A little over a year ago, I made a momentous lifestyle change and decided to buy a Mooncup. I was deep into the environmental movement, and the next natural step looked like it had to be an intersection of feminism and environmentalism. And the change has been huge, both in a physical and sustainable sense….
Homemade Moisturiser
Doesn’t it really bug you when you spend a fortune on a well-known brand’s moisturiser, only to come out looking like a teenager who just got their first spots? This is the problem I have faced for a while. I religiously used Palmers cocoa butter- it smells delicious right? But what I didn’t realise was…
No-poo Diary: 22 Months
If you read my original post, you’ll know that my break into the world of no-pooing wasn’t all easy-riding. But, I stuck with it! Now I am two months away from having a two-year streak of non-toxin filled and naturally clean hair. YAY. I can’t say things got easier for me. A couple of months…
Avocado Face Scrub Results
I have been using the avocado face scrubs for approximately a year now and it feels incredible! While initially I was mixing a lot of avocado with honey, lemon and AVC I am, in fact, a tight-wad at heart and thus couldn’t bear to spare with my honey and lemon…and a whole avocado! Now my…
Why I Am Giving Up My No-poo
It has been two years and four months since I decided to make the big leap into no-poo territory. And what an experience! After going on a Google frenzy research all kinds of different recipes and methods, I came to my own recipe which can be found here. This was a basic no-poo 101 recipe:…
Homemade Hair Conditioner
9 months after starting to use this ACV conditioner recipe my hair is feeling healthier and happier!
Our Basic Livelihood Is Under Threat From Climate Change
In class one day, my Professor drilled it into us that “Power is the ability to eat”. Power is also access to water, yet underground and hydraulic fracking and the rapidly melting Arctic ice caps are threatening that very same water we need to survive. The great irony of it all is that our ‘need’ to…
Consumer Habits We Can Change feat. Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein emphasises the biggest problem facing our world as a barrier to tackling climate change as capitalism and the free market. Whilst I have included a page of natural products online that you can buy, what I really want to do with this blog is encourage people to become closer to their environment and…
Coconut Oil moisturiser and shaving cream and smoothing serum…
I love coconut oil. You know on Forrest Gump when Bubba is telling Forrest about his family business? “You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp…
Home-made Avocado Face Mask
For skin that will make you positively glow, this avocado face mask is a great way of detoxing your skin after a hard week of weather and stress and any products you may regularly use during the week. Now I find this mask particularly difficult to make, owing to my overzealous love for avocados, putting half…
Home-made Pot Pourri
Now we all love our homes to smell wonderful 24 hours a day, but how conscious are we being of the environmental impact of our habits, every time we plug in an air freshener or replace a tealight or spritz the air with an aerosol? Pot pourri is no longer just for elderly ladies’ bathrooms…
Reuseable Pantyliners
It’s not a pretty subject, but female hygiene is the cause of mass unnecessary waste. Whilst the book “Flow: The Cultural History of Menstruation” states that during the average woman’s lifetime her periods amount up to 62,415 pounds of garbage equaling 0.5 percent of her personal landfill load, it may not seem like a lot, but we are…
Ecofriendly Grace 