What does organic, romantic and bathtime have in common?

Bathing my children, it’s a nightly routine. It’s calming for the children and for me, I like to have the children smelling clean. Sorry, I just do. I always took a bath nightly and so do my children. They bath together and we don’t use very much water, so were conserving. Using a non-toxic, gentle and organic product to clean my children with, it’s important. It goes on their skin and thus into their blood stream. I really try to limit exposure to toxins and chemicals. There’s just to much unknown out there in regards to chemicals. The Environmental Working Group and the body burden test is a great example and if you’ve ever seen The Toxic Brew, you know what I mean. We just don’t know about all these concoctions of chemicals and what they are doing to us or our children. It’s scary and I’m not screaming boo either, it’s serious and not a Halloween joke.

Recently, I was invited to be a guest speaker for a Green Living Class at a local community college and I couldn’t help but explain how I think of the environment as more than just the grass and the trees. It begins with my home environment. The EPA says we spend 90% of our time indoors and the air pollution that we suffer is great indoors than out. What I use in my home environment impacts the “whole” environment but I start with what I see, breath, touch and smell and work my way outwards.

My tangent has a point but let’s get back to bathing my children! When you wash your children, put lotions or creams on them, it’s so important to know what you’re putting on them. It’s their personal environment, their body. They smell what you put on them, it soaks into their skin and then washes down the drain and the effect of the “bad” stuff continues to swirl down the eco-system and wreak havoc. Now do you understand my tangent? I give some solutions and details over at Busy Mommy on making your own products and highly suggest you check that article out. For some, making your own products just isn’t something they want to do or have the time for. I’m kinda busy so I don’t really want to whip up my own stuff, that’s just me.