Casa di Culture - leaves us smelling sweet!

Casa di Culture is billed as the boutique for the global individual. They have three fantastic products to add to our ‘personal hygiene’ shelf.

I bet you didn’t know that beer is a wonderful cleansing and moisturizing agent! Since beer is primarily hops, many of this herb’s properties and benefits become a skin cleansing asset when [...]

Enamore - sustainably gorgeous underthings

Enamore began in the seaside city of Brighton, UK during 2004 founded by Jenny Ambrose. The brand was born out of the designer’s love for vintage sewing and sustainability. This lustrous black bamboo camisole and ruffle short set is trimmed with icing pink lace and candy pink satin bows. The camisole is cut on [...]

Levi’s® - eco Jeans

Depending where you live, will depend on just how eco your Levi’s can be. Launched in 2006, Brits get the full eco treatment - the jeans are made with 100% organic cotton denim, have a coconut shell button on the waistband and non-galvanised metal fly buttons. The indigo finish has been produced from potato starch, [...]

Elroy - Ceiba Trenchcoat

Another Canadian lovely -  hailing from Vancouver, BC native Leanne McElroy is one of the fresh faces in the west coast fashion scene. Designing for Elroy Apparel, she communicates the message: dressing eco can be elegant, stylish and sexy. Like this Ceiba coat with a versatile draped collar coat with tie waist. Made in Canada [...]

Kazuri - Bird Egg Necklace

Kazuri’s hand-painted ceramic jewellery is made in Kenya. Every bead which makes up a necklace or bracelet is shaped by hand by one of the 300 local women employed by Kazuri. The beads are then kiln fired once, glazed and fired again before being strung. This Bird Egg necklace comes in various lengths and colors. [...]

Preserve® - eco friendly kitchen products

Recycline makes Preserve®– a line of stylish, high performance, eco-friendly products for your home. As a company, they strive to combine socially and environmentally responsible business practices with groundbreaking design to create products that people feel good about having in their homes.

I particularily like these food storage containers. Their innovative lids screw tightly and [...]

Yoga Today - Free Yoga classes

Last year I was turned onto free podcasts on iTunes (for yoga, language classes, cooking, etc.).  But as a fledgling yogi, the yoga podcasts weren’t that great for me - I  always wanted to see the instructor. Now all my dreams have come true! Yoga Today offers a free, one-hour daily yoga class in high [...]

Malie Organics - bring the vacation home

If, like me, the past week has been full of sunny beach dreaming but you really can’t afford to go anywhere, why not bring the smell of the beach to your “stay-cation” (or is it “home-cation”?) Malie Organics‘ ingredients range from cultivated organic harvests to the rare wild-crafted plants of our rainforests. All of [...]

Magnif-eco Sunscreens

With so many brands putting extra (green) efforts in organic, botanical beauty products it is now easier to find an eco SPF. Like this Sunscreen SPF from Dosha Care. In addition to offering ayurvedic healing properties, each DoshaCare product is made up of 98 percent botanical ingredients that come from socially and environmentally sustainable sources [...]

Begoodesigns - Recycled leather sandals

If you don’t like all the work (and creativity) required for your mohop sandals. Then how about these from begoodesigns. All of their products, like these Clio sandals, are produced with 99% excess leather, waste of first quality leather from car seats, armchairs and decoration articles that they salvage from burning. $93.00 USD.

They also have [...]