Lead Safe Mama’s Safer Choices

 

Originally Published: December 19, 2016
Updated: December 4, 2022

a_8_cupBack in December 2016, I started a series of articles I categorized as “Safer Choices” … These include links to items you can purchase that are the same as (or similar to) the Lead-safe/ Lead-free things I use in my own home. These are still up on the site and are linked below, but I have since also created a separate website that ONLY links Lead-free products (without stories or test results, AND without ADVERTISEMENTS!). That site is www.ShopLeadSafeMama.com. I also created an “Amazon store,” which can be found at this link.

The products in these articles (linked above and below) are all items I have:

  • researched and personally use in my home, or
  • have personally tested with an XRF instrument, or 
  • are very similar to items I have tested and used in my home and…
  • follow my “best practices” rules for the safest products for your home.

If I don’t personally have complete confidence in a brand or product, I will not share it on this site (as a safer choice). 

Please let me know if there are other items (or categories of items) you would like me to write about, and you can always click the “Safer Choices” tab at the top of each article to see my latest overview.  Thank you for reading!

  1. Lead-Free Water Bottles, Baby Bottles & Sippy Cups
  2. Lead-Free Ice Cream Scoops!
  3. Lead-Free Tea Kettles
  4. Lead-Free Hoses
  5. Lead-Free Colander Choices
  6. Lead-Free Mug Choices
  7. Lead-Free Dishware Choices
  8. Lead-Free Measuring Cup Choices
  9. Lead-Free Mixing Bowl Choices
  10. #LeadSafe & #LeadFree Kitchen Appliances
  11. Auntie Tammy’s Lead-Safe Hot Cocoa
  12. Lead-Free Jewelry

For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:

Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

  • Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
  • Since 2009, Tamara has been conducting XRF testing (a scientific testing method) using the exact instrumentation employed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to test consumer goods for toxicants (specifically heavy metals — including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, Antimony, and Arsenic).
  • Since July of 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for 5 product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
  • All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
  • Items that Lead Safe Mama, LLC reports on are tested multiple times to confirm the results published (for each component tested).
  • Recent notable press… There has been too much to mention already in 2024! Please check out our press page to see some of the amazing coverage of our work so far this year!