If you have been reading the Earth to Body blog of late, you will know about our blogger's recent experience of being dupped into buying what she thought was an environmentally safe dish soap.  Well I was dupped as well. On a recent trip to one of Canada's most popular big-box retail stores, I was disappointed to find my favourite dish soap (Biovert) absent from the shelves. I came across another brand labelled as "environmentally responsible" and a little further down on the label "Ultimately biodegradable per ISO 14593, includes renewable plant based cleaning agents, mild on skin."  So I…

Winter will be upon us before we know it. While we can still get the windows open and let in lots of fresh air, it may be a good time to give your home a freshening up.  Happily, we no longer have to search high and low for eco-friendly cleaning products; a wide range has become available everywhere including most grocery stores. Do make sure you buy products with an Environmental Choice or Eco Logo Label, which means they are both non-toxic and biodegradable. Biodegradable is not enough. Some Canadian-made brands with this certification include Attitude and Bio-Vert as well as better-known…

Discover the magic!! Distill a regal rose, squeeze an aristocratic argan, churn a succulent shea. Shower yourself in the floral water, soften in the soothing oil and slather on the butter. Gardeners and chefs rejoice! Creams, facials, salves and other skin body care can be created right from your own garden. For the adventurous, add a little international flavour and import from the gardens of the world. Maybe climbing an argan tree on the Atlantic coast of Morocco to secure nuts, or joining a cooperative in Burkina Faso to make shea butter is not on your agenda. Maybe India’s neem tree…

Happy New Green Year to Everyone! Hopefully we have all begun to make some modifications in our habits; every little effort can make a difference. We hope you were able to check out the websites we listed in last month’s column and participate in the questionnaires to determine your global footprint. Continuing in December’s theme, this month we want to focus, a little more specifically, on our water footprint (something we can all begin to reduce IMMEDIATELY). I normally don’t make New Year’s resolutions, but this year I am resolving to find and use a rain barrel. If you have read ‘Under the…