How exciting!  Check out A Sunny Side Up Lifestyle Blog for a little review of my baby wipes!  Jessica is a product review blogger based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and as she is expecting a little one of her own, she reached out to me for a sample of wipes.  

It was nice of her to also mention that my packaging is also recyclable and compostable.  It was an important decision for me to make sure if my products are supposed to be eco-friendly, that my mailers and packages were too.

You can also find Jessica on Twitter.

And, of course, all my 1-ply (bamboo terry) and 2-ply (bamboo terry and cotton fleece) wipes can be found in my Etsy shop!  Remember, for the month of September, you can get everything for 20% off when you use the discount code: GRNDOPEN20

As a person with environmental and food allergies, Kleenex, or facial tissues, are a necessity in every room in the house.  Every morning before getting out of bed I would be found sneezing, and subsequently blowing my nose several times before even getting out of bed.  

I thought I was doing a good thing by throwing these out into our municipal compost bins.  I mean, they're being composted, right?  Returning the fibres into the environment?

BUT where do the tissues come from?  They are a paper product, so they come from trees.  Many brands have "Sustainable Foresting" seals on their packaging.  However, trees take many decades to grow to full size.  I personally think that a tree that stands, providing homes for wildlife and oxygen for us to breathe is far better than being reduced to a small cardboard box and pieces of soft fluffies that we use for 15 seconds before throwing away.  Not to mention the chlorine and bleach that are used in the processing of the wood pulp and going into our waterways.

When I was in the process of sourcing fabrics for the various baby bibs and wipes, I had settled on Baby Bamboo Terry cloth as the absorbent material.  One day as I was cutting some of the fabric for wipes, I thought to myself, what if I just used these as single-ply cloths instead of Kleenex? After all, for centuries we have been using handkerchiefs to wipe our noses, why not?

 So I cut up a few 8"x8" squares and serged the edges, and placed them beside my bed that night.

Some other facts about Bamboo:

1. Bamboo has antibacterial properties and is odorless and chemical free (requires no pesticides to grow).  The fabric I purchase for my bamboo products carries Oeko-Tex 100 certification.
2. The bamboo plant matures in 2 years, as opposed to the 90 year old trees that are clear cut for facial tissues.
   
3. Bamboo produced for textiles is not the same bamboo in a panda's diet.

For more information on bamboo fabric, you can go here.

I do still keep a box of Kleenex out for guests, but personally I have saved so much in the waste I produce!
Give them a try!  You can purchase your own set of 7 here :)  

I am SO excited to announce the big launch of Lili Eco Cloth!  

About 10 years ago I was given an old vintage sewing machine by my new in-laws, and my love for sewing has grown ever since.  At the start I mostly I made clothes for myself and my husband, which was really fun, but as a novice it was a slow process of learning.  Then I got a serger.  Oh the possibilities!  As I practiced, I learned more about the different techniques, and types of fabrics.  I loved the tactile handling of beautiful textures in my fingers and piecing them together to make beautiful things for my home and my friends.

In later posts, I hope to share more with you about the company,  my family's own journey towards using less paper and less chemicals (still in progress :D ), and different research and stats about paper usage.

Also, check out the Etsy shop (here or here)!  At the moment, I have a selection of cloth napkins, bamboo hankies, baby cloth wipes, and baby drool bibs.  I am still tweaking with the fit of my scrundies pattern, and when I'm comfortable with that I'll also be taking custom orders for organic scrundies!  For the month of September everything in the shop will be 15% off with the discount code GRNDOPEN20.

GRAND OPENING DISCOUNT CODE ON ETSY: GRNDOPEN20