Author: Lauren Caruana
Why You Need A Compostable Phone Case
How many phone cases have you bought in your life? Was it cute? Did it protect your phone? Can you use it confidently knowing that something as small and seemingly insignificant as a phone case is having a positive effect on our planet? Probably not. But buying a compostable phone case does make a … read more
Reasons For Choosing A Vegan Backpack
Whether you’re travelling, going to work, the gym, your mates place or the library to catch-up on uni work that was due last week, everyone uses a backpack at some point in their lives. However, something we never usually think about is where that backpack came from and how it was made. Leather backpacks have … read more
Clean Product For A Clean Skin
Our skin is our biggest organ so why is it not our biggest priority? Our bodies absorb everything that goes onto our skin, a simple but scary fact. Let’s think about all the moisturisers, all the sunscreens, all the scrubs and soaps we use without even reading or realising what is in the ingredients. Keeping … read more
Zero Waste Bathroom Alternatives That You Should Try
The importance of zero waste options and products within the consumer market is uncanny. Everyday we use bathroom products that are packaged in plastic, which is continually polluting and contaminating our world. So what is zero waste, what does it mean? Zero waste allows us all to participate in protecting our environment. The approach protects … read more
Why Should We Choose Organic Cotton Clothes?
This week we’re talking about the importance of buying organic cotton clothes over traditional clothing. Like me, many of you might not have realised the impact of non organic cotton clothes. It impacts not only industry workers, farming, and natural resources but also the overall health of our bodies and skin. In the past, I … read more
How To Tell When Beauty Products Are Cruelty Free?
Are you being fooled by companies trying to trick you into thinking you buy cruelty free beauty products even when they’re not?? It’s mind boggling to me to think that in 2020 and now almost 2021, that brands are still testing on animals and trying to trick consumers with labelling. Here is a quick guide … read more
My Eco-Friendly Skincare Routine
Welcome to a day in the life of using Baskia Lane and Luxeluna products. Recently I was lucky enough to have been given a few products from these companies – and here’s how it went, broken down into a typical morning. Here is my eco-friendly skincare routine! Wake Up – Shower Basksia Lane Oilve Oil … read more
How to be a Sustainable Pet Owner
How many of you have ever considered whether the way we live with our pets is sustainable or not? We might not even realise that many things we do with our furry friends are harming the environment. The environment that they enjoy and love to explore everyday themselves. Let’s dive into how you can become … read more
Why Choose Ethical Chocolate
Who doesn’t love chocolate? As Australians we LOVE chocolate, proven in a global per person consumption statistic where we fell into ninth place beating the likes of the USA, Japan and Brazil. They may have us on the football pitch, but we’ve got ‘em here! This week’s topic is on the cocoa industry and whether … read more
Environmental Impact Of Sunscreens
SunButter Skin Care is quickly becoming one of Australia’s biggest known reef safe sunscreen companies. Establishing themselves in 2016, marine biologist and conservation ecologist team Sacha Guggenheimer and Tom Hiney first started learning about the negative impacts of chemical sunscreens on our oceans and in particular, coral reefs, when they were working on the Ningaloo … read more
An Insight Into Some Of Our Aussie Sustainability Magazines
This is one for all the people with all the right intentions but just have no idea where to start. It’s easy to think that when we want to start living a more sustainable and eco-friendly life, that suddenly everything will be different and you need to make extreme changes, but that is not the … read more
Where And What To Recycle
Recycling.. What is it really? Does it actually matter if I put the plastics in the plastic bin and paper in the paper bins, or does it all just end up in the same pile of garbage? YES! Don’t be fooled, it matters. But it also matters that we understand how to recycle properly, and … read more
Eco-Friendly Period Products You Will Actually Want To Use
Let’s talk about periods. I think it’s safe to say that as women our monthly friend isn’t always as friendly as we’d like it to be, and can usually end up being quite expensive. With natural pain relief remedies, advil, panadol, heat packs, cold packs, time off work and even headaches… it can all quickly … read more