Being a more conscious consumer means doing more research and asking questions before buying a product to see whether it fits your criteria based on things like ethical production, eco-friendly materials, and good quality. But it also means asking whether you need it at all or whether you can find it somewhere else, without having…
Fashion Revolution: Know The Origin
Ethical fashion movement Fashion Revolution encourages us to ask Who made my clothes? To make us think before we buy, to make us question brands, and to make us appreciate our clothes and the craft that goes into making them. This week (24-30 April) is Fashion Revolution Week, remembering the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster where…
Sustainable and ethical fashion // Springtime favourites
As it’s now April it’s high time to stop hibernating and head out to enjoy sunshine and blossoming trees. And to change the wardrobe around from being all about layering and keeping warm to embracing lighter colours and potentially even showing a bit of skin. To celebrate that we’ve passed the Spring Equinox I’ve put…
The best sustainable shopping spots in London
The growing interest for sustainable fashion, local produce and handmade crafts has subsequently seen a growing trend of independent boutiques across London with this as their main focus. If you’re looking to avoid the high street with all its fast fashion there are loads of great markets, pop-up shops and established boutiques that offer you…
Using our purchasing power to support women
True sisterhood extends past your closest friends and family. It reaches across your professional life where you’re able to support and mentor other women to gain self esteem, do well, get promoted. It should also extend across your way of living and consuming. Today, on International Women’s Day, and on all other days, we should…
Minimalism vs Living Lagom
There are trends in all aspects of living – fashion styles; diets; types of classes to take at the gym; types of coffee; places to go for holiday; what social media app to use. Most of these often promote a rather stressful lifestyle where it’s important to always keep up with the latest. But…
Sustainable and ethical loungewear favourites
This time of the year is definitely the time to be lounging around. Christmas is long gone but it’s still ages until spring will arrive, and it’s freezing outside so you might as well just stay in with hot drinks, blankets and great movies. And of course great loungewear. There’s so much nice stuff out…
Five steps towards clean and ethical beauty
Many of us are most often very conscious of what we put inside our bodies by eating healthily but also looking at whether our food has been grown/produced locally and whether it’s an organic product free from chemicals. But what we chose to put on our bodies, on our skin, doesn’t alway get the same…
How to be a more conscious consumer in 2017
Even though the ‘new year, new me’ mantra is a bit of a cliché I can’t help but feeling there’s new energy and motivation at the beginning of a new year. Most of us have had a nice relaxing break over Christmas, and you’ve toasted a happy new year with your friends. I don’t change…
Top conscious travelling tips for long-haul flights
Over the holidays I was lucky enough to visit the beauty that is New Zealand – an incredible destination for anyone wanting to be amazed by natural beauty. To be able to see such greatness, covering anything from beaches to glaciers, from mud pools to turquoise gorges cutting through mountains, was an absolute treat…