7 Glamorous + Sustainable Eco-Friendly Swimwear Brands: all made from recycled ocean waste
Look beautifully elegant in these swimwear labels, and feel good about your environmental footprint at the same time.
Melting Moments with Passionfruit Icing
Melt in the mouth shortbread,
sandwiched together with tangy passionfruit icing?
That's dairy and egg free?
You bet - and this recipe's a keeper.
Vegan Travels in NYC // What To Eat at Chelsea Market
Visiting NYC? Find out what to eat at its fabulous Chelsea Market.
What to Bring to a Vegan Picnic
Up your plant-based picnic game with these delicious, crowd-pleasing goodies.
Chia, coconut & blueberry muffins.
If you need to make vegan muffins in a hurry,
and don't have ground flaxseed on hand,
this recipe uses vinegar and plant milk as a binder instead.
Thoughtful things to read this week
A Hint of Danger in the Forest, a radically new way of looking at cancer, chic vegan bags go mainstream in a recommendation by Vogue of top bags, and questioning if Solar Passive Design actually works.
Vegan vanilla cupcakes with raw sugar icing
Egg-free // dairy-free
A variation of vegan cupcakes, using vinegar as the raising agent & home-made raw sugar icing.
Vegan Travels in Los Angeles
On our recent trip to New York,
we stopped over for 24 (jam-packed) hours in Los Angeles.
Heres how we spent them...
A charity runway of Australian made fashion
Upcoming Melbourne Fashion Festival Event:
As part of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival Offsite Runway Series,
The Dress Collective will host a runway event this February
featuring 100% Australian made and independent fashion.
Featuring both menswear and womenswear,
this is an event we are excited about attending..
Things to Read this Week...
Botanical VERSUS petroleum based moisturiser.
Is your moisturiser made from petroleum byproducts? Some of the top selling beauty products are.
Fresh Mint & Glass Noodle Simple Salad (vegan // gluten free)
A very simple salad which is refreshing on a hot day,
with all the fresh flavours of a herb garden as the perfect
contrast with silky-smooth glass cellophane noodles.
Christmas Gift Wrapping: A More Sustainable + Eco-Friendly Take
Giving and receiving presents is great; we love spreading the love. But it does mean that a lot of wrapping paper goes in to landfill. Lets fix that.
Gifts for a gardener
Finding eco friendly gifts for a garden lover is surprisingly easy....
5 ethical kris kringle christmas gifts that give back
With the season of Kris Kringle, or 'Secret Santa' upon us, we decided to hunt down some gifts this year that are not only cruelty free, but also give back to society and the earth.
6 dairy free, vegan christmas cookie recipes
Tis the season for baking and all things spiced, so we've been hunting for some new variations on old-fashioned favourites...
Naja : eco-friendly luxury lingerie with a social impact
We recently discovered a fresh young brand making luxury lingerie.
What's new about that, you ask?
Lipstick ingredients to avoid and why.
Lipstick has a curious history - sometimes being associated with royalty and wealth, and at other times with prostitutes, the devil and trickery. The ingredient list has gone almost full-circle - from nourishing oils to highly toxic substances - and now back again, to more natural, organic ingredients.
5 dairy free, vegan cheese recipes to make
Every week, there are more and more brands of vegan cheeses appearing in the markets, but sometimes it's fun to make your own, and as we have discovered, it's easy to get delicious results.
Here are 5 recipes for home made nut cheeses which have caught our eye lately.
