Childs Farm Caked In Mud! Hair & Body Wash & Hand Wash For Mucky Mitts - Review

I don't know about your child(ren) but my six year old boy is an absolute nightmare to get in the bath or to get him to wash his hands. It wasn't always this way, when he was younger he loved it but now I guess he would be much rather doing other things. However this aversion is ironic considering he now gets muckier than ever...

I have always used paraben free and SLS free bath products for my boy ever since he was born, however I must admit I relaxed with the hand wash once he was old enough to use it.  Inside however I wished that I knew of a product that was SLS free because I prefer not to use it where possible.

Enter two fabulous products from Childs Farm which has made my life so much easier and made washing his hands and bath time generally more fun..no more resistance. Which from my point of view is ace.

First up is Childs Farm Hand Wash For Mucky Mitts

Childs Farm say 

Childs Farm hand wash contains grapefruit and organic tea tree essential oil to cut through grime and gently moisturise.

- Suitable for eczema prone skin
- For newborns & upwards
- Dermatologically tested and approved.
- Paediatrician approved.
- Over 98% natural ingredients
- NO parabens
- NO SLS’s
- NO mineral oils
- NO artificial colours
- Contains organic essential oils
- Tested on children

My thoughts 

I read out the description 'for mucky mitts' and this put a smile on his face. I told him that this hand wash was just for him and he asked to smell it. Mmmm he said. Since then he has taken himself happily off to the bathroom and washes his hands all by himself. It has a delicious and refreshing grapefruit scent which I adore too and secretly I want to use it too!

No more nagging needed. He loves that the hand wash is especially for him. I love the fact that it contains no nasties.

Win.Win.

*Childs Farm Hand Wash For Mucky Mitts 250ml £4.69

Childs Farm Caked In Mud! Hair and Body Wash For Dirty Rascals 

Childs Farm say 

Childs Farm hair & body wash contains organic sweet orange essential oil & Argan oil to cut through grime and gently moisturise. Suitable for eczema prone skin.

For newborns & upwards

- Dermatologically tested and approved.
- Paediatrician approved.
- Over 98% natural ingredients
- NO parabens
- NO SLS’s
- NO mineral oils
- NO artificial colours
- Contains Argan (Moroccan) oil
- Contains organic essential oils
- Tested on children

My thoughts 

Aaron loved looking at the drawing on the bottle and laughed when I read out the product's name. He really, really loved the scent and wanted to jump in the bath immediately to try it!

The scent is a really lovely orange smell and the body wash left his skin nice and soft. As it was quite warm that day I left his hair to dry naturally and it looked smooth, silky and shiny. It does say that if it gets into eyes their won't be tears.. and there wasn't. Love at first use.

A firm favourite in this house, he now asks to have baths!

*Childs Farm Caked In Mud! Hair and Body Wash For Dirty Rascals 250ml £4.69

Childs Farm products are available from John Lewis and Ocado 

*PR Samples

Snow Sunday - Fun In The Snow

To the delight of my 3 yr old it has snowed overnight just as the weather forecasters predicted. A rather excited little one pinged open his eyes, declared that he wished to look out the window and I watched as a smile beamed across his face. He got dressed and ate his breakfast in record time just so he could run outside and play in the beautiful, powder white snow. He has been watching the animation 'The Snowman' for a a couple of years now so it really is magical for him, he couldn't wait to head outdoors to play and build a snowman...

Throwing snowballs

The big build 

Tada!

In the absence of a carrot and buttons we had to improvise and used nuts from a toy work bench, a pink bouncy ball and a banana!

A peek of the snow from our window

Obligatory snow scene

You can see from his very first year he has always been enchanted by the snow flakes!

Here he is aged 7 months old loving the snow.

I hope you are enjoying the snow today...

Kiss It Better With Clinique

Clinique is for the fifth year running partnering Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity for the KISS IT BETTER appeal which raises money to fund research into the causes and treatment of childhood cancer.

This year, Clinique has created a special NEW Limited Edition Kissable Lip Set featuring the following fabulous lip products -

Chubby Stick Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm in Woppin’ Watermelon

Vitamin C Lip Smoothie Antioxidant Lip Colour in Pink Me Up

Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss in Raspberry

Long Last Glosswear SPF15 in Mystic. 

The Kissable Lip Set comes in a chic silver purse with specially designed KISS IT BETTER heart key ring.

The set costing £25 will be sold exclusively in House of Fraser stores nationwide and online at House of Fraser and Clinique during the month of February. A rather generous 50% of the RRP will be going to the appeal - £12.50 - (£6.50 from Clinique and £6 from House of Fraser).

That is not all... 

A £2 donation will also apply to all Clinique lipstick or lipgloss sold at House of Fraser stores nationwide, throughout February 2012. (£1 will be donated by Clinique and £1 will be donated by House of Fraser). 

There has never been a better time to pucker up for a good cause!

Oral-B Stages Power Electric Toothbrush - Disney's Cars - Review

I was having a bit of a nightmare trying to get Aaron (3) to brush his teeth, he would run away, barely open his mouth etc so when I was offered the Oral-B Stages Power Electric Toothbrush to review I was willing to see if this would convince him to brush his teeth.

I have an Oral -B electric toothbrush which I prefer using to a manual one so maybe if he had one like mummy...? All I can say is that once we opened the post that day we have never looked back. Aaron was so excited to try out his new 'Cars' toothbrush that I had to stop him from brushing his teeth several times a day and more!

3 months down the line and we have never had a problem since, in his words the review would be ' I like it'.

It has made brushing his teeth fun for him and much easier for us as parents.  The brush head is a good size and soft. He likes the novelty of the brush vibrating in his mouth, I like the fact that the brush buzzes 3 times after a minute so you know when the time is up to stop brushing the top and move onto the bottom. Ideal for the recommended 2 minutes of brushing.

I always feel that I get a better clean from my electric toothbrush (actually the dentist once told me that he could tell I used an electric toothbrush, and I hadn't even mentioned it!) so I do believe that Aaron is getting a better clean without brushing so hard.

The only negative for me is the price, quite expensive for a child's toothbrush and when you factor in the cost of subsequent brush heads - £10.29 for 2.

Inside the starter pack you get

Oral-B Stages Power electric toothbrush- Disney Cars
1 Stages Power Brush head
Charging station

Oral-B Stages Power Electric Toothbrush is suitable for children aged 3 years + and costs £35 (although it is currently on offer for £17.49 from Boots). Also comes in Disney's Princesses design.

Fab Range Of Bath Products for Babies and Children

Naked Bodycare are a rather fabulous brand of affordable natural products that don't contain nasties like SLS, parabens and petrochemicals, you will remember the toner review I wrote recently. I do try as far as possible to seek out products without those ingredients and especially so when it comes to products that I am going to use on my 3 year old son.

I was delighted to learn that Naked Bodycare were launching a range for babies and children with the same philosophy and was recently sent a couple of the new products to try.

Naked For Kids 2 in 1 Shampoo - Toffee Apple £2.99 for 250ml

Mini Naked Go-Ga-Ga Gentle Body Wash £2.99 for 250ml

Shampoo

From the moment this came in the post my son was excited and impatient to use the shampoo, the packaging really appealed to him. It was bright and fun with a big smiley face on it. 

To dispense you push the lid down and another bit pops up and releases the product. This smelt absolutely gorgeous, a fresh apple scent. It lathered well and rinsed off easily. This isn't a no tear formula, it does mention on the back to avoid getting in eyes, my son did get it in his eyes as he is such a wriggler but there were no tears from him. His (longish) hair was manageable afterwards and was incredibly silky soft and shiny - A great thumbs up from this household. 

Body Wash

Go-ga-ga is aimed at children up to the age of four years old. A gentle body wash that contains Aloe Vera, this has a very delicate scent, perfect for a baby. This is a no tears formula. The wash seemed really gentle and my son did not have any reaction to it afterwards. He was soft and cuddly afterwards. Crucially it passed my son's all important bubble test, daddy blew bubbles with it and it created huge bubbles that floated around the bathroom. Enchanting!

I love the fact that you can get affordable products that contain no nasties for babies and children, I would definitely purchase both products. 

You can find both products on the website as well as other products in the range. I hope that they are soon stocked in the shops!