The results are in for the Good magazine Best of Natural Awards for 2023 – New Zealand’s largest awards in natural health, beauty and eco-living celebrating the highest quality ingredient, ethical and environmental standards. The judges – registered naturopath, herbalist and cosmetic chemist Liz McNamara, beauty
New Zealand brands are rewriting hairstory with products that mean both you and the planet can have a good hair day. While solid shampoo and conditioning bars might seem like the shiny new kid on the block, turn back the clock 100 years and a solid
Concentrates are sweeping the body and homecare sectors as a sustainable alternative. But what are they and why should you try them? You may have noticed a new kind of product in the bathroom aisles at the supermarket recently: shampoo bars. These super-concentrated, dry soap
Voting for Forest & Bird's Te Manu Rongonui o Te Tau/Bird of the Year 2021 is now officially open! For the first time ever, New Zealand’s only native land mammal, the Pekapeka-Tou-Roa has joined the competition. Other bird candidates include the world’s smallest penguin, the world’s heaviest patriot,
Main image by Mert Guller, Unsplash Globally, one million plastic bottles are bought every minute and just 9 per cent of these bottles are recycled. Closer to home, Kiwis consume about 735 thousand tonnes of packaging every year and recycle only about 58 per cent of
Main image by Aziz Acharki, Unsplash While solid shampoo and conditioning bars might seem like the shiny new kid on the block, turn back the clock 100 years and a solid block of household “soap” was the only option.Invented in 1927 by German Hans Schwarzkopf, the
We all love the taste of sugar, but it's not just for consumption. Sugarcane "plastic" is the latest development in sugar use, used in packaging for drink bottles to cleaning products. A plant-based packaging alternative to plastic, it's great to see that sugarcane is being
