Choosing Safe Cookware

Benefits and Risks of Cookware Materials

As the kitchen is the hub of all of our homes; it is important that we are aware of what is in our own kitchens that could potentially be harming us. Our Green Kitchen article is a great read to learn a few simple green tips. Green Kitchen Tips is another article with helpful ideas on things you can do to green your kitchen.

If you are spending good money on organic food to lead a healthy green lifestyle, you need to also think about what you are cooking your food in. The pots and pans cooking the very safest food you can buy could be destroying all of the benefits of buying organic food and adding extra harmful toxins, just what you are ultimately trying to avoid.

Pots and pans are not something we take a great deal of time to thinking about. We just buy them and use them. Now we a realizing that even what we cook our food in can be harming our health and contributing to the already tons of toxins in our bodies.

We spend good money carefully purchasing good, healthy and organic food and then our cookware may be destroying all the health benefits of the food. Is there anywhere or anything that is not full of toxins these days?

There are some popular pots, pans and other cookware on the market that are a common household name, sell well and advertise that they are non-stick but neglect to tell us what unsafe products they are made of and the harm they could cause us over time with accumulated use.

Here are four great informative articles about the pros and cons of the different cooking alternatives. I hope these will help you choose your cookware safely in the future.

Safe Cookware

Dangers of Cookware-Safe Alternatives


Benefits and Risks of Cookware Materials


Alternative Cookware

Happy, safe cooking! It is a fun family affair.

All Natural Head Lice Treatment

With school back in full swing, comes lots of emotions and concerns for all you parents. One of those worries is always about preventing your child from getting head lice while at school playing and sharing in such a busy environment.

There are commercial treatments you can get over the counter at drug stores and pharmacies that are really hard on your child's scalp due to the chemicals they are made of. They are almost worse for your child's health than the bugs they are treating. Many parents are finding that if they have a child that is prone to getting head lice
that using the same store bought treatments are not as effective over time. The little bugs build up an immunity to the treatment.

A new, healthier, safer and truly effective choice of treatment for head lice to hit North America is our all natural solution by Eco.Kid. Created and manufactured in Australia by an experienced hair dresser. He has formulated this treatment to rid your child's hair of the lice gently and effectively with ingredients from nature. He has also added to the line, some preventative head lice products such as shampoo, conditioner, leave-in conditioner and kid's hair styling wax. These were all developed to prevent head lice from ever liking your child's hair and is geared to the needs of school age children. These products are selling extremely well as parents would rather prevent head lice before it comes than treat it after a child has head lice.

All of these products are very gentle, effective and have no chemicals in them at all. This awesome new head lice formulation is derived from nature and also has many organic ingredients incorporated in. You don't have to harm your child with toxic filled ingredients any longer now that we have this new natural alternative. Using nature to combat head lice sounds like a great idea to me. Prevention instead of treatment! They have been working very effectively for children in Australia for years now.

If your child does get head lice; here a few helpful tips:

- Head lice fact sheet

- not only clean and treat their hair. you must also disinfect/wash/or bag anything that the effected child has touched their head on with in the last week or two.
- such as - pillows, bed sheets, stuffed animals, hair brushes, hair ribbons, hats, coats, sweaters, the couch or chairs, cushions on the couch or blankets, house coat, towels, wash cloths, hats
- don't panic; it is very common and not a big issue
- check the rest of the people in your family and notify anyone who has been around your child the last week or two
- spend quality time with your child calmly while checking their hair and/or treating them
- don't lie to your child, tell them it is disgusting or that they did anything wrong
- check the child's hair in a week to see if you have missed any nits that may reproduce again and start the process over. Repeat if you do notice some more.
- good luck and I do hope hope you give our wonderful line of preventative head lice hair care a try. Eco.Kid products with the green labels are not attractive to head lice. These are made specifically for children aged three to twelve years old and works great for daily use.

Best of luck to all of the children who just recently headed back to school!