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In my more innocent days I used to think that butter that came wrapped in foil was plastic free. Till the day I didn’t have a butter dish to hand and butter was served as bought, in the wrapper. Over time the foil wrapping began to crack, crack but not break. Strange I thought … [...]
After you have made your own home made creams and lotions you need to store them in something. Old glass jam jars are fine for storing the excess but you want to think twice before using glass in the bathroom what the hard tiles, slippery hands, bare feet and shattering potential. Nope this is a [...]
Recently I came across these flip & tumble Reusable Produce Bags- 5-Pack. I have not tried them myself having more than enough produce bags but they have a good review on Amazon. Rather more expensive at 13.13 pounds for 5 the other bags featured on this site – check out the full range at the [...]
Bought this bottle of hydrogen peroxide from Boots in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The bottle is glass the cap is metal. Plastic free you might think well apart from the plastic lid liner and plasticised paper label. So massively plastic reduced is it that it is my choice of antiseptic for my travel medical kit. As [...]
I don’t know what you do in a downtown hotel room in Bangkok but I make body lotion. I have been making my own creams and lotions successfully at home for ages now but since then of course I have packed my bags to travel the world. Obviously I don’t want to go back to [...]
Bit excited today as the PIR. Blog is featured over in Gadling Travel Blog, a worthy publication with obviously good taste. You can read the full article here It also mentions some good old (plastic free) timers, Beth over at fake plastic fish and plastic manners … Let’s hear it for the girls. Best of [...]
People are always asking me how I stay so young and lovely looking with no plastic in my bathroom cabinet. Easy I say – I get all Blue Peter and make my own products. Its quicker then looking round Boots and trying to choose between a hundred different shampoos all promising the world; its really [...]
Cleaning your teeth involves so much plastic what with the tooth brushes and tubes of toothpaste. Lucky for you I have researched a number of plastic free products for you to try. There are these all natural toothbrushes from Germany and these compostable scrubbers from Australia. Plastic free dentifrices are listed here: tooth cleanser – [...]
When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. So here is our list [...]
When travelling in far flung places we will not buy water in plastic bottles. NO its just wrong. Instead we sterilize our own using a Steripen but when a bottle refill service is offered we will use that instead as we want to support and encourage such damn fine ventures. One great scheme is these [...]





















