Bo Peep Blog

We were very excited to get Lunchskins in!  They are made by a company called 3GreenMoms in the States and appeal to us on many levels.  They are made from fabric (not plastic), are made domestically, support fellow mompreneurs and are good for the environment.

You can read lots of information on their website, but here’s our review.

We love them!  They take up less space in our lunchbags and you can really put pretty much anything in them, short of soup or yogurt.

Sarah's Balanced Day lunchbag with sub-sized Lunchskins inside

Sarah’s kids take sandwiches in the sandwich size bag, the whole family has used the snack size, and great big lunches go in the sub-sized bag:

This is a BIG Florida orange in the sub-sized bag

The lunchskins take up a fraction of the space of a traditional plastic container, which is great when you have hungry people to pack for.  They wash up easily – they are dishwasher safe, but we just wash them by hand – and dry inside-out overnight, ready for the next day.

So far, they’ve just been used for food at our house, but we can easily see the kids filling them with other things.  We will be watching for tadpoles in the spring!

All in all, a two thumbs up review from our family.

I have just finished reading “Slow Death by Rubber Duck” by Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie, and would like to rush out and buy copies for all of my friends.  It contains information I had vague ideas about, but these two guys treated themselves like human guinea pigs (or lab rats, more appropriately) and generated a whole pile of new scientific data I took very seriously.  Little things like: anti-bacterial products (which we don’t use in this house) containing triclosan, which is potentially a hormone disrupter.  Things like: while PCB use has been phased out, it has been replaced by PBDE‘s in furniture and carpets.  Many government sources will try and reassure you they are harmless (such as the link I sourced from Health Canada), but even minimal doses have caused cancer in rats, I don’t want it in my house!  Plastics are the other big issue:  they are ubiquitous, but you can definitely try and minimize your family’s exposure to the bad ones (labels 1, 2, 4 and 5 are okay).

What does all this have to do with sunscreen?  A customer phoned me last week to ask about ThinkBaby’s sunscreen.  I have carried their BPA-free sippy cups for quite some time and personally love them at our house.  I like ThinkBaby’s philosophy and so went to check out the sunscreen.  It met all of my criteria for beauty products – no hormone disrupters, no carcinogens, paraben-free, etc. – and it’s made domestically (in the US).  Hooray, ThinkBaby!

The only downside?  They are selling it faster than they can make it, and the store is on a waiting list.  The MINUTE it shows up in the store, I will put it on the website as well.  Your kids are, well, your kids.  Probably the best thing you ever made, right?  I know that I do everything I can to protect mine from harm, and that this includes future harm as well.  Sunscreen and UV-protective clothing is a no-brainer in this house in the summer – and here’s hoping ThinkBaby ramps up production in time for those serious rays.