This contest has ended. The winner is Valerie M! Congrats!

Would you want to eat the moisturizer that you use every day? Check out the ingredient lists of your favorite moisturizer and let me know what you think. I am guessing no.  The scary thing is that if you have your children (like my 20 month old who still likes to put everything into his mouth including my fingers), you are doing exactly that.  If you are using a moisturizer on your children and they turn around and suck their fingers, they’ve done it too!  How would you like a moisturizer that is all natural, fragrence free, and if you really want, can be eaten too?

SoftBaby is the answer for you then.  It contains:

NO fragrance
NO preservatives
NO essential oils
NO nut oils
NO soy oil
NO wheat oil
NO botanicals
NO aloe vera
NO alcohols
NO petroleum by-products

It contains ONLY edible plant oils and their antioxidant complex of natural vitamins C and E.  Now, baby’s skin absorbs pretty much everything you do put on them, so you can easily get some unwanted side effects with some of the products out there.  Not only is this great for baby and mom, I found it great for a person who has a lot of allergies.  I personally need to watch what I use or I break out in hives.  Since this lotion is about as natural as you can get, I found it was great for my skin!  I also loved it, because it didn’t make my skin feel greasy either.  Another added benefit for new nursing moms is that you can safely use this on your sore nipples.  This is also great for a family like mine who have have fragrance issues.  I can use this and my husband can still breath!  (Yes, we are the household of the allergy prone).

Granted, I am including this as part of my baby shower guide, but I can highly recommend this to everyone to use.  Their guarantee is excellent too, so you have nothing to lose by giving them a try.  All you need to do is try the 2 oz. size (which lasts 3 – 6 months).  If you’re not satisfied with the results, they will refund you 100%, including shipping costs both ways.  Now, how many companies out there have that good of a guarantee?  None, that I can think of.

Since I know you all want to try this, I have 2 bottles of SoftBaby to giveaway!  Here’s what you need to do:

Leave a comment on this entry.  Check out the Softress site and tell me something about their products or them.

Each of these gives you one additional entry:

1. Twitter about this contest. Please leave me your username so I can verify. Or use something like this:

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This contest is for US residents and will end at March 19th at 8:00 pm and is for US & Canadian residents.  Good Luck!!!

PS If you can’t wait and want to get yourself some now, make sure you use promo code:  LISAREV and you’ll get a 15% discount!

Even though we are heading into winter in the United States, you really need to think about sunscreen.  My husband would not listen to me yesterday when I told him to put on sunscreen before the Chicago Bears football game, and guess what?  He came home with a sunburn.  Once there is snow on the ground, it is even easier to get a sunburn even in the middle of winter. You always need to wear sunscreen no matter what the season is.

Now, my husband has a lotion issue.  He cannot stand touch lotion, having it on his skin, or applying it to our children.  No, he is not trying to get out of sunlotioning our children — it just really grosses him out.  That is why when I came across Kinesys I knew we had to try it.  What I found is that this is a winner in our house.  The microspray formula is super easy to apply.  You just spray it on your arm (or whatever body part you are applying it to), and that’s it!  You don’t have to rub it in at all.  However, it was easier for us to apply to our kids faces (since my kids are little) by spraying it on our hands first and then applying it.  It is super awesome for applying to their scalps, because it didn’t make their hair greasy (and I personally think that is the worst sunburn ever, because until that sunburn goes away, it hurt to even comb your hair).  It is free of four important things – oil, alcohol, preservatives, and PABA.  This won’t irritate your skin — even if you have sensitive skin.  It also is water and sweat resistant which is great for kids too!  It is also non-comedogenic (meaning it won’t clog your pores, so you don’t have to worry about acne breakouts).  It also gives you broad spectrum protection against both UVA and UVB rays.

I found that my kids could handle the few seconds it took to apply this.  There was no fighting, because it was so easy to apply.  It was on before they ever even knew it, and it recently won the Parent Tested, Parent Approved Award.  It was also chosen as the #1 spray sunscreen for high efficacy and low hazard ingredients by the watchdog group Environmental Working Group.  The bottles also come in awesome bright colors that make it much easier to find in your house and the kids love.  Make sure you check out Kinesys for your sunscreen needs!

Aquaphor Baby Healing Ointment is one of those products that you must have when you have kids. Not only does it work for them, it works for you too. This is a product that is suppose to help dry skin which it works great on. However, there are a couple of extra uses for it also. My son right now is teething and drooling something fierce. The saliva is constantly running down his chin causing his skin to break out. Before he goes to bed at night, a dab a bit of this on his chin, and it clears up most of his break out by morning. I don’t know exactly why it works, but it does. This also works great on windburn on cheeks and dry skin anywhere on your body (for adults and kids). It is a little more expensive than regular lotion, but is definitely worth it.