Occasionally I will do product reviews here ... but they have to be real awesome for me to share. Well, I found a new brand that I absolutely LOVE!

The Honest Company  is an eco friendly company dedicated to products that contain only all natural ingredients. I was a little skeptical just because I normally use chemical cleaners and didn't think that a natural cleaner could do the trick. Boy was I wrong!

This all purpose cleaner was way better than all the others I was using.

Not only does it clean really well but it smells heavenly! I am throwing out all my other cleaners and sticking strictly to this one. It's all I need!

Honest company also sells fantastic bath and body products. The kids and I have been using their shampoo and conditioner for a while now.

I can totally feel the difference between Honest Company shampoo and conditioner vs [insert any name brand here -- I've tried most of them]. My hair feels cleaner and definitely more healthy. Again, I love the smell of it and my kids love it too!

The spray hand sanitizer is equally impressive. I keep one at my diaper changing area.

Once I've changed a diaper, and before I pick my cute little baby back up, I use a quick spritz of the hand sanitizer. LOVE!

I just purchased my first bundle from their website. You can save 20% or more by signing up for a monthly subscription. With that subscription you can choose any 5 products {and there are lots to choose from} for only $35. An awesome deal for awesome natural products!!!

Plus if you use my link (http://www.honest.com/accept_invitation/649832) you can enter code INVITE10 at checkout and get an additional $10 off your first order!

The subscription can be canceled at any time so even if you just want to give it a try you can get your $10 off deal and then cancel if you don't want to get it monthly. You can change the items in your bundle each month and be able to try everything! You won't be disappointed!!

** FOR TODAY ONLY (CYBER MONDAY) get an extra 25% off your purchase using code: THANKSGIVING2014. 

I baked some banana bread in mine (the recipe filled up two of these paper bakeware loaf pans) kept one for us and gave the other away to a friend. 

I absolutely love, Love, LOVE these pans!! Like seriously, LOVE them!! It took a little longer than the usual baking time, but they turned out so stinkin' cute!!!! 

They are super easy to use. You don't have to grease them ... BONUS!!! You don't have to take them out of a pan to give it to a friend --- nor do they have to return a pan to you... double BONUS! Plus, all you need to do is wrap it up in some cellophane and you have a really cute gift! It doesn't get much easier than that, and it looks like you went to a lot of trouble to do it all. 

I added a cute magnetic notepad to the bottom of mine that I bought at the one spot at Target. The colors matched the stripes on the pan perfectly! Then I placed it in a small cello bag and topped it off with some bakers twine and homemade tags and voila! Done!

These would make cute Valentine's treats. They are wide enough you could fit 3 cupcakes in them, or make a delicious pound cake... or just about anything! 

I created a PDF file you can download with several sizes of these thinking of you tags and the enjoy tags. 

{download here}

I was contacted by Skin MD a bit ago to do a review of their lotion. In case you haven't heard of their lotion or their company, I grabbed a bit of info from their website {below} for you to get to know them a little bit! ☺

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About Skin MD {according to their website}

Skin MD is a sheilding lotion. The company produces two kinds : natural and natural with an SPF in it. The company is eco friendly. They use 100% solar power to manufacture their products. They do not test on animals nor do they use animal products in their lotions!

Skin MD's sheilding lotion doesn't just moisturize your skin, but it keeps your skin from drying out. It is a water-proof, oil-free, and fragrence-free solution so that your skin doesn't dry out from repeated hand washings throughout the day. It is safe to use on your body, hands, and face.

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I am so excited to have a guest post from Melanie at 2boys+1girl=one crazy mom. She is a cloth diapering momma! I have always been a little nervous about trying out the cloth diaper thing, but I am thinking of giving it a go with my next one! If you have ever considered trying it out, or are thinking of starting cloth diapering... this is a MUST read!!! 

 There are so many views out there and when my baby Girl was born I wasn’t even thinking about cloth diapers.. Eww.. who would use them.?. only weird people.. right…? I’m a cool mom I don’t use cloth diapers… Well that’s how I was thinking … When my Baby Girl was about 4 month I started to freak about money, no particular reason, and both my husband and my job are secure and haven’t changed, BUT I freaked and started to research as much as I could about saving money, so I started with coupons and then somehow between researching for coupons and me still in the money saving mood, I came across Cloth diapers. I don’t remember how, where and what but I found them..Looked into it and got kind of fascinated with how cute they looked and will they save me money??

So I did the math, We need about 6 diapers a day ( or more, just a guess) and the average diaper is about $.25 each, so we will be in diapers for about 2 ½ years, that’s an average of 5400 diapers roughly $1350 give or take a few more Hundred $$... Wheee… what a number and that’s just the diapers… really??

That is a HUGE number and will be even bigger if you don’t shop sales or use more than 6 diapers a day… well I had to come up with a plan, because at the rate I was going my money was going down the drain.. And Ms. Cheap here won’t let that happen. I found some really cute diapers called Fuzzi Buns , I told my hubby about them and his first words were “NO way I will let you get those, I rather work two jobs and buy diapers then using cloth, are you out of your mind??” well I guess I kind of was, still not sure what I was doing but I was fascinated with the idea of saving money we agreed on me buying 2 diapers. I was excited and while I waited for those two to get in I came across BumGeniuse and I knew they were calling my name, so quietly I ordered 6 BumGenuise diapers without even telling my husband or anyone else in the family, they all thought by now I lost my mind and I got weird looks from everyone when I just mentioned cloth diapers…

So here I’m with 2 orders of cloth diapers about to arrive … By now I was excited to try them… I know I’m a dork and crazy, who gets excited about diapers…Well they got here and they did NOT leave my house till Baby Girl potty trained. We were hooked on the diapers; even my husband got hooked on the Bumgenuise diapers. We had one incidence where MIL was watching baby girl and we forgot the cloth diapers at home, MIL didn’t think of anything and went to Walgreens and bough a box of diapers ( not even on sale!!!) and as soon as Hubby found out he made her return the diapers to Walgreens and told her were the hid a key was for the house so she could come over and pick up OUR CLOTH diapers… He was raving and telling everyone about the cloth diapers and that this is the BEST thing ever… now enough about my background story … here is Cloth VS. Disposal

Over a 2 ½ year life span you need about 5400 diapers on average (don’t count me to the tee, this is just a rough guestimate on 6 diapers a day for 2 ½ years) You will spend $ 1350.00 on diapers in 2 ½ years (that is for $.25 per diaper if you find a sale maybe a little less, maybe a little more.. again rough guestimate)

You can start with about 6 diapers, what I did and I washed them every day start up cost was about $110 for 6 diapers and then my favorite item a sprayer was about $40.00 so for $150 I was ready to go. I did go on 6 diapers for a few months till I had enough money saved up to get 6 more diapers and so on, in the end I had 24 diapers with a cost of roughly $ 490.00 for 24 diapers and the sprayer…

Once I had my stash of diapers up to 24 diapers, I washed about every 3 days and it didn’t take no time at all, the machine did it all for me. Once washed and I put them to dry in the dryer they were ready to go… They all came clean in each wash and always looked like new. I know some people said to use Special diaper soap, I never did I used Tide or All Free and Clear and never had a problem, one Bottle of Tide will last you about a 1 year or 1 ½ if not longer and that is the small bottle of Tide, you will use such a small amount ( 1 teaspoon per wash with 2 rinse cycles to follow the wash cycle), but it will come clean and won’t smell at all. If you are worried about the perfume in the Tide you can always use All free and clear and use very little amounts as well… never had a problem. None of my diapers ever leaked or had any smell problems at all…

Best part we spend roughly $490-$500 on our stash of cloth diapers, used them for 2 years and once we no longer needed the diapers I was able to sell all of them and made over $300 cash back !!!!!! So in the end we spend about $200 or less for 2 years worth of diapers.. Not a bad deal at all is it…??? So you can spend $1350 on disposable diapers over 2 years or $200 … what would you do?? Also Cloth diapers can be used on more than one child if you plan on having more or already have little ones that are in diapers.

There are lot of different diapers out there, some are pre-fold, some are pocket diapers, some are size specific some are one size fits all. I used the One size fits all and they went from Newborn till potty train all in one set, it’s all up to your liking and how much time you have to invest. I was a work outside the home mom and needed it simple for Babysitters and grandparents so the One Size pocket diaper was my diaper of choice, but you may like a different one.. lots of options lots of great products out there… and remember we tried the Fuzzi Bunz in the beginning?? I did not like them at all on my baby girl, other mommies LOVE them.. it really is a trial and error and once you find the one you like and works best for you, you are hooked. There is a forum where you can buy or swap diapers called Diaper Swappers, they have lots of Cloth diaper information, sales, trades and lots more if you want to find out more about cloth diapers. This is where I started and it was well worth the time to read up on stuff and invest a little upfront.

I know it may not be possible to bring up $150 right of the back, start saving a few $$ every month till you have enough, you still will save money even if you only use them for a year. The re-sale value is HUGE and they sell great… Also with cloth diapers you never need any Diaper rash lotion, my baby girl only once had a rash while in the cloth diapers and she had it because I used too much soap, I changed soap and we had no problem after that. So you don’t have the expense of Diaper rash lotions on top of that.

Now you probably think, Cloth diapers must be HOT, actually they are not. We are in central Florida and it gets HOT and Humid here, and baby girls bottom was as dry as can be, not wet at all even after she wore the diaper for ½ day if needed, it all stayed nice and dry. I heard children who use cloth diapers Potty train quicker.. Not sure if this is true or not but my Baby girl potty trained in a day, yes I’m not making this up. She was not interested in the potty business at all, till one day this past April just a few month after her 2nd Birthday she came up said I Big Girl I want to go Potty, and that was it, no more diapers from then on, we are now going on 6 month and only less than a handful of accidents, even at night she is dry. Did the cloth diapers help her with that, maybe, but I will say that I do believe they made a world of difference.

4. A wet bag or a bag that is waterproof in case little one needs a diaper change while out so you can bring the diaper back home ( grocery bags work well, too..lol)

I hope this post was a little informative about saving money with cloth, I did not try to sell any specific brand, I just used the brands in this post that I used, please keep in mind the diaper that worked for us may not work for you. Do you research before you invest in a set of diapers. Once you make the choice to go Cloth, I promise you will love every minute of it.. we sure did…. Enjoy your little ones …

Melanie @ 2 Boys +1 Girl = One Crazy Mom

I have been trying to be a little greener lately, so I contacted Seventh Generation to see if I could review some of their products for all of you. I was so thrilled when they said yes and even more excited when the two H-U-G-E boxes arrived filled with all these wonderful things!!!

In my "goodie" boxes I was sent:

It has taken me so long since I received all these wonderful products to write my review because I wanted to use each thing several times before writing my honest review.

Baby diapers: They were great! Not only are they absorbant, but they are chemical free! My little one didn't seem to even notice he wasn't in his regular pampers. (totally wished I'd snapped some pics, but I went through them before I thought of it)

Baby wipes: LOVE them!! They are so soft, and have no noticeable scent (which is great in my house-- my husband doesn't like scents!)

Cleaning Wipes: Great cleaning power! They hold up well too to scrubbing. With little ones running around making messes, wipes are a life-saver! They are disinfecting wipes too which is even more awesome! I used it on the kids booster chairs to get all the mess and germies off. They also have a great scent - lemongrass and thyme... lovely!

Paper Towels: I don't know about you, but we go through a lot of paper towels at our place, so they have to hold up well. To be completely honest, I love the fact that these are 100% recylced, but they aren't as absorbant as my usual ones. They got the job done, but I felt like I used twice as many.

All-Purpose Cleaner: Great product! No scent, no harsh chemicals, and super awesome cleaning power!

Disinfecting Cleaning Spray: Another product I love!! I used this to clean my dinner table, kitchen counters, and stove top! I really love the fact that it cleans and disinfects... so perfect for those of us with little ones around!

Disinfecting Bathroom Cleaner: Super great product. The best part is that it comes out of the spray bottle in a foam!! It's perfect because when I spray it on the shower walls... it stays put! It doesn't just drip down the wall. PLUS... you can let the foam sit on your sink or your tub for a couple minutes and it really penetrates those tough stains! I'm totally buying another bottle when mine runs out!

Baby Laundry Detergent: It gets the job done. My little ones (as I stated before) tend to make big messes, not little ones... and their clothes definitely show it! All my stains came out! Plus, it is formulated for baby's which makes it safe for the kiddos!!

Reusable Bag: Who doesn't love these?

So, there is my review of the great products I received. Here are a couple of the other things they have to offer.

Want to win one of these sets for yourself???
Here's how to enter:

Mandatory Entry: Visit the Seventh Generation website, look around at all their great products, and tell me specifically which product you would want to buy and why. (please leave your email address with this entry!)
1 more entry: Become a public follower of KdBuggie Boutique on GFC
1 more entry: Become a fan on facebook of KdBuggie Boutique
2 more entries: Blog about this giveaway, please leave me the link to your blog post.

**Please leave a seperate comment for each entry! I will check to see that you are a follower, a fan, or have blogged.

All entries must be received by Midnight PST on September 1, 2010.

If you haven't heard of this yet you will be amazed!!! It takes curly, frizzy hair and makes it perfectly straight!!! The best part is that it does NO DAMAGE to your hair. It lasts for about 12 weeks, but as long as you use the specific shampoo and conditioner that is recommended, your hair stays frizz free for those 12 weeks.

Now, for anyone like me who tends to have HUGE hair, this is a Godsend!!! After much debate I gave into the tempation of it this last weekend. The process takes about 90 minutes from start to finish. The only think about it that I didn't like was that the chemicals were irritating my eyes so I had to close them most of the time. But it wasn't too bad.

What a difference, huh? I am really thrilled with the way it turned out -- and so glad that I had it done! One of the best parts about the whole thing is that you don't have to wait to get your hair wet or to wash it. You can take a shower and wash your hair right afterwards if you want! How great is that!!?!!

Today is day 2 after having it done. This morning I woke up, took and shower and let my hair dry naturally! It has a little wave to it, but it is straight!! NO MORE FRIZZ!!!

I highly recommend it for anyone who is tired of spending for-ev-er getting their frizzy hair ready and presentable in the mornings! Take a look at the Brazilian Blowout website to find a shop near you that does it.