Healthier Parenting, Less Judgement
Stories about radioactive tuna from the 2011 Fukushima meltdown that showed up 6,000 miles away on California’s shores sounded too crazy to be true.
The FDA said the radiation was nothing to worry about in the United States, since you’d have to eat pounds of the stuff before being affected. But according to a 2011 Government Accountability Study, the FDA only inspects .1% of the fish we import for consumption. [Read more...]
I love wine. Unfortunately, wine no longer loves me—the long headache isn’t worth the short buzz. But according to wine expert Olivier Magny, it’s not the wine itself that’s the problem, it’s the type of wine I’m drinking. Cheap wine. American wine. Sulfites in wine.
Olivier, who has taught the art of sommelier-ing to more than 100,000 students at his Paris-based O Chateau, has a problem with sulfites and wine. “Wine should never give you a headache,” he told me. “Good wine—which in my book doesn’t mean expensive but does mean well made—is guaranteed headache-free.” [Read more...]
This week, ONE winner will take home a $105 worth of EO EVERYONE all natural, plant and essential oil based healthy personal care products for the whole family! Here’s how it works:
1. Like the Mommy Greenest Loves Pinterest page.
2. Repin the EO EVERYONE photo.
3. Describe why you love these products.
4. Get creative! I’ll post my faves on facebook.com/mommygreenest. [Read more...]
Well that was fun. Eight minutes to Mommy Greenest some DIY cleaning products under mighty hot lights. But anything with Jenna Elfman and the “Home & Family” team is entertainment, indeed. I was so thrilled to be a part of it!
Are you having natural sex? You might think so, but you’re probably wrong.
Take lubricant, for example. Whether it’s coconut cream or mango delicious, that tube you stashed in your nightstand is probably chock-full of parabens, hormones, silicones and petroleum by-products which can cause irritation that makes you more susceptible to decidedly unsexy yeast infections. Ick.
So what about toys? C’mon, don’t pretend you haven’t tried them once or twice—or thrice. Since Shades of Gray came out, they’re practically selling sex toys at Barnes & Noble. But they also can be pretty toxic. [Read more...]
A lucky handful of us get to kiss acne good-bye forever when we grow up. Me? Not so much. Particularly during periods (pun intended) of hormonal flux, I find myself fixated on the lumps and bumps that congregate around my chin.
I’m not alone. According to Total Beauty, 54 percent of women over 25 suffer from acne, in some form or another.
Unfortunately, most of us resort to a harsh chemical acne remedy to treat it. But it just doesn’t make sense that blemish-free skin would come from an acne remedy made with chemicals that irritate it, right? Or maybe it does, if you’re selling products to consumers that create the exact problem you’re claiming to solve, thus creating a perpetual market for what you’re selling. Hmmm…
Fortunately, I’ve found a skin-care regimen of kinder, gentler acne remedy products that actually work—without toxic chemicals.
From plug-ins to sprays, synthetic air fresheners are bad news. Chock-full of toxic ingredients, they typically contain phthalates linked to obesity and other problems, as well as potent allergens that lead to fragrance allergies—a condition that affects 34 million people in the U.S.
That’s why when I heard about this new campaign from Women’s Voices for the Earth, I knew I had to share. The campaign targets Glade air fresheners and employs some of the cutest babies I’ve ever seen as messengers. If SC Johnson can use cute babies to sell products, why can’t we use them to let people know about the air-polluting fragrances that are in their products? [Read more...]
My kids are sick of healthy eating. They don’t want organic soybean butter and Farmer’s Market fig jam sandwiches, they want Lunchables: crackers, processed cheese, salty disks that pass for lunch meat and a whole lot of chemicals wrapped up in a plastic box.
My younger daughter confessed she dumps the organic carrot sticks the trash (and I thought the ranch dip was decadent). My oldest has been trading her edamame for candy.
Forget the veggie chips I carefully stowed in wax paper bags—heaven for these children would be to open up their lunch boxes and spy a bright-orange bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. [Read more...]
This week TWO winners will each take home a $60 Tumbleweed Bead Co recycled gold initial necklace, so you can wear the initials and birthstones of your loved ones. This is the perfect Mother’s Day gift and you can win it just in time! Here’s how the contest works:
1. Like the Mommy Greenest Loves Pinterest page.
2. Repin the Tumbleweed Bead Co initial necklace photo.
3. Describe why you would want to wear the initial necklace, and include the hashtag #mommygreenestfreenecklace. [Read more...]
Mommy Greenest is your resource for healthier parenting with less judgment—because you shouldn't have to be a scientist to raise a healthy kid. The blog is the brainchild of Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, a former CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World who was editor of Children magazine—before she had kids. Rachel was featured in Los Angeles and Lucky magazines and has appeared on “Today,” “Access Hollywood” and “CNN Headline News,” among others. In addition to publishing Mommy Greenest, Rachel is a healthy home consultant, mother of three and pre/postnatal yoga teacher, who can also be found on HuffPo Parents, at YouTube.com/RachelSarnoff and tweeting regularly as @RachelLSarnoff.
