One of my goals for this new year was to not purchase any products that are harmful to the family and environment. It's amazing how many so called "natural" products still have parabens in them and other toxic things. Anyway these are two websites that I found very helpful in disecting the confusing product labels www.cosmeticdatabase.com. You can go a bit crazy checking every ingredient, but it pays to know what you are slathering on your and your babies bodies every day.
Also very helpful is http://www.safecosmetics.org/companies/signers.cfm
This website lists "companies that have pledged to not use chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects in their products and to implement substitution plans that replace hazardous materials with safer alternatives in every market they serve. Several major cosmetics companies, including OPI, Avon, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Revlon, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have thus far refused to sign the Compact for Safe Cosmetics."
Personally I have stuck with Burt's Bee's products for the kids, just because they are mostly Natural, easily accessable these days, and I love their company standards. As far as Burt's Bee's products for myself, their skin care is nice, but very fragrant if you are at all sensitive to that. Still more self-experimentation to be done in that department especially since I am a self-proclaimed product addict, and it's taking some effort in research to go green in this area, you just can't trust a label these days!
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