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,...

No matter how you look, at least the mirror’s beautiful

by Betsy | Beauty + Cosmetics

I wish I liked eating salads, but I really, really don’t. I always seem to end up with a honking piece of spinach lodged between my teeth, cliche though that may sound, so I like to carry a compact mirror with me. That’s why Iike the new collection of...

Abe’s Market is fabulous. Naturally.

by Cool Mom Team | Food + Recipes

Mamas who like their products of the natural variety will be happy that there’s now one more webshop on which to find them all in one place. Abe’s Market just launched this week and as far as I can tell, all signs point to awesome. The lovely site has a...

Get out the lipstick, mamas

by Susan | Uncategorized

My makeup lives permanently in my makeup bag, which seems to live permanently on my bathroom counter. Having a pretty bag for my lip gloss is important to me, since I’m looking at it all the time. So when I saw chic Aussie designer (and carbon neutral company!)...

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...

EcoTools – Prettying up the planet one makeup brush at a time

by Cool Mom Team | Beauty + Cosmetics

There are eco options for pretty much everything these days, including some that never crossed my mind at all. Like, say, cosmetic tools? Turns out those blush brushes and eyebrow groomers aren’t always so nice to mama earth. Or so says EcoTools. They make their...

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...

An all-natural sunscreen – bug repellent mashup

by Christina Refford | Beauty + Cosmetics

Our New England summer started off as one big, wet petri dish for mosquitoes, meaning the buggers are now swarming even in the middle of the day. And there’s no sign of it letting up until fall. I have no intention of mixing DEET into my kids sunscreen, so...