Whether it’s to keep warm on a cold winter’s day or to soothe some aches and pains, hot water bottles are a useful item to have on hand.  Admittedly, I did not grow up using hot water bottles so I never knew the appeal of them. However, my husband did grow up using hot water […]

Quorn is trying to be as sustainable as possible and continually sets and meets goals in order to do so. They have hit a few of their targets already, including: Quorn is the first global meat alternative brand to achieve third-party certification of its carbon footprint figures. Quorn is Carbon Trust certified. Is Quorn environmentally […]

Ethique was started in a science lab in 2012 by the founder, Brianne West. She started making shampoo bars as an alternative to the 80 billion plastic shampoo and conditioner bottles thrown out globally each year. Since then, Ethique has grown from being made in a small New Zealand kitchen to a full-fledged international beauty brand. […]

Overall, I think this is a great, affordable eco-friendly option for a household cleaner. Eco-max has a third party certification, which is crucial for any product claiming to be eco-friendly. The more third-party certifications a product has, the more confident I am that the product is actually green. It is easy to find as it is […]

I have just recently started journaling every day. Throughout the years I dabbled but never committed to the whole journaling process. However, ever since reading the book, The Miracle Morning, I have become a daily journaler (that’s a word, right)? Side note: If you are suffering from lack of motivation and focus, I highly recommend […]

When I originally set out to write this article, I was going to compile a whole list of ecofriendly yoga mats. However, I quickly found out that many yoga mats, including ones marketed as ‘eco-friendly’, contain plastics of some sort. In my humble opinion, plastic does not equal eco-friendly. So for the sake of this […]

You have just spent the last 20 minutes cleaning your kitchen counters and sink, but surrounding your faucet is not as sparkly as it could be. Welcome to the world of hard water stains. They happen to the best of us! There is nothing more irritating than spending valuable time cleaning just to have mediocre […]

Not all natural toothpaste are created equal. Today, I put Schmidt’s Wondermint Tooth and Mouth… Read More Here is my honest review of Jason Sea Fresh toothpaste. Full disclosure, while Jason is my… Read More

I measured the straws independently and then compared them to the information on Amazon, and they measure up (corny pun intended!). Here are my results: Diameter for all the straws are 0.5cm or 0.2″ The length for all the straws are as follows: Tall Bent: 25cm or almost 10″ Short Bent: 20.5cm or almost 8″ […]

This subject is of particular interest to me, as I have recently started a retail arbitrage business where I buy products at a low price and sell them at a higher price on websites like eBay and Amazon. Doing this business while staying environmentally friendly has been tough, I’m not going to lie.  In this […]

In our family, we have two big times a year for birthdays, October and January. Being January 9 today, we are right in the throes of birthday celebrations. All of the birthdays we are celebrating this month are for kids. So you guessed it, tons of balloons all over the place (that is until my […]

From take-out containers to gum wrappers, food packaging is all around us. Have you ever stopped to look at the waste that is produced from a lot of food products? Just yesterday, I opened up a box of cookies someone had given us for Christmas. The outside box was made from cardboard (good, it’s recyclable) […]

Saying goodbye to disposable kitchen products such as plastic wrap, baggies, aluminum foil, wax and parchment paper (just to name a few) can be very liberating. It’s like a huge weight being lifted off your shoulders when you know you are doing your part in keeping our environment just a little bit cleaner. Not to […]

According to energy central (TL;DR after quote): Ink printers and their ink are made up of several ingredients, most of them chemicals that have the potential to be damaging to you and the environment. Some of these include butyl urea, which prevents your paper from curling; cyclohexanone, which helps ink adhere to polymers; several dyes including […]