It’s organic September this month. And whilst I love any additional focus on the benefits of organic (ie without pesticides) we are committed to organic all year round. I started using non organic fabric when I started the business, but knowing that non organic fabric and cotton is so damaging to the environment and the people who grow it, made me so uneasy and we switched to an organic fabric base.

Being a sustainable ethical company isn’t just producing products that are plastic free and reusable, it’s ensuring that EVERY little bit of the business is doing its utmost to be the cleanest and most sustainable for the planet. And i’m sorry, but if your fabric isn’t organic, or grown in a sustainable way… your business is not ethical. Your business is green washing.

The pesticides used to grow cotton are so strong that often after the crops are sprayed, people can’t go into the fields for days because of the damage it causes to their health.

Organic farming relies on natural systems and cycles and looking after the earth the crops grow in. No pesticides are used, and natural methods are used to keep pests away.

Have a look at this great post by The Soil Association all about organic farming.

https://www.soilassociation.org/certification/fashion-textiles/organic-cotton-the-sustainable-choice/

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We’ve won an award!!!! Or our amazing cloth reusable wipes have.

They won best eco product in the kitchen category in @beautyshortlist. It’s so exciting to have one of our favourite products recognised in this way. So many environmentally focussed brands won awards this year, it really feels like mindset is definitely on greener issues and climate change.

Im so proud of anyone who is moving away from using polluting single use plastics. It’s not easy when the super markets are still full of them. I know the effort involved in researching and finding more eco alternatives. And if you have little babies, even more so, i know how your time is stretched.

Thanks to the @beautyshortlist for the award, I’m very honoured.

Click here to see the full list of winners https://www.thebeautyshortlist.com

Yesterday I’d planned to get up and do a post about an octopus and talk about my love of sea creatures. I was going to talk about octopuses, how clever they were, their beauty and majesty.

But i woke up in the hugest rage. I don’t know if it was the sun moving into Aries giving me some extra fire.. but my rage at the amount of disposable masks and micro plastics on the earth and in the ocean enraged me.

Each month, over 1.6 billion disposable face masks are being discarded... that’s over a trillion since Covid.. a trillion pieces of plastic produced and discarded. A trillion pieces of plastic that will never disappear, only break down into smaller pieces of plastic called micro plastics.

We’re swimming in plastic.. literally. I’m really afraid that we’re running out of time. That we’re not doing enough. That not enough people are taking our climate crisis seriously enough. This is it people. We have a small, finite amount of time before the world reached a point from which there is no return.

We have to make changes, we have to operate outside of our own personal changes. How can we encourage more people to care about the future of this planet?

And honestly... if you don’t need a medical grade mask and can wear a reusable mask... just do it. If you want one and don’t have sufficient funds to buy one, I have some that I will give you. Please contact me directly.

How have your sustainability habits changed since Covid 19?

Initially, I felt like there was an energy of intense fear that caused People to perhaps undo some of the eco swaps and changes they had brought into their lives. Moving to more stringent cleaners.. maybe using antibacterial cleaning wipes.

Perhaps an edge of not being able to cope with too much fuss and needing the security in chemicals...

I also saw those who began to throw them selves into a new more sustainable way of living. Perhaps being Home more, creating more visible waste than you noticed when you were out at work 5 days a Week. People started growing their own food, rejecting single use plastics, stopped using their cars so much. Tried a vegan diet.

The message is... don’t stop now. It is not time to relax in the climate change crisis. We have 8/9 years to reverse and halt the damage humans have caused our dear Mother Earth.

The conversation continued, how can you dedicate your life, especially in the near future, to safe guarding our planet from the irreversible affects of climate change?

Because the truth is, we must change our behaviour. And we must change it now.

I know lots of you have made changes... a friend has set up a brand new cycling group on Facebook which has been hugely popular locally. It’s called the. no.1ladiescyclingagency. Check them out on Facebook.

And I love the idea that we put aside EVERYTHING else for the next 10 years and really prioritise our planet. It is
Possible to reverse and halt the damage. There is hope. We must believe that for our children and the next generations. Who’s with us??

Tell us below what you commit to doing over the next 10 years...

and I promise to share an idea I’ve been brewing...