able con­fi­dence that we have made it! Our daugh­ter not only wear no nap­pies dur­ing the day, but she […]

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Boon's new bath line

December 20, 2008

Com­ing soon to a store near you! Boon has a pre­view of their upcom­ing new addi­tions to their bath line.  There are quite a few inter­est­ing and unique bath toys shown in their Face­book gallery.  Boon will be sell­ing rub­ber ducks that are PVC, phtha­late and bpa free, and the item I am prob­a­bly most interested […]

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The Mooncup Reusable Menstrual Cup

December 9, 2008

I’ve been try­ing to live a greener life, so in that spirit, I fig­ured it was time to give up all the tam­pons and san­i­tary pads I was throw­ing away every month and try out one of the reusable men­strual cups that are on the mar­ket. While the DivaCup is quite pop­u­lar among Amer­i­cans, I […]

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MomSpit no-rinse cleanser

December 1, 2008

Ever wish there was a portable solu­tion for wash­ing up when you don’t have access to soap and water?  Well there is and it’s great on sticky hands and ice cream smeared faces alike. Mom­Spit is an alco­hol free mouss­ing liq­uid designed to clean, mois­tur­ize and lift your senses with its fresh scent and dirt removing […]

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