Just ducky

by Cool Mom Team | Uncategorized

The ordinary rubber duck received a needed makeover a few years back, when BUD luxury rubber ducks started invading bathtubs. Funky and fun, they didn’t just look cool, these Australian born duckies ditched the phthalates long before anyone knew what that even...

A clean start to the new year

by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics

We have a tradition of visiting friends and family on January 1 – now that we have kids. And we’re not quite so hungover that day. For a New Year’s gift, I love the idea of grabbing one of the natural, small batch handmade Soaptopia gift boxes,...

What’s in your kid’s toothbrush that you don’t want to be in your kid’s toothbrush?

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

I don’t know why I’ve spent all this time thinking about BPA in plastics but it never once crossed my mind to look into what’s in my kids’ toothbrushes. (Of course our friend Jen at the Smart Mama was thinking about BPA in kids toothbrushes a...

Toothbrush sanitizer and adorable – two phrases not often heard together.

by Cool Mom Team | Random Coolness

You don’t even want to know where I find my kids’ toothbrushes. I’m delighted that they love them so much that they carry them all over the apartment, but still. Ew. So when I discovered the Zapi toothbrush sanitizer from VIOlight I was like, sign me...

Clean up takes on a whole new meaning with Cleanup Soap

by Cool Mom Team | Doing Good

The first thing that struck me when I saw Cleanup Soap was how cool the shape was – graphic, and symmetrical and…wait a minute. Is that a…land mine? Indeed, these naturally scented, paraben-free soaps were created by Parsons design student Hideaki...

80 Acres of Yum

by Cool Mom Team | Kids

As I was walking through the beauty product aisles at the NY Gift show recently, amidst all the thickly perfumed lotions and soaps that smelled like an ice cream shop explosion, boy was I happy to have stumbled into the McEvoy Ranch booth. And to have gotten the...

Shampoo made just for pregnant women because when you’re pregnant, yes, the world does revolve around you.

by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics

I suppose if you’re pregnant and avidly avoiding microwaves and runny cheeses and car exhaust, it makes sense to avoid things like parabens and phthalates too. Which is why I was intrigued by a very caring company called Nine Naturals which has created a nice...

Bathtime products that take care of the worrying and the styling

by Carrie | Kids

It seems like every week there is a new list of chemicals that I should make sure are not in my family’s bath products, and frankly it gets hard for me to keep track.But Original Sprout has got worried moms covered. They have a fabulous line of organic styling...

Even pilots need to wash their hands

by Cool Mom Team | Living

Just when I thought I could get away with absolutely nothing plane related in at least one room in my house, I happen upon the new acrobatic airplane hand towels exclusively at Mahar Drygoods. Granted, I don’t necessarily need to buy them, but they’re...

Let’s talk baby eczema, shall we?

by Cool Mom Team | Baby

Baby eczema = not the most exciting of all the things a new mom gets to learn about. Having a daughter with moderate eczema myself, I get it. I know how carefully we have to pick out bath soap, shampoo, and body lotion, and that even though we’ve tried a lot of...