The wait is over, the new Earthlust Birds & Bees bottles are in the country. Available in 2 patterns (birds & bees), these baby bottle / sippy cup combo kids contain:-

• Double wall vacuum insulated stainless steel bottle
• Baby Teat
• Soft Sippy Spout
• Travel Cap
• Handles
• Ring (without handles)

Use this bpa free baby bottle kit to easily transition from bottle feeding to a sippy cup. All plastic components are BPA Free. Replacement teats will be available in Australia later in 2010, but in the meantime, most wide-neck teats do fit these bottles.

RRP – $39.95.
Buy Earthlust online from Shop Naturally.
Wholesale Earthlust enquiries to Tracy from Naturally Sustainable.

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For the inner hippy in you, grab a Nathan Sports ‘Rainbow Peace’ stainless steel drink bottle, just released in Australia. At Shop Naturally, we’re the first online retailer in the country to feature this bottle. Click on the image below to buy.

Nathan Sports Stainless Steel Drink Bottle

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Conservation action group Do Something! went on the search for the most expensive botlted water. The winner? Voss water, sold in the food hall at David Jones for $10.95 for an 800ml bottle, which equals $13.70, or 10 times the cost of the average litre of petrol.

The article goes on to state that Sydney tap water costs $2.01 for 1,000 litres and Australian’s spend over half a billion dollars a year on bottled water. Just crazy.

Read the full article from The Daily Telegraph.

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Shop Naturally are the first online retailer in the country with the new Cheeki Water Bottle designs. 10 new designs across 4 sizes!!

350ml NEW Cheeki water bottle designs

500ml NEW Cheeki water bottle designs

750ml NEW Cheeki water bottle designs

1 litre NEW Cheeki water bottle designs

First shipment is almost sold out, but we have more stock arriving 23rd June.

Shhhhhhhhhhhhh………. a new Cheeki sports bottle with flip top lid is on the way. Watch this space to be the first in the country to own one.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Klean Kanteen Sports 2.0 cap

If you purchased a Klean Kanteen bottle with a Sports 2.0 cap (pictured right) before the end of May 2010 in Australia, this sports cap is subject to recall. If the top of your sports cap has a shiny surface, you have the old version which is being recalled. If the top has a matt finish, you have the new high impact version of the cap.  Site sponsor Shop Naturally stopped selling the old shiny caps at the end of May 2010. Other retailers may not have been so quick to pull their stock. The Klean Kanteen giveaway on Shop Naturally in June 2010 will have the new Sports 2.0 cap as have all sales of Klean Kanteen bottles from June 2010 onwards.

We will now quote directly from the Klean Kanteen recall press release.

“We have been advised of a problem with the Sport Cap 2.0 that was sold with Klean Kanteen® water bottles. We are writing to you today to let you know that we are recalling and replacing the Sport Cap 2.0. Please note that it is only the Sport Cap 2.0 that is being recalled. The water bottle is not affected. Other caps sold with Klean Kanteen® bottles such as the loop, flat or sippy caps are not affected.

We have received seven reports in the United States that the spout tip of Sport Cap 2.0 is prone to breaking or cracking after being dropped. As the product is placed in the mouth, pieces could dislodge and present a choking or swallowing hazard. There have been no injuries in the United States and no reports of similar incidents in Australia. Nevertheless we are always focused on ensuring our products are as safe as possible and have decided that replacement is necessary. 

Klean Kanteen® released a new High Impact Sport Cap 2.0 that is six times more resistant to breaking or cracking and we ask for your assistance in replacing the affected product. The new high impact Sport Cap was sold with Klean Kanteen bottles from May, 2010 and you can tell the difference by looking at the cap and label. The new cap has a dull/matte finish and the label had a small silver sticker attached.

If you have purchased bottles with the Sport Cap 2.0 please stop using the cap, remove the cap from the bottle and contact 1 800 102 806 (in Australia) as soon as possible to arrange a replacement at no charge.”

For more information and to see photos of what the old & the new versions look like, CLICK HERE

FOR KLEAN KANTEEN SPORTS 2.0 CAP REPLACEMENT IN AUSTRALIA, do not contact the retailer where you made your original purchase. Please phone 1800 102 806. They will express post you an addressed package to return your faulty cap. Once received they will send you out a new cap.

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Klean Kanteen now have an Australian distributor and along with that comes a price drop. At the time of publishing this post, Shop Naturally were the only online retailer in the country that passed this significant saving on to their customers. Plus they’re giving 12 away in their June competition.

Shop Naturally also donate a portion of the profits from the sale of ALL water bottle sold online to the following charities:-

• The School of St Jude (sponsoring a teacher)
• World Vision Child Sponsorship
• World Visions ‘Water + Health = Life’

Help support busnesses all over the world that support those less fortunate than themselves (whether it’s us or someone else). One person CAN make a difference.

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In the past couple of weeks, a company has started selling ‘ethical bottled water’ in Australia. It’s being stocked in major supermarkets and the ‘ethical’ tag is coming from the fact that all the profits are being donated to developing childrens playground that double as water pumps to communities in Africa in desperate need of fresh water.

While I applaud the effort, bottled water is bad for the environment, no matter what pretty little ribbon you wrap around it. It takes 10 litres of water (plus oils and other petro-chemicals) to produce a bottle capable of holding 1 litre of water. This bottle then needs to be transported around, using petrol and emitting greenhouse gases that are ruining our planet and making our air hard to breathe.

Whether you put an ‘ethical’ sticker on it, a pink ribbon or put it in a nice box, a dog turd is still a dog turd, and bottled water is still bottled water. It’s expensive & bad for the planet. The kids in Africa can still get their water pumps & playgounds. Here’s what you do.

1. Buy yourself a reusable water bottle. Whether it’s a BPA Free plastic drink bottle, a stainless steel bottle, an aluminium one, a cheap dodgy squeezy one you paid $2 for, it really doesn’t matter.
2. If you want to, get yourself a really good water filter, or even an ordinary one to improve the taste of your drinking water.
3. Figure out how much money you saved by not getting sucked in to the bottled water industry.
4. Donate this money to a worthy program like World Vision’s ‘Water + Health = Life’.

Shop Naturally donate approx. 3% of all profits to worthy charities, including the one mentioned above. Every time you buy a drink bottle from Shop Naturally, you’re helping children & adults in Africa get access to clean drinking water without sucking the life out of the planet at the same time. While we give an automatic monthly donation, you can give one-off donations. Click here for further info about World Vision’s ‘Water + Health = Life’ program.

NEWS ARTICLE – NineMSN

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Are stainless steel baby bottles really much good for anything? Absolutely!

Firstly, there’s two different kinds of stainless steel baby bottles. They’re either insulated or they’re not. The stainless steel bpa free baby bottles that are insulated are suitable for warm milk as well as cold water or fruit juice. The end of May 2010 will see the introduction of the Earthlust Bird & Bees stainless steel baby bottle / sippy cup, and Shop Naturally are the first retailer in the country with the rights to preview & sell this innovative product. This insulated stainless steel bpa free baby bottle comes with removable handles, a baby teat, a soft silicone sippy teat and a protective cap. Visit Safe BPA Free Baby Bottles for your chance to win one (comp ends 30/6/10)!

Then we have the stainless steel baby drink bottles that are only single wall and not insulated. Not such a great idea for warm milk, but very useful for cold water and fruit juice. These bottles will convert from stainless steel baby bottle to stainless steel sippy cup to stainless steel drink bottle with the quick change of a lid.

Phase 1 – Stainless Steel Baby Bottle

Choose either a Klean Kanteen 12oz or ECOtanka 350ml stainless steel water bottle with and Avent adaptor as the lid. ADD a Green to Grow wide mouth teat (available in 3 different flows), or if you have an Avent baby teat at home already, they will fit just fine too (own an Avent baby bottle? Read our quick guide on finding out if your Avent baby bottle is bpa free or not). Experiment with any wide mouth baby teat if you have a draw full already, most will fit.

Phase 2 – Stainless Steel Sippy Cup

Take your Klean Kanteen or ECOtanka stainless steel baby bottle with Avent adaptor and add swap out the baby teat for an Avent sippy spout. They are available in white (6 months+) and green (12 months+). The white spout is the softer of the two. They are sold in twin packs and are available in most supermarkets & chemist shops around the country. If you live in a cave with internet access, you can buy them online, but there’s really no need to.

Phase 3 – Stainless Steel Drink Bottle

Once your child has outgrown the baby teat and the sippy spout, toss them out and add a sports cap. The smart mum will buy one at the time of the initial purchase to save on postage costs later on, but they can be purchased separately.

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Find out by entering the competition from site sponsor Shop Naturally this month. They’re giving away a $200 gift voucher to spend on ANYTHING in their store. Whether you’re after drink bottles, thermos flasks, a stainless steel lunch box to match your drink bottle, natural hair care, chemical free cleaning products or any of the 800+ products available, the sky’s the limit. Click on the graphic below to enter.

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Colours so delicious you could almost eat them! Prevention Purple, Active Pink & Reef Blue are just three of the new fantastically bright and gorgeous colours available in Klean Kanteen bottles. There are 5 more colours that will be available in Australia  around mid May.

In the 12oz bottle, Prevention Purple and Active Pink have been added to the range and are available with a Sports 2.0 cap, Loop Cap or Avent Adaptor. The 18oz and 27oz are available in all three new colours, Active Pink (left), Prevention Purple (middle) and Reef Blue (right). All the new Klean Kanteen bottles are available to buy online from Shop Naturally and are stocked in selected gift stores, health food stores and other outlets nationally.

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