Natural living · Australia

Make what you used to buy.

Fifty-five tested, chemical-free recipes for skin, hair, teeth, laundry, dishes and your animals — every ingredient explained, every supplier named.

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Moss growing on smooth river stones
What to make

Eleven corners of the house, covered.

Pale lichen on grey granite

Read the label — all five words of it

Every recipe uses ingredients you can pronounce, with no synthetic fragrance, SLS, parabens or optical brighteners. Where a preservative is needed, we tell you, and why.

Costed, not just 'cheaper'

A 1.2 kg batch of laundry powder — 40-plus loads — costs roughly $7–13. We show you what to buy, where in Australia, and roughly what it costs — supermarket first, specialty only when it matters.

Less plastic, by design

Bars, powders and dissolvable sheets replace bottles and jugs. Refill the same jar for years.

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A fern frond on pale stone
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