Eco & ethical living
More and more people are trying to find plastic-free toiletries in the UK. Fortunately, there are lots of plastic-free alternatives in the shops and online. You can buy eco deodorants, dental floss, sunscreen, lip balm, tampons and sanitary pads, low-waste make-up, toilet paper and more. Sunscreen We Love the Planet sunscreen stick is packaged in …
An eco-friendly wooden toilet brush is ideal for a green home and looks so much better than a plastic toilet brush. In this post I review the eco-friendly wooden toilet brush I use and include some fantastic environmentally-friendly alternatives to standard plastic brushes which can’t be recycled and just end up in landfill. The plastic-free …
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Want to prevent and remove limescale in a toilet? Here are some safe, chemical-free and eco-friendly ways to prevent limescale build-up and hard water stains. I also share how to use citric acid, the best natural limescale remover in my opinon, to get rid of limescale in a toilet. Cheap, effective and no need for …
The instructions on your box of tampons may say you can dispose of them in the toilet, but can you flush tampons down the toilet? Have you ever thought about why public toilets have signs asking you not to flush feminine hygiene products such as tampons and sanitary towels down the toilet? It’s because …
What shouldn’t you flush down the toilet and why? What should you do with it instead? Flushing the wrong things causes blockages, pollution and littering. The Marine Conservation Society’s Great British Beach Clean reported in March 2015 that the number of wet wipes on UK beaches had more than doubled between 2013 and 2014. This rise …
Instead of using a lip balm which contains petroleum jelly, why not treat yourself to a wonderful alternative to Vaseline for lips with an organic, natural petroleum-free lip balm. Here’s some of the best all-natural lip balms including lip balms with organic beeswax, vegan lip balms without beeswax, plastic-free and more. I’ve chosen ones which …