New PVC-free Sassy Bath Toys Make Great Pool Toys

If you’ve been following our search for PVC-free pool toys for long, you know how difficult it can be to find anything.  We’ve found that  Sassy’s new bath toys make great beach toys in the meantime!  We’ve confirmed each of the following to be free of BPA, PVC and pthahlates (just click on each image [...]

BPA, PVC, Phthalate-free Kitchen Appliances

We finally decided to tackle blenders, mixers and mills!  We’ve confirmed with each manufacture that the following kitchen appliances are free of BPA, PVC and phthalates on all food-contact surfaces: Babycook by Beaba Dex Products Baby Food Processor BabySteps Food Mill by Kidco Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Food Processors and Juicers Combi Mommy’s Food Processor [...]

Ask TSL: Safe Spray Bottles for Baby Lotions and Diaper Wash Spray

Q: I’m looking for safe empty bottles with spray tops and pump tops to use for baby lotions and diaper wash spray. Any ideas on where to buy them? A: We recommend choosing glass spray bottles whenever they can be kept safely out of little hands.   Our favorite resource for glass bottles is SKS Bottle [...]

BPA-free Canned Food Options

We’ve talked extensively about BPA-based epoxy linings commonly used in aluminum cans, especially in regards to finding BPA-free tomatoes.  It was a difficult task because of their acidic nature, but we finally found Pomi.  Not even Eden Organics, the leader of the pack, has found a way to go BPA-free in the tomato category just [...]

BPA, PVC and Phthalate-free Baby Bathtub and Seat Buying Guide

We pretty well have the bath toys covered, but what about safe bath tubs and seats?  You’ve probably noticed that most of the options out there are marked with a recycling code, making it difficult to know what type of plastic they’re made from. It turns out there is good news!  It appears that you [...]

12 New PVC-free Sassy Bath Toys

Here we are, coming up on our third year in business and safe bath toys are still difficult to locate! It’s always good news when manufacturers introduces great new bath toys made without toxic plastic.   For 2010, all Sassy bath toys are now BPA and phthalate-free and twelve of them are also PVC-free. PVC-free Bath [...]

BPA-free Tomatoes Do Exist!

UPDATED 1/27/10 (see below) We recently shared our pathetic findings when searching for pre-prepared tomatoes in BPA-free containers.  Several of our amazing readers came to the rescue with possibilities we hadn’t heard of, so we started the process of confirming with the each manufacturer.  We ended up with two positively BPA-free options and still have [...]

Ask TSL: Can You Recommend a Safe Humidifier for My Children?

We’ve been keeping our eyes open for a warm mist humidifier made without polycarbonate plastic for quite a while and we kept coming back empty-handed.   Safe Mama reported in early 2009 that her search had been unsuccessful too. Last week our kids passed around a heavy duty cold, so I dug out our old standby [...]

BPA-free Sippy Cup Guide

2009 brought an amazing number of new BPA-free products to the market, so we’ve updated our BPA-free Sippy Cup Guide. You can find the complete list with background info on bisphenol-a on Squidoo (you can easily print the page for shopping trips on the go).  Be sure to let us know if we missed any of your favorite BPA-free sippy cups and [...]

Locating PVC Free Splat Mats for Baby Isn’t Easy

Finding PVC-free splat mats has turned out to be another one of those time-consuming and mostly unfruitful searches.  85% of the splat mats we researched were either made from PVC or were laminated with it.  All of the mats we checked on were free of BPA and phthalates.  We did locate a few PVC-free gems out [...]

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