Organic Soaps Washington DC

He eats, he sleeps, he plays and he bathes. W spends between 20 and 45 minutes of each day in the bathtub (and he hasn’t even started playing with finger paints or baking up mud pies in the backyard!). Since he dedicates such a significant amount of time to splashing around in soapy, bubbly water, I’ve become highly attuned to what I use to get him clean. Following my general parenting guideline—do unto my progeny as I would do unto myself—I’m always on the hunt for liquid soaps and bubble bath that 1) smell delicious and 2) are made primarily from natural or organic ingredients.

Since I’m a natural beauty freak, I spend an unnatural amount of time reading product labels. Before purchasing anything that will end up on my skin or the skin of somebody I’ve given birth to, I scan the product for any no-go ingredients like parabens, phthalates or synthetic fragrances. These substances have been linked to a good handful of conditions and diseases that I’m not interested in acquiring (check out the Environmental Working Group’s Cosmetic Safety Database for detailed info on the ingredients in most personal care products).

Lately, I’ve been scrubbing W with luscious, all-natural (which simply means that I can recognize and/or pronounce most if not all of the product’s ingredients) soaps from Little Twig —I’ve been known to swipe the lavender bubble bath for myself when W...