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Products for Healthy Living

Like you, we are always looking for ways to make our daily lives less toxic and more healthy. We wanted to share with you some of the products we use everyday in our own homes. On this page are links to where you can purchase these products through our associate account at Amazon.com. Please note that if you buy anything on this page, you are purchasing from Amazon, not BrainChild.

Clean Water and Air

Klean Kanteen small

All types of plastic, even polycarbonate, have safety issues. For our sensitive families, stainless steel and glass are the only truly safe drinking surfaces. These great stainless drinking bottles are a terrific way to have really safe drinks, to go!

Klean Kanteen lg

An adult size safe stainless steel water bottle, from Kleen Kanteen.

Glass pitchers

A great way to keep safe drinking water and other beverages handy. To minimize toxic substances in your food and drinks, store everything in glass rather than plastic whenever possible.

Countertop filter

This is the water filter on our sink at home. It's easy to install and use on your sink faucet. The filter sits on the counter next to the sink. You just pull a little pin on the nozzle to make the water go through the filter instead of the faucet. I studied the documentation and felt safe drinking this water. You can read all the details at www.newwaveenviro.com

Bathtub ball

This bath ball can help remove the chlorine from your bath water. If you can't afford a whole-house reverse osmosis system, drinking water and bath/shower water are the areas to concentrate on.

Shower filter

This filter fits on your shower, removes chlorine, and doesn't even affect your water pressure!

Home Testing

Lead Inspector Test Kit

We're all concerned about lead and toxins in our homes these days. According to Consumer Reports, this brand and Lead Chek are the two most effective ones for finding lead on surfaces around the house.

Cleaning and Body Care

Bon Ami

Some of the best nontoxic stuff is right in your grocery store. Bon Ami is much less nasty to the environment than other cleansers, and is gentle on your porcelain, too. Can be used to get water stains off of dishes, and clean burns off of your cooking pots. Turns out mom was right on this one!

Xyliwhite

We love this toothpaste at our house! It's free of junk, has a great minty taste, and has xylitol, which helps against gum disease. It doesn't even contain sodium lauryl sulfate. I started having good dental checkups for the first time ever when I started using it. It also comes in cinnamon flavor.

Ecover dishwasher tabs

Isn't it amazing that some dishwasher soaps still have mercury and other toxins in them? And they don't even have to put it on the label. This natural, safe dishwasher soap is super easy to use, gentle on the environment, and works really well. You just unwrap one of these tablets (2 for heavy grime) and drop it in the silverware tray before washing

Seventh Gen Laundry

This is my favorite laundry soap. I also love Seventh Generation's hand dishwashing liquid, glass and surface cleaner and toilet cleaner. Free and Natural means no fragrance added which is good for sensitive people. The item at left is a pack of six big bottles, by the way. These can be found in most health food stores.

Dr. Bronner's

Did you know that antibacterial soaps contain triclosan, a neurotoxin? This extremely safe and natural liquid soap is the only one we use at our house. We use peppermint for hands and lavender in the showers. It has wacky stuff written on the bottle, which you can ignore when you see how great it works.

Supplementation Helps

4 oz Measuring glass

If the great one-ounce glass multi measure we sell at BrainChild isn't big enough for your supplement dosing needs, this four-ounce glass one, marked with teaspoons, ml and ounces can come in very handy. I use them both all the time, in my kitchen.

Capsule Maker

We love liquids, but some things only come in powder or pill form. With this easy little capsule maker, you can make your own capsules with any dosage you want, or combine supplements, reducing the number of capsules to give. Make sure to buy vegetarian, not gelatin capsules - much healthier for you!

Mortar and Pestle

A simple, old fashioned, and extremely useful part of my little home apothecary. Comes in handy when I need to crush small numbers of pills. For bigger pill crushing jobs, I use an old cleaned-out coffee grinder.

Oral Syringe

Set of 3 2-tsp oral syringes. When my son was four, I stopped trying to hide things in his food, and started giving supplements like medicine, instead. I'd tell him they would help him feel better, and use an oral syringe. This worked for us for over four years, until he looked me in the eye and told me clearly that he wanted to drink them from a cup. Victory!

Aerolatte

If you mix supplements together every day like we do, you know that good tools make all the difference. Here's one of our favorite little helpers -- it's a compact, easy-to-wash, battery- powered little stick mixer, designed to mix coffee, and works great for mixing supplements in a cup!