iVillage

Meet the Women Behind the Businesses You Love

From maternity clothes to kids' toys, these inspiring women created the products that we can't live without (21 Photos)

Ellen Sturm Niz on Oct 24, 2012 at 12:46AM

chime in now

Single View
View All

2 of 21

Meet the Women Behind the Businesses You Love

Lunch Skins/Kirsten Quigley, Cristina Bourelly and Jennie Stoller Barakat

Kirsten Quigley, Cristina Bourelly and Jennie Stoller Barakat

The Mompreneurs: Kirsten Quigley, Cristina Bourelly and Jennie Stoller Barakat of 3greenmoms’ LunchSkins snack bags

The Birth Story: Worried that our planet is turning into a rubbish heap? So were Quigley and Bourelly when they learned that more than 20 million sandwich bags from school lunches go into landfills every day in the U.S. In 2008, these moms created LunchSkins -- food-safe, dishwasher-friendly and attractive reusable bags. Made from a thick cotton fabric coated with a food-safe polyurethane liner, the bags are grease- and moisture-proof -- and have helped save 12 million plastic baggies from landfills! Third mom and creative director Stoller Barakat designed the bags’ bold, graphic prints.