Healthy Households

I love it when celebritities lend themselves to causes that aren’t necessarily glamorous. We stumbled upon a fantastically written and well produced mockumentary with the voice of Jeremy Iron - you may know him as the scary guy from Die Hard 3 who steals all the gold, or more recently, the robed gentleman in The Borgias. [...]

We stumbled upon an article on CNN about 12 products to avoid. They’re ‘green’ solutions, but plenty of them have a healthy crossover. Read the full article here. Styrofoam Plastic food containers with BPA Tropical hardwoords Aluminium in cosmetics Incandescent bulbs Petroleum-based fabric sheets and laundry detergent Overpackaged goods Paper towels and napkins Plastic utensils [...]

We have recently taken posession of a new warehouse that we’re moving Shop Naturally in to at the end of the month. When we walked up on to the upstairs office, we noticed a musty smell in the air. Always concerned about the possibilities of Sick Building Syndrome in our office, we have decided to [...]

We just got a customer enquiry from a ‘green’ plumber. Pipe Perfection provide a plumbing service to unblock clogged drains without destroying the environment at the same time. I’m sure they do all kinds of regular plumbing too, but I was impressed that someone took the time to provide a service like this. Check out [...]

Quick tip for cleaning greasy sinks – grab a lemon, cut it in half, dip it in coarse salt and use this all natural scourer to rub on the stains in your sink. Rinse with warm water. For truly stubborn stains, try the ECOstore Cream Cleanser, available to purchase online from Shop Naturally or purchase [...]

Weeds are a plague in most people’s gardens, and especially for those with poorly set up gardens. We are unfortunately living in a rental at the moment with very poorly set up garden beds. Weeds are constantly growing in them and patches of our lawn are about 1/3 pure weeds. Rather than spend huge amounts [...]

Clean Up Australia Day is coming soon, 7th March 2010. While it’s great to encourage people to clean up one day a year, if we all changed the way we lived, this day would not be necessary. Here’s a handy tip to ‘Keep Australia Clean’ for the other 364 days of the year too …. Have [...]