If you're looking for an effective cleaning product that won't add to your chemical splash, I can recommend Doktor Power (£4.99 from JML Direct) as a great alternative to chemical-laden concoctions like Cillit Bang. This rather radioactive-looking neon pot actually contains all-natural ingredients, and is one of the best cleaners I've found for removing stubborn grease. I know this, because I had a new flatmate move in this week, and after one application of this stuff, I wasn't embarrassed to show her the kitchen...
Now it's almost the weekend, have you got the spending itch but want to make responsible choices? Calico Moon is a small business set up by a family who were becoming increasingly concerned at the impact their choices had on the world. Having four children of their own, they wished to do their bit in preventing the exploitation of other peoples’. There is a personal touch about Calico Moon which is charmingly old-fashioned, and their website gives extensive information about their supply chain and workers as well as the products and prices.
The products themselves are both practical and beautiful with gorgeous floaty clothes for women, bamboo towels and even school uniform clothes, amongst others.
Dawn Mellowship heads out to Manna Restaurant in Primrose Hill, London to review the critically acclaimed vegetarian food and celebrate her 27th birthday (30 is looming). Manna Restaurant was set up in the swinging sixties by Kate Alexander and Don Wreford and has continued to serve superb veggie food ever since. Grubs up!
There are plenty of reasons to re-think the way you wash, from turning down the temparature to using more natural products to clean your clothes. And having already gone down the Ecover liquid route (the bio stuff is wonderful - did you know you could still use biological detergent using green products?) I decided to go a step further and try using soap nuts - an entirely renewable, natural and chemical-free way to wash, made by Soapods.com and available for £4.95 for a pack capable of doing 25 washes. In honesty, I wasn't convinced by the idea - the odourless little brown pods in their canvas pouch just didn't look like they'd get rid of any stains, but I gave them a try, and was pleasantly surprised by the results...
Last time in Can You Guess Organic, Dawn tried on three items of clothing, two from high street retailers and one by People Tree. This time Dawn adorns two rather fetching jackets. One is made by the ethical label, Anatomy, exclusively for Adili, the other is, again from a high street retailer. Can you guess which one is produced by the ethical label?
Dawn Mellowship reviews the Domia Lite Wireless Remote Control Starter Kit and Lamp Dimmer. At the touch of a button (or few) you can control a range of electrical devices and appliances in your home and dim lamps with the dimmer (if the need takes you). The cost for this wizardry is £29.99
Having read Giles Coren's outstanding review, I was hugely excited about my visit to Acorn House, the first restaurant in the UK to be conceived with environmental sustainability at its core, and is being hailed as 'the most important restaurant to open in London in the past 200 years'. This was to be no ordinary lunch break; I was going to experience the cutting edge of catering!
From the outside, Acorn House is an unassuming but smart modern restaurant, sitting smack-bang in the middle of Grays Inn Road, one of London's busiets and most polluted thoroughfairs. But the contrast on entering is striking: everything about this place is green, from the food to the very materials it's built from. And on closer inspection, they've got all bases covered, with eco lighting from EcoTricity, all bottled water coming from British sources, sustainable Norwegian wood tables and only seasonal food on the menu, which changes every month.
If you're looking for an effective cleaning product that won't add to your chemical splash, I can recommend Doktor Power (£4.99 from JML Direct) as a great alternative to chemical-laden concoctions like Cillit Bang. This rather radioactive-looking neon pot actually contains all-natural ingredients, and is one of the best cleaners I've found for removing stubborn grease. I know this, because I had a new flatmate move in this week, and after one application of this stuff, I wasn't embarrassed to show her the kitchen...
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