Before the shower for her third baby in 2008, Debra Ibanez had an epiphany to open her own baby products boutique.Ibanez's search in Houston-area stores for organic cotton clothing, wooden toys and "green" products for her registry proved fruitless, and she ended up having to register online. At the time, she had the idea to open a boutique where customers could smell and feel the products and where she could offer advice about products and lifestyle and perhaps provide services for parents and parents-to-be.A fourth baby later, Ibanez, in partnership with her husband Armando, has made the store a reality with the recent opening of Baby,A listing of internet resources that provide a listing of Organic vegetables Wholesalers
. go green in CityCentre, 795 Town & Country Blvd, Suite 144.While Ibanez carries mostly organic cotton clothing for children from infancy to age 6, she also stocks bamboo clothing, organic mattresses made of wool and cotton, baby skin-care products, organic cotton baby carriers and diaper bags, ceramic dishware, wooden toys and stainless steel baby bottles.Ibanez seeks out products made from materials that don't use pesticides, such as cotton, or are made of sustainable crops,Look for an Instant Cold Pain Relief Pack
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,for more than 9 years, our team has been manufacturing the quality hot and cold packs that we invented."A baby spends 10 to 14 hours sleeping; so my advice is if you're going to splurge, splurge on an organic mattress, or at least cover the mattress with an organic cover," Ibanez said.The store's ECOlunchbox Rectangle costs $20; an Under the Nile Organics hooded kimono towel costs $32.Ibanez started scrutinizing the products she was buying for her and her family after the birth of her first child nine years ago and didn't like what she learned.For instance, she said conventionally grown cotton uses two pounds of chemical insecticides for every pound of cotton.She said the use of bamboo is a plus, because it is a sustainable, natural and fast-growing crop that does fine without pesticides.Ibanez, who has a background in business, having helped her parents run a book binding business, first launched the online store www.shopbabygogreen.com/ last October and then moved quickly to open the physical store, which she claims is the first "green" baby boutique in Houston."I had this nagging feeling that someone else would come along and have the same product as me and open one before me," she said.She and her husband partnered after he lost his job last year, but the partnership works well, she said, because it enables her to continue to home-school their children and run the business between them.Debra Ibanez settled on CityCentre, because it gets a lot of traffic and fits in with the green vibe of Ruggles Green restaurant, Sweet bakery and the farmers market.Constantly educating herself about products for the young, Ibanez plans to add more items, including cloth diapers, and offer classes in such areas as how to use cloth diapers and infant massage.The goal,Nature Made Fish Oil Omega-3 Softgels
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