Ah June! How we love your promise of short sleeves, toes al fresco, bursting flowers and brand new babies, toddling babies, no-longer-babies roller-skating with joyful abandon – hey! Watch out for that pebble! Ooof, now there’s a scrape to remember. Yep, June is for joy, but also for first aid. Get those band-aids ready, along with the universal remedy, healing mama kisses! Just for June, we’ve got our best-selling boo-boo balm on sale, and check out the second installment in our How to Read a Label series. Also, a call for LA mamas, survey results, and some real stories from our customers.

Whether it’s burning diaper rash, a nasty scrape or scratch, or itchy cradle cap, our #1 best selling Angel Baby Bottom Balm is clinically tested, non-irritating, and a terrific first-aid-in-a-jar for the whole family. Angel Baby Bottom Balm safely battles existing diaper rash and protects against flare-ups. It also soothes bug bites, scrapes, chicken pox, minor rashes and burns. And clinically tested, hypoallergenic Angel Baby Lotion is 100% naturally preserved with no artificial dyes or fragrances so it safely soothes sensitive baby skin itchy from dryness, eczema, diaper rash and skin allergies. USDA Certified 100% Organic Angel Baby Bath Blossoms make a perfectly comforting bath soak for itchy, irritated skin (or just irritable babies or mamas)! And clinically tested C-Mama Healing Salve is rich with nutrients necessary for proper cell regeneration and wound repair and was formulated especially for cesarean section and other surgical wounds, old c-section scars and stretch marks, and inflamed rashes and burns.

Angel Baby Bottom Balm, Angel Baby Lotion, Angel Baby Bath Blossoms, and C-Mama Healing Salve are 10% off for the month of June.

The Dirt on Soaps and Detergents

Last month’s lecture, How to Read a Label: Deciphering Organic Claims, really left a lot of people feeling empowered to deal with the big Organic issue. This month we’ve got the dirt on soaps and detergents, and more worrisome ingredients that are all too common in personal care products. Are detergents bad for my baby’s skin? What ingredients should I avoid in my baby shampoo? What makes soap soap? The answers to these questions — and more! — await your click. Pencils ready, mamas! Now please turn your browsers to How to Read a Label, Part 2: Soap vs. Detergent.

We were over the moon when we got all your feedback from last month’s newsletter survey! We truly appreciate it. We felt great knowing that so many of you love what we do, and we know what it takes for a busy mama to use her time to help us out. And we hear you: we’ll be forwarding some of your questions to our expert panel, featuring real mamas who use our products, keeping you informed about natural product safety information, and having more contests! We’re delighted to announce the winner of the I Love My Mama gift set from last month’s survey, congratulations Mama Sarah!

Does your husband drink heartburn tea too?? Have an interesting use for Natural Nipple Butter? If you use Earth Mama Angel Baby products, and have a success story, or an off-the-box way of using an Earth Mama Angel Baby product, we’d love to hear about it, and maybe feature your story in a future newsletter! In fact, that’s this month’s contest! Tell us about how Earth Mama Angel Baby has made your pregnant, postpartum, or breastfeeding life/bottom/spirit a little better. If we choose your story for our newsletter we’ll send you a jar of Angel Baby Bottom Balm (it’s not just for babies you know). Please send your story to mama@earthmamaangelbaby.com by June 30, 2009.

Poop, the Birds and the Bees
Last month’s newsletter survey revealed that readers want to hear about the real Mama behind Earth Mama Angel Baby. We are delighted to announce that Mama has a blog, where she talks about all the things on her busy, herb-filled mind. So far that’s been a loving tribute to her mother, and uh, well, poop, the birds and the bees! Mama’s also on Twitter, so you can sign up for the RSS feed to make sure you get notified of new blog entries on Mama’s Herb Garden, and follow her Tweets too.

And please note, if you ever have any questions or suggestions for Mama, you can email her directly. She really reads what you have to say, and appreciates the time and effort it takes a mama to write in.

We love to hear from mamas, and we hear from our survey that you do too! You suggested that we run some letters specifically about our products, so you could hear what other mamas are saying. And the #1 product you mentioned in our survey was Angel Baby Bottom Balm! Here are a couple of great letters about this month’s specials.

“When my son was born he had the WORST eczema. I tried everything. Then I got Angel Baby Shampoo & Body Wash and Angel Baby Lotion. In TWO BATHS it cleared up completely. The pediatrician now recommends it to all the angel babies in her practice. And we use both products still (he's 18 months old). Thanks!”
Kristi P.

"We really love your Bottom Balm. It was first recommended to me by a maternity nurse here in the UK when I first had my baby and ever since I started using it, I loved it and had my mums bring back more every time she traveled to the UK to visit me. These little jars last forever and we have them stashed everywhere — changing station, diaper bags, in the car, the pram, my purse!

I have also passed on some jars to friends in Germany and Switzerland and they too have grown addicted to it. Luckily we all have families in the US to carry these little jars of love back to us. It is wonderful to have such an effective balm which is all natural and organic and doesn't smell medicated or artificial. It outperforms all the medicated stuff on the market and everyone who has tried it really loves it for their babies. A bonus side benefit - the scent (can't find the correct words to describe it but the clean smell) seems to neutralize the strong smell of older babies' wet nappies once they start weaning. We love your products and thank you and your team for being devoted to making our lives with our new angels that much more enjoyable, naturally!"

Many thanks again!
Laura

Call for Real Mamas!
Yep, those are real mamas in our photos, and we think YOU oughta be in our pictures too! If you are an LA mama who has ever thought it would be fun to have your belly in one of Earth Mama Angel Baby's beautiful, sweet, ethereal photos, you are invited to slip on the angel wings and have your natural beauty celebrated by our esteemed pregnancy photographer Lori Dorman Photography. We’ve got another easygoing, low stress photo shoot Saturday, July 18. Earth Mama Angel Baby pays the sitting fee, and you can purchase pictures for your own personal use. What a sweet and glorious way to commemorate your pregnancy! For more information, please call EMAB HQ, 503-607-0607 or email us at photoshoot@earthmamaangelbaby.com for all the details. You will be asked to sign a model release form, so we can use your beautiful pictures on our site or in our marketing materials.