Great shoe but runs small!!!

I had ordered this sandals for my 9 y/o son. When they arrived I was pleasantly surprised with the quality. They looked like very good sturdy comfortable shoes but..... they run small - at least 1 size smaller than other kind Teva sandals. Size 6 (Big Kid) sandals just barely fit my child when other kind Teva sandals size 6 looked big on him.



Nevertheless I DO recommend these sandals. Just make sure you order one size up.More detail ...

Cute shoe but terrible sizing

I bought this ballet slipper for my 5yo daughter for her first ballet class. The shoe is very pretty but the sizing is way off. I ordered her a size bigger but it was still far too tight and as her feet are pretty narrow it was also way too wide. I returned this slipper (in the end it cost me a ridiculous amount of money due to return shipping) and bought her ballet slippers at Payless which are her size and fit.More detail ...

do not purchase

I bought these at Jcpenney's for my 4 year old. She had them less than a week and the fabric has already fell off the shoes.More detail ...

Toxic Hexane in Formula???

To be honest I have never written a review not matter how good or bad a product I received was. I never had the time and never bothered. Today I write my very first review of a product that I have been feeding my precious son since birth. He is now 2 years 4 months. I could never breastfeed him exclusively due to bone density loss and I did massive amounts of research and tried out tons of different brands before deciding on this organic formula from Earth's Best and since then even though he is now a toddler I still use the Earth's Best infant formula and supplement with other child vitamins.



I was trying to re-order again in bulk from Amazon when I noticed for the first time the controversy over DHA/ARA extraction by the use of toxic hexane of which Hain Celestial which manufactures Earth's Best is guilty of. To understand my utter complete fury you must know that I live in Singapore and I quite literally pay international shipping for every can of this formula (and wade through customs declarations tests and tax levies) to bring this milk to my son. In Singapore this can of milk is also available but in highly limited quantities and even more princely prices (yes even after the tax customs and shipping it still costs less than US$68 which is the going price per can here). Calls to Hain Celestial customer service drove me further up the wall when first a lady said the hexane was only in trace amounts and less than what the FDA approved. Then reaching another lady an hour later the story was different. She said that the hexane solvent method was the only method approved by the FDA to extract the DHA/ARA from non-toxic algae and soil fungus. A third occasion and Hain's customer service informed me that there should be no hexane detected in the product but on further probing admitted that she was not aware if the formula had undergone independent third party tests.



To me this is crazy. The formula was marketed as a pure organic product and we pay premium prices (especially me!) for a premium product. To find that that they have taken such short cuts is completely unacceptable and the worst thing is that it turns out that most of the other organic formula companies do this exact irresponsible thing and keep quiet about it. The only company that does not is Baby's Only - it uses a water based process to extract their DHA/ARA from eggs(compare this to Hain's claim that the hexane method is the only one approved by FDA and one wonders why Baby's Only hasn't been hauled up by the FDA yet). My son is going on that pronto once I can get a shipment to Singapore. Unfortunately Baby's Only is not available in Singapore (not even at princely prices) and my son is going to have to continue ingesting his Earth's Best formula in the interim.



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