Do you know what labels to look for when you purchase a toy for Christmas? This article will help you! Toy safety symbols are located on the packaging of our babies and children’s toys, and sometimes on the toy as well. Have you ever wondered what they mean? We have! So we have done some [...]
Formaldehyde is a popular “cheap” chemical used in clothing, bedding, shoes, furniture, fertilizer, paper, toys, cosmetics, household cleaners and food. In our recent post, The EPAs Lists The Chemicals That Are In Our Environment And Most Dangerous To Our Children, formaldehyde was listed as being one of the strongest toxins with evidence of being a [...]
Arts and crafts is a gift to give to our children. Sparking and encouraging that creativity in them is priceless. Today we bring you a guide on some of the projects we have been loving creating with our children. These arts and crafts are eco-friendly, green, a safe alternative to others readily available in big [...]
First of all, CONGRATULATIONS, you are about to have a baby! Now is the perfect time to browse through our topic categories on the left side bar (0-1 year) to learn as much as possible about helping to create a safe and non-toxic environment for your infant. It is impossible to avoid all toxins that [...]
Put your noisy colorful toys away and bring out this creative unpretentious toy. This natural wooden block set is a childhood classic and it keeps many kids engaged in creative play for hours. If your looking for a sweet safe alternative toy (to those flashy noisy games that overstimulate our nervous systems) maybe it’s time [...]
My son is little over 4 months old and he’s sucking and chewing anything he can get his hands on. I bought him a bunch of wooden rings, cloth toys and safe plastic teethers, but all he wants is his Sophie the Giraffe. He usually drops toys a few seconds after he chews on them [...]
The federal law that should protect us from health-harming chemicals just doesn’t work. Since 1976, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has required safety testing on only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemicals on the market. We need a stronger chemical law to keep our families safe and healthy. We have been cautioning our readers [...]
We are so happy to bring this Gift Guide for kids to you this year. We have hand selected only the finest products made from conscious companies with the highest standards in toy safety. All of these products are eco-friendly, non-toxic, green, or a safe alternative to other similar products readily available at big box [...]
We greatly admire all of the companies that you see highlighted on our Approved Vendor page through out the year. Below are some great gift ideas from these respectable web-retailers that provide healthy and safe products free of dangerous toxins such as PVC, BPA, fire retardant chemicals and more. Not only are these gifts special, [...]
This PVC, phthalate, latex, BPA and lead free teething toy from Smart Mom is truly a smart invention. Practical, a safe alternative to plastic chew toys (and a safe alternative to chewing on metal and beaded jewelry) and stylish! Yep, stylish! This chew toy doubles as a fun necklace for mom, and a teething toy [...]
We worry about exposing our kids to numerous chemicals in our homes but what about daycare and preschool? Most daycares and preschools have PVC sleeping mats, use toxic chemical cleaning products, pesticides and most toys are made of PVC plastics. For special events, does your preschool encourage good eating habits with nutritional treats or snacks? [...]
Our very popular and informative post titled “How Dangerous Is PVC in Toys? We’ve Got The Answers From THE Expert” clearly lays out the dangers of PVC in our children’s toys. One of the types of toys out there that is not easy to find as PVC-free has been sand toys. And since Spring has [...]
My daughter’s loves arts and crafts, so I thought Happy Mais would be something she would enjoy. Little did I know she would be obsessed with it! When we got our first box, she played all morning long (and could have gone longer if I hadn’t put the box away.) I’ve never seen her have [...]
If you have been a loyal reader of SAFbaby.com since the beginning of December, you have been part of our obsession with toy safety and the new toy safety regulations (which go into effect today.) Our post titled Are We The Dumping Ground for Toxic Toys? questioned the revision to the laws that were put [...]
When we read Mark Schapiro’s comment in Mothering Magazine in the December issue regarding China manufacturing plants having 2 different assembly lines for the same toy, (one with the toxic substance phthalates permitted and made for sale in the USA, and the other assembly line safer, made for sale in Europe) we knew we had [...]
Surprisingly enough, just because a manufacturer states that all toys are PVC-free, does NOT necessarily mean that the packaging they sit in and are brought into your home with are! Take Tiny Love™ for example. A respectable company with really cute products, but infant toys such as their play gyms are packaged in PVC! Nothing [...]
The new American Standard Toy Safety Standard (ASTM-963) requires children toys to be phthalates free and contain none to very low levels of lead. However, not all toxic substances are addressed in the ASTM-963 law. We at Safbaby.com looking for even safer standards, like 100% free of PVC, Lead and Fire retardants. (The ASTM-F963 has [...]
There is a big debate happening right now regarding the CPSIA’s new laws and regulations regarding toys that will be able to be manufactured after February 2009. A debate AND a good amount of confusion on all the details. For the most part, if you are a small ‘Ma-n-Pa’ company or boutique making products for [...]
Honestly, the quality of Plan Toys® is the best we have seen this year! We are so impressed with this companies work and standards that we had to put a few of their products on our recommended safe-toy-list this year. SAFbaby has tested a lot of toys throughout 2008, and Plan Toys® takes home the [...]
SafBaby searched for quite some time before we found a play tent free of fire retardant and PVC for our kids. We literally asked numerous manufacturers if their tent had fire retardants on them. The crazy thing was, they would be smiling from ear to ear as they answered our question with a “yes.” That was until [...]
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