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Judith’s Herbals and her Beautiful Blue Bottles

June 9, 2010 kellytirman Organic Beauty

On a recent trip to Bolinas I stopped into Judith’s Herbals and purchased the following products:

Jojoba Hair Conditioning Oil
Organic Avocado Oil
Morningdew Moisturizer
Golden Seal & Myrrh Mouthwash

These products are great but what I fell in love with was the packaging. I am a total sucker for beautiful blue glass bottles and old school labels. Not only does colored glass block UV rays, which helps increase the product’s shelf life, but they can be redeemed at Judith’s when you are done with them. Organic ingredients, Glass containers and bottle deposits might seem right out of the 1920′s but these three things makes Judith’s Herbals an amazing eco-friendly find, even more so if you are willing to ride your bike from San Francisco to buy them.

About Kelly Tirman

Kelly Tirman is the mom behind kellytirman.com and serves as Sr. Manager of Operations for Walmart’s Global eCommerce User Experience, Insights & Analytics teams. Kelly’s blog focuses on sharing ideas on urban living; including general lifestyle, raising multilingual children and organic beauty.

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Seven Ways to Use Virgin Coconut Oil

June 2, 2010 kellytirman Organic Beauty

I am bummed. I’m totally out of coconut oil. While swirling my fingers along the edges of the jar to salvage any possible remains, I realized it was time to feature my favorite coconut oil as my product of the week. It’s a purchase we can both make together!

I love finding great products that I truly love and confidently recommending them to you (my reader). As I refill my personal stock of my favorite products, I write about them. I am about to purchase more and you should purchase some too, because as my disappointing face shows…we’re both living sadly sans coconut oil.

But Kelly what will I do with 30 oz. of coconut oil? And why would life with a jar of coconut oil be that much better?

Well glad you asked! Here are a few fabulous ideas:

First separate the 30 oz into two jars. One for your kitchen and one for your bathroom (or where ever you keep your body care products).
Apply a small amount to the ends of your hair. Coconut oil is an amazing natural conditioner for your hair. It contains essential proteins for nourishing damaged hair. Plus it give your hair a nice shine.
Apply it to your scalp before you wash your hair. Regularly massaging your head with coconut oil helps fight dandruff.
Apply to your feet. Coconut oil is antimicrobial, antioxidant, antifungal, and antibacterial which should cure those stinky feet and athlete’s foot.
Use it as a replacement for mineral oil. It is better for you and the environment!
Put it on your baby’s butt. Yep, it works wonders on diaper rash too.
Eat it! Replace butter and other oils in your diet. Coconut oil adds a nice flavor to your food and has a lot of health benefits.

I am CRAZY for this virgin coconut oil (a.k.a. VCO) and you will be too!

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Bilingual Lola Book & Puppets

May 20, 2010 kellytirman Multilingual Children

As a parent, I am always on the lookout for books and toys that share my values and depict real world scenarios in age appropriate ways. This beautifully illustrated book and puppet set are a great tool for not only raising bilingual children, but for teaching children to never settle, to take the path less traveled and most importantly, that love is color blind.

Meet Lola. She may live on a simple little chicken farm but she is no simple little chicken.

All the other (simple) chickens squabble and fuss trying to get the attention of the big, bold self-involved rooster.

Every day, the big bold self-involved rooster picks one of the chickens to sit next to him. An honor for any simple chicken.

But Lola, didn’t want to sit next to the rooster. She wanted to sit next to someone special-someone who loves her and only her. So Lola decided that the simple chicken farm was too complicated and stepped outside the safety of the fence in search of something more. (BTW – The rooster’s ego was crushed and he learned his lesson)

Lola traveled far and picked her own path declaring, “Now it’s my turn to choose!”

Meet the fox. This can’t be good, right? Don’t foxes eat chickens? But who is to say that all foxes are bad…

This Set includes:

hardcover bilingual (English/Spanish) Lola Book with 32 pages of beautiful colorful illustrations
Lola Puppet
Fox Puppet

The Bottom Line:
You definitely can’t find cuter puppets to teach your kids about such love. Your son/daughter (your more human version of the less simple chicken, Lola) will love it! Once you’ve received your book and puppets please comment on this post to let me know how much your kiddos loved it.

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My Favorite Laptop Sleeve

May 13, 2010 kellytirman Fashion, Urban Living

Carry your laptop in style! SERIOUSLY, not a day goes by that I don’t get one or more (okay let’s call it average of 3) compliments on my laptop sleeve.

Usually, I just try to act cool, you know-smile and say, “thank you.” Try to pretend looking so fab comes naturally. Give them that shrug like, “yep, that’s how I roll.”

But really, I’m dying to strike up an lengthy conversation about how much I LOVE it, how much constant attention I get from it, and how FABULOUS I feel as I carry my laptop around in style.

What they would never believe, is that it only costs $27 bucks. Not bad considering it successfully protects my precious laptop that, let’s face it, contains pretty much my entire life.

So here’s the bottom line: This oilcloth laptop sleeve in Toile White (or any other color for that matter) is a high quality fashion item at a reasonable price.

Specifications:

fully padded interior
dimensions are 15″ x 2″ x 1″
zippered sleeve
outside pocket to carry extra papers, cords, etc.

Oh, and THEN, once you’ve received your sleeve… please comment on this post to let me know how much you love it too

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Perfect Personal Product Prescriptions – Let’s feel beautiful together!

April 29, 2010 kellytirman Organic Beauty

I started writing about beauty products as a way to keep you, your baby and the environment safe, healthy and feeling your best – and in realizing how fulfilled I’ve felt from doing so, I’ve decided to start a new program! In weeding through the marketing scams and the over-hyped, over-priced products for my own family, I’ve become so unbelievably passionate about avoiding as many toxic ingredients in my skin care routine as possible, and I am excited to share this new-found knowledge with others (namely my readers, like you!)

Recently my friend Stacy, asked advice on her “cupcake” lotion. She paid too much for the scent and the brand name, especially considering the low quality and harmful substances that it’s made of. As she read me the ingredients I nearly fell to the floor! I found myself running to my repertoire of product research and prescribed an entire new moisturizing routine.

So this is where the new program comes in. I would LOVE for you to send me your routine (products you use and love, or use and hate). I will look beyond the label and do some research. I will see if you’re doing yourself help or harm and then, I will “prescribe” a personalized solution that is better for you and the environment than your current product.

For the second part of this idea, bring in OpenSky. I’ve always wanted my own boutique so I can be around the products I love – all day long. When I was approached by OpenSky to have my own shop online, I was floored! Now I can have my own personal space, to sell my own personal favorite things to my own personal favorite readers (that’s you.. again).

So here is the challenge:

Step 1: Go get your “favorite” product. Look at the full list of ingredient in your skin care product and see if it contains any of the following…

Parabens
Formaldehyde (often listed as 2-bromo-2nitropropane-1, 3-diol, diazolidinyl urea, DMDM hydantion, imidazolidinyl urea, quaternium-15)
Phthalates (not listed on the label. Look for the word “fragrance” or if the product specific says “phthalate-free”)
Diethanolamne (DEA) and Triethanolamine (TEA)
Diazolidinya Urea and Imidazolidinyl Urea
Sodium Lauryl/Laureth sulfate; Ammonium Laureth Sulphate
Propylene Glycol
PVP/VA copolymer
Nanoparticles
Synthetic Fragrance

Step 2: Now that you are aware of all the ingredients in your product make a conscience decision if you are willing to replace it with a healthier solution.

Step 3: In the comments of this post leave the following:

Name of your current product
A URL where I can find the product
Describe what you like about the product (i.e. smell, feel, results, etc.)

Once you submit your product you will receive an email from me letting you know I am on the case. I will then post the solution to my blog and email you the link. It’ll be so fun for all of us!