Baby Safe Caps…Amazing!

Have  you ever heard of such a great idea,  you almost kicked yourself for not thinking of it first?

Babysafe cap is one of those inventions! It is a flip-cap that fits onto the top of baby bottles and keeps them cleaner and safe.

Not to mention it’s really cool looking.

The web site lists all of the benefits of choosing this cap: Less leaks, more sanitary and BPA-free, so ingenious- yet complete common sense. No more finding baby bottle caps filled with dust bunnies under the couch and wondering…”Hm, should I wash this or throw it out?”  (depending on what the floor looks like under your couch, you may want to think about throwing it out).

This is definitely a product we love!

TruKid Body Care Makes Holiday Shopping Easy for Families

TruKid Introduces My Very Own Bath Care Set for Healthy, Affordable Holiday Shopping

Oakland, CA October, 2008—TruKid is excited to introduce the launch of the web exclusive, ‘My Very Own Bath Care Set by TruKid’ this holiday season.

‘My Very Own Bath Care Set by TruKid’ features TruKid’s 8oz. Silly Shampoo, Cool Conditioner and Bubbly Body Wash, packaged together for fast shopping and easy wrapping. Kids love using products that are made just for them. Parents appreciate a healthy product for their children and the environment. TruKid is non-toxic, biodegradable and recyclable!

TruKid founder, Jennifer Adams Bunkers, a mother of six says, “What better way to teach your children healthy habits than to give them their very own products to use? I gave each of my young children a set of bath care products so they could begin to learn the responsibility of taking care of themselves.”

‘My Very Own Bath Care Set by TruKid’ is available through the end of the 2008.

The set retails for the competitive price of $22.99.

TruKid offers a complete line of products with trusted and safe, gluten-free ingredients for babies to big kids.

My Very Own Bath Care Set is available exclusively at www.trukid.com. The entire TruKid product line is available at specialty retail stores across the country.

TruKid Marketing is Recognized by the SF Chronicle

This article about TruKid in the SF Chronicle is fantastic! It shows how passionate TruKid is about our consumer base and how much we strive for the best. We were super surprised to have this sent to us the other day by a TruKid customer and friend.

We love what we do! We are so excited to have a product that gives kids the tools they need to start building healthy habits! We feel having a fun product that is truly good for your kids makes forming these habits easier for both kids and parents. What a relief!

Side note* We had NO idea this was being written, which is why our name is not in the article.

Did someone say LOWER PRICES??

The Holidays are Fast Approaching!!

We can’t believe it either!

We want to keep spirits bright this season with our NEW LOW PRICES!

We have heard all of your requests and thanks to all of your outstanding support we have been able to LOWER our prices!

Don’t Forget Our Early Bird Special!

We are currently having a SALE on our 4oz Friendly Face Wash and 4oz Happy Face and Body Lotion for the SUPER low price of 3.99!!*

I don’t know what you are still doing here, go to TruKid.com and check everything out!

* while supplies last

Want the chance to win free stuff??

If you would like the chance to win a TruKid’s Healthy Habits Pack I strongly suggest you read Mindful Momma’s blog this week!!

Actually, I really think you should read her blog anyway. She’s all about green living, and we LOVE that!

Healthy Child Healthy World and TruKid

TruKid recently went to a tradeshow in Las Vegas. While we were
there we had the distinct pleasure of meeting Christopher Gavigan, the
author of Healthy Child Healthy World, Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home.
TruKid is a parnter of Healthy Child Healthy World. We just love what
they are doing for parents because it is environmentally in line with
the TruKid philosophy.

Meeting Mr. Gavigan was pretty cool in itself (because I found the
book to not only be inspiring but incredibly useful as well). However,
the highlight of my entire show, was when he picked up a bottle of our
Sunny Days Sunscreen and said “This is the only sunscreen I will use on
my son, and you can quote me on that!”

Well thank you Mr. Gavigan, you made my week and my post!

Sunscreen Sizes

First, I’m starting this blog off with a big thank you! Thank you to you for your awesome questions, comments and feedback in general! We love the open communication and the opportunity you have given us to serve you better. We want to answer as many questions as possible! Chances are if you have the question there are hundreds of other people out there with the same one and we want to address your concerns to the best of our ability! With that being said, we are going to respond to Stacy’s comment from our Z-Recommends Blog post because we know there are a LOT of people wondering the same thing.

Stacy’s Comment was:

Why do you and many other companies not make a bottle much bigger than this for sunscreen?
I have 3 kids and we would use this small bottle of sunscreen up in a week or two.
I also think it would be better for the environment if it came in a really big reusable pump bottle like you see for shampoo/lotion. This way I would not feel so bad throwing away so many plastic bottles all summer long

Our Response:
Hi Stacy,

Thanks so much for your comment on the sizing of our sunscreen.  At this time, we’re working on ways to get sunscreen to you in a larger size and better packaging, while keeping the price accessible to all.  Recently raw materials and shipping costs have increased significantly. To many of you this is not news.

The TruKid team is made up of people with families (Our CEO has 6 kids!) and we too have felt the tightening of our budgets.

Feel free to click here to check out an article about the increasing titanium prices.

Here at TruKid, we truly want natural products to be available and accessible for all.  The current size allows the price to be $14.00 (which is actually a better value per oz than many other leading sunscreens-check out Z-Recommends price analysis.)  We’re looking into our options for offering a 6oz or 8oz bottle, and we’re also considering making a large “refill”.  We would love to know what people would like to see: 6oz, 8oz or refill?  What sounds good?

We hope this helps and wish you all safe and happy, sunburn-FREE, rest of your summer!

P.S. Please, please, please, recycle our bottles!!! They are all recyclable right down to the disc caps! Pump bottle caps are not recyclable because of the metal spring in them.  We are trying to minimize as much waste as possible! Sustaining the environment is a huge factor to us in all of our decisions we make concerning the future of our company.

Thanks for your patience!

Hey Folks!

We know a LOT of you have questions about sunscreen! We will be answering those questions very shortly in our upcoming blog. We’ve gotten a little behind in posts as you can tell. We’ve been busy bees here!

Thanks for your patience!

 

The TruKid Team

EWG Names TruKid on Top Ten Safest Sunscreens List

Does your sunscreen work? An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don’t adequately protect skin from the sun’s damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena.

More than a million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed in the U.S. every year, but FDA still hasn’t finalized sunscreen standards first announced 30 years ago. Click here to tell FDA you’re tired of waiting. Meanwhile, companies are free to claim but not provide broad spectrum protection. Until FDA requires that all sunscreens be safe and effective, Environmental Working Group’s comprehensive sunscreen guide—including a list of 143 products that offer very good sun protection—fills in the gaps.

Sunscreen lovers may not have to be disappointed, however. EWG says there are 143 products consumers can use that offer a very good sun protection with ingredients and pose only minimal health risks if any.

The top 10 recommended are listed below:
1. Keys Soap Solar Rx Therapeutic Sunblock, SPF 30
2. TruKid Sunny Days Facestick Mineral Sunscreen UVA/UVB Broad Spectrum, WATERPROOF SPF 30+
3. California Baby Sunblock Stick No Fragrance, SPF 30+
4. Badger Sunscreen, SPF 30
5. Marie Veronique Skin Therapy Sun Serum
6. Lavera Sunscreen Neutral, SPF 40
7. Vanicream Sunscreen, SPF 35
8. UV Natural Sunscreen, SPF 30+
9. Sun Science Sport Formula, SPF 30
10. Soleo Organics Sunscreen all natural Sunscreen, SPF 30+

Source: Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database
Source: http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/special/sunscreens2008/index.php

Recycling just got easier!

Summer is great for 3 reasons:

1. Warm Weather!
2. The Beach
(with appropriate sunscreen of course)!
3. Cook outs!
AKA: family and friends and grilled food!

Number three is really my personal favorite. I love cookouts!  However, they do have a way of being, shall we say, “less than green”.

Barbecues often lend themselves to being extremely wasteful! Plastic plates, cups and utensils are just some of the culprits we run into. Let’s admit it, these little plastic commodities are SO convenient; but my conscience is never clear when I’m leaving the park with 5 garbage bags full of plastic, paper and other “I could have recycled you but I didn’t”, items.

I recently found this site www.earth911.org. Just enter your zip code at the top of the page and it tells you places NEAR YOU to recycle all kinds of things! From paper and plastic to electronics, like your old cell phone. HOW FANTASTIC!  I found a place right down my street that takes old Styrofoam and bubble wrap. I’m so excited, because I don’t usually use either of those and yet they’ve been sitting in the back of my closet waiting to be used.

Okay, I know it’s not as convenient, nor seemingly time savvy, to load all of your recyclables into the car and bring them somewhere. I get it! But we have to look at the big picture. If we all reserved at least one day a week to pack up our recyclables that can’t go into our bins and bring them somewhere where they can be re-used in some way, I have to believe that it would make a HUGE impact on the environment and our kids’ future!

I would like to be able to tell my kids, I’m making a difference now, for you.

Earth911 has a blog. I’m assuming these are the same people as earth911.org, but please correct me if I’m wrong.

If your a resident of California, you may be interested in this blog. It’s called Californians Against Waste and it talks about current legislation issues in California.