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Best Environmentally and Chemically Safe Beach & Sport Sunscreens by EWG

Environmental Working Group just posted their 2010 Sunscreen Guide. There are a lot of new sunscreens on the list that can be found in your local grocery store. I used to use Badger for my kids but it was impossible to find. We just started to use Caribbean Solutions and it works [...]

Green Cleaning

I just had my house cleaned top to bottom by a green cleaning company, TX Green Clean. I have mentioned before that my son has asthma and chemicals irritate his lungs. They did a fabulous job and they only used non-toxic products. They used a steam cleaner to disinfect and clean [...]

Getting your whole family to go green

Talk to your kids all the time about conserving resources. My daughter was watching Tom and Jerry and commented that the episode where they turned everything to ice wasn’t good because they are wasting water. My son also runs around the house singing a son he wrote “don’t waste water”.

Men are another story. They [...]

Shopping for Green Personal Care Products is Hard!

I have to say that one of the hardest things about going green is that it sometimes feels like I am looking for a needle in a haystack. All of the “green” products out there are overwhelming and since there is not much regulation yet, anyone can throw a green sticker on their [...]

Don’t use personal care products with Oxybenzone and Benzyl Alcohol if you have asthma!

This is pretty serious stuff. I want to thank Pat for posting about the soap nuts. When I was researching the soap nuts it opened up a huge can of worms. It brought me to a site listing all of the harmful chemicals found in fragrance products and listed the side [...]