Shower spray: 1/2 a cup of water, 1 teaspoon vinegar, 1/4 rubbing alcohol (can also use vodka!), 1/2 a teaspoon dish soap, 20 drops tea tree essential oil Clean living lifestyle change: this is a large investment, but if you want to make a smaller change, you could use a pitcher filter like the ProPur (I think it’s called ProOne now). This is a good filter and it’s much more affordable. If you do a side-by-side comparison of the Brita, Berkey, and ProPur filters, ProPur and Berky blow Brita out of the water (pun intended). Berkey Discount Clean living lifestyle change 3 remove “natural flavors” from your diet The using life is not a clean one-no one knows this better than we do. Some of us lived in physical squalor, caring neither for our surroundings nor ourselves. Worse, though, than any external filth was the way most of us felt inside. The things we did to get our drugs, the way we treated other people, and the way we treated ourselves had us feeling dirty. Many of us recall waking too many mornings just wishing that, for once, we could feel clean about ourselves and our lives. Brown S, Tracy EM, Jun M, Park H, Min MO. Personal network recovery enablers and relapse risks for women with substance dependence. Qual Health Res. 2015;25(3):371-385. doi:10.1177/1049732314551055 Read this post on how to start a sourdough starter from scratch watch how to cook from scratch while working from home Clean living lifestyle change 5 Cook more meals at home

Unlike harsh chemicals, a probiotic cleaner such as this is non-toxic and uses Bacillus bacteria. What we particularly like about this all-in-one spray is that it can be used across the home cutting through grease and dirt on worktops in the kitchen and enamel on the bathroom sink. We tried the formula to clean the windows too and were impressed at how well it cleaned the dirt and left a gleaming finish. There’s also a rather lovely air freshener in the range and a very ample 500ml refillable pouch that will last you quite a while. Related: Read this post on how to source good quality food Clean living lifestyle change 7 Clean up your cookware Saxbe DE, Repetti R. No place like home: home tours correlate with daily patterns of mood and cortisol. Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2010 Jan;36(1):71-81. doi:10.1177/0146167209352864. PMID: 19934011. Do you know how toxic your water is even if you’re using a filter? EWG has this awesome resource where you can type in your zip code and get a list of the toxic ingredients in your water. For example, for my zip code, this is what we have in our water: What you can do about your toxic water Clean living lifestyle change: Remove any refined sugars from your house and replace them with natural sugar. Don’t worry about things you get when you go out to eat, you can work on that later. For now, just control what’s in your own house.You can never have enough house plants,” says Oliver Heath, who runs a sustainable architecture practice. Certain plants are best for certain rooms: “Mother-in-law’s tongue gives off oxygen at night, which makes it best suited to the bedroom.” According to Chillingsworth, peace lilies and boston ferns thrive in rooms with high humidity and can reduce the mould spores in the air, making them ideal for bathrooms; weeping figs have been found to be the best plant for removing formaldehyde released from carpets and furniture, making them good for living areas. Each of the changes below can be as easy or hard as you want! If it seems overwhelming, then taper off some of your changes and start a little slower. This should be a positive and fun experience for you and your family – not something that you dread. Make the most of seasonal gluts and preserve vegetables in oils, vinegars, chutneys, ketchup and marinades, or freeze them. “Blitz and freeze tomatoes in containers for passata all year round; make kimchi from cauliflower stalks and leaves; use beetroot in jams, vinegars and oil, then chop stalks and leaves to top pastas, pizzas, curries and dal,” says Hunter. Honeybees visit only one type of flower in any one foraging trip, says Sarah Wyndham Lewis, author of Planting For Honeybees: The Grower’s Guide To Creating A Buzz. “This is called ‘flower fidelity’ and is what makes them such effective pollinators. So plant large clumps or ‘drifts’ of single species and optimise each of the bees’ trips.” Think swathes of catmint, field scabious and hyssop. “March to September are the key months for honeybees – they will fly whenever the temperature is above 10C, even in winter, so early- and late-flowering plants are especially valuable,” she says. I was having some health issues, went to the naturopath and got some blood work which showed I was very intolerant (the highest on the scale) to eggs and dairy. At the time we were just buying the eggs and cheese from the grocery store. We completely cut eggs and dairy out of our diet, and then slowly incorporated high-quality, raw, and pastured eggs and dairy into our diet again. I had no issues! This is very anecdotal, but I’m not the only one with a testimony like this.

According to independent energy comparison service U Switch, the cost of running your fridge and freezer equates to about 7% of your total energy bill (they are one of the few household energy devices that are on all the time). U Switch recommends replacing your fridge and/or freezer if it is over 10 years old. Even if it’s working, the cost of a new model will be made up for in energy savings over the years. Keep your fridge at 5C or less (most are kept at about 7C, which means food will go off sooner) and ensure there is a 10cm gap behind your fridge to let heat flow away easily. Make sure the seal is strong – if it can’t hold a piece of paper when shut, it could be letting in warm air, making it work harder.Letting your grass grow longer between cuts not only saves petrol or electricity, and therefore reduces carbon dioxide emissions, but also encourages more wildlife into your garden. Longer grass is more drought-resistant, too. Try cutting every three or four weeks and let dandelions, daisies and violets bloom in spring, followed by buttercups, clovers and selfheal in summer. If you are looking for a way to reduce your environmental impact and want to spend less time cleaning, you should consider using professional cleaning services that use environmentally friendly products. Here in Norfolk, we're the number one company offering that service. Related: These Winter coffee recipes also use natural sweeteners Clean living lifestyle change 10 Stretch and foam roll By making this small change you’re helping your body to absorb the nutrients you’re providing it, as well as flush out toxins. Melemis SM. Relapse prevention and the five rules of recovery. Yale J Biol Med. 2015;88(3):325-332.

Part of a clean living lifestyle is making clean cooking a part of that lifestyle. The more surefire way to cook clean is to cook from scratch. When you can control what goes into the meals you’re making from start to finish, you’re truly eating clean. Hendershot CS, Witkiewitz K, George WH, Marlatt GA. Relapse prevention for addictive behaviors. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2011;6:17. doi:10.1186/1747-597X-6-17 Clean living lifestyle change: Chose an activity that you love and commit to doing it at least one more time per week and gradually increase until you reach at least 3 times per week. Clean living lifestyle change 12 Swap to non-toxic products WIRED tested: The Eco-friendly Complete Cleaning Kit, which was filled with essential cleaners for each part of your home. Inside the cardboard caddy, you’ll find a brush, three microfibre cloths, a dry carpet cleaner and a selection of all-purpose cleaners including a very effective glass cleaner and limescale remover and bathroom cleaner in one. The solutions have a mild inoffensive scent, but the ingredients listening was a little vague on exactly what makes the ‘fragrance’. Baths have long been seen as more wasteful and less responsible than showering, but some research shows that modern, pumped power showers can use more, not less, water than bathing. It is possible to enjoy a luxurious, but environmentally considerate, bath. Use sulphate-free oils, salts or foams and relax (I’ve even been known to wash posh, delicate bras while I soak). You can save more water by washing hair over the bath before climbing in, allowing the water to fill the tub – the shampoo will create bubbles, too. Save to save the planet

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