Mothers Day in the UK will be celebrated on 19th March. It’s the perfect time to thank mothers in all shapes, sizes, and situations including Mother Earth.

Your mum, mama, mother, any care giver you want to acknowledge on this day deserves more than supermarket flowers and novelty gifts they wont use but will inevitably end in landfill.

Show you care for them and the planet with these eco-friendly mothers day gift ideas from Between Green.

Mothers Day Gift Box

In our special Mothers Day Gift Box available in March, you’ll receive Doisy and Dam Dark Chocolate with Goji and Orange.

Her skin deserves ultra soft organic cotton and bamboo fibre makeup rounds that give your skin a deeper clean & cleanse, remove stubborn makeup and exfoliate your skin.

Ditch the gift sets that are more packaging than product and choose natural and vegan beauty essentials such as serum, toner and face masks to gift this year.

Daily Glow Oil – Facial Serum with 100% natural blend of oils for an instant hit of hydration and protection for all skin types. Made in the UK and is Vegan Friendly.

Pink Clay Face Mask – This clay is ideal for normal and sensitive skin types due to its unique balance of properties. It helps in stimulating circulation on the skin, exfoliating and cleansing.
It does not draw oil from the skin so it’s suitable to use it on dry skin. Also for dehydrated skin.

Facial Toner Mist – Let the feeling of calm wash over your face with this Facial Toner Mist.  Use it to tone skin after cleansing or to refresh and hydrate throughout the day.  Facial Toner Mist is made from pure Witch Hazel and Essential Oil in the UK.

This hydrating facial toner mist penetrates pores and works to dissolve dead skin and impurities. Wonderfully calming, soothing, and full to the brim with goodness to ensure pores are refined, toned and hydrated.

Wild and Hare Bath Salts and Soap Flowers Gift Set

Soothe tired bodies and minds with Wild Hare Bath Salt & Soap Flowers Set.

An ordinary bath will become an extraordinary ritual for body and soul. In elegant gift boxes you will find colour-matched:

– Bath Salt 350g

– 8 Soap Roses

– 8 Soap Sunflowers

The combination of natural salt and essential oils will provide exceptional aromatherapy experience and luxurious soap flowers petals, delicately melting in warm water, will be a real cherry on the top.

Aromatherapy Gift Set – Essential Oils Starter Kit

These aromatherapy essential oil gift sets are an amazing gift for home and mind. This set contains 12 essential oils (5ml each) and 2 droppers to get creative with blends full of natural benefits.

Our Essential oil gift set combining a variety of floral, minty, woody, spicy and herbal scents and can be used in bath, skincare or aromatherapy.

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However you spend Mothers Day and whoever you celebrate with, have a lovely day celebrating those female figures in your life.

Say no to cuddly toys and plastic waste and show you care not just for loved ones, but for the planet!

Chocolates and Flowers are staples of Valentines Day but I think we can all agree – the same box of truffles and supermarket bouquets does get a little boring….

Read on for some sustainable solutions to date night, gifts, and romance.

Shop Local for Sweet Treats

Know a local chocolatier that you can support rather than the pockets of huge corporations?

I was introduced to Cocoa Tree last year and was immediately addicted to their bright colours and insanely delicious flavours. They were actually our table favours on Christmas Day!

A family run chocolatier and café based in Manchester, Cocoa Tree uses quality ingredients to create bars, buttons, hand-crafted pralines and personalised gifts.

Their amazing collections can be sent across the UK so take a look at their website and try to decide on your favourite flavours

https://www.cocoatreechocolates.co.uk/

Ditch the Meat

Try a vegetarian option for this years romantic meal. From passionate pizzas to sexy stir-fry’s, get creative in the kitchen together and cook up some romance!

If you can’t resist a meaty main course, take a trip together to a local farm shop. Grab everything you need for your meal then get cooking together!

Cards

I have a sneaky suspicion that my significant other finds the first card that says ‘Wife’ and immediately chooses that without a second thought.

There’s no denying a greetings card is a staple of Valentines Day to express your love or tease a secret admirer.

This months Between Green eco-friendly subscription box includes the perfect Valentines Day card.

Made by FairMail Cards, a social enterprise which produces photo cards using pictures taken by under-privileged Peruvian teenagers.

The teenagers take pictures during free photography classes, then FairMail sells their best photos on Fair Trade greeting cards.

The teenagers get 60% of the profit from their own photos to help finance their housing and invest in their education.

Find out more HERE

Fairtrade Flowers

The environmental impact of shipping cut flowers is enormous. Not to mention the pesticides used to force growth in time for the one of the biggest flower-buying times of the year.

When you buy Fairtrade you can be sure of the highest ethical and environmental standards including the safety and working conditions for their employees.

Fairtrade flower workers receive an extra 10% for each stem sold. This funds education, families, healthcare and communities, among other things. 

Resist roses and choose a more locally available blooms such as posies, foxglove, daffodils and crocus.

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Find out more about Fairtrade in this months Between Green eco-friendly subscription box. It also makes the perfect gift this Valentines Day

Take a look inside your eco-friendly subscription box sent monthly from Between Green containing sustainable and ethical products based in the UK.

Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 is taking place from the 27th February to 12th March.

The message for Fairtrade Fortnight this year is clear – make small switches to Fairtrade.

Making small changes is what Between Green is all about! Perfect!

Fairtrade is so much more than coffee, chocolate and bananas – as you’ll discover in Februarys monthly subscription box.

Support communities and farmers overseas with extra income and power through your letterbox with a Between Green Box.

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I cant wait to see what you think about this months box.

It has to be one of my personal favourites as it really connects the wider world to our homes.

Don’t Forget to receive our emails to get our eco-friendly Valentines Day guide for this year

Happy New Year Everyone!!

This months subscription box is the perfect way to start 2023 with some good habits for you and the planet!

Fearne Cotton Happy Vegan Cookbook

Bestselling author and cookbook writer, Fearne Cotton, shares her delicious vegan-recipe secrets, with options to satisfy non-vegans too!

With simple recipe hacks and flexible options, delicious classics and fresh ideas, Happy Vegan will inspire you to eat plant-based food full time, part time or any time. It’s packed with comforting, easy-to-make dishes that will become your everyday favourites and go-to fridge raiders.

Recipes include ideas to start the day right, for lunch on the go, some long and lazy slow cooking, dishy dinners, sharing feasts, party time and irresistible sweetest things.

From burgers to brownies, casseroles to cakes, Happy Vegan shows you that vegan food is for everyone … and you won’t even notice there’s no meat or dairy. Just happy faces.

HomeThings Washing Up Liquid Refill

Did you know most cleaning products are up to 95% water packed in single-use plastic? Even the “eco” ones. It’s time to rethink what’s under your sink. So we made a powerful eco powder-to-gel solution that you dissolve in tap water at home. When you need a refill? Just buy the gel powder and keep on refillin’.

Yogi Blend Loose Leaf Tea

Thinking of switching coffee for tea? Or maybe a little more exercise and energy is on your 2023 list… this Yogi Spice Loose Leaf tea contains the four spices, cinnamon, ginger, cardamom seeds, cloves that not only activate the happiness hormone, its gives you all the energy to get up and go!

Brambles Hedgehog Food

Wanting to do more for wildlife and get in touch with nature? Brambles Crunchy Hedgehog food is a tasty, crunchy, and nutritious kibble that hedgehogs visiting your garden will love. It is a complementary food specially formulated to give wild hedgehogs the right balance of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. Due to its crunchy texture, it’s also great for dental health. Also suitable for badgers and foxes. It’s naturally tasty and nutritious and contains no artificial flavours, colours, or added sugar.

No Meat Challenge & Colouring Pencil

Do you think your body needs a break from meat or would you like to become a vegetarian or vegan? Want to participate in a one month no meat challenge? Want to find a way to stay motivated during this challenge and improve your health at the same time? Simply colour in for each day that you have successfully not had any meat. On the days that you have managed to not eat any meat, use a bold and bright colour. You can also write down your reward, if you finish day 31 without having meat, you can choose whether to treat yourself or ditch meat altogether.

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Cant wait to see what you think of these new habits for 2023!

Grab yours now!!

Go green this Christmas with sustainable swaps for your festive favourites in this months eco-friendly subscription box from Between Green.

Socks

Chocolate

Wrapping Paper and Accessories

We are leaving one thing a little surprise….

Grab your sustainable Christmas Between Green Box HERE

Give the perfect eco friendly gift with 1, 3, 6 and 12 month Gift Subscriptions

You’ll receive an eco friendly gift box monthly to go green one month at a time.

About Labre’s Hope Soap

Labre’s Hope are the first non-profit employing people experiencing homelessness to handcraft luxury self-care products alongside employment and wellbeing classes.

Its founder, Aaron Probert brought his university dissertation to life after hearing a story of a homeless woman he noticed in his local area.

Her story of abuse that led to homelessness inspired a three year journey for Aaron, testing his business model from his dissertation and researching cosmetics and skincare – a daily routine for most of us – and Labre’s Hope Soap was soon born.

People who are at risk of homelessness or on a recent journey out of homelessness that are ready for employment, are referred to Labre’s Hope through homeless charities such as Shelter and Crisis, to be hired to make handcrafted, planet-friendly soap on both a full-time and part time basis, providing a stable and secure salary that equates to the London Living Wage.

In July 2022, the first line of soaps were ready and I was honoured to give them a try.

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As soon as it was delivered the scent was unreal. Opening up the parcel to find the beautifully decorated box, its mission is clear, quoting “It Starts With a Bar, Ends with a Home” “Changing Lives One Bar At a Time” and “Together, Lets End Homelessness”.

I received Blood Orange Botanicals, Gentle and Sensitive, Lift Me Up Litsea, Tantalising Turmeric and Ying and Yang.

Each box contains a generous 110g soap bar, and what I love most is the little card inside telling you exactly who made your bars. With a little picture and story, you feel connected to the cause with every use. Thank you to Ricky, Andy and Danny for making these beautiful bars! You can read more of Ricky’s Story Here

Whilst going through the box it didn’t take long for my partner to get a whiff and immediately demanded a soap for himself! He decided on the Blood Orange and Botanicals which I had to agree, smelt awesome.

I was eager to use the Lift Me Up Litsea for its fresh, zingy scent, perfect for a morning shower.

Each bar is 100% vegan, cruelty free, palm oil free, biodegradable and contains no harsh chemicals – What’s not to love?

Find out more about Labre’s Hope on their social media and get your hands on their bars on the website – there’s a sale on their range including the customisable soap gift set – perfect for gifting or putting individual bars into stockings this Christmas.

Originally from Venezuela, Karla, founder of Naked Nation, took inspiration from her grandmother, who made and sold jewellery and pyjamas to the local community. Combining the attention to detail and passion for community from her grandmother and her own experience as an environmental engineer and fashion designer, Naked Nation was born.

I loved the personal approach, happiness and sense of belonging that Karla envisioned for Naked Nation as a British brand, so she kindly sent me a huge parcel with different sizes, colours and styles to try!

Everything from the signature gift packaging to handwritten note instantly made me feel that personal approach, happiness and sense of belonging that Karla wanted everyone to feel when they received their items from Naked Nation.

Happy Planet, Happy Feet!!

Naked Nation socks are made from bamboo which is super soft, as well as being breathable, naturally anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. Their bamboo-based fabric is kind to all skin types, even sensitive ones, and has natural breathability and bacteria resistance for fresher and healthier feet – something my teenagers can definitely benefit from!!

Bamboo doesn’t require pesticides to grow healthy, and needs less land and water than equivalent cotton crops. Even more amazing, when grown instead of trees, bamboo fields contribute 35% more oxygen to the atmosphere in the same acreage!

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In honesty, I wear socks 24/7! Even in bed! I can’t sleep without socks on and I really can’t stand walking around in bare feet! (Unless I’m on a hot sunny beach….)

First to try were the trainer socks in 6 different colours and the Naked Nation logo on each pair. I’m sure most of us are familiar with the feeling of socks not staying in place and rolling down our feet… I’m happy to say this did not happen while wearing these trainer socks! Even when I wore wellies walking the dog they stayed in place.

The breathable mesh design on the instep keeps you cool when wearing in summer and their ‘no show’ design means socks stay hidden underneath your stylish footwear!

No matter what you’re up to, in the gym, walking the dog or commuting to work or simply staying cosy at home, Naked Nation socks are perfect. Other designs include the crew style, that warms comfortably on the cold days but stays cool when it’s hot.

My teenage son soon had his hands on the skater style socks that complimented his style and comfort while hanging out with friends, walking around the city, playing football and going on his skateboard.

Thank you Karla for sharing your amazing story and amazing socks with Between Green.

I cant wait to share them with Between Green Subscribers very soon!!!

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Find Naked Nation at https://nakednation.co.uk/

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Cold weather can make your skin dry and sensitive, so it is important to protect your skin with moisturising sustainable beauty products.

Clay Face Masks

For centuries, clay has been used for medicinal and cosmetic purposes in many cultures. Nowadays, clay face masks are used as one of the most effective treatments for skin problems. 

Pink Clay is ideal for normal and sensitive skin types due to its unique balance of properties. It helps in stimulating circulation on the skin, exfoliating and cleansing.
It does not draw oil from the skin so it’s suitable to use it on dry and dehydrated skin.

Green Clay Face Masks can be used for both normal and oily skin because of its ability to restore skin to its natural pH balance. It also stimulates blood circulation to the skin to helps with many types of skin conditions, including acne, psoriasis, eczema, rosacea, bug bites and sunburn.

Red clay is rich in iron oxide and copper and low in aluminium and it was traditionally used in treating joint pain and washing to protect oneself from infections and disease.
Its natural anti-inflammatory properties reduce swelling on affected areas and also stimulates blood circulation.

Good Things Come To Those Who Remove Their Make Up

Make-up remover wipes contain strong, drying chemicals that are harsh to the skin and strip the skin of its natural oils. Wet wipes don’t clean your face properly leading to clogged pores and breakouts.

Choose reusable makeup remover pads made using a blend of sustainable bamboo and organic cotton fibres. Intended for use with all skin types and on sensitive skin regions such as the eyes, designed to give your skin a deeper clean & cleanse, remove stubborn makeup and exfoliate your skin.

9.3 million wet wipes are flushed down the toilet every year in the UK alone. Make a sustainable switch to eco-friendly makeup pads today and start your zero-waste journey!

Facial Serums

A Facial Serum is an excellent next step after cleansing.

Facial Serums are stronger than a cream. They have higher concentrations of active ingredients and a lighter, watery consistency. They are used to strengthen and intensify daily care.

Serums absorb quickly into skin and can be used before applying cream or makeup.

Depending on the type, serums have different uses; they can brighten, moisturize the skin and also have an anti-wrinkle effect. Perfect for the winter with an instant hit of hydration and protection for all skin types. 

Facial Toner

Using a toner after cleansing penetrates pores and works to dissolve dead skin and impurities. Wonderfully calming, soothing, and full to the brim with goodness to ensure pores are refined, toned and hydrated. Like all good things, don’t rush into it. Try using a few times a week and watch how your skin reacts. 

A facial toner spray is an easy way to refresh and hydrate throughout the day, helping to keep skin in check.

Toners containing witch-hazel will help reduce redness, inflammation and irritation with its natural properties.

Sheet Masks

Sheet masks have soared in popularity in recent years to give a saturated boost to skin that is easy to apply and easy to remove. Although they are great for your skin, they are not so great for the environment. Anything single use is an obvious no-no, additionally these masks tend to be made from cotton that releases microplastics known for polluting our oceans.

Eco-Masks are natural, plastic-free, compostable sheet masks that provide natural skincare without compromising the environment.

These DIY masks allow you to create a liquid of your choice to benefit your skin, for example, soaking the mask in chamomile tea for a soothing mask, or using essential oils to target your skin type.

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All these swaps are included in the Between Green Box for November for just £20 including UK letterbox friendly postage and packaging – this month’s box is worth over £40 and continue to make savings with reusable products – we spend over £100 a year each on make-up wipes alone!

This month we are making sustainable swaps in our beauty routine. Ditching wet wipes, plastic and chemicals that we use daily for reusable and sustainable alternatives better for you and for the planet.

All these sustainable beauty goodies for just £20 including UK letterbox friendly postage and packaging.

These Boxes would also make a great gift! Give a 1-, 3-, 6-, or 12-month subscription as a gift this Christmas to show you care for them and for the planet.

Welcome to your Between Green Box for October

This month we are looking at sustainable health and wellness. Skip those painkillers, chemical filled rubs and choose natural alternatives.