#eco friendly shopping

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Monday is Earth Day - Here's How You Can Get Involved!

Earth Day is on Monday - here are several ways to get involved, this weekend and everyday!

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6 TIPS ON HOW TO SHOP SLOW FASHION (ON A BUDGET)

There are many ways to go shopping without sacrificing fashion and emptying your bank account. When shopping, consumers are now thinking beyond fashion. The words sustainability and reducing carbon footprint comes to mind as well. So how do we combine our love for fashion and our love for our planet? Here at Verte Mode, we are always thinking of various ways to help you make the right decisions. We have come up with 6 tips to shop and update your wardrobe with zero waste products without sacrificing fashion and emptying your bank account.

[katherin-cole-writer]

Day 15 of Advent and Blogmas - looking for the perfect present?🎁

[rariishop]

I really love this versatile digital anime journal that I created! One beneficial thing about digital journals is that you can duplicate a page as many times as you like :)

[rennatelier]

let's go shopping with these reusable, foldable, AND portable bags! 🐹

The final new product reveal before the big update on Tuesday (or tomorrow for Snack Club members) are eco shopping bags that fold up into cute little square pouches to take with you on grocery trips! They're double sided with a different design printed on each side, made of durable ripstop nylon, and come with a sewn-in pouch!

Here's a photo of one of the bags next to my doggo, Atticus, for size reference! They can hold quite a lot of stuff!

Coming to my online store on July 11 @ 9pm EST!

[vampirekittystore]

The collection is finally back! Everything (except the kandi) is made of eco-friendly materials! So you can shop till you drop 100% guilt free!

[vodstoys]

4 Reasons to Choose Wooden Toys

[petula-xx]

This is 4kg (8.8lb) of natural soap off cuts that arrived today. The company who makes the soaps sells these trimmed end pieces at a cheap price online.

They are all hand made, vegan, cruelty and palm oil free.

A cost effective and zero waste outcome for both the company and me. They smell amazing too by the way!

[ecobravouk]

Consider the advantages and disadvantages of jute shopping bags over synthetic alternatives. Determine which option is more environmentally friendly, cost-effective, and durable for your shopping needs.

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

Wow paying a little extra for certain groceries or treats makes SUCH a difference to quality

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all this discussion of whether dishes or laundry is the greater Horror™ WHY are we not talking about groceries

[theecolococorner]

Welcome to the Eco Loco Corner!

Here is your go-to hub for discovering eco-friendly products from brands that embrace diversity and sustainability. Our mission is to bring you the best in ethical shopping, featuring smalls businesses such as bakeries, boutiques, booksellers, and so much more, proudly owned by BIPOC and LGBT communities.

At The Eco Loco Corner, we believe that every purchase has the power to make a positive impact. From sustainable fashion to eco-conscious home goods, we carefully curate products that not only look good but also do good. By supporting these trailblazing brands, you're contributing to a more inclusive, equitable, and environmentally-friendly future.

Join us as we celebrate the creativity, resilience, and innovation of these incredible communities. Together, we can create a brighter, greener, and more inclusive world—one stylish, sustainable product at a time. Happy shopping!

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Sustainable Fabric Explained: From Organic Cotton to Tencel

As sustainable fashion bloggers, we often get asked about the best sustainable fabrics out there. And one of the most common questions we get is: "Is Tencel better than organic cotton?"

Well, let us tell you, Tencel is not only a high-performance sustainable fabric, but it's also totally eco-friendly.

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Upcycled. Local. Plastic-free.

There are many ways to live and shop sustainably. A whole handful of brands who know exactly what we’re talking about are currently featured in the Eco-Friendly collection in our Shop. 

Discover these sustainable brands in-person or online: https://bit.ly/3MOHmu0

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I made a gothic victorian inspired cotton period pad <3 Shop now!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1700305118/gothic-victorian-period-pads-100?

[trashpandacraft]

when we last saw our hero (me, in this instance), they had just run out of photos on their sheep and wool post because apparently the accursed tumblr app has a ten-photo limit. fear not, though, because now i'm on my actual computer!

so: bendigo sheep and wool pt ii: the fibre!!

i bought a couple silk hankies, because i've never spun one before and it sounded fun, and they were cheap. couldn't find any undyed, alas, but surely someone on the internet does that, right?

i also bought some dyed mulberry silk. i've got some tussah that i'm going to dye, but these were pretty and relatively inexpensive, and i'm a sucker.

aaaaaand then i bought some sari silk, which i've never used before! several of you have been doing some gorgeous stuff with sari silk recently, though, and i'm a copycat, so here we are.

i have no idea why my phone decided that all of these needed to have ~depth~ added to the shots, but i'm not hauling all of this out again, so here we are. you get the vibe.

i also got a little coil of bamboo fibre, because i've never spun bamboo on its own before. (i don't know if i'll actually spin this on its own or if i'll blend it, but now i have the option!)

i also got a thing of optim fibre (incredibly poorly formatted post from 2011, but explanatory), which i've never used before—it's merino that's been processed to stretch it out, making it even finer and softer. it's sort of weird to touch—it feels more like silk or created fibres than it does wool, but it seemed like it would be fun to try.

moving on to even more exciting stuff, we bought some castledale top. castledale isn't a breed yet, but is being developed as one, and i've heard that it's a delight to spin.

obviously it was important that we get both the plain and the kind with silk in it.

and, see, that was important because we hadn't yet done the most exciting thing we did all weekend, which was finding some gorgeous, affordable, locally made hand combs!

if you're in australia and want fibre tools, you should absolutely check out their website, and honestly, even if you're not, the shipping might be worth it. they were so, so nice, and the tools we got there are just gorgeous. (they're less yellow than this, in person, but my phone doesn't play nicely with the purple light in my bedroom at eleven p.m.)

we ended up getting mini combs, because as we were talking, the guy who makes them noticed my heavily kt-taped wrist and pointed out that the mini combs are less wear on your wrists, which sold me.

they also had some wonderfully designed lazy kates, which will hopefully let me avoid ever having to do this again.

the cleverest part is that it flat packs—the bobbin holders just lift out, and the orifice (it has an orifice!!) is held in place by the little screw up front. the tension is controlled by turning the knob, just like on a spinning wheel.

can't say enough about what lovely people they were, and i'm so excited to have enough fine motor control that it feels safe to assemble the cards. this weekend, hopefully.

and you might be thinking 'ok but are you just like...using those for blending?' and the answer would be no!! because we also bought these!

i went in thinking 'oh, i'm going to get something that's not an incredibly fine wool,' but like...what was i thinking? we're in australia. the only thing anyone produces here is fine wools! which isn't at all a complaint, because this looks gorgeous. so we got 1.5 kilos of corrie, and 1.7 of a bond/merino cross. the cross in particular looks absolutely stunning, and i cannot wait to start playing with them.

the rather elderly (80-ish?) woman working at the north east yarns booth gave us a lengthy talk about spinning in the grease, which i might try. one of the really interesting things to me here was that i've only ever looked at raw fleeces in the northeastern us before now, where the weather concerns are...uh, somewhat different? these fleeces don't have the dirt that i've seen on raw fleece before, just dusty bits—they're almost more like what i would associate with alpaca with regards to actual dirt/vm, but with bonus lanolin. so that's a nice bonus, and makes the idea of spinning in the grease was less offputting. (yes, i know that you can buy cleaner fleeces in the united states, too, and you can coat your sheep or have dry weather or whatever, but that's not an experience that i personally have had.)

this concludes (mostly) the list of things i bought at sheep and wool (also i bought slippers), and illustrates both why i cannot be trusted and also incredible restraint on my part.