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Meet the Maker: Maud Timmermans

Meet the Maker: Maud Timmermans

Meet Maud Timmermans. Maud, the founder of TIMM ceramics, is a designer and ceramist, making practical and sustainable products. She believes in the importance of a healthy relationship between a...
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Veganuary

Veganuary

January is Veganuary, a month focussing on a plant based diet, helping people to see how wonderful life can be without eating meat, eggs and dairy products. I think it's...
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You are probably drinking plastic with your tea

You are probably drinking plastic with your tea

I love me a cuppa tea in the morning and I’m not alone. Photography Credit: Anton Eine   In the UK there are 165 million cups of tea consumed every...
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Meet the Maker - Het Atelier

Meet the Maker - Het Atelier

Our wonderful range of ceramic soap rests is handmade made in the Netherlands by disabled people. Het Atelier in Berlicum is part of the Kentalis group, where adults with communicative disabilities, mainly...
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Review: Smol Dishwasher Tablets

Review: Smol Dishwasher Tablets

I think almost everyone in this eco-community has tried these ones. What started out as a free pack, turned into me wanting their tablets topped up every other month. And...
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Review: PerlaPods Dishwasher Tablets

Review: PerlaPods Dishwasher Tablets

Happy Plastic Free July! Let's talk about our plastic use in the kitchen, because I've been plastic free in the dishes area for over a year now! We mainly use...
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Review: Soap Nuts

Review: Soap Nuts

I never would have imagined that a couple of nuts could clean your clothes. Lots of people love these, but... I'm not actually sure how well they really work. Sometimes...
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Why you need different types of cleaners in your household

Why you need different types of cleaners in your household

I've been wondering for years, why do we always have twenty different types of cleaning products in our cabinets? Why can't a 'glass cleaner' not clean a dirty tabletop or...
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Review: Period Pads by Bloom and Nora

Review: Period Pads by Bloom and Nora

I think reusing products should be the way forward, but I'm not a fan of these period pads by Bloom and Nora. They are very thick and you can feel...
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Review: Natracare Panty Liners

Review: Natracare Panty Liners

Natracare produced the world's first organic cotton tampon, going back to 1989. Tampons were officially patented in 1929, so it took a long time for someone to start looking at...
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Review: Callaly Tampons

Review: Callaly Tampons

Callaly is one of those prescription companies that send a box full of period goodies before your period arrives. So you never have to think about buying enough tampons to...
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Review: Flux Period Undies

Review: Flux Period Undies

I loved my reusable period undies from Modibodi so much that I wanted to buy more, but choose for a different brand this time. Flux are much tighter than the...
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