10 Local Momprenuers You’ll Want to be Friends With

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Originally posted on Red Tricycle DC.

Shanika McCloud – Greenplicity

Shanika McCloud created Greenplicity to help protect her kid’s skin and tummies from the harsh chemicals and ingredients often found in baby shampoo and lotions. Being a big proponent of green living she wanted to make sure what she put on her baby’s skin was just as good as the food that went in her tummy. Greenplicity’s line of body butters and lotion bars are made with food-grade ingredients that moisturize and protect skin and are completely harmless if baby takes a nibble.

What’s your favorite local family activity?
Monkey Joes in Sterling! So much fun!

What’s your favorite place to grab a meal?
Carlyle in Shirlington

Online: greenplicity.com

Preparing for Peanut: Greenplicity Review + Giveaway

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by Becky Voboril, Preparing for Peanut

Who likes natural baby products?!

Well Greenplicity is committed to making the safest personal care products for babies and children. Featuring cleansers, soaps, lotions and body butters, Greenplicity is made of food-grade ingredients featuring essentials oils and all-natural ingredients.

Basically, your baby could snack on this stuff and not get sick.

As you know, I only do giveaways of products and services I personally LOVE, so after Greenplicity sent me a few samples, I couldn’t wait to share their unique offerings with my readers. While I liked the Lavender Body Butter, Ethan LOVED the Cocoa Citrus Lotion Bar.
“Mom! This lotion smells like chocolate!!!”

After three years of not really showing any interest in personal hygiene products, Ethan was head over heels for Greenplicity’s lotion bar. He loved applying it himself, after which he’d smell…himself. And since all of Greenplicity’s products are completely organic, it was ok if he occasionally licked…himself. The best part? Our skin stayed nice and soft through our horridly cold winter.

So while this prize would be a perfect gift for any new mom, I’m sure anyone in the family would be happy with this healthy and effective lotion set.

Originally posted on March 7, 2014
http://preparingforpeanut.com/giveaway-organic-lotion-set-greenplicity/

Eat It Up, Baby: ‘Edible’ Lotion Rubs Little Ones the Right Way

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A way to go green that’s good for the little ones.
by Todd Richissin, Del Ray Patch

The dilemma: Baby needs some lotion but lotion gets on baby’s hands and baby likes to put hands in mouth.

The answer: Greenplicity.

Greenplicity for children is the brainchild of Shanika McCloud, who started the product line after seeing a need for loving lotions that wouldn’t hurt kids if they ate it, licked it, bit it or decided to spread it on crackers and chomp it down.

“After realizing that everything I put on my daughter’s skin was going in her mouth, I searched for a product line that would be safe if she ate some of it,” McLoud Says. “Finding none, I decided to create one myself.”

A Show of Hands in Del Ray carries the product, and it’s available and online from $4.75.

“It sells itself,” says Pat Miller, an owner of A Show of Hands. “It walks right out the door. It’s one of those things you explain what it is, and they just pick it up and buy it.”

McLoud uses all-natural, food-grade ingredients so anytime a baby sucks her hands or a thumbsucking toddler needs some lotion love, or a 4-year-old bites her nails to the cuticles, Mom, Dad or whoever can use Greenplicity without fear that it will make the child sick.

There are two products currently on the market, and a few more that will be released later this year.

The Lotion Bar is a coco-citrus scented moisturizer designed to soothe and restore skin. The beeswax helps to naturally seal in moisture twice as long as water-based moisturizers keeping the skin moisturized for a longer period of time. It’s also available in a nut-free version.

The Body Butter is a replenishing lotion that naturally nourishes the skin with a mixture of essential oils blended to soothe and soften at the same time. It’s available in Lavender or Palmarosa scents.

“Using all-natural, and food-grade ingredients lets me create a safe and gentle product for kid’s skin — and tummys! — while being kind to the environment they’ll grow up in,” McLoud says.

originally posted April 1, 2014 at
http://delray.patch.com/groups/going-green/p/edible-baby-lotion-rubs-little-ones-the-right-way