Luxury Organic Cotton Tissue Packs

This pack of organic cotton reusable tissues makes a nice little zero waste gift to yourself or others. Ideal for people with runny noses or when you get the sniffles, they are luxuriously soft on your nose, and can be safely laundered, without releasing microplastics into the sea.

Organic cotton is not just kinder to the earth and water, but also to farmers, who can farm cotton in hot temperatures, without having to wear facial masks or protective clothing (and massively reduces both their risk of cancer – and debt due to buying expensive pesticides from abroad).

And as organic cotton has not been bleached or treated with chemicals, the fibres are stronger. Which means this little pack of tissues should last you much longer, than conventional ones.

Each year, millions of tree are chopped down daily (mostly in Boreal forests that are home to moose, elk, wolves and grizzly bears), just to make facial tissues that are then wrapped in plastic. Just imagine the effect if everyone switched to recycled paper, bamboo or washable cotton tissues instead?

How to Safely Blow Your Nose

Here is advice from those who know (doctors etc)!

Apparently most of us don’t blow our hooters properly, and this can lead to not just making us feel more uncomfortable with a cold,  but can make ears pop, rupture blood vessels and even force air into the middle ear (not good).

So next time you come down with the sniffles:

• Place one finger against your nostril, and apply pressure.
• Take a breath, then gently blow the other nostril into a tissue.
• Do the same on the other side.
• Wash your hands, to avoid passing germs onto others.

The Paper Tissue Waste Fiasco

Although you can now buy disposable tissues made from recycled paper (good for hospitals and those that need them), for everyday it may be best to invest a pack of hankies!

In the UK alone, over 5 million tonnes of used disposable facial tissues end up on landfills. And due to the contents in them (yuk!), they can’t be recycled.

Also remember that most paper tissues on sale in stores are sold in plastic packaging. Although in theory this can be recycled these days, in many cases it isn’t (and littered packs on streets result in plastic going down storm drains and into the sea).