Chi S.'s Profile
"A Concerned Mom"
Member since June, 2007
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5 reviews
1 useful rating
5 listings added
Location
Brookline, MA
My Dream Product
A healthy anti-aging creme that works.
How we'll get around in 20 years...
Teleporting effortlessly.
Offline, find me...
At Strollercise with my daughter.
My non-green guilty pleasure
Starbucks, but I get the shade grown organic.
Lovely Soap, Clean and Great Smelling
We try to use natural skin care products and we found this at Whole Foods. It is a bar soap with lavender and bergamot and a few other organic essential oils that smell so soothing and lovely. The base is really nice too with shea butter, palm, olive and coconut oils among others. It has a few more ingredients, but they are all good stuff and it smells SO good. It is not cheap at $6 per bar, but it lasts a long time and makes us feel good so it is worth it.
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Soap for Dry Skin Conditions
I found out about this soap because my baby daughter had skin problems. This company makes skin care products with chinese herbs in very simple and natural bases without any chemicals, fragrances, colors, etc.
We started by using this on our baby, but now the whole family uses it. Though it is unscented it smells really clean and slightly herby. We noticed our dry heels and ankles went away just by avoiding the normal commercial soaps. It has shea butter, olive, palm, coconut and palm oils andsome herbs in it. We love it.
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Good and Clean Hand Soap
Since my daughter was born with eczema I have become much more aware of what we wash with in our house (we don't use it on her). Trader Joe's has some winner's and some losers. This one is a winner.
We use it for convenience in the kitchen and bathroom because it is liquid pump. But, it is not full of chemicals. In addition to the lavender and chamomile essential oils it has tea tree and grapefruit oil, vitamin E and not much else. It smells good and lathers well and does not dry your skin out.
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Yummy Coffee and Good for Birds Too
Ok--I know Starbucks is not what you would think of as necessarily green, but wait. My husband and I do love coffee from Starbucks and have found that they have an 'Organic Shade Grown Mexico' coffee in both decaf and regular. It is tasty and we like the fact that it is organic and also shade grown which preserves forest and habitat for birds. Starbucks is a guilty pleasure, but less guilty with this yummy meduim blend coffee.
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Natural Salve Helped my Baby's Eczema
When my infant daughter was diagnosed with eczema I did not want to put steroids on her unless it was unavoidable. A friend told me about Emily Skin Soothers' products which were designed by an acupuncturist/herbalist for his own daughter. I bought and tried them.
They are all natural and very simple. I felt comfortable with the fact that there were very few ingredients, just olive oil, beeswax and 3 herbs. I used them on my daughter and her skin improved dramatically in just a few weeks. I know she is not cured, and we still use the product to maintain, but she is not itching or scratching and thus far has not needed to use or take any meds.
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