If you are around Johannesburg, you must check out the Refillery. What is The Refillery? "The Refillery is an exciting, new planet-friendly grocer offering a stylish, convenient, PLASTIC-FREE, ‘weigh-and-pay’ shopping experience that helps you to stock and re-stock your pantry with the highest quality, ethically-sourced products without all that wasteful packaging normally associated with a...
Have you walked down the cleaning products aisle in your local supermarket lately, unsure what to buy in order to clean just your counter tops or table tops with for example? If you have I am sure it's because there are just so many brands and products to choose from, too many in fact. Not just too many, but too many of the same products advertised for different jobs! A short cleaning story I...
If you just want the recipe, scroll down to the Recipe heading :) When it comes to cleaning, it can feel like it would take a whole lot of time and effort to create your own diy cleaning solution or product. After all it must require some harsh ingredients that can kill germs and target all that grease and those stains that most commercial cleaners must use, right? Well no, to make your own...
I recently tried out, (and posted about) Zero Shampoo bars, that are hair and body bars. Check out that post for a whole lot more information on these wonderful, more Eco friendly soap and shampoo bars. In addition to the bars, they have now added a cool little bar container, the bar saver, that you can use to house your bars. It serves as a really cool addition to keep your bar dry and makes...
Toothpaste tubes and plastic mouth wash bottles are a massive source of waste for people, usually going through a number of these each year. Both can probably be replaced or at least alternated with home made more waste free versions. I won't lie, for the toothpaste I still use the regular ones much more as I am still little skeptical and afraid for my teeth :/ But I do use very little with each...
We all use batteries, well most of the general public do, whether they are in an alarm clock, or a TV remote or a drone remote controller, and are usually the most common AAAs. Ideally we would like to not use them as that would eliminate the need to dispose of them right, but that's in an ideal world (one day). So yes while they are difficult to completely eliminate we can swap them for...
For me, becoming more and more eco conscious and friendly, and reducing my waste allowed me to also become much more of a minimalist. I like the minimalist approach because it shows you how a lot of the stuff we have/want, is very unnecessary and not useful and we clearly do not need a lot of it. I love de-cluttering and that feeling of getting rid of (giving them to someone who would make use of...
I bought a conditioner bar, soap bar and an under arm deodorant bar from two package free shops and I thought I would share a bit about my experience with them below. This post just lists the basics of the bars, to read the full post on fitnish.com find it here.
Conditioner bar
I bought this conditioner bar from Shop zero. I have used shampoo bars and soap bars as shampoo bars and they all worked...
I recently visited the Constantia Pick n Pay in Cape Town after I had heard that they have set up a small package free station in the shop. As I got there, (the shop being sooo big) I looked around and initially could not see it. Immediately my heart sank and I thought "ahh who lied to me!" :p But then after a bit of walking around I found the package free section and I got pretty excited. The...
A lot of people want to switch out their cosmetic products or products in general, but don't really know what to switch them out for, or are too hesitant to make the switch due to thinking that these commercial products that they use are far superior to any other products, and more so compared to more natural products. The main reason for this hesitancy, is because the manufacturers and brands of...