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Which are the Safest Water Bottles for our Family?

ChicMommyUSA — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Once again I am confronted with these questions: Is technology always for the best? Are their products for our benefit or just to make a few billion dollars out of us this year?
Do companies put as it risk with dangerous products on purpose or is it just inadvertently?

I don’t have all the answers but I have decided to keep the “?” on everything I will buy from now on. Many times, not even the products sold at a Health Food Store are really that safe.

Like I always repeat to my readers and viewers: “WE NEED TO TAKE CONTROL OF OUR LIFE AND OUR MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS”. I know! I Know! where do we get the right information to make informed decisions????!!(&^ This my friend, is not an easy task, but we have to put our heart and commitment into it.

I have started my blogs with this purpose, sharing the information I found most appropriate at a certain point in my life. Believe me! My search and my walk on the information rally will not be stopping anytime soon.

One of the BEST places for great information is “THE SOFT LANDING”. Its owners are part of family committed to keep a close relation with their customers needs, and an even closer relation with its vendors. All products are carefully reviewed, not only at the beginning of their purchasing contracts, but regularly throughout their business relation. If they don’t comply with the any of their product safety standards, they are out the door!

The Soft Landing, has been focused on assuring parents that the products purchased through them are BPA and PVC free. The best of it all is that they share all their research results through their blog. It has become my little big healthy bible!

Now another big thing right now is their BIGG BOTTLE SWAP! I already talked about it, but is SOOOOO WORTH IT! If you have a SIGG Water Bottle, you should be aware that SIGG Bottles are lined with BPA. It has not yet been proven to leach, but hey! how safe is that BPA thing in my family’s water bottles either way??

The good news is that with the Bigg Bottle Swap, you can send your old Aluminum BPA lined SIGG Watter Bottles to The Soft Landing. They will be sending you a 30% coupon toward a Clean Fun and Safe Stainless Steel Water Bottle (from any of the participating vendors). The Soft Landing will even recycle your old SIGG bottle for you.

If you don’t have a SIGG Bottle, but you have an Aluminum water bottle, there is also a 20% coupon that could work in your favor.

Check The Soft Landing site as well as the BIGG Bottle Swap. The information is well worth to read, use and share!

Don’t forget to mention ChicMommyUSA. Who knows! you may get a surprise!

Many blessings,

Liseth

Chic Mommy USA and The Soft Landing at momtv.com

ChicMommyUSA — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:33:00 +0000

For my show Tonight and in honor of my Guest my son made his first commercial!

I had lots of fun taping it and watching it but of course I’m his mommy!

I hope to see you all tonight at 10PM EST to meet Alicia from “The Soft Landing” We will be talking all about TOXIN FREE plastics, and BPA free food and water utensils.

Share it with your friends and of course! MANY MANY BLESSINGS

SIGG BOTTLE RETURN

ChicMommyUSA — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:41:24 +0000

WOW!! I simply did not know!!!!

We have been talking for a while on the importance of avoiding BPA products and it just so happen that one of the things we thought was a good substitute for regular plastic water bottles is also leaking

SIGG Bottles and BPA

ChicMommyUSA — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:02:00 +0000

WOW!! I simply did not know!!!!

We have been talking for a while on the importance of avoiding BPA products and it just so happen that one of the things we thought were a good substitute for regular plastic water bottles is also leaching BPA into our water.

When I was shopping around for Water Bottles for my family I saw many options, some of them Aluminum some of them Stainless Steel. The prices will vary but they were not cheap at all. Don’t get me wrong! The investment is worth it in the long run. I have not bought plastic water bottles in a while and I can see the difference in my recycling bin and in my wallet!

Anyway! Point is: Sigg Aluminum bottles have BPA. I am sure, this was not their intention, but they are! Besides, Aluminum toxicity “has been linked to alzheimer’s disease, kidney and liver problems, memory loss and osteoporosis.”

The GOOD NEWS! My favorite BPA FREE Products Company: The Soft Landing has started a fantastic campaign to help you reduce your losses on getting a SIGG bottle for your family. The Soft Landing is sponsoring THE BIGG BOTTLE SWAP.

Yes, it is as you read it, but here are the details in how the BIGG BOTTLE SWAP works:

Here’s the deal:

You return your BPA-lined SIGG bottle(s) to us at The Soft Landing
Once we get your bottle(s), they’ll send you a unique discount code for 30% off the purchase of a new stainless steel bottle from participating manufacturers
Order your new bottle(s) at www.thesoftlanding.com from one of seven great brands – all clean, non-leaching and BPA-free
The Soft Landing will take care of recycling all unwanted SIGG bottles returned to us
Offer open to customers worldwide

There is also a special discount for SIGGless Folks

Complete the form provided at The Soft Landing and let us know in the comments section that you will not be returning a SIGG bottle
They’ll send you a unique discount code for 20% off the purchase of a new stainless steel bottle from participating manufacturers
Order your new bottle(s) at www.thesoftlanding.com from one of seven great brands – all clean, non-leaching and BPA-fre.

I hope this information is useful and that you can obtain a well deserved discount in substituting BPA leaching products for your health and your family’s well being.

Please mention you got this info from CHIC MOMMY, who knows! may be you will get a SURPRISE!

Many blessings and happy healing thoughts to everyone!

Liseth

QUIZ YOURSELF! HOW MANY DANGEROUS TOXINS ARE HIDDEN AT HOME?

ChicMommyUSA — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:32:00 +0000

Lately I have been talking about the danger of hidden household toxins. It is amazing the amount of things that we pollute ourselves with without even knowing!

We are usually overly concern for the things that may affect us outside our doors and have been working on minimizing their effects in our family’s live. But how about what is actually hidden inside the home?

This is fantastic tool to evaluate your household and may be later, try to find some fun and easy solutions.

DO YOU DARE TO TAKE THE QUIZ? IS YOUR HOME FREE OF DANGEROUS TOXINS?

Green Cleaning and Household Toxins

ChicMommyUSA — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 01:49:00 +0000

This is the list of important links to get started on our TOXIN FREE HOME CAMPAIGN

Dangers:

Umbilical cord/chemicals Laboratory tests of the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborns found that the samples contained an average of 200 chemicals that can cause cancer, brain damage, birth defects and other health ailments, according to the study sponsored by the Environmental Working Group.

http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/1294/6

Detergents:

http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/05/07/06/the_toxic_dangers_of_typical_laundry_detergent.htm

http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/household/brands?tbl=brands&id=3027108

Cosmetics:

http://cosmeticsdatabase.com/

Green Household Cleaning Options:

http://www.shaklee.net/chicmommyusa/prodHou

http://www.greenhouseecocleaning.com/

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/8088/clngrn.html

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_nontoxic_solutions.htm

http://altmedicine.about.com/cs/allergiesasthma/a/HouseholdClean.htm

http://www.greenfootsteps.com/natural-household-cleaners.html

BPA FREE PRODUCTS FOR OUR KIDS:

www.thesoftlanding.com

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