Lifestyle
How Will You Make the Most of Winter
We have just marked Winter Solstice and the daylight hours will slowly start to increase. This delights many of us but don’t be too quick to wish the next few months away! Let’s take the time to enjoy and appreciate the remaining weeks of winter! Here are some simple, fun ideas to make the most…
Read MoreThe Bountiful Benefits of Bath Salts
A long soak in bath salts not only releases toxins from our bodies but also from our minds. Taking the time to lie back and let your body relax while stress and worries dissolve away into the water is good for you in so many ways. A bath infused with our blissful bath salts enables…
Read MoreIt’s the Little Things
Have you ever started a new week promising yourself that THIS week will be the one when you finally achieve that elusive balance between work, parenting, managing your home (or just keeping it clean!) and taking care of yourself? And have you ever got to the following Sunday night and suddenly remembered the intention you…
Read MoreHow Can You Be Healthier and Happier This Winter
I’m always excited by the arrival of winter! Don’t get me wrong – I love summer, but sometimes it’s nice waking up to foggy mornings and listening to the rain drizzling down outside while we’re wrapped up nice and warm with the fire going. Of course, the downside to winter is the runny noses and…
Read MoreCelebrating the Special Women in Our Lives
She inspires you, nurtures you, teaches you or mentors you. She may share wise relationship and career advice or just a comforting cup of tea and a catch-up. Sometimes she is your mother but that is not always the case. Motherhood is not limited to genetics. It’s a gift, a decision to care for someone…
Read MoreHome Fragrance Guide
Here at Little Olive Tree we’re always focused on creating natural products to invigorate, uplift and indulge your senses. All of the amazing smells described below are available to purchase in our Soy Candles, Reed Diffusers and Soy Melts. Coconut & Lime: Lime provides an energizing and fresh aroma. It has a long history in folklore…
Read MorePlastic-Free Living
Happy New Year and welcome to what is shaping up to be a beautiful beginning to 2019! We hope you all had time to enjoy the gorgeous weather over the holiday break. It’s that time when everyone is working hard on sticking to their New Year resolutions – and we are, too. This year, one…
Read MoreThe Power of Fragrance
“Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.” – Helen Keller “The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.” – Thalassa Cruso Scent and Memory It’s true, isn’t it?…
Read MoreMicrobeads Might Be Banned in New Zealand
It’s official, New Zealand is on the bandwagon to ban the sale of personal care products that contain plastic microbeads. A recent news article explains that Nick Smith (the NZ environment minister) and the National government has announced a proposal outlawing the sale of microbead products. Microbead products have already been banned in the US and…
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean to Be Green?
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the “green beauty movement”. It’s a fairly new movement (as in the last 20 years or so), at least for the cosmetic industry. Though, the truth is that green beauty has been with us for thousands of years! Green beauty has its roots buried deep within the wisdom…
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