Happy days!
It’s mid-week – not that I’m wishing the week away – and it’s time for my regular trip to the Apple studios in Taunton to broadcast Slow Down and Green Up to a willing audience.
Today, between 10am and 1pm, I’ll be talking natural face masks with Jude from the local branch of Lush and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Essential Oils’
Rubbish on the Radio: to entertain your ears this week
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, competition, Credit Crunch, Essential Oils, Frost/Nixon, Lush, Milk, natural face masks, Underworld 3, Valkyrie, win tickets for the Odeon Cinema on 20 January 2009 | 7 Comments »
Rubbish on the Radio: Non-Smelly Eco-Pits and Free Cinema Tickets
Posted in General rubbish, Rubbish Interviews, Rubbish on the Radio, Win free tickets to the Odeon, tagged Apple AM, cleaning, Essential Oils, Free cinema tickets, Lush, money saving tips, Odeon Cinema, Recycling, Sustainable Living, The Reader, The Spirit, Tracey Smith on 7 January 2009 | 10 Comments »
It’s Wednesday and time again for my weekly radio show, ‘Slow Down and Green Up’.
Between 10am-1pm today I’ll be skillfully lacing together a 3-hour extention of The Book of Rubbish Ideas, packed full of great music and chat showing you how to live more sustainbly!
Today I’ll also be talking to a very nice lady from [...]
It Makes Home Scents!
Posted in Plastic rubbish, Rubbish products, tagged Aromatherapy, Baby Scents, Business Link, chemicals, cleaning, Essential Oils, GM free, Home Scents, natural products, North East Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Northumberland County Council, pesticide free, pesticides, toxins on 24 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s always great to hear from a friend with some hot eco-news, especially when it recognises their hard work and commitment to spreading the good, green word.
Today, I received a note from the lovely Judith Mathias, co-founder of Home Scents and Baby Scents up in Northumberland.
Alongside husband John, she produces a range of natural products [...]
Essentially, Oil You Need to Know
Posted in Rubbish how-to's, Rubbish products, tagged Aroma-Essence, Aromatherapy, Bay House Aromatics, beat the credit crunch, cleaning, disinfectant, essential oil recipes, Essential Oils, G Baldwin and Co, Gais'a Garden, IFPA, International Federation of Professional Aromatherapist, laundry, Lavender, money saving tips, natural oils, natural products, oils to use with caution, organic products, pesticides, photosensitising oils, repellents, skin irritants, uses for essential oils on 20 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun…
Essential oils have been used for centuries; the Egyptians favoured them for all sorts of things including cleansing and preserving the bodies and organs of their Pharaohs and dignitaries, but I use them for slightly less exotic cleaning jobs, like freshening up the downstairs loo (giving the bowl a wip [...]
The Naked Truth
Posted in Rubbish ideas, Rubbish products, tagged baths, beat the credit crunch, Botanicals, Burt's Bess, cleaning, Dr Haushka, Essential Oils, Herb UK, hygiene, Lush, money saving tips, natural oils, natural products, Neals Yard Remedies, organic products, pheremones, showers, Tints of Nature on 24 September 2008 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday was quite a day.
I churned out a batch of back-to-back interviews for the BBC, hoofing from one county to the next with effortless ease, all from the comfort of my local studio in Somerset and I had a really insightful time.
Some of the questions we’re positively deep and meaningful. Some of the [...]
Rubbish Videos – What’s Coming Soon?
Posted in Rubbish movies, tagged Add new tag, beat the credit crunch, British Antarctic Survey, Channel 5 News, Eco Balls, Essential Oils, Get Started with Compost, Get Started with Wormery, How to Grow Tomatoes, How to Make Flatbreads, How to Make Fresh Pizza, money saving tips, Rob Hopkins, Soapnuts, Soda Crystals, Sustainable Living, Transition Town, Work / Life Balance, You Tube on 11 August 2008 | 2 Comments »
What better way is there to get a message across, than to actually show it to you?
I love making films and have a little stack of them being edited as we speak (well, write, but you know what I mean)…
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be showing you: -
How to make flatbreads [...]