My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner — plastic free baby

  Finally!! It's Spring! Some warm weather is arriving... There are more open windows to get some fresh air flowing through... bees are beginning to buzz around outside in the garden.... and there's soon to be lighter evenings ahead with daylight saving on its way.  Woo! We made it! And nothing feels better after such a hard winter that we've all had, than a deep Spring cleaning! Here are some of my top tips for a natural, plastic-free, toxin-free Spring clean. 1) DETOX AIR - You can start your spring cleaning by opening your house windows to get some fresh and clean air....

Did you know that there is a way to go plastic-free whilst potty-training!?!? That's right! There's a plastic-free alternative to the normal plastic potty that we all know and recognise so well. And why stop at just the potty!... Here are some eco-friendly potty training tips that are also plastic-free meaning that they are good for the environment and free of harmful chemicals for your little ones. THE POTTY - You don't just have to get a plastic potty, there are now plastic free alternatives available that are fully biodegradable such as this colourful eKoala biodegradable potty. This plastic-free potty is...

Plastic Free Kitchen Essentials - top tips and top picks! Whether you are just starting your plastic free journey or are looking for more ways to reduce the use of plastic in your life, starting with the kitchen can be one of the easiest ways to make that change. As with all areas of your life, this is a mission to REDUCE plastics and single-use plastics rather than remove completely, which at this point in the UK in February 2021 seems very nearly impossible; we should try to make little steps to reduce plastics to help our environment and the...

I started Plastic Free Baby when I was pregnant with my son, now 3 years old. I discovered when I was struggling to conceive Finn that plastics can have a negative impact on human fertility, on pregnant mums, and on developing babies and children. Indeed, research is increasingly telling us that some toxins leached from certain plastics are bad for humans and are equally bad for our environment (and we, of course, can’t separate the two). The really worrying thing is that the negative effects of plastics on human beings is not fully known yet, and every few weeks we...

SHOP SMALL. SHOP ECO. SHOP ETHICALLY. SHOP LOW WASTE. SHOP SUSTAINABLY.   Shop small. Plastic Free Baby is a small shop, hosting lots of independent brands dedicated to eco-friendly and plastic free family living. Small businesses, and those online particularly at the moment, provide a major economic impact to the country when we most need it. It’s so important to support small shops and businesses at this hard time where and when you possibly can. The customer service is often off-the-scale brilliant, and there’s a lovely sense of community created by them through neighbourhood links and social media communities. They...