OMG A certified organic fast food chain. Yep, it’s REAL people. Are you like me and have driven around feeling hungry and thought, I’d just love to get some fast food that wasn’t the usual crap? I have … plenty of times … and I kept dreaming as I paid for some soggy Maccas salad option. Enter Oliver’s Real Food. Now, I haven’t had the pleasure of trying Oliver’s yet, as unfortunately, there aren’t any stores located near me yet…
A soap-free natural shampoo that still lathers?!?! And is good for both us humans, and our pets. 🐶 Well I found a beauty. Interested? Keep reading to find out more, as well as our special offer. We are conditioned to believe that the only way to have clean locks is for our products to lather. Whilst shampoos that lather do clean, the ingredients used to create lather may not be good for us. Shampoo, like many cleansers, is primarily made…
Ever asked yourself, what’s in my toothpaste? If you’re like me, for the longest time, I had no idea. I never paid attention to what I was using and just popped some on my toothbrush, and started brushing thinking about my day. Not realising that I was possibly ingesting a range of toxic substances including: ❗️Triclosan – used in many personal care items, which impedes the thyroid gland, is likely to be an endocrine disrupter, may cause reduced fertility, fetal…
How’s your armpit doing? When’s the last time you gave it some love? Odd questions I know, but important ones considering your armpit is home to hundreds of sweat glands that help control your body temperature and work to expel harmful toxins such as cancer cells through lymph nodes from your body through perspiration. There isn’t scientific evidence to back claims that blocking your lymph nodes causes cancer through using chemical-laden deodorants and sprays. I think we can guess why?…
Do you have girls who are teens or will be someday, or do you buy gifts for teen girls? Or just like a feel good entrepreneurial story? Keep reading. This post is a huge shout out to the up-and-coming Aussie teen-preneur, Izzi, from LuvUrSkin who recently appeared on Shark Tank Australia, promoting her natural skincare and cosmetic range for young girls. Izzi responded to her mum’s refusal to allow her to wear her adult products due to chemicals in them,…
So excited to see that The Source Moonee Ponds is opening today. This is their 30th store Australia-wide. Congrats, guys!!! We are HUGE recyclers in our household with a focus on very little waste and healthy foods and natural products. So The Source Bulk Foods is right up our alley. Benefits of recycling: ♻️ reduce waste going to landfill ♻️ prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials ♻️ saves energy ♻️ reduce greenhouse emissions that contribute…
Anyone drink it or cook with it? Thanks to Matcha Maiden for your amazing sweet treat idea pictured … so pretty! I enjoy a matcha latte when I can find one at a cafe, and I find it a nice alternative to plain tea. My local in Avondale Heights Particle Cinnamon makes an amazing latte. Matcha is finely-ground powder of specially-grown and processed green tea. The green tea plants are shade-grown in the last three weeks before harvest and the…
I posted recently about how much added sugar is in our foods. So today’s post is all about one alternative to sugar, particularly when cooking sweets – and my current fave – Organic Rice Malt Syrup! Organic Rice Malt Syrup is a versatile and natural sweetener made from organic brown rice. It is made through culturing rice with enzymes to breakdown the starches and then cooking until it becomes syrup. The final product contains soluble complex carbohydrates, maltose and a…
When I had a baby recently, I became even more conscious about what products I would use on my precious little one to get her started in life in the healthiest possibly way. There is a plethora of baby products on the market, especially for nappy creams; many of them chemically based – containing Benzyl Benzoate, Benzyl Alcohol, Propylene Glycol, Linalyl Acetate to name a few. The MSDS’ (material safety data sheets) for these ingredients state to varying degrees that…
It’s time to go tropical! Coconut Oil – Boy, is it good for nearly everything! And it’s even better when you find it at Aldi (Australia) for $4.99 – and it tastes incredible. In our family, we use coconut oil in our cooking, smoothies, as a moisturiser, on scars, in our baby’s bath water, oil pulling** and we eat a teaspoon every night (including bubs – and she loves it!). Coconut oil contains short-term medium-chain saturated fatty acids (MCFAs), which…
