The best nursing pads available

As a nursing mother I have tried many brands of nursing pads and found what I was looking for in the Johnson & Johnson brand. Unlike Medela or Lansinoh these pads are a little smaller in circumference and do not bunch up inside your bra. They are very soft and absorbent wicking moisture or leakage into the center of the pad and leaving your skin dry and thus healthy. You can typically expect to pay $6 or $7 for a month's supply (60 pads) and you don't have to deal with unwrapping each individual pad as you must with other brands. I've seen other reviewers claim that this is unsanitary but I beg to differ. If you keep the pads face down in the box with the lid closed you need not worry about them becoming "contaminated." Besides you are not putting these on an open wound they serve merely as a vehicle to prevent you from embarrassing leaks. Each pad also comes with an adhesive strip on the back though I have never found occasion to use them. They are convex in shape for a perfect fit and because of an indention that allows space for the nipple there is no uncomfortable "pressing" or shifting around. They simply stay in place even without using the adhesive.

If you are planning to nurse for a long period of time these are the best product for your buck. I use nothing else and could not recommend them more highly.More detail ...

Heals dry hands - Nurses perspective

As a nurse I wash my hands several hundred times a day it seems. Even with the hospitals using moisturizing soaps my skin gets very dry. I bought this little jug and take it to work with me. It is amazing how well it can moisturize my VERY dry hands. In the winter I get cracks on the outside of my palms without fail every year. I take this cream and let it sit on the crack for as long as I can. By the next day or so the crack has healed enough to be more manageable.



Several patients have this cream prescribed to them by their doctors its so good.



I highly recommend this cream to everyone that suffers from dry cracked skin!



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My favorite cleaner!

I highly recommend Dr. Bronner's Unscented. I started using it in a spray bottle with baking soda and water because it does not trigger my migraines and when I realized how well it cleaned I started using it to clean pretty much everything in my home.



The scents and chemicals in mainstream cleaners were causing such severe migraines that I could not clean my house. Newer `green' cleaners from Clorox and the like did not help either because of the fragrances. I learned about Dr. Bronner's and gave it a try. The scented versions are too strong for me so I stick with the unscented. Most of my friends like the unscented too because they can add whatever essential oils they need (or are in the mood for) to clean.



Information on the internet for green cleaning is all over the place and there is a lot of bad advice out there. I recommend getting a book on green cleaning that will bring all of the information together - check one out from your library or purchase one if you've got a little extra money. For a basic over view of green cleaning I recommend Jill Potvin Schoff's Green Up Your Cleanup (The Green House). For a comprehensive book with a lot of depth try Renee Loux's Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home. (I have written reviews on both books.)



The only things I do not use this soap for are washing my hair and doing the dishes. I have really oily hair and the castile soap leaves it very stringy and with a lot of oil in it. I've got several friends who use it as shampoo and they do not have the same problem that I do. I also do not use it for dishes because it is more cost effective for me to get Seventh Generation dish products from Amazon's Subscribe & Save program. As a side note Dr. Bronner's works great with oxygen bleach (like OxyClean) for laundry but I use Seventh Generation laundry soap and oxygen bleach instead because it is more cost effective per load.



Yes the writing on the bottle is kooky but nothing says you have to read it. This castile soap works better then any other castile soap I've tried. I do not normally spend money with companies that speak in terms of religion but given the safeness and effectiveness of the product combined with their IMO certified fair trade practices to purchase organic ingredients I don't care WHAT the label says.



The product contains: water saponified organic coconut & olive oils organic glycerin organic hemp oil organic jojoba oil citric acid and Vitamin E.

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