It’s versatile, environmentally friendly and has a 5,000-year-old pedigree in the fashion world. Laura Sevier can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops
… Hemp on the high street Laura Sevier | 21st January 2009 Ethical Living Hemp Clothing Fashion Green Lifestyle Fashion … can’t understand why it’s taken so long for hemp to hit the shops Not so long ago, while …
Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding trio compared to olive oil's Mediterranean aura - but storecupboard essentials if you want homegrown oil
… Ethical Living Food And Farming Olive Oil Hemp Cooking main-flaxfield-pic.jpg A field of linseed at Flax Farm in West Sussex Hemp, flax and rapeseed - not a sexy sounding … UK but with flax sourced from the Ukraine. Hemp oil With its reputation as a wonderplant …
Bright, bold and branded with a logo... It’s time to wear your ethics on your eco t-shirt. By Laura Sevier
… cotton and other sustainable fibres – bamboo, hemp and recycled polyester – and dyed with … are made from recycled plastic bottle fibre, hemp, bamboo, or organic cotton. A biologist … cotton t-shirt, £30 www.ejfoundation.org The Hemp Trading Company (THTC ) THTC have been …
… they can ‘hire and fire’ more easily. H emp Hemp as a sustainable ecotextile fabric has a … use. In the UK, around 2,000 hectares of hemp have been grown every year since the … and fibre or recyclable car interiors. UK hemp clothes on the high street? Currently, …
A cleaner, greener, more ethical approach to outdoor gear, Finisterre swept into UK shops on a surfing brainwave. Laura Sevier meets the team behind the eco-active clothing company
… 40 per cent vegetable foam that’s wrapped in hemp cloth instead of fibreglass, and is set … balsa wood construction wrapped in organic hemp or cotton cloth. See www.oceangreen.org …
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .
… unbleached or organically grown unbleached hemp (sourced from Ecolution in Romania); the …
Is it enough to trust your nose when it comes to decorating your baby's nursery? A new project tests toxin levels and provides tips on reducing harmful chemicals in your baby's room
… and non-toxic materials such as FSC wood, hemp and cotton. With wood make sure they use …
What does it take for a company producing skincare or haircare products to be truly 'natural' or 'organic'? Laura Sevier sorts fact from fiction in the health and beauty stakes
… ‘The cost of organic plant oils such as hemp and rosehip are typically 20 times more …