Category: green bedding

Detox Your Home & DIY Guide eBook

Well, I’m really excited about this. My very first little eBook about a topic I love – going toxin-free in the home! I decided to put this together because people are always asking me about how you go about detoxing your home – and I have many posts about different areas of the home. So I decided to consolidate all...

Get Toxic Fire Retardants Out of Everyday Products

I’ve talked about the dangers of fire retardants in products like mattresses and other foam furniture, as well as in kids’ pajamas and other baby and kid products. These toxic chemicals pose a real health risk, especially to our children. They were some of the key toxins found in the study by Environmental Defence demonstrating that newborn babies are being born...

8 Tips for Eliminating Toxins: Queen of Green Coaching Project

“TOXIC” is a buzzword these days – and for good reason. Toxic ingredients have permeated pretty much every area of our lives, from food to toothpaste. It can be overwhelming to think about eliminating toxins in everything, but by setting small goals and doing a little at a time, it can be done! My families did a great job of identifying...

Non Toxic Pillows: REVIEW of 4 pillows

When I found out how much toxic stuff could be in bedding, I embarked on a quest to find non toxic alternatives. Finding a good pillow substitute for my down-filled pillow was the hardest. I was on a year-long mission to try out some non toxic pillows and blog about my experience. And (thankfully) I found the non toxic pillow...

My Little Girl’s “Big-Girl” Non-Toxic Bed

I’m thrilled to post about the finished big-girl non-toxic bed! My daughter is loving being a big girl. (Plus she doesn’t sleep half on/half off the bed anymore.) The bedframe itself is the Abbey Trundle Bed from Costco.ca (this model is no longer available, but they have alternatives), made by CafeKid. I was debating whether to go with solid wood...

DIY Wool Duvet with Organic Wool & Organic Cotton

So in my post about how to avoid toxins in bedding, I said I was going to make my daughter her very own wool duvet, with organic cotton fabric and organic wool batting. I learned the steps from the River Oaks Farm & Studio blog, and I’m ready to report some progress! We are moving our daughter to a twin-size...

Toxins in Bedding and Bed Frames: what to consider

How can we make a healthier sleeping environment? I posted in the past about mattresses and the common toxic materials they contain. I mentioned that IKEA carries some natural alternatives, and we purchased one for my toddler daughter in preparation for her big-girl bed. We chose the SULTAN HEGGEDAL natural material spring mattress. They were a little bit pricier than...

Toxins in Mattresses and Boxsprings: What to Consider

With my daughter growing up much more quickly than I imagined, I have started some investigation into what will be her “big girl bed”. What I have discovered is extremely disturbing! There are tons of toxins in mattresses and box springs that off-gas into the air – and we breathe it all in while we’re sleeping. Adria Vasil’s book Ecoholic...