BPA-Free But Still Highly Toxic
Bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical ingredient used in making a hard, clear plastic known as polycarbonate. It’s commonly used in reusable water bottles, infant feeding bottles, food containers and children’s…
What does ‘Certified Organic’ actually mean?
It’s hard to know your food is nourishing your body the way nature intended when there is advertising campaigns and media causing mass confusion about what is good for you,…
Packaging Choices
In a recent newsletter article, we talked about some simple everyday choices we make that often have a wider impact on our environment. One of these choices that can also…
What We Can Do About Environmental Pollutants!
When we think of “environmental pollutants” and their causes, what sort of things come to mind? Typically, we may think of air pollution caused by car fumes, industrial gases, factory…
Palm Oil Investigations Audit Update
Following our recent Palm Oil Investigations Audit, we will be making some changes to our personal care, skin and hair care and cleaning ranges over the next few months. There…
Palm Oil Investigation Audit
Palm Oil Audit As mentioned in our recent newsletter article on palm oil, we are in the process of auditing all of our products in partnership with an organisation called…
Palm Oil and What You Need to Know!
At Santos Organics, we love to help our customers make informed and ethical choices. With palm oil, these choices can be difficult where there are no mandatory labelling requirements in…
How Do You Like Your Mylk?
Nut mylk has become part of many earth, animal and health-conscious households in recent times and for very good reason. Nut mylks are really simple to make and you can…
The Cost of Plastics on our Health
Plastics were first introduced in the 1940’s and were made to last forever. We now use them once, throw them away and they are either buried under the earth where…
Waste-Free Shopping, Is it a reality?
Shopping waste free (almost completely) for your weekly groceries isn’t as hard as it sounds – there is a few items that we haven’t figured out how to avoid plastic…