Eco-Friendly Treats Moms will Love on Mother's Day

Eco-friendly, spa-quality products make great gifts for Mother's Day. You can give your mom a gift that is good for her and the environment without doing irreparable harm to your pocketbook. In this eco-conscious age, you're not limited to giving your mom a reusable canvas bag or a window garden kit; you can be as extravagant or frugal as your resources allow.

If your mom is just getting up to speed with all this "green" stuff, you might want to get her this informative and helpful gift. Visit Sophie Uliano's Gorgeously Green website and pick up a copy of her book Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Eco-Friendly Life ($16.95). The book is fun, full of facts, recipes, and easy things, that anyone can do to live a more healthful and green lifestyle. It also comes with a free and fashionable Chico Bag bearing the Gorgeously Green logo when you purchase it from the Gorgeously Green website.

Ten Thousand Villages offers fair trade products ($10.00 & up) and has something to appeal to every mom. You can select from pots, planters, jewelry, home decor items and more. Let your mom know how her gift helped another woman make a way for her self and her family in the world.

If your mom loves flowers and plants, order them from Organic Style. They also offer a varied range of gourmet gift baskets that an eco-friendly buyer can purchase with a clear conscious. Organic Style states in their buyers' guide: "All of our flowers and gift products are organically and sustainably grown and ECO certified." In short, their offerings ($25.00 & up) are good for the environment and good to mom.

If your mom loves long relaxing baths, soothing lotions and oils as well as the occasional back rub, check out these vendors, Indigo Wild($15.00 & under) and Carol's Daughter ($18.00 & up). They create soaps, salts, cleansers and lotions for your mom to smooth, soothe and polish her body, so her inner and outer beauty shine. If you'd like to treat her to a spa day, visit the Aveda website to find the nearest full spa services location.