The road to a greener, healthier home stretches out before me, and sometimes I feel like I'm navigating it on my daughter's tricycle.  It's tough not to get overwhelmed by the heaps of information, or to descend into a shame spiral if you want to drink the occasional bottle of water or don't want to grow all your own food.  But the one step that I've taken recently is to reevaluate the stuff I use to clean my kids.  After all, how can we slather parabens and phthalates (and other things I can't pronounce) on our little ones, all in the name of keeping them clean?

The folks at Method (a.k.a. the "people against dirty") have introduced a new line of greener baby and kid products for parents in search of something better.  The two I've tried are the Methodbaby 3-in-1 Shampoo and Squeaky Green Bubbly Bath.  I was a little skeptical of the smell at first- whoever heard of rice & mallow-scented anything?!- but it's actually quite soothing.  More-familiar scents like Crisp Apple and Fuzzy Peach are also available.

The shampoo is no-tears (really), and sports a removable lid that doubles as a wash cup for little heads of hair (clever!).  The bubble bath comes in an adorable baby-seal bottle, and while it doesn't yield the suds that I remember as a kid, it also doesn't have things like "numbing agents" or "stabilizers".  Enough said.

For more information about these and other Method products, visit their website (they also have an amazing blog), which features a helpful little video on "How to Detox" your home and family.  Because after a long, sweaty trikey ride to a greener home, it's good to know that your bubble bath has got your back... clean.

Method products are available at Target, Babies R Us, and lots of supermarkets.