Giveaway No5! Bio-D nappy fresh!

Some time ago a sample of Bio-D Nappy Fresh came to my hands. An "antibacterial, germicidal sanitizing powder for the safe, effective cleansing of re-usable textile nappies at low, energy-efficient temperatures".

I have to admit that I liked it, although I did not have lots of it to test!

As I was searching I run onto the greek e-shop sunny side. 

(I was looking for dresses but looked for anyhting relating to cloth nappies as usual!)

I asked Elina for more info and we ended up to this giveaway!

Since she has been using cloth nappies as well, she added also the  Bio-D washing powder, to the gift package.

Bio-D is an independent, family-owned, ethically motivated British company, dedicated to promoting the use of hypoallergenic, environmentally responsible detergents that have a minimum impact on the ecosystem both in their use and in their manufacturing process. Where possible, all raw materials are plant-derived and are obtained from renewable sources. 
They operate a strict policy whereby none of our raw materials or finished products are tested on animals. We have a fixed cut-off date of 1988. All raw materials are free from genetically modified ingredients; animal by-products and we are subject to scrutiny and approval by The Vegan Society, Naturewatch Trust, BUAV and The World Wildlife Foundation. 
These detergents do not contain enzymes, or brighteners, so we can try them on our cloht nappies!

So, you can participate in this contest through Rafflecopter, in the greek version of the blog. Only open to those living in Greece....
Good luck...

Results of the 4th giveaway

So, another giveaway has finished!

Thank you all so much for  liking, following, commenting!

The Rafflecopter gave us a winner:Anna!

Congratulations!

As soon as she will contact me, 
I will email DIVA CUP so that she will get her gift!!


The rest of you can buy a menstrual cup directly from  DIVA CUP or get more info on their webpages!

(I have to remind you that I did not got paid from the company to try their menstrual cup or to talk about it!)


Well, girls, buy for now. I will be back!

Giveaway No4! Menstrual cup!

I am very curious and I am always searching for...anything! So I decided I wanted to try some cloth menstrual pads. Such nice colours and soft fabrics!As I was searching I discovered the menstrual cup! Never heard about it! Never even imagined that it could exist! The Greek translation is a little difficult! "Antitampon", "multiple use tampon"... 
The menstrual cups first appeared 30 years ago in the US and Canada (where else?).

So, I found 4-5 companies. One of them, the DIVA CUP from Canada accepted to send me a sample to use and write about it and one more for one of you! (Of'course I did not got paid for the testing nad reviewing!)

First impression, when I opened the envelope: all this much? My sister's reaction was: "Are you crazy? You are really going to put all this ..."inside"?" 

The truth is that I am so curiοus (as already mentioned) that I could not stop myself from using it!

So the perfect time to use the menstrual cup, came! I had washed it in some warm water and a little bit of white vinegar and I have washed my hands really-really well! Of'course I have memorised the instructions! I sat on the toilet, Ι folded it in half and pushed it in my "interior"! I cleaned the "details" and got up.

I did not dare to cut the "steam" as I was supposed to! I was fealing it a little bit so I was going to cut it as soon as possible!
After one hour I got it off. There was some leakage but maybe they were the "leftovers". I am sure that it was not pushed as much inside as possible!  So, I touch the steam and pinch the cup. 


Oh no, it is stuck!!!!
Wait, I have to pinch a little bit more, so that there will be enough air through the little holes on the top! It makes a ...noise and it gets out! There where lots of liquids inside! But I did not like the liquids on my hand! The all experience was so much easier than expected! 
Second time was so much better! I cut the steam and made sure that I pushed the cup much more inside! This time things where so much better. Only a few leakage and I did not feal it as much as the first time!


I was only going to try it a) when at home, b) when I had lots of menstruals and c) when my sweet little girl would leave me alone...So I did not had lot of chances to use it again! I think that next month things will be so mush easier!

So, girls, if you want to buy one try an e-shop from the Store Finder or form the Buy Now-page of the company. On the DIVA CUP webpage you can find isntructions and answers to all of your questions!


Since I would love to have someone else to test it with, you can win one DIVA menstrual cup right here, through the Rufflecopter:

(Please go back to the form on the Greek page:)

http://yfasmatinespanes.blogspot.com/2011/11/4-mesntrual-cup.html

Giveaway No 3

Yesterday I got a washing powder from Canada, the eco-friendly cleaning powder for cloth diapers, RockinGREEN. 

I saw it in many e-shops and I really wanted to try it. So the company send me some samples, each for a couple of washes. On the package it says that it can be used for stripping as well as for normal washing.

Two of you will win 2 packages each of this ...wild detergent for cloth diapers, to check it out.

All you have to do is complete the competition form following untill Wednesday 13/7, with the correct email. Do not be afraid by the greek. The questions are: 

1) Do you use cloth nappies?  

2) Name

3) Where are you from?

4) E-mail.

The winners will be chosen with the Research Randomizer, as before. 

COMPETITION FORM

(Just to be clear and correct, the winners will be contacted through email. If it will not be possible to reach them within a week, I will get in touch with the next one)

And the winner is...

Good morning everyone... 

The second giveaway has finished! 

There were 132 people that participated and the "research randomizer" picked a guy, the 100th participant!

So, Thodoris from Thessaloniki, won the Hamac box:

The rest of you can buy them from the e-shops that the company suggests at the website (if you know French), or you can go to Petit Guili, that has an English translation (Laure thank you for this information)! 

  

Time for our second giveaway/competition!

So, a new competition is here with one more cloth diaper...

This time the winner will get a box of the French company Hamac  that costs 32 euros and it includes: one wrap, blue or pink, as you like (the size that fits your baby), one washable soaker, two one-use soakers and one liner. 

The "system" works like this:

So, fill the following form 

until the 9th of June and good luck to everybody.

The winner will come after using the Research Randomizer,

 just like the previous time.

COMPETITION FORM (ended)

And the winner is...

Goodmorning everybody... 

The real nappy week has finished! 

So did our first competition ...

In total, 152 people took part and with the "research randomizer" I picked up the winner:

Xenia from Patras, 

have won the diapers form

It was very nice to 'see" people form all the parts of Greece....

For the rest of you, good luck next time, which will be pretty soon!

So, stay tuned!

Our first competition

Today the "real nappy week" begins!

Why not celebrating it somehow?

I wanted to organise something but since we are only few in Greece, spread on different places, it was not easy, at least for this year.

So, we have a competition!

You can submit the form untill the midnight of the 22nd of May and one of you will win three cotton diapers all-in-one from 

How do you like them?

Good luck to everyone!!

SUBMIT FORM (it is ended)