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Are you eating sawdust with your grated cheese? If you buy grated cheese in packets from your local supermarket you could well be eating the legal, food-grade additive cellulose. It is added to the grated cheese to prevent it from clumping in the packet. Cheese products are allowed to contain up to 4% cellulose (wood…
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Why do you need a reed diffuser? There are some areas of the house where an electric diffuser just isn’t feasible. There isn’t always a powerpoint or sometimes there isn’t enough space for a large diffuser. This is often the case in bathrooms and toilets where we would like to improve the aroma permanently, but…
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What’s wrong with the spray off the shelves? Insect repellents are designed to confuse, discourage, and even kill bugs so that they don’t find us or bite us. The most commonly found active ingredient in commercial insect repellents is deet (chemical names: N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide or N.N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide). I remember my first encounter with deet was when I…
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With the environmentally aware times that we live in at the moment, there is so much talk about plastic and how bad it is for the environment. While I agree with all of that, I am also living another reality that requires it in certain circumstances where my children are concerned. This photo of a…
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What is the difference between an antiperspirant and deodorant? An antiperspirant prevents your pores from sweating. Sweating is an entirely natural process designed to release toxins from our body, which causes the unpleasant body odour. I don’t use antiperspirants because I don’t believe we should be preventing this natural sweating process from happening. All the toxins…
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Here in Australia we are exposed to high intensity sun for hours each day, ranging from 5 hours in Winter to up to 9 hours in Summer. Sunscreen has been commercially available since the late 1920s, however it wasn’t until the 1950s that it began to look like the product we know today. The SPF…
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We’ve all heard so much about diffusers lately – they’re the new cool thing to have in your home right? But do you really need one? The answer: maybe, maybe not. It all depends on the reason you think you need one. Do you want to sleep better? Do you want your kids to sleep…
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Did you know commercial Fabric Softeners are not only bad for the environment but are also detrimental for your health? I know, surprising right! We have been so conditioned (yes a play on words there) to think they are a necessary part of our washing lives. As a society, we started using Fabric Softeners soon after commercial…
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What is the best thing for you to use in the bath? Why I don’t use the stuff from the shop anymore The first present I remember getting once we announced we were pregnant was the purple Johnson’s bubble bath – once we announced we were having twins we only ever received the giant sized…
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What is self care? I used to think self care meant taking some time out from my normal life and having a massage or a hot bath and just relaxing a bit and having some me time. However I now realise that it means making a choice and a purposeful effort to take care of…
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