Tinkering with Ethics Trading

December 4th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Business News, Family No Comments »

I’m tinkering with the Ethics Trading site again….

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New Stock!

November 18th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Business News, Family 1 Comment »

I’m getting in a new range of stock sometime in the next week or so and it’s very exciting!

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EcoKnits - Soap nuts for Wool.

November 6th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Family, Home, Soap nuts No Comments »

EcoKnits is run by a friend of mine and we’ve been talking soap nuts for wool washing.

Proper wool is tricky to wash safely without felting, shrinking or matting it nastily and ruining that perfect, soft and squishy scarf/hat/whatever you made for your best friend for Christmas.

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Do you really need a bin liner?

October 29th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Environment, Family, Home 3 Comments »

I reuse carrier bags as kitchen bin liners because I do fling some yucky stuff in there and to be honest it does make life easier.  But the more I reduce my rubbish the less bin liners I need, and the more I’m thinking about what is going in my bin.

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Best seller - The Soap Nut.

August 25th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Environment, Family, Garden, Home, Soap nuts No Comments »

Ethics Trading’s best seller continues to be the wonderful Soap Nut.

Essentially you can do ALL your cleaning using soap nuts. Yes, ALL.  It’s perfectly possible to clean your home, your laundry, car, curtains, children, floors, windows, patio, garden furniture, well everything really. If it gets cleaned with some sort of wet detergent, or detergent and water then soap nuts can do it.

If you need a Soap Nut Solution then the instructions for making one can be found as part of the Soap Nut Information PDF file.

They’re also good in the garden, not only for cleaning your patio and garden furniture, but as an insect repellent. Plants sprayed with a mild soap nut solution have much less green and black fly and don’t get seem to be eaten as badly by slugs and snails. In fact, soap nut solution appears to kills slugs and snails while it drives away the greenfly.

Oh and a mild soap nut solution in a spray bottle works well for damping down wall paper for stripping if you’d normally use soapy water - I’ve just done my bathroom.

How much more versatile can you get?

Soap nuts, the Ultimate in renewable resources, versatile and contributing to the carbon cycle too!

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Life starts with a Paper Potter

August 1st, 2008 Sarah Posted in Environment, Family, Garden 2 Comments »

Everything there - lettuce, peas, carrots, chard - all started life as a seed sown in a pot made with the Paper Potter.

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Soap nuts, reducing waste.

July 30th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Environment, Family, Garden, Soap nuts 7 Comments »

Soap grows on trees! Anyone who has been reading here for any length of time or known me on forums, or even in real life, will know this already. So to manufacture soap nuts you need some land, a tree or several and a person able to harcest the berries when they dry. That’d be no waste going to landfill from the production process then.

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Charity begins at Home.

July 27th, 2008 Sarah Posted in Charity, Family, Guest articles 2 Comments »

My Mum has Emphysema, I think I may have blogged about it before. It’s one illness in a group all under the umbrella term of COPD (Chronic, Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) and it’s nasty, they all are. But typically, instead of sitting back and letting the illness rule her life, Mum has stepped up and taken control. She lives with Emphysema, it doesn’t rule her life and she does everything she can to raise both awareness and money for the British Lung Foundation through Breathe Easy groups - Her local one is the Neath Valley group.

In April they did a sponsored Abseil…..

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Gardening!

July 18th, 2008 admin Posted in Environment, Family, Garden, Home, Uncategorized No Comments »

Those of you that know me from various places as well as in real life will know that I just love my garden. So it was only natural that I took Ethics Trading into the garden too.

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Homeopathy Help for Skin Problems

June 22nd, 2008 Fiona Posted in All things Holistic, Family, Guest articles 1 Comment »

Our skin is the bit that people see and of us and our interface with the world. Skin complaints can’t be hidden apart from when they are covered with clothing or make-up and even then they are still there and often irritated. People will happily live with digestive problems for example but a skin problem is something that has people rushing to the doctor because it is visible and obvious and something that is there and in your face if not perhaps on their face.

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