I recently wrote about Keshi Organics, a WA based company selling organic skin care, and thought I would post an update with their latest offer.

Keshi Organics Special Offer

With their current special, you receive $25 off the regular price for their moisturiser – Hydrate or Revitalize. This brings the price down to $30 which is really affordable for a 50ml bottle.

So if you saw my last post and were thinking of trying Keshi Organics but weren’t sure, now is a great time to try or if you already use their moisturiser, you can get another bottle at a huge discount.

Visit the site here.

A lot of organic fashion I have seen in the past has been kind of blah. Very plain (often ugly) t-shirts and skirts with very little design and the only selling point being that it’s organic.

Well, that’s not enough to get people to buy and thankfully there are people out there who realise that. If you check out Liz Disler, you’ll see that yes, her clothes are basic, but they’re really cute too.

The Liz Disler range is loungewear and sleepwear which looks very comfy. If you’ve tried any of the outfits, leave a comment with what you thought.

I do hope they extend the range in the future, maybe with some more cute tops or by adding a few more colours.

About Liz Disler:

Liz Disler began her self titled label to make a positive change for the environment. After spending two years researching the harsh impact current clothing industry practices and materials have on the environment, Liz began designing her new basics & loungewear range ‘Forever And A Day’ a locally produced clothing range that is fashionable, eco-friendly and uses the best certified organic yarns.

All garments in the range are made from certified organic cotton yarn, dyed with Oeko Tex Standard 100 processes and sourced from a carbon neutral supplier and produced locally in Melbourne, Australia.

Visit LizDisler.com for more information and to order online.

ByronShop.com is an ‘organic skin care & eco-lifestyle’ shop based in the Yarra Valley in Victoria.

We strive towards an eco friendly environmentally sustainable business, offering and supporting quality products and businesses who support our vision.

We strive to find effective products of the highest quality that nature provides.

The products we recommend respect and support your natural rhythms as well as those of our environment. It goes without saying that we source and offer organic and biodynamic products where ever possible.

They stock some of my favourite organic skin care products – Dr Hauschka and Sanctum Organics. Both brands have a wide range of products which should be suitable for most people.

Byron Shop also sells Waleda skin care products which I haven’t used and don’t know much about so any comments about that brand are more than welcome.

Byron Shop has lots of special offers and you get free samples with your order. So check them out.

Leave a comment with your feedback  if you have ordered from ByronShop.com. I’d love to know what you think.

I’ve resisted using Twitter for a long time because I don’t really need another distraction. However, the attraction has proven too great and I finally signed up. I think it’ll be a great way to meet and keep in contact with like minded people as well as keeping up with what is happening in the organic world.

My Twitter ID is organicandrea. Add me and I’ll add you back!

Perhaps one of the more controversial organic products, the question about what health benefits are really provided by buying organic milk is much debated in the health food world. Several countries, including the US, don’t even recognise organic milk as being healthier for you than the mass market milk. Still, health food enthusiasts around the world insist that organic milk isn’t just better for the environment, but better for you too.

Organic Milk

For some mindful shoppers, simply knowing that buying organic milk supports organic farming practices is reason enough to eat the extra cost in their weekly grocery bill. Organic dairy cows have to be grazed entirely on organic fields that aren’t treated with pesticides. Any extra feed they are provided must be grown organically.

What It Means For You

Of course, there are customers who want more than generic assurances that they’re helping the environment by spending extra money – they want to know that they’re helping themselves. Luckily, there’s ever growing proof that organic milk provides a lot of health benefits for the average consumer. Obviously, pesticide residues are less of a problem with organic milk. Perhaps even more impressive, though, is that tests are proving the organic milk actually has more vitamins and healthy components. With more vitamins, antioxidants, and omega-3 fatty acids, milk from organic cows provides a nice boost to our bodies. It can even improve the quality of a mother’s breast milk and has been known to help protect children against asthma and eczema.

How do you feel about organic milk? Do you buy it?

TOFWD (The Organic Food and Wine Deli) is a gourmet deli in Melbourne where you can find ready prepared meals, salads, sandwiches, snacks, sweets, and cakes.

A little about TOFWD:

After many reincarnations TOFWD*the organic food & wine deli has grown into a successful business offering the best in organic produce into ready made food and café offerings in an environmental setting for all to enjoy.

The new store has ‘biopaint’ on it’s walls, the shelves are made from low emission plantation timber.

Sugar cane fibre packaging which breaks down in 6 weeks, is used for takeaway. Including certified organic Bioplates , paper straws, recycled paper bags.

Shopping bags made from non sweat shop, non child labour villages.

Coffee which is fair trade and is part of the rainforest alliance.

We use local growers and suppliers as wherever possible to avoid unnecessary food miles.

We cater to the following dietary requirements, wheat free WF, sugar free SF, dairy free DF, gluten free GF, vegan VG and vegetarian VEG.

You can visit them for takeaway meals, to order catering, or to pick up one of their organic gourmet hampers.

TOFWD
28 Degraves Street
Melbourne Vic 3000

When it comes to the environment and living green to protect it, Australia may not have been in the forefront of nations helping solve environmental problems. That said, as the 21st century continues, more and more Aussies are experiencing a "greening" of the mind and soul. This is resulting in a widespread movement to make Australia a safer and more beautiful place to live.

Be Informed about Australian Environmental Problems

Just as any other place on the planet, Australia is facing many environmental problems. Unlike other areas of the planet, Australia has one force that can help – the Aussie people. While we may not have been too interested in "living green" in the past, doing so is becoming more and more important. The first thing you should do if you want Australia to continue to be wonderful is to educate yourself about the problems facing our country. Learning about the environmental problems isn’t enough, however.

Take Action about the Environment

After finding out what is happening to the Australian environment, it is time to take action and do something to help protect it. Here are just a few things you can do to live greener in Australia.

• Reduce – The first step is using less. If you have a smaller "carbon footprint" you have less of a negative impact on the planet.

• Reuse – Instead of using disposable items, work things into your life that can be reused. Grocery bags for example.

• Recycle – If you must use some items, make sure they are recyclable and that you take the steps necessary for them to be recycled.

These three simple steps are just the beginning. Once you have mastered these on your own, it is time to take your message aboard.

Helping Others Live Green

When it comes to Australia, we are known as a people who are independent and yet at the same time, we like to help each other. Perhaps this is because of where our country is situated in the world – isolated as it is – but whatever the reason, when it comes to living green this needs to be true. Aussies need to learn to help teach others in our country how to live green. There’s a good way and a bad way to do this. Luckily, you’ll find the right balance and be able to positively spread the message about living greener for the benefit of Australia and the planet as a whole.

It’s always nice when you come across locally made organic skin care products. I feel so much better purchasing them instead of something that was made overseas and flown in. If you feel the same way, check out Keshi Organics.

Not only is Keshi Organics an Australian made product (based in Busselton WA) but they are hand made too, which I think takes real devotion!

Here is what they have to say about their brand:

As you are aware more and more people are looking towards organics as a way of looking after themselves and the environment.  Keshi Organics is unique even in the world of organics as we don’t use thickeners such as stearic acid or gums in our products.  The Keshi Organics range is formulated to be beneficial to your skin, naturally.  Handcrafted with love and integrity the product is luxurious and the packaging very stylish and desirable.   We’ve been accepted onto the Safecosmetics.org data base and currently  getting accreditation with PETA  as cruely free, and vegan apart from the pearl shell in the cleanser.

The product range includes:

• Face and body moisturisers
• Cleansers and scrubs
• Body oils
• Scents

I only recently heard about Keshi so have yet to try it but am looking forward to testing it out soon. If you use or have used their products, please leave a review in the comments.

Visit Keshi Organics here.

Those of you in Australia may have noticed that the site has been down for the last few weeks. If you had tried to visit any of the pages you would have gotten a message saying: Forbidden.

I would like to blame my host or my husband or my cat for this outage but unfortunately it was all my fault

If you access the site from outside of Australia you would have seen everything as normal. As it happens, I’m not in Oz at the moment so wasn’t aware of the problem until a couple of days ago, oops!

So I must thank the Buy Organic readers who emailed me to let me know there was a problem. Thanks guys!

I have a backlog of organic sites to review so hope to start posting them in the coming weeks. If you have a site related to organic products in Australia, please let me know and I’ll try and publish a brief post about asap. Just leave a comment with your site details and we should be good to go.