CJ's Giveaway!!!
Begins at 12:01 EST June 20th

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For those of you who have never heard of CJ's before, 

here's a quick run down of just SOME of the uses for this amazing product! 

This is from the CJ's website, which can be found HERE

Called a”A Miracle in a Tube” by some, CJ’s BUTTer® has been used on adults and children to help relieve …

eczema

rashes

dry/chapped skin

rug burns (sore ‘crawler’ knees)

mechanics’ hands and cuticles

hang nails

Lacerations and abrasions from rock climbing

rub a small amount on your hands and use as a leave-in conditioner for your curls

More uses for CJ’s BUTTer® include:

Use it for black/mixed hair!! Leaves hair soft, shiny and helps alleviate those ‘owies’ when trying to separate locks!

Melt a dollop under running bath water for a relaxing, soothing, and anti-inflammatory soak–provides relief for post-partum soreness and hemorrhoids!

Provides protection against windburned cheeks/face and helps to relieve windburn!

Promotes healing and provides a non-stick barrier when used after a circumcision.

It's Review Time!

The wonderful people over at CJs sent me some goodies to review for all of you!

There will be a giveaway shortly following this review!
Be sure to subscribe so you can enter to win!!!

Lavender & Tea Tree Carcass Cleaner

What I liked: Nice dispensing, and a good clean feel on my skin.
Did note decreased redness of breakouts on our skin.

What I didn't like: Too strong of a medicinal smell for us. 

I did try their Warm Vanilla Cake scent of this as well, and I enjoyed it a lot better. 

So the scent might just be a personal choice. 

We have been using the Warm Vanilla Cake Scent for a while now, and love it as a wipes solution and as a quick clean up for both kids.

BUTTer in Blueberry Crumble and Intrigue Fragrances

What I liked: Everything. The texture is wonderful.
It performed amazingly as a diaper cream for our daughter,
and caused no issues with her cloth diapers at all.
Also works wonderfully for dry skin!

What I didn't like: Nothing. This truly is an amazing product!

BUTTer Lip Balm in Dreamsicle

What I liked: Nice, moist feel, without greasiness. It also smells absolutely amazing.

What I didn't like: I wish it would taste more like it smells, but that's just me. 

I prefer strongly flavored lip balms.

Overall, I really like the CJ's lines of products I was given to review.
I would definitely recommend them to my friends and family!
(I actually do already!)

Here is their website to try it for yourself!!
I doubt you'll be disappointed!

http://www.cjsuniqueboutique.com/ 

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Use code ONEDAY

Click Photo Below to place your order and save!!!

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Two Soy "Shot" Tarts for Wax Warmers
1 Blueberry & 1 Brownie

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This giveaway will run until Thursday at 12pm CST

Giveaway has been extended until Friday at 12pm CST!!!

At that point, I will use a random number generator to choose the winner!

Shipping will be covered by me to the winner, 

unless you're local. Then a pick-up can be arranged!

Why Choose Cloth Diapers?

Why Choose Cloth Diapers?

Info from RealDiaperAssociation

Environmental Concerns

FACT - Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste,
 and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.

FACT - Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds
 of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.

FACT - In 1991, an attempt towards recycling disposable diapers was made in the city of
Seattle, involving 800 families, 30 day care centers, a hospital and a Seattle-based recycler for
a period of one year. The conclusion made by Procter & Gamble was that recycling disposable
diapers was not an economically feasible task on any scale.

Cost

National Costs.  According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were about 19 million children under four in 2000.  We could probably assume that there are about 9.5 million children under two and therefore in diapers at any one time.  Based on previous studies, we estimate that 5-10% of babies wear cloth diapers at least part time. We will average these figures to 7.5% of babies in cloth diapers and 92.5% in disposables.  

This means that about 8.8 million babies in the U.S. are using 27.4 billion disposable diapers every year¹³.

Based on these calculations, if we multiply the 8.8 million babies in disposable diapers by an average cost of $800 a year, we find that Americans spend about 7 billion dollars on disposable diapers every year.  If every one of those families switched to home-laundered cloth prefold diapers, they would save more than $6 billion¹⁴, enough to feed about 2.5 million American children for an entire year¹⁵.  Coincidentally, the 2002 U.S. Census reveals that 2.3 million children under 6 live in poverty¹⁶.

Health ConcernsDisposable diapers contain traces of Dioxin, an extremely toxic by-product of the paper-bleaching process.  It is a carcinogenic chemical, listed by the EPA as the most toxic of all cancer-linked chemicals.  It is banned in most countries, but not the U.S.

Disposable diapers contain sodium polyacrylate, a type of super absorbent polymer (SAP), which becomes a gel-like substance when wet. A similar substance had been used in super-absorbency tampons until the early 1980s when it was revealed that the material increased the risk of toxic shock syndrome by increasing absorbency and improving the environment for the growth of toxin-producing bacteria.

Original Article and More Information Available at

http://www.realdiaperassociation.org/diaperfacts.php