Healthy Households

While doing a scan of our local Coles supermarket this week, I was pleasantly surprised to see two natural toothpaste choices on the shelf. Still a pretty poor display considering Colgate seem to have 127 different choices (I exaggerate!) . We found the Red Seal Herbal toothpaste and also the Grants Herbal toothpaste in the [...]

A truly unique and beautiful product hit the market in Australia last month, the Earthlust Birds & Bees insulated stainless steel baby bottle / sippy cup combo kit. Available in two different designs, each kit comes with everything you need to transition from a baby bottle to a sippy cup. For those who don’t like [...]

It’s a very very small step in a much larger solution, and that’s the widespread selling of toxic baby bottles in Australia. In news released 1st July 2010, a small group of retailers, Wesfarmers, Woolworths, Big W and Aldi will be phasing out the sale of baby bottles containing Bisphenol-A. Read the FSANZ press release [...]

There have been many articles in the news over the past 12 months about the dangers of plastic in food containers and drink bottles, and in particular, baby bottles. BPA is an endocrine disruptor. Plastic bottles & containers that contain BPA in the raw materials can leach BPA in to the food or drink it’s [...]