Eco & ethical living
Instead of buying furniture polish, save money and make your own natural furniture polish for wood with this simple recipe. For your home-made green cleaning natural furniture polish, you need just two ingredients: Olive oil Lemon juice Just mix 2 parts olive oil with 1 part lemon juice, rub the mixture sparingly onto the wood, […]
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Cambridge-based Narynda Kumar has been developing her own natural skin care range for seven years after finding that prescribed products just weren’t working. This is a story you will find is behind the start of many natural and organic skin care brands. Using left over wax from her own bee honey harvest, Narynda created a
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In a remote, wooded valley near the Pembrokeshire coast in Wales lies the Melin Tregwynt Woollen Mill. Whilst on holiday in Wales during the springtime last year, we armed ourselves with a sat nav and drove through green, winding country lanes to see the mill at work and visit the shop. I like to support
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By buying an ethical or environmentally-friendly present this Christmas you can give a wonderful gift with added benefits. Buy a Fairtrade pressie to ensure the producers of your item are paid a fair wage. Give a gift to our planet by choosing items made from recycled materials instead of a product which uses more of the earth’s resources. Support local
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The natural world is an important part of my life so as someone who’s also slightly obsessed with jewellery, I love to see pieces where the designer has been inspired by the beauty of nature. Designed by Nature was founded by Iris Ben-David and I first came across them on Twitter. I was taken by
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During National Insect Week this summer, I came across this wonderful sculpture of dung beetles pushing a ball of dung created by Made by a Prince from recycled metal objects including spoons. After a chat on Twitter, the prince in question kindly agreed to let me share these photos of his animal, bird and insect
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