SUMMER ESSENTIALS

With the summer holidays around the corner, here you go useful and fun products for you to enjoyed - London Mums tested and recommended.

SUNCARE - Baby Sun Shield Hypo Allergic - Chemical free by natural/green/organic products - Amanda McGillivray who started The Natural Skincare Company - the beauty of the Natural Skincare Company is that pretty nearly all you could want is under one roof. For instance there's things for babies, pregnancy, new mums, men, haircare, and suncare as well as skincare and makeup plus wonderful soaps. RRP £13.95 for 120ml for kids with sensitive skin, 100% all-natural formula www.thenaturalskincarecompany.co.uk

'SPLASHA': The perfect kids towelling wrap this summer: From the creators of the award winning Baby Hoodie www.morrck.com comes the 'Splasha', a new and gorgeous soft towelling hooded wrap for children aged one to seven. It's a suitcase must for any summer holiday. The Splasha comes in two designs - blue stripes or soft pastel spots. It has three poppers up the side to keep little ones wrapped up after swimming (or bathing), and also comes with a big treasure pocket on the front, perfect for storing sea shells, sweeties and other precious items! Made from 92% cotton and 8% polyester. Available from www.morrck.com

KANGOL fashion sun hats for kids: London Mums loved their fashionable and trendy style. Definitely the cutest hats this summer. The Kangol Kids Collection reflects a growing youth movement in fashion, one that instills in young people a strong sense of traditional visual themes with an eye towards personal expression and individual style. The collection features hats or caps for any locale or time of year, with season-specific selections as well as trans-seasonal styles that function fashionably in any situation. The Spring/Summer Kids Collection offers warm weather fabric stories such as Bamboo and Tropic, as well as styles such as rain and sun hats expressly crafted for the kids of summer. www.kangolstore.com

SPLASH ABOUT FLOAT SUIT AND FLOAT JACKET 1-4 years Water Buddies float suits have been designed by children's safety swimwear specialists Splash About to protect babies and children in and around water. Funky patterns and colours combined with practical swimwear solutions have resulted in a range of products that make children's lives safer, easier and loads of fun. The fact that they are so colourful they make the kids even more visible enhancing safety on a beach. All Water Buddies are made from special SPF 50+ fabric which blocks 98% of the suns rays, so parents can be safe in the knowledge that children are protected from the sun when swimming and playing outside. www.splashabout.net

BAYARD, a set of educational books that might be of interest for review in your back to school feature. Recent studies have shown that parents are spending less time reading with their children and more and more children are leaving school with reading difficulties. Bayard magazines was born out of the desire to excite and engage children and create the perfect environment for learning and discovery. The magazine market for children is saturated with licensed titles so it's refreshing to find a magazine series that children will enjoy, but is also educational. They are ideal to take on holiday this summer as the magazines are light and encourage children to read for enjoyment plus there are also things to make, do and experiment with while travelling. A Must Have as a hand luggage. www.bayard-magazines.co.uk

ANNABEL KARMEL 'Top 100 Pasta Dishes' BOOK - Great pasta dishes - ideal meal ideas for this summer. Pasta is tasty and nutritious, easy, quick and economical to cook, and even better, comes in lots of fun shapes! This brand new book from Annabel features 100 recipes for the whole family and for every day of the week. There are separate sections on pasta for babies, toddlers and families and older children. www.annabelkarmel.com

MCCAIN SCORES AT MEAL TIMES WITH NEW FOOTBALLS - McCain Footballs World Cup fever hits the dinner table with these new footballs made of real mashed potato. Handy and convenient meal-time solution - also good fun shape for young footballers. Alternatively new healthy McCain Rustic Oven Chips with just 3% fat with skin on to maintain more vitamins and minerals. www.mccain.co.uk

McCain Rustic Oven Chips are low in fat, saturates, sugar and salt and they have three green Food Standards Agency traffic lights; only 3% fat - around 3% lower than oven chips and 11% lower than takeaway fries!, only 224 calories per portion - that's around 732 calories less than chip-shop chips!, packed with vitamin B because the chips have the skins still on. www.mccain.co.uk

TRUNKI's new travel chums: wash bag, pencil case and wrist purse: colourful, everlasting good quality material, very practical and lightweight for traveling over the summer and for back to school/nursery. www.trunki.com

ANNABEL KARMEL/DISNEY new healthy SNACKS range for 12 months+: Disney and Annabel Karmel have teamed up to launch a brand new healthier snacking range using Disney's popular characters Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh. The range consists of rice and corn snacks, juicy strawberry and peach flavoured raisins and 100% natural fruit crisps. There are no artificial colours or flavours and each product has been carefully developed to provide parents with healthier snacking alternatives. www.annabelkarmel.com

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