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• Fleurville Eco-friendly Diaper Bags Are Teflon Free

  22Nov
  Categories: Eco Friendly Fashion Comments: 0
  Who could not like the company known as Fleurville, and more specifically, the diaper bags they create?

  It is worth noting that Fleurville diaper bags have an eco friendly philosophy, which is carried out into its production process. Fleurville is known for its environmentally friendly Green Lam, a moisture resistant product that replaces the poisonous Teflon that is usually used in bags. These bags are not only eco-friendly, they are also practical. The excellent interior design engineering can attest to this fact. All of these Fleurville eco-friendly diaper bags come equipped with a changing pad, a see through wipes case and an insulated bottle holder. These features were designed into the bag to ensure that your trip with your baby is as easy and clean as possible.

  I am a fan of the DJ Diaper bag, although the Mothership Bag and the Sling Diaper Tote are also excellent choices. The DJ is great for both sexes and for keeping your arms free, the Mothership should be utilized when caring for multiple children or planning a trip which requires a lot of packing and the sling can be used as a tote, a messenger or be worn over the shoulder.

  In addition, multiple pockets allow for storage of both yours and your baby’s belongings. So, get a feel for which of your things goes where, because after your babies have grown you will still be using this bag as a purse. When it comes to a design quality that is practical, stylish and eco friendly, Fleurville eco-friendly diaper bags meet the standards of excellence.

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• Sustainable Parenting With Fleurville Diaper

  04Oct
  Categories: Eco Friendly Fashion Comments: 0

  Sustainable consumerism is an important theme for many new parents today.To begin with, many new parents want to support corporations that are not using poisonous materials. Other parents will not buy products that are made in sweatshops or out-sourced to rural areas in third-world countries.

  Fleurville is one small eco business that is leading the way in sustainable parenting. In fact, Fleurville diaper bags was recently certified as “San Francisco Bay Area Green Business” by Marin County, California. Not only that, but Fleurville diaper bags has the honor of being one of the first PVC-free corporations. Let’s look a little deeper at what separates Fleurville from other diaper bag makers.

  Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC for short, is a known pollutant and poison that is used in many commercial diaper bags and products, even ones that advertise organic cotton! PVC washes into our waterways, bonding to other heavy metals, and can be found all the way up the food chain from plankton to cattle. Fleurville diaper bags does not use PVC even though it is the most inexpensive plastic on the market, proving it is earth-friendly first and foremost. Instead, Fleurville invested in Green-LAM™, an environmentally friendly polyurethane laminate that does not poison the earth.

  Next, Fleurville diaper bags has traded wasteful nylon for a recycled fiber that is made from plastic water bottles. This plastic, called Re-Run™, keeps the bottles from being thrown away in our massive, and rapidly filling, landfills.

  Finally, every Re-Run product purchased helps fund the non-profit group called Eco-Mom Alliance, which inspires parents to take the steps to become more eco-friendly consumers. This is exactly how the eco-friendly business world grows, by providing solutions to problems at the same time as quality products.

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• Reusable Shopping Bags And Fashion: Green Doesn’t Have To Mean Drab

  25Sep
  Categories: Eco Friendly Fashion Comments: 0

  Choosing to “go green” and deciding to use reusable bags, rather than disposable paper or plastic bags, doesn’t have to be the fashion “faux pas” that you might think. In fact, using environmentally friendly reusable bags has become somewhat of a fashion statement, a way of letting others know you’re “hip”, “phat” and a part of the current trend of “thinking green.” And fortunately for today’s environmentally conscious, there are new and exciting choices not previously available, that make choosing “green” as smart a fashion choice as it is a responsible social choice. Here are a few examples of how you can be trendy and fashion-conscious, and still do a good deed for the environment.

  In May of this year, Lauren Bush (yes, that Lauren Bush, niece of President George Bush) released the second bag in her line of reusable bags to the general public. Her original line, sold online, sold 37,000 bags at a price of $59.99. However the new bags, called “FEED 100”, are designed more for everyday use than were the bags of the original line, and are priced at a more moderate $29.99. The bags help to raise funds for feeding hungry children through the UN (United Nations) World Food Program. And with the purchase of each bag, made of 100% cotton and sustainable burlap, consumers provide 100 meals for school children.

  Another company that’s helping to make “green” fashionable is LilyEcolo, where you can find a variety of fashionable bags and totes to help you to act daily in a more environmentally kind way. The company “brings audacity, style and color in the sphere of ecological choices,” and offers a range of bag choices from reusable bags which fold up as small as a tissue, to the “all-in-one” bag which will hold your wallet, cell phone, makeup kit and more, in an effort to ensure that you’re never left without a reusable tote to fit your purpose. The company encourages people to “shop differently” to “reduce wasting at the source simply by taking the habit of using practical, lasting and reusable bags,” and to daily make a difference in the environment.

  Then there are “Baggu” (bag-goo) bags. Baggu is a company that manufactures large, bright, wonderfully colorful bags as fashion and shopping accessories. The company reminds visitors that the average family brings home 1,000 plastic bags a year, and it takes roughly 1,000 years for those bags to decompose. The company further claims that “Using one Baggu for one year replaces 300 to 700 disposable bags.” The bags are made of strong (holds up to 25lbs), lightweight (2 oz) nylon that folds into 5” by 5” pouches. Not a bad choice for fashion-conscious ladies on the go.

  Opting to use reusable bags is a responsible choice nowadays. But choosing to “go green” and do your small part in helping to preserve, improve, and protect our environment no longer means having to look “un-cool.” There are plenty alternatives to using disposable bags and containers as we go about our daily lives; we simply have to be willing to use them.

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