Lemieux – Produits Écologique en Vrac

Ici, c’est le royaume des produits naturels! Si, comme moi, vous aimez les savons maisons, shampoings et produits ménagers écolos, vous serez au paradis!
La première fois, planifiez un peu de temps afin de faire le tour du magasin qui est quand même assez grand. Il y a beaucoup de choix et la qualité est au rendez – vous. Il y a de tout pour faire vos propres produits maison si vous avez envie de vous y mettre cette année! Un conseil: apportez vos propres contenants si vous acheter en vrac. Et achetez selon vos besoins et votre budget. Une bonne manière de commencer l’année en beauté!

Cycling up Gilford, I noticed the doors open on Lemieux, and stopped in to check it out! It didn’t look particularly open, as there were boxes of stock everywhere and the shelves were half-​empty, but the women working said that they opened the doors early, and were ready for business. I was out of my hippy-​dippy laundry detergent, so went to check out their offerings. They had lots of choices of scents, with a few surprising ones like bergamot, cedar, honeysuckle, vanilla, and almond, and I was really pleased that the names of the scents were plain and descriptive, not «forest dream» or «fresh scent» or anything like that. I was tempted by a few, but settled on a small bottle of the unscented variety. It was cool to see that the back wall of the shop was filled with industrial-​sized barrels of bulk liquid detergent, in all the available scents.
Then, my eye caught the big wall of cloth diapers in the back. I had just spent over an hour looking at cloth diapers online (mini-​me is getting ready for training pants), so this was kismet. Unfortunately, they didn’t have quite what I wanted, but they had a really impressive range of covers and all-​in-​one diapers from Canadian brands, and also a nice selection of granola-​mama accessories: hand-​quilted diaper changing pads, cloth wipes, my absolute favorite sippy cup (the ZoliBot XL, by the way. I have become a woman with **opinions** on sippy cups, just shoot me now), and other little things that looked like nice gifts for moms.
It was 3pm and I hadn’t had lunch yet, so I didn’t dawdle much longer, but when I checked out I chatted with the people working there, who mentioned that there was a lot of stock that hadn’t made it to the floor yet, and that I should check back for training diapers in a while. They were nice, didn’t laugh at my crappy French, and the prices were decent. I’ll be back!