Wellness

The Best Essential Oils for Travel

When you start packing for your next adventure or well-needed holiday, don’t forget to include essential oils for travel! Essential oils promote a sense of wellness as well as allowing you to sleep better, so you can arrive at your destination feeling fresh and energetic. Here is our round up. LAVENDER OIL Lavender oil is […]

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The Best Vegan Food in Byron Bay

I’ve taken the opportunity to update this list of the best vegan food in Byron Bay as of May 2024. This post was originally published back in 2017 and a lot has changed in the restaurant scene, especially since Covid. There have been closures and pivots and some places are no longer solely vegan. In

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The Transformative Power of Loving Yourself

Most people think of Valentine’s Day as a romantic holiday. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, flowers and exchanging presents. For me, February 14th isn’t just about showing your love to other people, it’s also about loving yourself.  Bestowing love upon yourself.  This, in itself, is a powerfully transformative act. When you start gifting love to

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Heal sore muscles instantly with Organic Defence

Heal sore muscles with Organic Defence Aching muscles rear their ugly heads at the end of a long, hard day spent at the office, with the kids or even on an outdoor adventure, preventing the good night’s sleep you need to tackle the next day.  They cause not only physical but also emotional, stress.  Sore

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Shea Butter

Ingredient Spotlight: Shea Butter Shea butter is one of those ingredients you see listed in nearly every beauty product nowadays. In your shampoo, in your body moisturiser … it seems like a ‘buzz’ ingredient but is it really worth the hype? What is it even?! Shea butter is a solid fatty oil that comes from

Dangers of Sunscreen

Is Sunscreen Dangerous to Your Health?

Is Sunscreen Dangerous to Your Health? Everybody knows that sun safety during the warmer months is of the utmost importance. UVB and UVA rays can cause irreversible damage to our skin and bring about undesirable signs of premature ageing, all the way to serious sunburn and in severe cases melanomas.  Everybody needs sunscreen. But the

How to be Sun Smart this Summer

The sun is the source of summer beauty – bright, hot and life-giving.  Summer is a supercharged season of activity, intensity and yin energy that can bring out your skin’s incandescent glow.  But there’s a darker side.  Read on to learn how to be sun smart. It is well documented that Australia has one of

6 Uses for your Organic Sun Balm After Summer

It’s always a shame to see summer fade.  As the beach days and balmy nights make way for cooler weather, our skin prepares for the changes ahead. Don’t put away your Organic Sun balm yet!  Although our favourite sun balm is a before and after sun moisturiser, the many other uses and benefits of this nourishing

Healing Winter Tea: An Heirloom Recipe

I felt the first cool chill of the year this week, and realised that I am well behind in my goals for 2016!  I had planned to launch two new products by this time, and although I won’t be ready to do that for a while, I have a special gift to share with you

Green Foot Mama Much More Than Skin Deep

Imagine this: Curling up somewhere soft and cosy, and falling asleep peacefully. While you sleep, the laundry and dirty dish fairies are busy at work. The dinner pixies are getting down to business. And the rest of the boring chore fairies are weaving their magic too. Meanwhile in your dream state, you are resting and