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...
Green Foot Mama’s Eco-conscious Christmas Gift Guide
Looking to gift the spiritual, eco-loving, ethical living green goddess in your life? This go-to guide has plenty of eco-conscious, sustainable products that will make your loved ones glow with appreciation this Christmas season. You might even want to pop a few in...
How to Re-use Your Green Foot Mama Jars
How to Re-use Your Green Foot Mama Jars Although glass is THE choice when it comes to packaging you can re-use, it is not the right choice for us. Confronting broken glass when opening an online purchase from us is not pleasant, nor is knocking a product from your...
Surviving the Trio of Super Moons
Surviving the Trio of Super Moons Last week’s spectacular Moon is just one of a trio of Super Moons that are coming our way for the next 3 months. This Mega Force is here to stay and shake things up for a while longer. And while the process can feel...
How to be Sun Smart this Summer
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...
6 Uses for your Organic Sun Balm Now Summer is Over
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...
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 – Healing...
Has Winter Skin Got You Down?
We all suffer from winter skin from time to time. Being our largest and most susceptible organ, the skin is our most reliable marker for how hydrated we are, and how we are faring with the environmental elements that our modern day lives expose us to. Dehydration can...
Kindfulness: This Simple Daily Practice Will Change Your Life
“Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must...
Our Product Benefits Are More Than Just 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....
9 Ways to Avoid Mosquito Bites Naturally
Millions of people worldwide are susceptible to disease-pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes. Changing climatic conditions are altering rainfall patterns and causing flooding and it’s no secret that mosquito-borne illness is on the rise. It is so important to take...
The Real Raw Story Behind Green Foot Mama
Over the past few months I’ve been receiving enquiries around the introduction of Green Foot Mama. Recently, I discovered that I have unintentionally created a mystery that has many folks curious. My energies for the last few years have been poured into creating GFM,...
Getting Started with Green Cleaning
There’s often a debate about whether or not natural cleaning products are as effective as their chemical counterparts. Whilst there’s no denying that chemical products can do the job, they are inherently designed to knock over everything in their path…including us!
Stress: Creating Space to Heal
Whether it be fleeting or ongoing, minimal or all-soul-engulfing. We all have experienced stress at some point in our lives. Motherhood, family, divorce, death, financial hardship, illness, work, home, our feelings towards the past, the future – many life factors...
Eating For Fertility
I love the challenge of eating seasonally and creating new dishes from the foods I have available! In the interests of maximising fertility at my age
Hokkaido Squash Soup and Roast ‘Pumpkin’ Seeds
This week we got a Hokkaido Squash in the vege box. I’ve never even heard of a Hokkaido Squash before so I had to google it. It is one of several types of winter squash and good for you in more ways than you can imagine.
Homemade Deodorant
For years I tried many brands of natural and eco under arm deodorants and struggled to find one that I like, that works, and that isn’t expensive. This lead to my first attempt at hand-making some. I really wanted to incorporate my favourite ingredient of all time –...