Why Plastic Free Products for Our Children?
Nature’s Child aims to change the conversation around plastic between
parents, the media and health professionals from price & convenience to
the healthy development of our kids & pollution prevention.
Plastic has become one of the most harmful
materials to our environment. From polluting
oceans and harming wildlife, to filling up
landfills for decades without decomposing,
this material is having devastating short-
term and long-term effects on our planet.
The main culprits are the companies
producing these products. Plastic is cheap,
economical and easy to mould, so it’s no
wonder its use is so rampant. Our society
has become increasingly dependent on
plastic products, so making the shift to
living with less plastic (and eventually living
plastic-free) can be a challenge.
As parents, we can control every
ingredient that enters our home and used
on our children. As business owners, we
control every product we sell. The folks
behind organic mother and children range,
Nature’s Child spend extra time at our own
expense to verify any claims that they make
about their products. This is a voluntary
action to ensure transparency, accountability
and authenticity, having selected ACO –
Australian Certified Organic as the brand’s
independent body which covers GMO-free,
fair trade and certified organic in their
audits. Furthermore, Nature’s Child brand
is an advocate of plastic-free packaging,
having gone through painstaking tribulations
to get their products entirely plastic-free.
Just take a look at these facts that inspired
Nature’s Child packaging and ingredients:
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80, 000 chemicals used in everyday
products.
No requirement for chemical companies
to show they are safe before selling for
production.
Everyone assumes a product is safe
because it’s on the shelf, but most
people don’t know that there are no
requirements for any food, cleaning or
personal care product to be scrutinised
before being sold.
Chemicals are studied individually,
never as a cocktail which is actually
how we consume them.
Healing claims are regulated by the
Therapeutics Good Administration,
but ingredients and recipes are not
regulated at all.
Most current studies on the safety of
chemicals are coming from Industry.
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Regulatory authorities assume
innocence until guilty which is why
there is no government intervention on
chemicals of concern from independent
studies.
BPA-free is promoted as healthy but did
you know that plastics may still have
and likely to have Bisphenol S and F,
known as BPS?
Famous chemicals banned in the past
are BPA, lead, mercury, DDT, asbestos
– all proven dangerous and we would
never imagine using them again.
These are just 5 of 80,000 chemicals
in our environment now that we are
potentially exposed to every day.
Nature’s Child are the leaders in plastic-free,
certified organic mother and baby products
that are convenient for parents but don’t
cost the Earth. Catering to the conscious
consumer in us all and abiding to zero-
waste and zero-harm philosophies, Nature’s
Child strives to make a better planet for our
children to inherit.
3 Most Common Myths About Plastic-Free
Living Debunked
Myth #1 – You have to throw out all of your
old plastic.
This is one of the biggest reasons why
people who want to live with less plastic
don’t end up making the change. They look
at all of the plastic good they use every day
and wonder how they will be able to replace
them.
Here’s the thing:
You don’t have to replace all of them
immediately!
Just don’t buy new plastic products.
First off, the plastic you throw out ends
up in a landfill or harming the environment.
So, if it’s in your home and it’s being put to
good use (and it’s a safe plastic product)
then it’s better off staying there.
The key is to not purchase any new
plastic products. These are the items you
will need to find replacements for if they are
absolutely necessary for you to use.
Myth #2 – You have to go 100% plastic-free
immediately.
Plastic has become an integral part of
many people’s daily lives, so living plastic-
free is a big change. In order to make the
change, you need to build a habit of living
with less plastic. Habits allow you to
continue a behaviour for an extended period
of time. They can become almost automatic
(like your habit of living with plastic right
now).
But as anyone who has ever had a New
Year’s Resolution will tell you, if you dive in
head first and can’t keep it up, that habit will
never form, and you will go back to your old
behaviours.
So, you don’t have to go 100% plastic-
free immediately. The best thing for most
people to do is to take it slowly, one step at
a time.
Start with the easiest items to find
substitutes for. Then build up from there.
This will help you build a plastic-free
habit and mindset, and you won’t feel so
overwhelmed.
Myth #3 – All plastic products are off-limits.
Namely, if a plastic product is required
for your health and well-being, you need to
make the decision that’s best for your health.
Don’t put your health in jeopardy because the
medicine you need comes in a plastic bottle.
At this point, exceptions may need to be
made.
But it’s up to you to decide what those
exceptions are. Don’t worry about what
other people might think of you. It’s your
health and your life. You need to make the
decisions that are best for you.