Conscious Consumption
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Guide to Caring For Your Garments
If you’re embracing a conscious style journey, a great starting point is to be more mindful about how you care for your garments. This often-overlooked
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The Coolest Sustainable Swimwear Brands (Updated 2023)
Sustainable Swimwear isn’t what it used to be, it’s even better. With new fashion-forward swim-focused brands popping up left and right, there’s a stylish, sexy,
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Fast Fashion Sucks, Here’s Why
Fast fashion sucks, there’s no other way to put it. Fast Fashion changed the way we shop. Since its onset in the 1990s the amount
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Upgrade Your Sleep: The 7 Best Linen Sheets
Transform your sleep routine and elevate your lifestyle with the ultimate bedding upgrade: linen sheets. Imagine yourself wrapped in a heavenly cocoon of luxurious softness,
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What is Slow Fashion?
Slow Fashion— What Is It? When we talk about conscious style, slow fashion is one expression that comes up time and time again. With all
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6 Ways to Give the Gift of Conscious Living this Holiday Season
What better way to spread the message of conscious living than through giving a gift that encourages mindfulness and self-care during the holiday season? After
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What to Wear in Italy: The Ultimate Packing List
If you’re embarking on an Italian adventure soon chances are you’ve started to think about what you’re going to wear while you’re there— and if
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Let’s Talk about Fashion’s Waste (& Over-Consumption) Problem
When it comes to the fashion industry, it’s hard not to notice the elephant in the room: The fashion system has been built around sustaining over-consumption
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Slow Fashion Brands That You Should Know
Fashion-forward slow fashion brands aren’t always easy to find. I feel like I am constantly seeing them on Instagram when I am scrolling, but then
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The 8 Sustainability Issues that Fashion Brands Need to Address To Stay Relevant
The relationship between fashion and sustainability is a tricky one. It’s not a black-and-white problem, nor are the solutions one size fits all. It’s a
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What is Digital Fashion— and Can it be Considered Conscious Fashion?
By now you’ve probably come across digital fashion in one way or another. The adaptation to digital fashion has caught fire over the past couple
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Discover the Coolest Soy Candle Companies of 2023
In the midst of life’s chaotic demands, creating moments of relaxation is essential for nurturing our well-being. For me, that means lighting a soy candle
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Top 13 Zero Waste Stores
Recently I was doing a neighborhood cleanup and I was shocked by the amount of plastic waste that was mindlessly littered. Since then it’s been
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12 Online Vintage Stores You NEED to Know About
If digging through piles of clothes at your local thrift store isn’t exactly your jam, don’t fret— the wave of online vintage stores that have
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Gift Ideas For the Conscious Traveler That Aren’t Basic
On every gift-giving list, there’s always a travel lover. The friend or family member that never seems to be in town. The person that can
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Where the Future of Biomaterials and Wellness Meet
For millennia in Eastern culture, Algae has been used for its natural wellness properties. In 2014 the western wellness culture caught on to the seaweed
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How To Quit Fast Fashion in 4 Steps
Put down the Zara dress and delete your Shein app, it’s time to quit fast fashion for good. For those of you whose hands are
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The Ultimate Guide to Online Thrift Shopping
Online thrift shopping has become increasingly popular in recent years— luckily for us vintage lovers that means it’s easier than ever to buy and sell
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Rent a Dress: Your Guide to Renting Clothing Online
Embrace the Rent-a-Dress Revolution and Reduce Fashion Waste Picture this: You’re walking down the street wearing the latest it-girl look, feeling like the main character.
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How to Decrease Your Fashion Footprint: 5 Small Things That Make a Big Difference.
I probably don’t need to tell you that the clothes you buy, how you are care for them, and what happens to them after you’re
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7 Sustainable Fashion Brands You Should Know About
Before we hop right into the list, I know that’s what you’re here for. Let’s just make sure we’re all up to speed on what
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How to Quit Fast Fashion: The 4 Must-Read Books
Quitting fast fashion isn’t easy. Fast fashion brands release new ultra-trendy garments almost daily for the price of a coffee and our social media feeds
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The Best Sustainable Underwear: From Basic Cotton Undies to Dainty Lingerie
Make room in your top drawer for some new sustainable underwear. These brands have eco-friendly intimates that cover everything from your everyday cotton panties to
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8 Natural Laundry Detergents For Ultra Fresh Clothes
If there’s one thing that we can all do to become more conscious about our relationship with fashion, it’s caring for the garments we already
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What is Conscious Style?
Why conscious style rather than sustainable style? Over the past decade the sustainable fashion movement has come into the spotlight. While it started out as
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10 Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products You’ll Love to Use
Cleaning might not be the most glamorous task, but it doesn’t have to be a chore. By using natural and eco-friendly cleaning products, you can
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You Won’t See True Transformation Until You Learn This
Despite living in the most abundant era of information, many of us feel trapped in the cycle of consuming endless self-help books, listening to countless
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Happiness is in a Shared Meal
When I first moved to Berlin in January 2018, I didn’t know a single person in the city. While I had moved to new places
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Self Reflection Questions for Before the End of the Year
As the year is coming to a close soon, it is natural to feel reflective and introspective. While self reflection is something that can be