Organic Baby Blog

We’re so excited to share some sleep advice from our friends at the Sleep Advisor. This week, we have a guest blogger Mark Mattei sharing his guide to a child’s better sleep.  Here’s a little more about Mark:  Sleep is something I like to do, A LOT. So if I’m not writing about or researching Read More

If you currently have carpet in your house and you have a choice to take it out – do it.   If you are planning on installing new synthetic carpet in the future – don’t.   There are so many reasons why you shouldn’t!  To start, carpets have so many toxic components.  From the chemicals that make up the the carpet and backing, to the toxic dyes, glues, and Read More

​Trading in plastic for a sustainable future.    Plastic free July is a great way to reflect and do some self evaluation about how much plastic is used in your daily life. This month encourages you to find alternatives to eliminate the use of single use plastic – a process that will hopefully change your habits forever, Read More

I’m a firm believer that what comes around goes around. Acts of compassion given anywhere in this world, feeds your soul and makes this world a better place. I’ve been asked numerous times why I make my products in Egypt, and why I don’t make them in the USA. To those people I would say that Read More

    We get phone calls all the time from customers asking for tips on keeping the integrity of organic clothing when washing. With so many “natural” detergents on the market, and with companies not being required to disclose everything that goes in them, it is easy to be duped into buying a detergent that you Read More

  It was almost three years ago when the scandal involving Egyptian Cotton hit the headlines. As part of the organic industry for more than 20 years, we think of the organic label as standing for integrity, honesty, and transparency. That’s why it was so discouraging to hear that Egyptian cotton products were being mislabeled, a double whammy – because Read More

  Sustainability starts with small everyday choices, and is possible for any community. This is how Sarah, our founder Janice Masoud’s daughter, practices sustainability in her local community – her mosque – during Ramadan. This is what going green looks like for Sarah. ____ It all started when Aamna Anwer and Erbab Majeed decided to bring Read More

My daughters are all grown up, and no grandbabies as of yet…(hoping) In preparation for future grandma-hood I have been researching and compiling a list of green, baby safe products that I will be purchasing when the time comes, and would like to share this list with you! 1) Sun screen – Growing up in the Read More

I’m sure as parents and grandparents, you are inundated with millions of choices for toys. Babies usually choose their favorite lovey toys pretty fast and you’ll find out soon enough that you need to keep it close at all times. I remember my mother made both my daughters and my nephew quilts when they were Read More

Homoeopathy (or the modernised spelling of ‘Homoeopathy’) invented in the late 18th century by German physician Samuel Hahnemann, is the art of treating ‘like with like’. Hahnemann believed that by using a very minute amount of a substance, that would ordinarily create a certain reaction within the body, would aid the body to cure itself Read More