Mustard Seed Manila

The new website for Mustard Seed is finally up. Praise God for all the blessings!

Bugs Away Insect Repellant

Joy All-Purpose Sanitizer

Upscale Gardening

Found this online seller of garden plants, seeds and flowers. It's a sosyal way of selling garden plants and seeds. The wonders of branding and positioning! It's cute actually and I would probably buy their stuff (if it's locally available) if I didn't know that Manila Seedling existed.

images taken from www.pottingshedcreations.com

Martha's Green Living

Martha Stewart's website has a new addition...all about green living. It's quite interesting and simple reads. Check it here to find more about Martha's green living.

Six Degrees

During holy week, hubby and I were watching a special at the National Geographic channel on how six degrees could change the world. It's all about global warming and our environment. The things discussed there really surprised me and what struck me there that with all the hoolabaloo on global warming the temperature has increased to almost (not even) one degree.

Imagine that! With the rising temperature every year wala pa palang one degree change yon so you can just imagine how six degrees would really change the world. In a nutshell if the temperature increased six degrees more the earth would be dried up and we're all goners.

After watching that I understood why there's so much concern about global warming. I was oblivious to what was happening until I became a mom. It's also good to know that people are raising awareness regarding this matter like the Earth Hour in which a significant number of people and retail establishments joined. So now how can we help save our planet n our own little way? Well, that's another blog entry to look forward too.

All Natural

There is a growing awareness on health and wellness. You can see it in the ads on tv and print. Nestle has a product line that is suppose to help you to be healthy. There is also a growing number of spas and wellness centers. More and more people are paying attention to what they eat and how they can sweat it out all for good health's sake.

And so if you want to live healthier you have several options for the food you eat, creams and lotions you put on your skin and several sweat it out sports to choose from but has it ever occurred to you that the cleaning products we use at our homes contain so much chemicals that are harmful to our bodies?

I was forced to take a hard look at this when I became pregnant. When you're pregnant you are restricted to do a lot of things, limited to what you can eat and should be conscious of what you use on your skin and in the house.

And so began my search for all natural skin care and cleaning products that are available in the market and this has proved to be a challenge. So far I only know of a few sellers of all natural lotion, insect repellant, soaps and shampoo. At least there were a few to choose. What was more difficult was looking for all natural household cleaning products. I saw a few but they were expensive. It cost 3 times more than the chemical cleaners in the grocery.

Why are household cleaning products bad for us?

• Most of these items from bleach to your dishwashing soap are poisonous when ingested.
  
• Bleach can burn your skin and eyes. (Now that's why my clothes get holes when too much zonrox is used on it)

To know more about the harmful effects of these things, please check this.

So now my search continues for all natural cleaning products.