Most of us are not aware that there are many harmful chemicals in what we use every day. That includes moisturizer, toothpaste, shampoo, soap, cleaner, deodorant, nail polish and cosmetics. Thanks to Dr. Heather Prenger, our members and guests who attended the January event “Raising Your Family Naturally” are more equipped with the knowledge and resources to look for eco-friendly and less toxic alternatives to skincare and cleaning products. In our next post, we will be providing you a few recipes of homemade cleaners that you will find useful.
The second part of the event was truly exciting and eye-opening. BettyAnn Zimmerman and Bethany George gave a presentation on how to take care and make cloth diapers. They brought a sample of feed grade baking soda, free containers that we could use for storage and a variety of cloth diapers that BettyAnn and her friends sewed. Besides understanding how easy it is to cloth diaper babies and wash these diapers, we now know how to reuse things that we would have thrown away! Big thanks to BettyAnn and Bethany for a well-prepared and informative presentation!
Due to the positive feedback from this event, we are considering organizing a free cloth diaper sewing workshop in Newark, Ohio in the coming months. If you are interested, please leave a comment here or on our Facebook page. We will post more details once we have received enough interest for this class!
Our event is always free of charge because we believe in the power of sharing information and empowering each other to live a better and healthier life. They are always fun too, for both adults and children. Hope you can join us next time!
Photos by Angie Palmer
Written by Angie Palmer
A special ‘thank you’ to This-End-Up coop http://groups.yahoo.com/group/This-End-Up/ for providing so many textile samples and descriptions of their use.
Also, many friends; some from: http://diaperdivas.proboards.com/index.cgi donated samples of different types of diapers for this presentation. Thanks, ya’ll! You have encouraged a whole new crop of folks to consider cloth diapering!
Thanks Angie for organizing this. It was fun and very informative. You took some GREAT photos and summed it up pretty well. Could you ask Dr. Heather if you could get the handouts to post online too, so others could read the information at their leisure? Just a thought. I was great information.
Here’s one of them: http://greenspecialists.org/2010/01/20/non-toxic-home-made-all-purpose-glass-cleaner-recipes/
More recipes will be on the way!
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