The essential oil wall in our shop can be a lot to take in. There are dozens of single oils, a row of blends with names like Stress Less and Deep Sleep, roller bottles, carrier oils and diffusers. When someone new to all of it stands there looking a…
Every year, around the first really warm evening in October, the same thing happens. Someone comes in scratching their ankles, having spent the previous night on the balcony, and asks what we have that works but does not smell like a chemical plant.…
Two years ago nobody walked in and asked for beef fat to put on their face. Now it happens several times a week, usually by someone who has watched a video about it and wants to know if we are going to tell them it is nonsense. We are not, but the ho…
Nobody swaps their whole cleaning cupboard in one go. What actually happens is a bottle runs out, you buy a better one, and six months later the cupboard looks different. So rather than a list of thirty things, here are the five swaps that make the b…
More people give up on natural shampoo than on any other swap in the shop, and almost always in the same fortnight. Hair goes flat, or greasy, or feels like straw, and back to the supermarket they go. It is a real thing, it is temporary, and it is mo…
Natural toothpaste is one of those swaps people put off, usually because they are not sure it will actually clean their teeth, and because the fluoride question feels like a minefield. It does not need to be complicated. Here is how to switch without…
Almost everyone who tries natural deodorant for the first time comes back and tells us the same thing, which is that it stopped working after a few days and they gave up. Nine times out of ten they did nothing wrong. There is a settling in period tha…
We live in the part of the world that takes sun seriously, and rightly so. Every spring the sunscreen questions start up again, and the one we hear most is whether the natural mineral ones really protect you as well as the usual chemical sprays. Shor…
Castor oil packs have gone from something your naturopath mentioned once to something half of
Instagram is doing before bed. We have been asked about them enough times this year that it seemed
worth writing down properly, including the part nobody te…