HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS! {UK Edition}

Beautycounter, Eco + Conscious Living, Eco + Conscious Living, holidays

Each year I LOVE putting together a list to help you shop the way I would without the stress of having to think of options yourself. I curate this list…

HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE {UK edition}

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

Each year I LOVE putting together a list to help you shop the way I would without the stress of having to think of options yourself. I curate this list…

HOLIDAY GIFT IDEAS! {US Edition}

Eco + Conscious Living, Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

I love putting these together each year and here’s your 2021 version! A list of things we love, that are sourced the way we value all caring for people and…

Beautycounter Fall + Holiday Review (and 20% off first purchase code)

Beautycounter, Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas, holidays

I’ve now opened and played with every set from this collection and overall, I’m really happy but here is a full review of what I’d buy and what I’m confused…

10 Steps To Budgeting Well With Food

Eco + Conscious Living, lifestyle

Budgeting is so empowering! I know we don’t all love it, but really it brings me peace and security so much that I LOVE talking about it. Sometimes saving money…

How I’m hitting the next season of working motherhood

I always wanted to work while being a mother. I’ve worked for myself since I was 4 months pregnant with Clayton and I love it. When I was 4 months…

16 Things I Bought on Maternity Leave!

I like to think of myself as minimal, but I feel like I shopped my way through maternity leave way more than I normally do.  Adjusting to a new season…

Catching up after maternity leave + a summer away!

It’s been a minute since I’ve logged onto to any online platform! So as I dust off my laptop and tip toe back into real life, here’s an update on…

UK Veg Box Review: 4 National Favourites Side by Side

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing

We first got a veg box the year before Clayton was born as I began my journey to reduce plastic food packaging and food miles. It was a local farm…

My Go To Skincare + Makeup Brands (US/UK/worldwide)

Beautycounter, Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

Why do I care what I put on my skin? It was standing in the shower, with my Clayton bump, squirting a highly medicated shampoo into my hand that I…

Creating a Non Toxic Bed: What We Use

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

Why Do I Care What We Sleep On? Everything I bring into my home gets assessed in terms of its impact on people, planet and our personal health! All three…

What we might NOT need to hear when we’re pregnant.

There are lots of things that aren’t helpful to hear when you’re pregnant, but I want to touch on pregnancy and weight gain from my own experience and learning! People’s…

What’s in my Hospital Bag?

Baby, Eco + Conscious Living

At the time of writing I’m 37 weeks pregnant and as we prep for a hospital birth I’m putting together our “hospital bag” – our go bag with everything we…

6 Minimal Living Baby Must Haves

Baby, Eco + Conscious Living

The first time round being pregnant, I walked out of a baby shop in my third trimester empty handed because I was so overwhelmed with all the options and things…

Why + How I’ve paid back hundreds of Band of Beauty Memberships!

Health and Wellbeing

If you’re here cos you followed a link for FREE Charcoal Mask and Overnight Resurfacing Peel you’re in the right place – this is how I get them to you…

How to build a minimal, eco friendly + budget friendly wardrobe for pregnancy

Baby

Diving into the world of pregnancy can bring an overwhelming world of things we “need” to buy, clothes included. The approach that we need a lot of new things in…

Conscious Fathers’ Day Gift Ideas

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

Everyone gifts differently for Fathers day.  For some it’s small gifts, others a simple heartfelt card, and for others it’s a day for bigger gifts. However we gift for any…

TRAVEL: 4 Days in Bath, England

Travel

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH TRAVEL My relationship with travel has changed a lot over the last 10 years. Flying all over the world was the aspiration of our early 20s. In…

How to start a backyard chicken coop!

Eco + Conscious Living, Homesteading

Before we get to chickens let’s just start by saying: you probably know I don’t like saying “How To” and prefer to tell you “How WE” and what we learned…

Black owned business we love + shop

Gift Ideas

When I think about our consumer spending and purchasing choices, I only believe more and more that our personal spending is so powerful and I love that we get to…

Why we chose an electric car… again. (and what might have stopped us.)

Eco + Conscious Living, Eco + Conscious Living

Electric cars are put forward as the way of the future, but they’re not without their downsides: They’re more pricey, you’re somewhat limited on mileage, electricity still often comes from fossil fuels, and what…

11 Eco friendly, non toxic + low waste cleaners

Eco + Conscious Living

When I discovered how cleaners can affect health, from the artificial fragrances I immediately feel in my head, to other things I might not feel, they became one of the…

How I Research + Choose a Brand

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

When I want to find a new item to bring into my home – how do I go about searching out a the right company for me?  So many of…

6 FREE Switches that Will save money AND waste! Part 1

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing, lifestyle

Can lowering waste really be less expensive? When you hear “zero waste” do you first picture people buying less and living a simple life, or a slew of wood and…

The 10 Best Plastic Free + Fairtrade Easter eggs! (US + UK)

Eco + Conscious Living, Gift Ideas

Why should we care what chocolate we buy at Easter? Whenever something is a “luxury” or avoidable purchase I think we can all take extra care on how we source…

A (safer, cleaner, more mindful) Bathroom Tour

Eco + Conscious Living, Health and Wellbeing

The bathroom was the first place I started asking questions. Around the same time I went vegetarian, and committed to only eat Fairtrade chocolate – I was just touching on…

Weight Gain Self Talk: through Pregnancy + Always

Health and Wellbeing

The week I wrote this post, I was half way through pregnancy and so many of you responded and it’s one I think it really key so I wanted to…

14 Places We Buy Shoes for Ethical Options

Eco + Conscious Living, Eco + Conscious Living

This is a list of the ethical shoes we own, buy, and wear and I hope it helps you narrow down your search or get some ideas! 

SCHOOL UNIFORM + BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Eco + Conscious Living

When I got the list of everything we needed for school, I suddenly felt powerless. After years of being so careful about the impact of what we buy, and of…

How We Do Kids Quiet Time

Baby, lifestyle

As caregivers, I don’t think we are weaker for needing an hour in a day. Just knowing that there is an hour everyday set aside, can be really powerful for…