The Earth Mama Angel Baby What’s Your Score? Challenge

• • Are there poisons in your "natural” baby products? Are you slathering "organic” toxins on your pregnant belly? Get ready to get informed, mama. It’s easy, it’s useful, and you’ll probably be surprised!

    How to play

    Gather some of the most common pregnancy and baby care products you use regularly on your pregnant body or on your baby. You can include shampoo, lotions, soaps, diaper cream, stretch mark oil, hemorrhoid cream, etc.

    Go to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics’ Skin Deep database and enter a product name in the search field (for example, Earth Mama Body Butter). Look for the Hazard Score for that product. The Hazard Score indicates the toxicity rating: 0 is lowest, 10 the most toxic. Click the product if you want to see specifically which ingredients add up to create that score. If your product isn’t listed, ask yourself why. Is there something in the ingredients list that the company might not want you to see? If your product isn’t listed, you can enter individual ingredients to check their toxicity rating.

    Add up the Skin Deep toxicity rating for all the personal care products that you use on a daily basis on your pregnant or nursing body, or on your baby, to find out what your score is.

    When you have your score, answer the three quick questions below.

    • • What was your Skin Deep toxicity rating score?
    • • Were you surprised with the score and/or ingredients?
    • • What would you like your score to be?

    Don’t worry – there are no right or wrong answers, but we think you'll be surprised at how high the toxin score can be, even for products that are labeled "natural" or "organic". We don't think it's fair to use worrisome ingredients while claiming to be organic. We think it's tricky business to trick busy mamas with unclear labeling. And we think your pregnant belly and your baby's skin is no place for icky ingredients!

    We always love to hear from mamas who have taken the Challenge. If you want to let us know your reaction, please email us with your story!