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Beauty & Personal Care: 5 Tips to Become More Eco Friendly

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If you want to create a more sustainable lifestyle and do everything you can to reduce your environmental impact, your beauty arsenal should be armed with natural shampoo, balm deodorant, and other eco-friendly products. In addition to what you’re already doing, here are five tips to help you become even more eco-friendly when it comes to your beauty and personal care routine.

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Organic Baby Food: a Sustainable and Ethical Choice for Infant Nutrition

 

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Why do many people relate the choice of infant food to ethical features? These are things that influence food choices. The basic principles are the following:

  • safety
  • diversity
  • nutrition value
  • eco-friendliness
  • cultural aspects

Breastfeeding is indisputably the best food for a baby, but not all mothers can physically manage it. So, bottle feeding is their solution. Why is it significant to keep to sustainable and ethical principles? Why do many parents prefer organic baby food pouches to mashed fruit? What makes organic baby formula secure for infants? Let’s find it out. 

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How To Be An Eco-Friendly Landlord

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Investing in a rental property can be the perfect strategy to build a second stream of income. However, as a landlord or a landlady, you need to be aware of your responsibilities, not only for your tenants but also for the planet. If you’re a landlord looking to go green, you’re in the right place! 

Becoming an eco-friendly landlord means making conscious decisions to reduce the environmental impact of your rental property. It is important to note that the environmentally conscious decisions you make for your rental may not be the same as those you make for your own home. The reason being, you can’t dictate a new lifestyle to your tenants. But you can ensure your property is designed to minimise its impact on the planet. Here are some tips to get started. 

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Sustainable Decor – How To Use Natural Materials In Your Home

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If you’re reading my blog, it’s safe to say that you probably have a burning passion for living a more eco-friendly and sustainable lifestyle like I do! A big part of living a more sustainable life is ensuring that the products you use in your home are responsibly sourced and sustainable, to help preserve the world for generations to come.

This goal of responsible and sustainable living should also extend to your home’s décor, in the midst of the green revolution, there is ample opportunity to use natural sustainable materials in your décor, rather than plastics and human-made synthetic materials.

So, how can you introduce more natural materials into your home? Well read on and I’ll give you a few examples!

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14 of The Easiest Ways to Be More Eco-Friendly

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I’m not one for making my life harder than it needs to be so when people say to me that being eco-friendly is hard work I always reply with “if it was, I definitely wouldn’t be doing it!” We already have so much going on what with the house, kids, pets, life admin, work and so on I don’t need any added stress and to be honest, living a more eco-lifestyle, in many ways, has made my life easier, less hassle and has saved me money as well as that additional waste. I guess many people conjure up images of slaving over a hot stove all day making meals from scratch, hand washing terry towels and growing all of your own food when they start to think about eco-friendly living but the small sustainable steps are the ones that truly make a difference and are the ones that once you start incorporating into your day to day life, you won’t even really notice. Here are 14 of the easiest ways to be more eco-friendly.

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Flush Your Ex This Valentine’s Day with Who Gives a Crap!

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Valentine’s Day can bring a bag of mixed emotions – love, heartbreak, good/bad memories – whatever it is for you you could always turn it into something fun this year with Who Gives a Crap. Do you have an ex who did you wrong? Someone who you wanna just flush down the toilet? Well, your luck is in because you can literally do just that with this new Valentine’s Day campaign!

Who Gives a Crap

If you aren’t sure who Who Gives a Crap are they are a sustainable toilet paper company that makes super soft toilet roll from recycled materials or from bamboo to ensure that your bottom is just as well cared for as the environment.

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Energy Saving Tips To Help With Saving Monthly Costs

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Finding ways to save money is a common trend among homeowners. As the cost of living continues to impact the lives of many, individuals are trying different lifestyle changes to help ensure they can cover the rising costs.

Some of these changes could be switches made inside a home. Many are updates a homeowner could make to their property to help lower costly bills. If you are looking for ways to save on monthly costs, keep reading to find a few energy saving tips that might do the trick.

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