My plastic free life: busy single mummy & business owner

3rd day of Christmas

Laura Callaghan

3rd day of Christmas

  Each day I’ll be telling you about a special Plastic Free Gift Set available via www.plasticfree.baby and a little statistic about why it’s so important to go plastic free this Christmas. Why go plastic free? What are the overall effects of the plastics we unwittingly ingest? It is known that health effects vary depending on who is exposed—and when. Infants and pregnant or nursing mothers are at heightened risk for toxic exposure or passage of plastic toxins such as BPA and additives like DEHP (from Richard Harth, Biodesign Institute Science Writer) Photo featuring - the Plastic Free Gift Set for Toddler...

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2nd day of Christmas

Laura Callaghan

2nd day of Christmas

  Each day I’ll be telling you about a special Plastic Free Gift Set available via www.plasticfree.baby and a little statistic about why it’s so important to go plastic free this Christmas. Why go plastic free? Plastic affects human health.Toxic chemicals leach out of plastic and are found in the blood and tissue of nearly all of us. Exposure to them is linked to cancers, birth defects, impaired immunity, endocrine disruption and other ailments.(from plasticpollutioncoalition) Photo featuring - the Plastic Free Baby Weaning Gift Set£28If you are finding it difficult to source truly plastic free accessories for weaning your precious baby, or...

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1st Day of Christmas

Laura Callaghan

1st Day of Christmas

Each day I’ll be telling you about a special Plastic Free Gift Set available via www.plasticfree.baby and a little statistic about why it’s so important to go plastic free this Christmas. Why go plastic free? Plastic has a potentially hazardous impact on human and animal life. It is now thought that 80% of teenagers have BPA (Bisphenol A) in their bodies: BPA is a chemical added to some plastics (particularly polycarbonate) to make it particularly sturdy (since the 1950s). BPA has been linked with diabetes, infertility, heart disease, liver toxicity... BPA when in the human body acts in a similar way...

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Share to Care - PLASTIC FREE GIFT SETS

Laura Callaghan

Share to Care - PLASTIC FREE GIFT SETS

Sending a care package is about the nicest thing EVER. During lockdown 1.0 2020, I received a care package from a dear friend of mine. It was such a welcome surprise and so thoughtful too. Every time I use the moisturiser he got me, I think of him. My mum, sister and family are always sending my son and me care packages of various forms and sorts too, as well as from lovely neighbours during lockdown. Warm fuzzy! I got thinking that now is the time that people want to send, and certainly like to receive, a little something in...

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Plastic Free Christmas Gift Guide

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Plastic Free Christmas Gift Guide

  I'M DREAMING OF A PLASTIC FREE CHRISTMAS... just like the ones our foremothers and forefathers use to know...! Check out the Plastic Free Baby Christmas Gift Guide here! With Halloween and fireworks night done and dusted, it’s definitely time to start planning forward for Christmas I’d say! It’s less than 50 days away now.  I’m putting a lot of effort this year into thinking of ways to have a sustainable and frugal plastic free christmas, and I’ll be posting a blog or two about this over the coming days before Christmas (at point of writing, 48 days, 14 hours, 55...

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