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Soap Making – An Eco-friendly Family Activity
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Hey, were you wondering what to do with those five minutes of spare time you have? While after you have finished composting, repurposing your old jeans, persevering your vegetables (home grown, of course) and dividing up your recycle, why don’t your hand at soap making? Yes, actually making your own soap! It can be a fun activity for the whole family and something you can use as an eco-friendly teacher or hostess gift.
Making soap is a quick activity as it will only take about thirty minutes, so it will be exciting for kids to have a finished product within an hour. There are many methods but the easiest is the melt and pour. All you need to do is purchase an eco-friendly soap base which comes in aloe, hemp, honey (many more varieties at www.brambleberry.com). Then follow the easy steps posed on www.teachsoap.com. If you want video tutorials you can go to www.soap-queen.blogspot.com. You should know that an eco-friendly handmade soap lasts substantially longer than store bought soaps, as long as they are kept on a slotted soap dish. When making your own soap, you get to control the colour, scent and not to mention chemicals and additives.
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Here comes the Bride all dressed in… GREEN? Well, maybe the not the dress but the rest of the upcoming nuptials of Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford reportedly will be. This Hollywood power couple, who have been dating since 2002 and recently became engaged, are reportedly having an eco-friendly wedding. It is reported that at a Team Earth initiative in New York, Ford said: “I haven’t thought about greening my wedding. My wedding was always going to be green!”.
Ford is very involved in Team Earth which is an organization that “will unite businesses, non-profit organizations, scientists, educators, individuals and children in an international collective action campaign to address the most pressing environmental issues facing humanity”. On the organizations website Ford makes an eco-friendly statement writing “saving the planet won’t be easy — and it’s certainly not something you can do alone. That’s why I need your help — and that’s why I’ve joined teamearth.com. We all know that our planet is at a critical juncture: and humanity needs a healthy planet to survive.” Having an eco-friendly wedding is just one way that Ford is trying to practice what he preaches. The couple should be commended for planning an eco-friendly wedding especially because of all the media attention that the big event is bound to receive.
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Here’s a simple green tip of the week that can last a lifetime, use a digital camera to capture all of those memorable moments. When you process film, it necessitates the use of chemicals, a lot of water and paper. Choose a sustainable alternative with a digital camera that allows you to take countless pictures and easily delete the ones you don’t like and cherish those you love. Use a memory stick to take unlimited pictures at your complete discretion then copy them onto your computer for easy viewing.
And you can use a Digital picture frame to have an array of your favorite photos on display in your home. It’s green living made easy as you copy selected photos or plug in the memory stick into the Digital picture frame. The result, flashing crisp images that express even more about your child’s growth or a vacation you took or a party you attended. Digital picture frames are also a great and affordable eco-friendly gift idea to help cut down on the consumption required to process film.
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