where can i find organic baby products in Taipei (e.g. baby food, bio degradable diapers and wipes etc.)
thank you
Hi izzy, there’s a thread started by someone making organic baby food over here in the Parenting forum. Check your local organic food stores, too. Failing that, buy organic foods and pop them in the blender.
On diapers etc., check out Little Wonders, which carries some organic items.
Organic baby clothes are available by mail order from the US, e.g. at Dharmatrading.com. There’s a source in Taiwan too, which Dragonbabe found just the other day. I’ll try to post that for you, and if I forget, please drop me a PM to remind me in a week or so.
For organic baby clothes, you can go imported at http://www.gbaby.com.tw, or local at http://www.enmyshop.com. They both sell the organic baby diapers and blankets I import, too. Both write good English, so if you can’t navigate the sites, just email them with your wishes.
Thank you both.
What about baby care products such as baby cream, shampoos etc.?
Should we stock up before we come to Taiwan? or is there a good enough selection of baby care products available?
thanks again
The range of organic and natural baby products is growing all the time. If you have a favorite brand, let me know what it is and I can check if it is available. I sell Nature’s Baby (hair and baby/family care pdts, US) Ecostore (same, and dishwasher detergent, NZ), Aromakids (mosquito repellant from South Africa), Botanics (repellant, UK), Seapower (natural laundry detergent, Taiwan), and Imse Vimse (organic clothes soaps, wool wash, Sweden). If you have some favorites like baby rash creams or tummy rubs, it is probably cheaper to bring it over yourself and it will save you running around looking when you first arrive, but you can usually get what you need in Taiwan (just for a bit more money due to shipping, taxes, etc).
There are organic cotton baby clothes here, and if you knit, various organic cotton and wool yarns are available here as well as at Earthtree and a few similar stores. If the organic cotton baby clothes at the first link are too plain for you, you can easily decorate them using fabric dye pastels which are dirt cheap at Ba Da art supply (near Shida Univ., in Taibei; just draw, iron and wash once and it’s permanent) or pricier fabric dye markers from dharmatrading.com. There’s also a project underway to do some simple embroidery using organic yarns on organic cotton clothing, and if you’re interested you can send a PM to Dragonbabe asking about that.
Has anyone found a store that sells organic baby clothes in Taipei? If not, does anyone know of a store that sells plain baby clothes of ok quality that doesn’t make the baby look like a Taiwanese teenager at a night market?
There are just a couple at la boutique l’Alchimiste 奇幻之旅,
Zhongshan N. Rd. Sec. 7, #57 (across from the big gym which used to be California Fitness), open
Mon - Sun: 12:30 p- 9:30 pm
There are some at Tanhou (you can run a search for the directions here).
Also, my wife now sells some organic baby outfits (made in Taiwan, with organic cotton fabric, and hand decorated with non-toxic dye) in both pre-designed and custom decorations: Short-sleeve brief, short-sleeve regular & long-sleeve regular styles, sizes: 6M, 12M, 18M, NT750 per piece for pre-designed items, NT70 per shipment within Taiwan, free shipping for three pieces or more.
Thank you! I guess we’ll hit the Tanhou store when we go to Taipei on Sunday. Tienmu is a bit off for us Yilan people without a car. Do you have further directions for the art supply store? My sister in-law is great at drawing so we’ll put some of her designs on the plain clothes you linked to earlier.
Bada Art: Pro Art Supplies in Taipei for heat-set pastels (cheap!)
Also I do recommend getting fabric dye markers for finer work, e.g. dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1 … rkers.html by mail order.
Both work on 100% cotton.
Tanhou really didn’t have much clothes. The store was very nice though. Azure Canvas delivered the clothes in two days to the Family Mart in our house. Nice clothes all around. And for 40 Nt each the pens were a total steal.