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Pure Natural Box Edition 7 - March 2017 | Review

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Subscription boxes are great! Too often the same brands and products get the spotlight (due to good PR and/or good quality). You can argue that good products do not need advertisement because they speak for themselves but the reality of the green beauty world is that a vast amount of excellent products can be left unnoticed. It is not time or money efficient to try every Etsy store so subscription boxes can come in handy because they can introduce you to the artisan brands which have been hand picked and trialled.

I had my eyes on Pure Natural Box for a while now. I was a bit hesitant with December 2016 edition, however, I was too intrigued with the latest edition I could not miss it!

BRUU Subscription Box Review | Review

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What can you give to a person who does not want anything? I am talking about my dad because my default option for mum for be some sort of skincare. He asked for a bottle of whiskey but since I am opposing both alcohol and smoking this option was not on the list. And then it struck me - a subscription box! I love tea and my parents usually like something more exciting than plain black so getting a tea subscription box would allow them to try out some new flavours. After a quick search I have settled on BRUU. They have a number of gift box options but I wanted a monthly delivery option rather than a one-off box so I went with £10/month plan + free P&P (1st box was half price with code BRUU). Each month you get 3 different flavours which should make around 40 cups of tea. You can personalise the selection to black, green, white, herbal, fruit, oolong, chai and rooibos tea. The subscription can be cancelled and paused by emailing the customer service.

The Vegan Kind #38 December 2016 Box and more | Review

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The Vegan Kind is a Scottish company founded in 2013 with the aim to alleviate all the tedious time spent looking at food labels during shopping. TVK is one of the most famous vegan subscription boxes out there which offers both the monthly food box and the quarterly beauty box. The food (or "lifestyle" as they call it) box is priced £13.15 (£10 for the box and £3.15 for delivery) and £18.15 for beauty box (£15.00 for the box and £3.15 for delivery). These prices may increase in the short future following an Instagram post on TVK page that they may be changing from Royal Mail to a courier service due to customer complaints of boxes not arriving.

Amazing Vegan Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

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That's it, you heard me right. This vegan cheesecake is a new level of yummieness that I have managed to make myself (and this means anyone can make it too). I am far from being an amazing baker, in fact I had quite a few bad batches when I was attempting to make a vegan pumpkin pie. However I do very much love cheesecake and miss the convenience of being able to pick a whole big tub for £2. There are frozen versions but they do not have as rich flavour and raw cheesecakes are expensive and often too indulgent (and flipping tiny!).

Aromatherapy Associates

Review: Aromatherapy Associates Facial Oil and Bath & Shower Oil

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I came across this brand while browsing on Naturisimo and very plain minimalistic packaging caught my eye. Rather peculiar for a plain packaging to stand out however in the myriad of pretty looking lotions and potions simplicity is unique. One would even go further to suggest that if a brand does not invest into making the packaging eye-pleasing they must be confident in the performance of their products!

Review: Bloom Remedies Daily Detox Face Moisturiser

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Last summer I came across the small company called Bloom Remedies whose products are handmade in Cornwall. The range includes natural facial and body skincare, as well as aromatherapy. The entire range organic and completely cruelty free (yay!). In addition, the containers are made from recycled material and the packaging usually does not contain plastic. It always rubs me the wrong way when goodies arrive through post packaged in layers of unnecessary plastic so this is definitely a brownie point!

30 ml sample

Hello...

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First post in my blog so it makes sense to say hello :)

I wanted to start this blog to share my enthusiasm for safe, natural and cruelty-free products. I found that a lot of blogs / vlogs are being maintained by folks from overseas and tend to include a significant proportion of products which are hard / expensive to source in UK. Hence I wanted to tackle this issue for all my fellow green beauty enthusiasts who live at this side of the pond!

I am planning to write about various products I have tried and I am thinking of having different themes too! I hope I got you intrigued enough to carry on reading my blog :)

Annie