Each year I partner with a great green company to sponsor Holiday gifts for my clients. This year I connected with Melissa Riviera of Naturally Good Soaps and it has been a true pleasure! A bit of background:

Naturally Good Soaps is currently a web based business. All my products are made in small batches to ensure quality control. You will not find any synthetic chemicals, animal by products, parabens, or petroleum based items in my shop. What you will find is quality vegetable oils, herbs, spices  and clays as well as amazing essential oils used to provide the aromatic experience. Naturally Good Soaps products are vegan friendly except for the products (2) that are listed to have honey.

I don’t believe in animal testing, I only test 100% on humans. I also try to leave very little imprint on the environment by recycling all packaging, using eco-friendly packaging, and by purchasing raw ingredients locally.

Naturally Good Soaps put together a great weatherizing gift set for my clients including: Classic Oatmeal Soap, Spearmint Lip Balm, and Healing Salve all packaged in handmade, NYC themed cosmetic bags. Melissa was even sweet enough to send me one and I love everything!

I love working with eco-friendly small businesses each year to bring a small token of appreciation to my clients during the holidays. The holidays are at our heals and Naturally Good Soaps make for great green gifts and stocking stuffers! Be sure to check out their store.

Thank you, Melissa!

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Green Gift Giving: Naturally Good Soaps

With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it means one thing: gift-giving season is just around the corner. But kind of clueless on what to get your co-workers this year? Below is a list of great green gift ideas that will help you shine at this year’s office Christmas party.

Reusable Water Bottle. Buying your co-worker a reusable water bottle is the easiest way to help kick-start their eco-friendly lifestyle. Not only will it reduce trash, but it will also give your co-worker a healthy and toxin-free way to keep themselves hydrated. Check out these reusable water bottles. Cost: $10-$40

Eco-Coffee Mug. Help coffee or tea lovers ditch Styrofoam cups with this perfect gift idea.  Almost identical-looking to a traditional coffee tumbler, these reusable thermal mugs are made of porcelain and have a silicone lid and sleeve. Try DCI’s I Am Not a Paper Cup. Cost: $11.95

Solar Chargers. These nifty chargers use solar energy to juice cell phones, iPods, iPhones, e-readers and much more. Help your co-worker conserve energy and reduce harmful pollutants into the environment with this modern gadget. Try ReVIVE Solar Power Pak. Cost: $27.99

Trees. Make the world more sustainable by planting or adopting a tree in your co-worker’s name. Trees not only moderate climate, but they also improve air quality, conserve water, and give life and shelter to wildlife. Check out Trees for the Future or Tree People to learn how you can adopt or plant a tree in your co-worker’s name. You can also simply donate money in your
co-workers name to help preserve the rainforest. Both organizations will send you a certificate in the receiver’s name. Cost: Whatever you’d like

Eco-Calendars. There are a variety of calendars that use sustainable, recycled paper and give daily tips on how to live green and protect the planet. This is a perfect way to remind your co-worker how to live a green lifestyle on a daily basis. Check out Every Day is Earth Day 2011 daily calendar. Cost: $13.99

Eco-friendly paper stapler. These crafty office staplers use no metal staples to hold pieces of paper together. Rather, they cut out tiny strips of paper in the corner of documents and use the strips to hold the pieces together. Try a fun and funky animal-shaped stapler produced by Made by Humans. Cost: $12.49

Gift Basket. Make your-coworker a green-starter kit gift basket filled with eco-cleaning products, body products, bamboo dishware or filled with organic treats and recipes. Cost: Whatever you’d like

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This guest post is contributed by Kate Willson, who writes on the topics of top online colleges. She welcomes your comments at her email Id: katewillson2@gmail.com.

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Green Gift Giving: Great Eco-Office Gift Ideas

I have had the opportunity to review the innovative creations of Way Basics in the past, and was excited when I was contacted by them recently to review their newest line, the Madison Bookcase.  They sent me the Espresso version (also available in black and white), shown the the picture, to review. (Be sure to grab your valuable coupon code at the end of this post)

I had the perfect home for the bookcase, across from the girls room and main bath. We really struggle with storage space in our recycled home and this was an extremely useful piece of furniture. It holds the bath towels, and the girls hair accessory bins in the top and middle and all the girls books and DVD’s on the bottom. On the very top shelf we set up some of their porcelain dolls. So, although it’s proper use is a bookcase, this line also make for great looking multi-purpose storage. To make this  product even more awesome, if you have even less living space then we do, you can line a few of these together and they make a really nice room separator.

Not only does it have a sleek, modern look, but it was SO simple to put together. When they say “World’s Easiest Assembly” they’re not kidding, we had this together in minutes, no tools, no screws – nothing.

The Zboard that are used to build their products are safe and eco-friendly.  They contain no formaldehyde, there is no out-gassing, they’re made from 99% post-consumer waste and they’re recyclable. Way Basics product line is full of fun colors and products which would make great green holiday gifts for all ages.  Consider Way Basics to decorate the grandkids rooms with colorful storage cubes or a cute little table and stool set.  Maybe a bookcase for the book lover in your life. While you’re shopping use coupon code WBEOG10 for 10% off the entire store.

Disclosure: This is a sponsored post, the product was given to me free of charge to review. All opinions are my own and not influenced by the company.

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Green Gift Giving: Way Basics

For the past two years I have gone through companies I have advertising contracts with or have sponsored a Flaunt It! Monday and try to choose a little something that would be nice for a green client gift for the holidays.  This year my client holiday gifts have been sponsored by Sally Lee Candles.  This post isn’t part of the sponsorship, but I just think they’re great people with a great company and I want to give them some extra kudos!  My clients should all have their gifts by now (I hope) so it should be safe to say “Thank You” to Sally Lee Candles, publicly.  I hope my readers will check them out and give their candles a try.  I promise you will love them!!

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Green Christmas: Sally Lee Candles

How’s your Christmas shopping going? I haven’t even scratched the surface, but that’s nothing new for me.  If you are in need of a few fresh ideas there are several great Green Gift Guides already available around the blogosphere.  So, rather then reinvent the wheel, or bore you with strictly business related finds, I thought I would share some link love and feature other bloggers guides!  They’ve already done all the hard work for me.  Enjoy their great finds!

• Green Living Ideas – Green Gifting For The Holidays
• Nature Moms – Green Christmas
• The Green Parent – Green Gifts That Don’t Cost A Cent!
• Green & Clean Mom – 2008 Green Holiday Gift Guide
• Z Recommends – The 2008 Z Recommends Mostly Green, Pretty Cheap Holiday Gift Guide
• Moms In A Blog – Green Holiday Gifts
• Eco Etsy – Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For Him
• We Can Be Green – Gift Guide

Do you have a Green Gift Guide add it below for us to check out!

Happy Holiday’s!
Jen

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