I will say, when you name a product 10 Years Younger Makeup Finish , the bar is pretty high. Not that I'm expecting Botox in a handy spray form, but you know. Ten years. That's a lot of years younger. For those of us with not-twenty-year…
Writing for Cool Mom Picks is pretty much my dream job, and I get to review some truly amazing stuff. I can shout at the top of my lungs about how much I like a product, but the real test is this: Did I go back and buy more? When it come…
I'm definitely a bit of a lip balm addict, with various tubes and containers stuffed into my coat pockets, purses, and drawers. So when I heard about the biodegradable eco-tube lip balm from Organic Essence , I had to give it a whirl. In…
I love the way my kids smell after their bath; all of their products -- shampoo, soap, lotion -- have light, fresh scents. Bath lines for grownups can be cloying in comparison, but baby bath products don't work on my super dry skin. Than…
Today, I positively reek of Alice. You know, Alice in Wonderland? Hottest movie of the week? And it's all thanks to Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab . BPAL, as we fans call it, is a cheeky, artsy, Tim Burton-esque perfumerie offering hundreds o…
I'm a strong, empowered woman, and I hate asking for help, but...sometimes, I need help. Like when the yogurt is pushed all the way back in the case at the store and there's a baby strapped to my chest. Or when I'm trying to wade through…
Sometimes I have a major case of the Holden Caulfields when I'm looking for bath products worthy of my children. They say "all-natural", and I cry, Phony! Fake! Liar! and snarl at the petrolatum and mineral oil hiding behind the organic …
I've got a bottle of hand sanitizer in my purse, as I'm sure all of you do, too. It feels like an imperative, even though I'll pick actual soap-and-water hand washing over hand sanitizer whenever I can. So when I first heard about "a new…
My 4 year old daughter is very into dressing up--including the make-up. Do you know if there are safer kids' make-up products out there? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I worry about the $5 variety available at the toy store--do I need to worry …
I'm always on the lookout for great holiday gifts for my babysitters and sisters-in-law and girlfriends; just some small, fun treat to remind them how much they mean to me. This year, I'm in love with CrazyLibellule's Crazy Sticks -- sol…
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 gif…
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…
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 l…
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 …
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 s…
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 boot…
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 …
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 wh…
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…
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…
Let me start off with the disclaimer: Shea butter scares me. I have tried out any number of shea butter moisturizers for review because I hear of its miraculous benefits, and yet one leaves me feeling slimier and smellier than the next. …
We've gotten our fair share of baby lotions and bath products from Little Twig as gifts and I must say, they're often the ones I reach for first. I love the adorable packaging , but even more so I love the pthalate-free, paraben-free, su…
When my first daughter was born, I figured all diaper creams were pretty much created equal. I bought whatever sounded familiar, never once scanning the label for stuff like synthetic fragrances, methylparabens, or sodium borate --let al…
Each morning, it takes a vat of coffee to get me going and ready to face another day in charge of three young lives. So yes, I was eager to try out a shower gel with the word "energy" in it. This Works: Energy Bank Bath and Shower Gel wo…