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Light up some eco spirit

Rather than choose these products from your regular run of the mill brands, opt to go green. There are plenty of great choices that are sustainable and ethical, while at the same time appealing and catchy. [Check out our store to find more gift ideas.]

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Let’s make the switch

  As a matter of convenience, it is easier to run down to your local store and pick up something for the house. A toothbrush, or a sponge, or a mop, and so on. Because they are available in abundance and because they are cheap. But we have grown up now, haven’t we? At least many of us have, and we realise the weight of garbage our poor planet’s carrying that it just can’t seem to shake off. It doesn’t take much to be a part of a revolution that you strongly believe in. If you believe, with all of your heart, that this planet is dying due to the impact of conveniences man chooses for himself, then you will...

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Natural Dyes or Synthetic Dyes: What’s Your Pick?

According to one legend, a dog’s interest in a snail washed up on a beach was responsible to have found the colour purple. This incident apparently occurred several centuries ago in the city of Tyre (in Lebanon), when its tutelary god, Melqart, was taking a stroll on the beach with his mistress Tyros and their pet took a bite of a snail, and its mouth turned purple. Mesmerised by the shade, she immediately felt the urge to have an outfit with this same colour. Whether this story holds true or not, dyeing goes a long, long way back apparent in several different historic incidences, having found a firm place in the manufacturing of textiles, in particular, with the process involved...

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