Be Green, Be Healthy! Sustainable, Ethical Planet; Healthy, Holistic Lifestyle  At last, the majority of the population are "going green" and becoming more environmentally aware. The UK Government are putting a Carbon Footprint Calculator on the DEFRA website to assist the "Conscious Consumer" in controlling their contribution to a sustainable lifestyle. With the stresses and strains of work and day to day living, help, hints and assistance are needed for people to gradually make easy long-term changes to help save the planet, improve their lifestyle and maintain sustainability. How Herbs, Gardens & Health Can Help Buy Organic Arable farmland is diminishing, worldwide, through development and intensive farming, which depletes and thins the soil. Organic farming is the only kind that actually increases soil depth. A wide range of organic products are available from Herbs, Gardens & Health. They are all marked with an "O" or "Organic". Personal Care Products  Reduce your use of chemicals which are not only harmful to the environment when they go down your drain, but also to your skin, body and well-being. Check out our Natural and Organic Toiletries and Hair Colour Ranges. Household and Cleaning  Another area where chemical reduction can easily be adopted. Our Household Page is full with natural cleaning hints and tips as well as a range of eco-friendly products. For locals, we can even go a step further and refill many of their empty Ecover bottles, saving on the plastic containers! Local Produce  Products purchased locally save on transportation and fuel consumption. Here at Herbs, Gardens & Health, our own brand foods are packaged by a very local wholefood wholesaler. Our customers are able to order organic veg boxes to collect from us on Saturdays, which come from a local Soil Association registered organic farm. We usually stock local honey, too, although this year (2007), there is a shortage due to a loss of many bees through disease and pesticide use. Painting and Decorating Paints can be toxic, a danger to babies and children, and aggravating to asthma and allergy sufferers, as well as being unfriendly to the environment. Herbs, Gardens & Health are now able to offer a natural paint range which can be matched and mixed to any colour swatch/sample shade of your choice. This Biofa range is used in several schools in the UK. Please email or telephone your requirements for a quote. Click here to view Biofa Page Watch Your Medications  Don't take medication such as painkillers unless you really have to. The body only uses a small portion of them and the rest goes down the toilet. Sewage systems may not be able to clean all medicines from the water, so eventually they could harm fish and wildlife. Prevention is Better Than Cure A healthy, balanced, varied diet is sometimes difficult to achieve with today's hectic lifestyle. Hence, it is a good idea to supplement with at least a good quality, high strength multivitamin and mineral. Ask our advice about natural supplements to help prevent your ailments becoming worse. This may help you avoid the need to take harmful pain-killing drugs in the future. Chemical drugs can have many side effects. With a healthy lifestyle and expert advice on diet and supplements to suit you, drugs can be avoided until/unless absolutely necessary. The Doctor's Surgery, Hospitals and chemical drugs certainly have their place in this society, but with the NHS being overloaded and hospitals having problems with "SuperBugs" such as MRSA, now is the time to think about taking control of your own health, and that of your family's. Please email or telephone our team of advisors who will take your details, listen to your concerns and get back to you with the information and advice you need. Details at the bottom of the page. Stress, Relaxation and Sleep In order to keep on top of our busy lifestyles and to be able to cope with the pressures all around us everyday, we need to be able to manage our stress levels and make sure we get enough relaxation and sleep as well as exercise and fresh air. Herbal teas and herbal remedies can be useful to this end. Massage, Reflexology, Reiki and more Locals to us, in St. Peter's, Broadstairs, Kent UK, are lucky enough to be able to book a relaxing massage, reflexology session, or other complementary therapy in our new Therapy Centre, with excellent, professional, qualified Therapists. Fairtrade Herbs, Gardens & Health stock an increasing number of Fairtrade products, helping people throughout the world to be paid fair wages for the work they do and their produce. Please contact us if you have any other ideas about how we may be able to help the "concious consumer". We hope you have found something in this article of value or use. Juliet Brazil Partner/Manager Herbs, Gardens & Health | 
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