Archive for the 'General' Category
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Giving Your Baby the Best: Organic Baby Health
Taking care of your baby is of the utmost importance. So giving your baby the best that is available becomes a vital part of keeping them safe and healthy. This means equipping your baby with the best clothing, the best food – the best of everything.
It really is too bad when you spend loads of money on something that promises good results but that ends up not working. This can happen a lot when you’re looking for good and safe products for your little one.
Babies have very sensitive skin. The skin of babies take a while to mature and can be extra sensitive to the products you put on them.
Many babies get a nappy rash at one point or the other. This is most often a result from parents putting products that contain nasty chemicals on the baby’s skin.
Of course the parents don’t realize this until it’s too late.
The best way to prevent this from happening to your baby is by using organic baby products. Certified organic baby products, like shampoos and lotions, do not have the left-over toxic pesticides or chemicals that were used in the creation and production of the materials.
And there are many organic baby lotions and products out there. Finding the safest and best organic products for your baby is only a step away
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Organic Bedding for Your Baby’s Crib
Organic bedding is steadily rising in popularity lately, and it is definitely something you should look into for you baby’s crib. Organic bedding is really the softest bedding you can find today. And you want to have the softest fabrics against your infant’s skin.
Organic bedding is made of organic fibers that have been grown to the standards an accredited organic certification organization. One of the standards requires that the fibers must be grown without the use of toxic pesticides or chemicals.
Without pesticides or chemicals being used on these fibers, organic bedding is the softest thing to touch. This softness also helps to prevent your baby from having their skin irritated by the bedding, which is a common occurrence when using non-organic bedding in infants’ cribs.
With organic bedding, you can feel good about giving your infant the best in bedding, and you can feel good about doing an important thing for the environment.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
7 Things To Avoid In Dog Food
We all want our pets to live as long and healthy as possible. The problem is big pet food companies only care about their bottom line. A lot of these dog food companies go to great lengths to make their food sound and look professional, even by indirectly bribing veterinarians to promote and recommend their food.
The sad fact is most dog food is loaded with slaughterhouse waste, toxic chemicals, waste fillers, many preservatives, unnatural additives, and even heavy metals and pesticides. Not even all organic dog food blends are good. Many lack the necessary fatty acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and fiber your dog needs to live longer.
So how do we pick the best dog food? The answer lies in the pet food labels. The pet food companies are required by law to list the ingredients in the order of the amounts they contain. Whether you are going to buy our organic dog food or shop for your own make sure you stay away from these 7 ingredients:
- Unhealthy filler ingredients like soy, animal by-products, and corn, listed in the top 5 ingredients (or even further down the list of ingredients)
- By product meals or meat by products - They usually contain slaughtered animal parts (Ears, bones, skin, you name it)
- Bone Meal or Meat Meal - Regular meal is usually okay but not meat meal as these are parts of animals that have died from all kinds of trauma, or disease. It is well documented that up to 25-50% of meat meals are contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. This can even legally include dead animals form roadkill or pets dead pets from a vet’s office!
- Preservatives and or artificial additives like Propyl Gallate, Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA), Propylene Glycol and Ethoxyquin, Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT), - all nasty chemical additives used as preservatives. Also Ethoxyquin is actually a pesticide that cannot be added to human food.
- Wheat gluten meal - a cheap waste filler that provides incomplete, very poor-quality proteins
- Poultry or animal fats - most often listed animal fat, oils or restaurant grease not edible for humans;
- Any kind of trace minerals in the form of mineral oxides or sulphates.
Of course we also believe buying natural and organic dog food to be another necessary requirement for healthy dog food.
