Organic Cleaners Put the Power of Green into Clean

As retailers, it’s hard to ignore the green revolution. More young families are demanding natural, organic or sulfate-free products. Gone are the days when friends could shower a girl with simple baby shampoo and a cute one-piece; now that shampoo has to be 100% organic and that one-piece needs to be made from the purest of cotton. Nowhere has “clean and green” been more in demand than in cleaning products. New parents need the strongest stuff on the market to clean up the messes, but want those products to be safe and gentle as well. It isn’t easy for retailers to wade through the growing waters of products marked “natural” or “organic,” so we’ve helped out a bit and feature a few favorite brands: BuggyLOVE, Better Life, Dapple and Fresh Wave.

BuggyLOVE Makes Strollers Sparkle

Protect our children. Defend our planet. Improve our world. Those were the ideals of two old friends who were new parents. Living in different parts of the country, they were experiencing identical problems in raising their newborns: they were tired of the cleaning, especially when it came to their strollers.

They both began a search for organic, safe, and effective products that could simplify stroller maintenance. They found none. The result: their signature BuggyLOVE organic stroller cleaning kit that contains everything a green parent could need. This kit is an already-wrapped, display-ready baby registry item. It includes FreshLOVE, PolishLOVE, FabricLOVE, WheelLOVE, Re-usable To-Go Bag, Wheel Scrub Brush and Re-claimed Microfiber Cloth.

As an extension of the kit, BuggyLOVE also offers individual sizes of PureLOVE, their universal surface cleaner; FabricLOVE, a no-wash stain remover; and FreshLOVE, an all-over freshening mist. All products contain only whole organic ingredients and are free of parabens and sulfates.
They also recently expanded the collection to include the launch of an individual size of one of their best products: WheelLOVE. This 100% all natural stroller lubricant is designed to effectively eliminate squeaky wheels and sticky joints, without exposure to harmful toxins.

Set your wheels in motion to make stroller cleaning easier than ever: www.buggylove.com

Better Life Cleans Up the 3 Ps

The power of friendship continues with a Better Life. In 2007, friends Tim Barklage and Kevin Tibbs were watching their toddlers do what toddlers do best: crawl about in their own mess. As concerned new parents, they began discussing the dangers of traditional cleaners and the toxic residues they leave behind. Tim challenged Kevin, a chemist, to create a new line of cleaning products that set the standard in safety and work better than anything currently on the market. The result is a line of products that keep kids, pets and the planet safe.

With multiple kits to choose from, best-sellers include the what-EVER! all-purpose cleaner that can be used in kitchens and baths. It can also be used as a laundry pre-spotter as well as a carpet and upholstery cleaner. Another popular and powerful product is the Simply Floored! ready-to-use floor cleaner, recently named as Real Simple’s 2012 best surface cleaner in their annual cleaning Road Test. The best part? No rinsing or residue! And every new parents’ best friend will be their 2am Miracle, a nursery cleaner which is an all-purpose cleaner that deodorizes as it cleans.

Better Life declares it’s perfect for the 3 Ps of parenting: pee, poop and puke! Find out more at www.cleanhappens.com

A Dapple a Day Keeps Baby’s World Cleaner

It’s fairly easy to find gentle detergents and shampoos for little ones. But most parents worry a little less about skin and eyes and more about the mouth: the center of the infant universe. Concerned about lingering suds and odors, the moms behind Dapple worked with pediatricians and green chemists to create their baby-friendly cleaning products. Dapple offers a full line of cleaners tailor-made for households with young children –– including Dapple Dish Liquid, Dapple Dishwasher Powder, and the just-introduced Dapple Toy Cleaner, now available in spray and wipes.

Fragrance-Free Baby Bottle & Dish Liquid removes the milk film and odor from bottles, sippy cups and breast pumps with an all-natural fragrance-free formula. The Food-Grade & Preservative-Free Pacifier Wipes have also become a bestseller for Dapple because of their portability and lack of preservatives. Also portable is the Dapple Baby Handwash in Sink, a unique travel-size laundry packet made specifically to clean baby’s toughest stains while on the go.

All Dapple products use natural-based ingredients that are environmentally-safe, biodegradable, and free of parabens, SLES, and phthalates, as well as synthetic dyes or fragrances.

Dabble in Dapple safety at www.dapplebaby.com

Fresh Wave Destroys Odors

So many products for babies are designed to mask unwanted odors in the nursery versus actually going to the source to destroy the odor. Fresh Wave^® natural odor eliminators use the power of nature and molecular science to get rid of organic and inorganic odors. Eco-friendly and industrially proven, these non-toxic products are perfect to carry as part of any green baby display.

In the nursery, closet, playroom or bathroom, the 16-oz. Crystal Gel is perfect for all places prone to cringe-worthy odors. Parents on the go will appreciate the smaller 4-oz. Fresh Wave Baby Spray to remove smells from car seats, diaper bags and blankets. Place their Pearl Packs, the ultimate “freshness boosters.” in a diaper pail, under a car seat, in a diaper bag or any confined space. Attract, capture and eliminate odors with the special formula in Fresh Wave Baby Multi Purpose Additive, which can be added to the laundry and humidifiers, or use it to wipe down changing tables and diaper pails.

From the nursery to the car seat and everywhere in between, the four Fresh Wave Baby products are swaddled at a special price to keep little bundles’ favorite places smelling as clean as… well, a baby!

Discover the difference at www.freshwaveworks.com