Gimme the Good Stuff helps busy, conscientious parents easily avoid toxic products in their homes through our in-home consulting service, personalized shopping guides, and online store.
We simplify the process of navigating the confusing world of “natural” products, and our readers, customers, and clients enjoy peace of mind and confidence that their home is a safe, healthy place for their families.
We also hope to reach those of you who don’t research this stuff because the information you find is so completely overwhelming, confusing, and often conflicting (but you probably keep reading scary news headlines about toxins in cosmetics and pesticides on produce and wonder if you should be worried).
With more products than ever for parents to choose from, it’s exhausting—though I believe important—to educate yourself about safety of all of this stuff. I love sites like The Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep, but it provides SO much information that I often find myself thinking, “Please spare me the details of every ‘mammalian study’ ever conducted on every ingredient in my lip balm. Just tell me what to buy and where I can get it!”
Gimme the Good Stuff gives simple, accessible information to those of us who haven’t slept more than three consecutive hours in months (or, for us anti-Ferberizers, years), and therefore cannot be expected to know how to spell “diarrhea” for a Google search, let alone “phthalates.”
The ultimate goal of this site, our store, and our services is healthier kids AND parents, so I’ll remind myself, and all of you, that anxiety is an important contributor to disease. Theoretically, I’m all in favor of accepting uncertainty, thinking positively, and refusing to dwell on potentially scary scenarios, although I admit it sometimes takes effort to do so.
Try to remember that if your precious offspring drinks a few bottles of formula, is sprayed with Coppertone all summer, and gums a soft plastic “rubber” ducky each night in the bath, he will still be better off than most kids in this country—after all, he’s got you as his mom (or dad)!
