Natural Mom Products

Instant Calm - Over 100 Easy-to-Use Techniques for Relaxing Mind and Body
Rating: 9

Description:  A guide to finding shortcuts to help you relax and keep your mind and body free of stress and anxiety.  This book will show you ways to do this by using several different methods that have been proven to work.

Review: Feel like your sitting on a time bomb?  I did and I knew I had to do something to ease it all.  Finding this book has started me down that road and more.

In this book are over one hundred anxiety and stress relievers that can work for anyone.  By using things such as music, hugs and even different words, you can begin to relieve your stress in a matter of minutes.

Managing a hectic lifestyle can be easy to deal with.  This book gives you straight forward ideas on how to make this work.  By using self hypnosis, aromatherapy, diet and exercise, just to name a few, you can have a less stressful life.

This book is just so simple.  Within just a few minutes time I was trying to put some of this advice to work for me.  It’s pretty straight forward and really nothing explained in this book is hard to do.  You just have to want to get rid of the stress and anxiety and be willing to use these ideas to do it.

My favorite part of the book is the section on words.  Word play can make a big difference.  For instance instead of thinking sad, think happy.  If you are thinking you are angry try thinking about being calm.  Just changing a word around can make a big difference in how you perceive and cope with the world.  This book helps to point that out.

If you are looking for quick, effective ways to help reduce the stress in your busy life try reading this book.  Put to use the information you find inside and you will begin to feel better about the world you live in.

Filed under: Healthy Stuff, Stuff To Read on May 9th, 2008 | Comments Off

Aromatherapy: Soothing Remedies to Restore, Rejuvenate and Heal
Rating: 7

Description: This book is a good introduction to aromatherapy. From how it can work to soothe your body to helping a body heal, this book gives the information needed to discover if aromatherapy is right for you.

Review: I just recently decided to try aromatherapy. This book gave me quite an education into aromatherapy and what it can do. Very informative and easy to understand, I was able to follow this book to start an aromatherapy regimen that felt right for me.

This book is a bit serious when it comes to the details. It gives personal experiences and reasons as to why the author is so passionate about it. Because of this I felt more comfortable trying it.

I enjoyed the guide on the oils. Not only does it tell you about different oils but gives you information on what oils helps with what problems. It even includes some ideas on making your own types of oils. It also explains about herbs and how they can be incorporated into your aromatherapy routine. There are also safety instructions included, which are extremely important, especially for those just starting out with aromatherapy.

Being short and to the point this book goes straight to the heart of aromatherapy. It’s easy to read, find information in and keeps it simple. All I can say is if you are thinking about getting into aromatherapy you need to buy this book.

Filed under: Healthy Stuff, Stuff To Read on May 8th, 2008 | No Comments »

Reviewed by: Kai Rikken
Huddleston, VA

Name of Product: Nature’s Gate Herbal Daily Shampoo and Conditioner

Description of Product: An herbal shampoo and conditioner suitable for daily use.
What do you like about the product?: It gets my hair clean.

What do you dislike about it (if applicable)?: I was really disappointed with my recent purchase of Nature’s Gate Daily Cleansing Shampoo and Conditioner. I have to admit- it does get my hair clean and manageable.

But I must have been in a hurry when I bought it, because I did not smell it before buying it, and it turns out that I cannot stand the smell of this product. It figures; the one time I do not test smell my shampoo, it smells awful.

Actually, the scent of the shampoo is somewhat tolerable for me, but the conditioner has a really strong scent that sticks in my hair for days. Another big problem I have with this shampoo and conditioner is with some of the ingredients. I recently learned that many commonly used preservatives and ingredients in cosmetic products can be downright harmful to humans! Some of these, such as imidazolidinyl urea, release formaldehyde in temperatures over 50 degrees Fahrenheit (how warm is it in YOUR bathroom?!) and parabens are known to mimic the body’s own estrogen and can cause damage to the male reproductive system at levels below the accepted daily intake! Not only that, parabens can make your skin look older by diminishing skin tone and accelerating the formation of wrinkles and age spots.

Nature’s Gate products contain both of these offending preservatives! I once thought that Nature’s Gate was a good natural product at a reasonable price, but I do not think I will be buying it again.

Can product be purchased online? Nature’s Gate products are available at Amazon.com

Filed under: Uncategorized, Beauty Stuff, Household Stuff on April 29th, 2008 | Comments Off

Melissa of Loveland, CO had this to say about Nutiva Coconut Oil:

“This has become my favorite new kitchen staple! I’ve replaced the butter called for in baked goods with this and any time a recipe requires heating oil on the stovetop I reach for this. I love that the medium-chain fatty acids are actually healthy saturated fats. I love knowing that the oil won’t go rancid when I heat it. Another bonus, it’s an amazingly nourishing body oil!!”

You can purchase Nutiva coconut oil and other Nutiva products at Amazon.com. For more information about coconut oil, click here: Eating More Coconut Oil

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Beauty Stuff, Cooking Stuff, Household Stuff, Stuff to Eat on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

Product Name: Bee Strong Supplement
Rating: 8

This dietary supplement is known for giving people energy, strength and endurance.  It has been used to treat illness and to help destroy toxins in the body. 

“I know what you’re thinking - “Another supplement that is supposed to help me feel better.”  Well this isn’t just another dietary supplement.  As far as I’m concerned it’s one of the best there is. 

I started taking Bee Strong because I needed to find some long lost energy.  I started out feeling groggy about 11 in the morning.  If I didn’t get a nap by 2 I was just down right tired.  I couldn’t function.  I couldn’t continue like this.  My job was suffering along with my piece of mind.  I started taking all kinds of different supplements that said they gave me energy.  I might get a little but not enough to make it through the whole day. 

That’s when I found Bee Strong.  Now I feel great.  I don’t have that sluggish feeling during the day anymore.  Not only can I make it through the day but also I can do all the things necessary to keep my family’s life going.  I work, take care of the home and do all the little extras like running errands without having to stop and take that power nap.

Many people have used this supplement for all types of things.  I’ve never used it to for an illness but other people say they have.  It’s supposed to help rid your body of toxins too.  I’m sure there were toxins in my body that were making me feel so tired.  If so then this supplement has helped me in that area also.  It’s also been said that Bee Strong helps with strength and endurance.  It’s a good possibility in my case.  With my family, endurance is a must and I seem to be able to handle anything and everything they throw my way since I’ve been taking this supplement.”

Criticism: This supplement can cause some people to have an allergic reaction.  I started out taking just one a day and then worked my way up to 2 the second week and 3 the third week.  As with any supplement, slowly adjusting your body to it will help ensure you’re not overdoing it.

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Stuff to Eat on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

Better Behavior Wheel 
Rating: 10
 
Description: A device that will help you have children who are better behaved in a week.

Review: This little device takes all the shouting, arguing and frustration out of disciplining your children.  Invented by parents who have been there (and what parent hasn’t been to the point all they know to do is yell) this technique has worked wonders for their family and many other alike. 

Discipline is a necessity in any home with children. How we do this can be the actual root of the problem.  It seems like every time I turn around I have to holler at my children for some reason.  The next thing I know we are in an argument that never seems to be solved.  The yelling and stomping off is more than I could take. 

This little wheel made a difference for us right from the beginning.  I placed it on the family room wall for all to see.  At first everyone bulked at it but once they realized it was also filed with some humor they began to check it out. 

There are no charts, books or manuals with this wheel.  It’s just the wheel, a spinner, 48 consequences and 16 rewards.  You and your children decide what to place on the wheel together.  When they break a rule they spin the wheel to see exactly what their consequence will be.  If they are well behaved then they can spin the wheel to see what reward they have earned. 

It’s pretty easy and a very simple idea.  It shows your children that they are in charge of their destiny if they don’t behave.  It also teaches them that good things come to those who behave well and follow the rules. 

I really like this idea and the simplicity of it all.  There is no more screaming, stomping around or feeling like I’m the bad guy day in and day out.  The kids even enjoy it for the most part.  If nothing else the stress level in our house has decreased so much that we all seem much happier.  I’m proud to say I have some pretty well behaved children under my roof now.  Thanks to the Better Behavior Wheel for giving my children and I the opportunity to experience that. 

Filed under: Uncategorized, Big Kid Stuff, Parenting Stuff on April 7th, 2008 | No Comments »

Product Name: Real Food: What to Eat & Why
Rating: 8
This book is about eating healthy, going back to the times when farm foods such as meats, fresh fruits and vegetables was the way of life.  It also explains about fats and other types of reality and myths about the food we eat.

Review: This book is a good book if you are looking for honest facts about eating healthy.  The author doesn’t pull any punches in this book.  It’s straight to the point and tells us things we may not want to, but need to hear. 

If found this book not only reliable in the information I received from it but also quite comical in many areas.  There is quite a bit of information included about fats.  Fats can play a good or a bad role in a healthy diet.  This book explains that and gives you insight on the difference between natural fats and other types of fats.

The author also encourages eating seafood.  Most people who want to talk to you about eating healthy are concerned about putting seafood in their diets because of the threat of mercury.  This author believes that has been taken way out of text and encourages seafood in a diet.  I really like seafood and found that to be quite an interesting part of this book.

If you want to eat healthy and want to know the facts about doing so, read this book. It doesn’t pull any punches but does give you some pretty good facts.  Eating healthy is important but more important is knowing that you’re doing it correctly.  This book will help you to ensure that’s exactly what you are doing.

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Stuff To Read, Cooking Stuff, Educational Stuff on April 6th, 2008 | No Comments »

Preventing and Reversing Arthritis Naturally: The Untold Story
Rating: 7

Description: Inside this book you will find ways to help prevent arthritis.  It also gives you ways to relieve the pain and limits of your arthritis. It also gives some more indepth insight into living a healthier lifestyle beyond just arthritis.

Review: I don’t have arthritis yet but I know someone who does.  He has suffered for a couple of years now with pain, no strength in his wrist and feeling like there’s no hope it will ever feel better.  I decided I needed to see if there was anything I could do to help him.  I found this book and started to gather my information.

Arthritis can be a very painful disease.  Not only is it painful but also it can make you feel old and helpless to some extent.  Not being able to use your hand, wrists and many other part of the body can be not only embarrassing but also can give you the I just give up state of mind.  After reading this book I found out it doesn’t have to be this way.

This book tells you how things such as sunlight, exercise, body therapies and even stress management can help with arthritis. It is very informative and doesn’t pull any punches.  It describes different nutrients that can help the body not only with pain but also in preventing and even reversing the affects of arthritis. 

It goes even further by explaining that natural hormone therapy can be helpful in maintaining good health.  This is something I had heard about but never really understood.  With the facts contained in this book I now understand it and I am willing to try it for my loved ones and myself.

The best part of this book for me anyway was learning that we all have the courage to be responsible and disciplined when it comes to taking of our health.  The ideas and concepts set out in this book showed me I could do this if I really wanted to, All I had to do was have some patience to develop it in my own mind and body.

This book has been a great help to me in understanding about arthritis and how I can help the person that is suffering from it.  Even more than that it has helped me to realize that taking care of my health is one way to keep from having to face these types of things myself.

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Stuff To Read, Fitness Stuff on April 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

Product Name: Slim Mom Secrets
Rating: 9
Where to buy:  slimmomsecrets.com
Description:  This program will not only help you lose the weight you have gained while pregnant but it will also help you with many of the fears all women have when they become pregnant. 

Review: When a woman becomes pregnant there are a vast amount of emotions they go through.  There is joy and then there is fear.  This program can help walk you through and give you information about those fears. With the help given by this program you will learn how to conquer those fears and have a happy healthy pregnancy, birth and life thereafter.

One of the biggest fears I had was whether I would have a healthy baby.  There are no guarantees, but with this program I learned the correct foods to eat, when to eat and what types of exercise I could do to help not only myself but also my baby.  I also found what nutrients my body needed and how to supply my body with those nutrients.  All of this and more were set out plain and simple for me to read and understand.

I also learned how to help that dreaded morning sickness I seemed to have all day long.  It helped me with ways to deal with heartburn, leg cramps, sleeplessness, night sweats and even my back pain. 

This program gave me insight into questions I had about my labor and delivery.  There are so many questions that a mother can think of and a lot of times we won’t even talk about them because we feel they are just our emotions and we are just getting carried away.  Most of the questions like these I had were answered for me in this program.

Then came the problems I had with my own looks.  Not just the weight I might gain but the acne, the large veins in my legs, my sagging breasts and all those stretch marks.  This program showed me ways to prevent these types of problems.  I lost my pregnancy weight and my looks returned to the way they were before I became pregnant once I delivered.

If you are pregnant or even if you’re thinking you might like to have a child check this program out.  The benefits you learn will help subside your fears and make your pregnancy, birth, and after a happy memory that will last a lifetime.

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Beauty Stuff, Stuff To Read, Mama Stuff, Educational Stuff, Fitness Stuff on April 5th, 2008 | No Comments »

This book has been one of my favorites for years. It’s had a prominent place on my shelf and is my first reference point whenever I need answers about a health condition and how to address it with nutrition and other natural choices.

Prescription for Nutritional Healing
Rating: 7
Description: This book is a guide to not only every day health problems but also some very serious illnesses and what types of natural supplements may help these types of ailments.  It also gives you in depths look at the different types of supplements and which ones the authors feel will help or hinder your health.

“Ok I know supplements, supplements and more supplements.  This one works for this but so do there other four so which one should I use.  It can be very frustrating to try to figure out what supplement to use.  This book can help to guide you through some of those types of decisions. 

I found this book to be very helpful.  I wasn’t sure I even wanted to start using supplements so I needed to find something that would give the jist of what they were all about.  This book enlightened me in that area.  It doesn’t go into great detail but it gives you facts that you can rely on in making a decision.

Once I decided to start using supplements I found myself wondering which supplement should I use.  There are so many and so many of them help the same thing.  I went back to my book and started reading about what supplements helped these authors for certain things.  I could have tried each supplement on my own but the thought of buying 4 or 5 before I found the right one wasn’t very appealing to my pocketbook.  So I took their advice and on many accounts their advice also worked for me.

I also found some interesting information on other subjects too.  Such as heart problems and some of the procedures used to treat these types of problems along with information about cancer.  These little extras helped me to understand these types of problems, which in turn gave me what I needed to know after I saw my Dr. 

This book is not an easy read, but I feel that when it comes to an information book it probably shouldn’t be.  It should be filled with all the facts, good and bad, so you aren’t left hanging anymore.  This book is however, useful and gives you straightforward answers to question concerning your health and your well being.”

Filed under: Uncategorized, Healthy Stuff, Stuff To Read, Household Stuff, Educational Stuff, Fitness Stuff on April 4th, 2008 | No Comments »