Bare & Bond offers a lovely vegan letterbox-friendly perfume gift set and other vegan perfumes. This gift set includes Pink Pepper & Ginger, Signature (sophisticated floral with rose, patchouli and oakmoss) and Red Queen (a spicy incense rose with patchouli and vegan musk). Also offers men’s aftershave gift sets. For best results, apply to damp…
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Where To Find Recycled Greetings Cards
Little Difference The UK sends more greetings cards than anyone else (French people don’t send them at all). But this causes an annual chopping down up to half a million trees (cards with glitter, foil, plastic music buttons etc cannot be recycled). Even FSC-cards means paper comes from ‘sustainable forests’ (that often means chopping down…
Buy (or grow) Sustainable Flowers
Image Everyone loves flowers, but most bought in England are imported from countries where the blooms are sprayed with toxic chemicals (grown by farmers with poor welfare standards), air-freighted (arriving feeling the same way you would after a long-haul flight), wrapped in plastic and then sold in supermarkets, florists and petrol stations. It’s perfectly possible…
A Mug of Sustainable Coffee
Dafé offers caffeine-free coffee in compostable bags Coffee is one of our best-loved drinks, but there are big issues with unsustainable brands, packaging, plastic coffee cups and coffee pods, and the ethics of those who employ the coffee farmers. Here are some usefu resources to green up your cup of coffee! Coffee only naturally grows…
Where to Find Artisan Beer or Cider
A good sustainable beer is made with natural ingredients (most have barley, so are not gluten-free) in plastic-free packaging and free from lactose sugar (also free from filtering through bone or fish bladder). Boycott brands that use plastic beer rings, which choke and strangle wildlife. Companies can easily use cardboard beer holders today. If you see…