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	ask the experts laura schmitt

Laura started her journey into natural home and body care when her first daughter was born with extreme sensitive skin. She couldn't find products that didn't make her daughter's skin break out into a rash, so the research started and Laura began making her own natural cleaning, body care, and cloth diapering products at home. Besides making her home healthier, and her daughters happier, she also learned to save money and help our earth. "I realized how sucked into the consumerist cycle I really was and I broke free!" says Laura.

For the past four years Laura has been teaching classes in her area colleges and co-ops on natural home and body care as a way to spread the word and educate others on their role in non toxic and more natural cleaners for their homes, bodies and earth. Additionally, she opened SleepingBean.com as a small store to promote natural products and share recipes for home and body care.

You can find Laura's intro to cloth diapering article, Crazy for Cloth, www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/diapers/crazy-for-cloth.html on Mothering.com and look for It's a Gift, coming to Mothering.com this fall.