You may dream of growing all of your own food, but your personal reality might not be as romantic as a rural retreat with an acre of ground in the south of France (my as yet unfulfilled vision for living my good life). You may be an urban eco-warrior, or like me a suburban greenie. […]
Health Benefits of Green Juice
May 30, 2011 by · 8 Comments
Green drinks are all the rage. All the beautiful, cool, successful folks are uploading photos and recipes to their social streams. And I’m one of them; converted and utterly convinced about this magic elixir. It wasn’t always the way … I first heard about green drinks by way of that ever optimistic, ever gregarious life […]
Organic Family Travel
May 21, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
The return of warm sunshine here in the northern hemisphere and your thoughts may be turning to vacations but in this day and age, especially for us natural folks, travel comes loaded with all types of responsibilities. As an almost everyday family with organic tendencies, here are just some of the questions we ask each […]
Can Safe Sun Exposure Be a Part of Your Natural Health?
May 15, 2011 by · 1 Comment
Top of the summer season’s questions and one of the most controversial, is can a natural approach to sun exposure be safe? This is a tough question to answer – start doing your research and the deeper you go, you’ll find a plethora of conflicting information and a minefield of scientific gobbledygook. Holistic approach, anyone? […]
Safe Sun Protection and Natural Health
May 9, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
Safe sun exposure in the modern age is generally accepted to include the application of sun screens or blocks with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15+. As our awareness of the potentially harmful nature of some cosmetic ingredients grows, so does an ever increasing amount of natural and organic labelled sun screen products become […]
3 Business Tips To Help You Begin Your Organic Lifestyle
April 25, 2011 by · 2 Comments
The organic route to a healthier and more sustainable way of life is reached by many different paths. Every organic enthusiast I know comes at it from a different perspective, and an organic lifestyle can often make it a complicated choice to maintain and advocate. What I wished I’d know when I started … The […]
5 Foods That Make Great Beauty Products
April 17, 2011 by · 2 Comments
In my pursuit of an organic lifestyle, I often think of the mantra associated with cosmetics multi-millionaire Helena Rubinstein – “Don’t put anything on your face that you wouldn’t put in your mouth”. In fact, it really does form the cornerstone of my personal care routine – not least because up to seventy percent of […]
