Spring has arrived! It’s time to lighten things up a bit on Healthful Mama! Bring on the sun and welcome, spring! I’ll admit, spring has been, generally, my least favorite season. When I lived on the East Coast, I hated the usual springtime indecisive bounce from cold to warm to chilly to hot, with large […]
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Ecocentric Mom March Box Review
Chicas, I think I’m in love. Ecocentric Mom is a monthly subscription service that allows mamas to sample healthy, natural, and safe products. If you’ve ever said, “I’m so sick of reading labels! Why can’t companies just not put junk in their products?!” then Ecocentric Mom is for you. Believe me, I still read the […]
Dear America: You are not this dumb. Tell Lysol you ain’t buyin’ it.
Health (‘helth)(n.) the condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit Example: “She was in good health.” Healthing (‘helth-ing)(v.) a gerund-nonsense form of the noun “health,” created by the Lysol marketing team. Example: “It’s not cleaning, it’s healthing.” Lysol wants to convince you, once again, like every other chemical or single-use-product manufacturer, that your […]
More News: Healthful Mama & Ecocentric Mom
Discover Healthy. Buy Healthy. Be Healthy. I’m so happy to announce that, in addition to other exciting happenings around here, I will be a part of the blogger team with Ecocentric Mom. If you haven’t discovered Ecocentric Mom yet, it is a fun, monthly product delivery service, bringing you safe, healthy products for mamas, mamas-to-be, […]
Are You Being Duped By That “Natural” Beauty Brand? Part 1
The attractively-designed brown shampoo bottle rested at the edge of my bathtub, a more chic, yet complementary component to the usual shower suspects in my bathroom: homemade soap in a bamboo dish, homemade toothpaste in a glass jar, and my favorite shampoo & conditioner in a less-than-flashy container. I picked up the brown bottle, which […]
The Honest Company: Keeping Your Home Non-Toxic
Making sure my home environment is non-toxic is not only something I strive for with intention, but is a fact of which I am quite proud. From the smallest drop of essential oil to the largest appliance, the purchases my family makes are done so with the questions of “How will this affect our health?” […]