essential care demo video As you may have guessed from previous posts here on the Greenfibres blog, I am having a never ending love affair with essential care. So, equipped with the essential care skin care and make up range, we grabbed a natural beauty of a model, stuck her in a chair, pointed [...]
Our horsehair mattresses consist of 10 layers of untreated horsehair (1000gm per layer!) handtufted into an organic cotton drill with organic wool underquilting which softens the robust feel of the horsehair. The mattress is finished with a thick organic cotton cover. None of our natural and organic mattresses have been treated with any chemicals or [...]
I’m happily planning what will be my new organic kitchen garden, and I keep thinking about agriculture and how it relates to Fritjof Capra’s statement that we are all part of a vast interconnected universe – one that is constantly in flux. And I also keep returning to the subject of how agriculture, as practiced […] […]
This blog is supposed to be “textile specific”, meaning we try to keep the topics restricted to those things that apply to the growing of fibers, or the manufacture of synthetic fibers, and the processing of those fibers into cloth. But society seems to have tunnel vision about many things, such as chemical use. Bisphenol […] […]
My toxic couch: I’d like to nominate flame retardant chemicals used in our furniture, fabrics and baby products – as well as a host of other products – as being in the running for the “new asbestos”. These chemicals (halogenated flame retardants, such as polybrominated diphenyl ethers) are commonly known as PBDE’s. An editorial in […] […]