We have two strollers. One’s a single, one’s a double, but both are so big & bulky that we never use them. When my babies are tiny, they like to be slinged, but once they start crawling they want to be “free.” Dane is now nearly fifteen months so carrying him everywhere is starting [...]
Interesting!
Last week for baby care, I posted about how many bottles on the market today are made of unsafe plastic. Today I found a site, Bornfree, that sells glass & plastic Bisphenol-free baby bottles. They have links to various news headlines at the top of their page on the Bisphenol A topic.
If you haven’t read [...]
With three kids with specific sounding names it’s going to be fun trying to figure out what to name our next baby when we conceive again. Specifically we’re looking for four-letter, two syllable classic or traditional names. There are a few we like- Vera for a girl & I like Ezra as well as Luka [...]
8 oz sweet almond oil
7 oz jojoba oil
2 oz castor oil
4 oz shea butter
19 oz coconut oil
14 oz palm oil
194 grams lye
19 oz water
1 oz vitamin E oil
Heat the shea butter, sweet almond, jojoba, castor, coconut, palm oils to 100°F. In a separate stainless steel container, combine the lye & water, & allow to cool [...]
Products marketed for infants and children are not always completely safe for their use. Many contain toxic chemicals that may have detrimental health impacts for children exposed during critical stages of development. In this report, we analyze the extent to which five popular brands of baby bottles leach bisphenol A, a developmental, neural, and reproductive [...]
1 cup of lavender
1 cup of oatmeal
1 cup of calendula
1 cup of chamomile
4 ounces of powdered milk
Mix together the botanicals & generously fill tea bags. Heat seal the bags. Works wonders for fussy babies.
56 grams (2 oz.) mango butter
907 grams olive oil
113 grams unrefined shea butter
312 grams lavender infused water
132 grams lye (NaOH)
Mix your NaOH/water solution, cool to 105°. Melt butters to 100° then add to olive oil. Drizzle lye into butters/oil. Stir well & briskly until trace. I added lavender buds at trace. Pour into molds.
This [...]
