Gifted products. There are a lot of natural, organic, cruelty-free, vegan – you name it – skincare options available these days. Which is great, but people get easily feel lost when trying to find the right thing. This is what matters to me the most when making a skin care purchase decision: sustainability ingredients packaging cruelty free and of course I also want them to work! More often than not I need to compromise. Luckily, I have been sent to try out Whitfords skincare products. Whitfords is a small, UK based skincare company that makes 100% plastic-free and botanical skincare. …
Giveaways
Gifted products Given it’s still Plastic Free July, I have teamed up with Smidge for a fantastic giveaway to win a stainless steel lunch box and two sets of food wraps (a vegan and a beeswax wrap) to help you on your plastic free journey. Taking food with you to work, school or on picnic is the best way to make sure you eat nutritious and healthy food, control portion, keep food costs down and cut down on food waste and packaging. If you had enough of boring supermarket sandwiches, want to eat delicious and home made food and cut …
Gifted items For those, who are struggling with homeschooling: welcome to the club! It’s week 12 here in lockdown and no sign of children going back to school and nursery for the foreseeable future, looks like we will continue like this till September. At home it’s impossible and also makes no sense trying to replicate school. I mentioned a few times, that we do manage about an hour homeschooling on a daily basis, in the mornings mainly, when we can sit down and do writing, English and practise handwriting. The rest of the day is filled with outside time (no …
Gifted items We’ve loved Orchard Toys for a while. There’s plenty of reasons to love them. They are good fun, clever and educational, practically plastic-free and they don’t cost the Earth! They make a fantastic birthday gift too, I bought them on so many occasions for my children’s classmates and friends to gift them on birthdays. A new service is also available to complete the birthday gift: simply print out one of the birthday card designs that are now available to download and colour it. Perfect for helping to celebrate a special birthday while in lockdown. It might be hard …
Win Lamazuna Zero Waste Cosmetics!
If you haven’t heard about Lamazuna, they are a French cosmetics brand and they make lots of great zero waste cosmetic products like solid shampoos and deodorants. Lamazuna After launching their very first product – the cleansing wipes – two more innovative, eco-friendly products came along: the Lamazuna menstrual cup, which I called the “Cup Féminine”, and the Oriculi – a clever little instrument that replaces cotton buds (Q-tips) for life! Both these products make life easier while also considerably reducing bathroom waste!They now have a whole range of solid cosmetics, with over 20 products! There are shampoos, toothpastes and a …
Gifted item Shore & More has a great range of speciality gifts: for those loving all sorts of nautical: handmade wooden boat models, ships in bottle and wall art. Being a big fan of the seas and the beaches myself, I always have a sailing ship in the living room room window since I was lucky enough to by the Mediterranean sea for a few years. It reminds me of the salty air, the freedom, staring at the horizon where the sky meets the sea. Shore & More Handmade Nautical and Wooden Gifts are simply stunning. Shore & More kindly …