Earth Friendly and Nature Approved: Pure Basic and Bamboo Dappy

Everybody is going green na nowadays. More people are becoming aware of environment and slowly incorporating  earth friendly food, home furnishings, and clothes into ther lifestyle. And because there aren't much earth friendly baby apparels available in the market, two mompreneurs, Jenny Chua and Carla Sy Su thought of making a line of baby apparel made from sustainable material. Hence, Pure Basics was born.

Pure Basics apparel is made from 100% organic cotton and bamboo fiber. 

Harvesting organic cotton is beneficial for farmers since it exposes the farmers to fewer chemicals from fertilizers and pesticides. Producing bamboo textiles saves more trees from being cut down since bamboo grows faster and is much more abundant than other textile sources.

When it comes to protecting the environment, every little step matters.

Pure Basics carries onesies, tie sides, tees and crib sets. All of these are super soft so you can be sure your babies are comfortable in them!

Crib Sets

And since we are in the topic of sustainabe living, more and more moms are using cloth diapers nowadays. I've used them for both of my kids. And with R, I invested more on cloth diapers and got different local brands and one of them is Bamboo Dappy!

This is R at 4 months wearing Bamboo Dappy!

And with him turning two in less than a month, I'm thinking of potty training him. And I'm glad that Bamboo Dappy has training pants!

 Bamboo Dappy is also made from real bamboo. It's organic, hypoallergenic, antibacterial and soft to the skin.

Did you know for every purchase of Bamboo Dappy Cloth Diapers, Php10 goes to WWF. Awesome right? 

Let's make earth a more friendlier place by using only cloth diapers and cloth training pants! And of course wearing Pure Basics!

Thank you Jenny and Carla for sending this box of goodies!

For more information on Pure Basics and Bamboo Dappy, check the following:

http://purebasics.ph/

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Tea Talks with Bamboo Dappy

With all the advanced technologies and products that we are all enjoying the convenience it brings to our lives. Sometimes we become complacent and lenient with ourselves (read: lazy and spoiled) that we neglect simple things like throwing garbage properly, saving electricity and water and many other things.

When I became a mom for the first time, I;ve never heard of cloth diapers! Well, I know the old fashion lampin and clips, I tried doing it but I really didn't have the patience and I didn't have a washing machine back then. I only learned about the existence of cloth diapers when Y was around 6 or 7 months already. So when I was pregnant with R, I wanted to prepared and be more eco-friendly (trying to be a green mommas as much as possible), I bought a lot of cloth diapers and Bamboo Dappy was one of them!

So when I was invited by Bamboo Dappy for an afternoon of green talks with fellow mommy bloggers, I had to say yes. I wanted to meet Jenny, the fab momma behind the brand.

What I like about Bamboo Dappy is the designs (they're too cute!) and the quality of the materials. You'll really know it's good once you touch the diapers. They're coming out with swim diapers and they now have training pants! Love it! What I don't like about the diaper naman is it doesn't dry as fast as other cloth diapers. It takes about 2-3 days. But nonetheless, it's a great cloth diaper!

For that afternoon, we were treated to a talk by WWF about being environmental friendly. Then we were tasked to write our own pledges on how we can help save the earth.

Jenny, owner of Bamboo Dappy

And here's my pledge:

Pasensya na ang buhok hihi.

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My Zalora Shopping Experience

It's been 2 months since I won the 'My Zalora Wishlist' contest, got my prize (4 sets of vouchers) and I've redeemed two all of them already. I drafted this post 2 weeks after ordering but I've decided to wait until I've used up all of my vouchers.

What can I say? I love shopping at Zalora! I've been checking their site everyday since I got my vouchers, looking for things I fancy and putting them in my wish list (which is still buggy at times). They have new arrivals every week which makes it hard for me to pick what I want to buy!

I've shopped online many times, from multiply sites to facebook to many other online stores but I think Zalora is the first online shopping site in the Philippines that has a good working system. IMO ha.. I haven't heard a bad comment about them yet, or I could be wrong.

Manong Zalora!

Ok, let's break it down, shall we? (Disclaimer: I'm a programmer/analyst by profession but I haven't handled anything web-based nor have I done QA on web-based systems so this is just an honest observation.)

On the technical side, it's still buggy. Here's what I noticed:

- Not everything is listed on their "Brands" list. 

- I can't view my wish list (last month). Wish list is still needs fixing.

- Shopping cart items can's be saved, it would nice not to put everything all over again in my cart everytime I login.

- Not all new arrivals are shown in the "New Arrivals" section

- It's not easy to browse the items, sometimes what is shown in page 1 is shown again in another page.

- It would be nice to have a more detailed description of the items (e.g. washing instruction, material used, etc.).

- Items to be returned sometimes takes time for them to pick up.

Onesie and cloth diaper for R! Shopping for the little one at Zalora!

What I like? It's a one-stop shop! For moms like me and for someone who almost doesn't have the time to go to malls and shop or buy what I need, an online shop like Zalora is heaven-sent! 

Here's what I like naman about Zalora:

- FREE shipping nationwide!!!

- They call to confirm your orders

- I like their COD payment option! No need for me to go to the bank. Tamad ako maglakad. Haha!

- Delivery is fast (just 1 day, my friend got his order within the day, cool diba?!). Provincial orders takes 2 days I think.

- Variety of brands

- Items can be returned within 30 days! and return slip is already included in the package

- I love the packaging! (It used to be in a box, now it comes with a paper bag seen above)

And here are some of the things I bought!

Matroyshka Measuring Spoon

Addicted to Bamboo Dappy!

Going green, going glass! Lifefactory Glass Bottle.

 Clothes!!!

Cuzo Bag! My bag of the moment! Read more about the bag here.

I really had the time of life shopping for these things! So I want to thank Zalora and Nuffnang for the contest and picking me as one of the winner! It's the biggest prize I've won!!! EVER!!! I really think I was a lucky buntis. I gave birth four days after learning I won. Haha! I'll definitely buy again at Zalora!

So as a treat to you my readers! I'm giving you a Php150 voucher to use on your next purchase! Yay!!! Just enter the code below:

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What are you waiting for? Shop now at Zalora!

A&D's Cloth Diaper Challenge

When I was pregnant with R, I told the BOS I wanted to use cloth diaper on R and also try baby wearing (another post on that). Go lang daw! With Y, the challenge was to breastfeed and I DID! With R, cloth diapering and baby wearing will be my challenges(?).


I used cloth diapers with Y but only a few months. I only had 6 cloth diapers then and I didn't really took it seriously. But I realized I was spending so much money on disposables (even now! Potty training still not yet successful), I can buy a whole lots of cloth diapers with the money I was spending or buy myself a new pair of shoes!

This is Y in cloth diapers while she was a baby!

So this time I challenged myself to use cloth diaper full time or semi-full time. Now I have a total of 20 cloth diapers, 15 Next9s, Bamboo Dappies and 2 Bambumz, all are local brand diapers, all are one-sized cloth diapers. I find imported ones too expensive (read: barat), so I'm waiting for sales and deals before buying imported cloth diapers. And I'm buying more Bamboo Dappies!

Bamboo Dappy. Bought from Zalora

Inserts (L-R): Bamboo Dappy, Next9, Bambunz

My stash!

But before I plunged into this cloth diaper challenged, I had to read about the how-to and the kinds of cloth diapers. I also wanted to hear about real experiences from other moms. It was so timely that this year Jen Ong of Chronicles of Nursing Mom hosted a blog carnival "Real Diaper Week Carnival (read here), after reading every entry, I knew I can do it also! 


Plus I also bought a copy of Changing Diapers book. I love the book! Everything you need to know about cloth diapers is in the book!

Changing Diapers book which helped me a lot in understanding cloth diapers!

I also bought these Manila Baby Shop's wet bags in anticipation of this challenge. Haven't use them for its purpose yet, we're temporarily using it to put Y or R's extra clothes and diapers for when going out!

Here is how I'm using my wet bags as of the moment!

Also these liners so catch the poop! I didn't know they had this before when I was using cloth diapers with Y. I think the yaya before gave up on washing them because of the poop. Now, I asked the yaya to just use the washing machine. (Oh! Need to research more about what's the best detergent to use! Currently using Cycles.)

Bumkins Diaper Liners

Next9 Bamboo Liners (Photo from Mothering Earthlings)

Last Friday, I started using cloth diapering R! R is already 8 weeks. I only started him this week because the cloth diapers only fit him now at the smallest setting. So far, I'm getting the hang of it! It's easy and doable! I'm thinking "Why didn't I do it with Y?!" We're still using disposables at night and I'm still a bit scared to use cloth diapers. Still reading up and looking for a more absorbent insert. And I want to try this heavy wetter cloth diaper that I saw.

Next9 model

Bamboo Dappy, which I love!

Cloth diaper I bought at the last Expo Mom

I never thought that cloth diapering can be fun and addicting! I want more fun prints! Have yet to try cloth diapering when going out and at night! I'll blog more about my challenge and adventure with cloth diapers as we go along!