Cloth Diaper Malaysia – Natural & Eco-Friendly Living, Why Not!?

When I was busy preparing for the arrival of my first baby I made a list of baby things to buy. A huge chunk of this list includes: Baby Toiletries (syampoo, baby bath, lotion, nappy cream, talcum powder, baby wipes and several others). Being a first time parent, the first baby products brand that comes into my head was Johnson’s Baby. I guess I’ve been brainwashed into relating baby products to this company (due to the advertising on tv, magazines, internet; endorsements in contests, baby expos; “informational articles” in the newspapers; etc). Their promotional methods really do work alright, because I bet many new mothers like me would most likely choose this brand for their babies.

Also, there are many other brands you commonly find in supermarkets or department stores like Pigeon, Pureen, Anakku, etc etc. Most often they are competitively priced, offered discounts, comes in packages, and reasonably priced so that many parents could afford to buy them.

So I bought products from these brands, and received gifts from friends and families too. I’ve even bought baby care products based on price, because I feel that all the brands are similiar anyway – why not buy the ones on Sale or with the cheapest price?

The cosmetics industry is a BIG business, especially baby products. A lot of money is invested for the research & development, promotions and logistics of these products. It is any company’s goal to get as many customers as possible, which will also means gain much profits as possible. I’m wondering, how can these companies produce such a vast amount of products and sell them at such a “cheap” enough price. My question is: WHAT ARE IN THESE PRODUCTS? What exactly are the things that we put on our body and skin each day, and expecially on our pure baby’s and children’s skin?

If you’ve guessed correctly, yes, it’s CHEMICALS. They are cheap, easily manufactured and won’t run out unlike other natural materials. Use of chemicals in baby care products is inevitable. Just look on the ingredients list on the baby products that you have at home and count how many “unknown ingredients” there is in just one product.

For more understanding regarding this matter, I strongly urge that you watch this video below. It is titled “Story of Cosmetics: The Ugly Truth of Toxics In, Toxics Out”, produced by the people from “The Story of Stuff Project”. The video is fun to watch, and packed full of things you might not know about the cosmetics industry. Such info is valuable and would provide information that will make us a more informed and aware consumer. Insyaallah, it will make us think before we buy products for family and ourselves in the future.

I hope you can share this to all your other friends and family too. Post about it in your blog, forward this blog post to your friends, share it on Facebook or Twitter, anything!

I hope to write more about this matter in the future too. And I really hope it can make more mothers more informed and knowledgable on the subject.

QUESTION: What do you think about this issue ladies? And is there anything you are doing about it? Please share in the comments, I would really like to know

Read more: http://www.storyofstuff.com/