This month, we’re focused on a very important day: April 22 is Earth Day, and for us at Down To Earth, it carries a very special significance. Whether you’re currently a user of our natural, plant-based products, or considering using them, one thing about our company is: we’re passionate about environmentally friendly practices. We care […]
This month, a fascinating and entertaining celebration takes place across much of the Western world – the rollicking, eccentric festivities and oddball traditions of St. Patrick’s Day. Now, we’ve all heard about the ‘luck of the Irish’, and although it’s generally used as a good-humoured cliché, perhaps there’s something to it after all. Whether you’re […]
This month, random acts of kindness take centre stage. We live in a world where it’s all too easy to spend our free time doom scrolling through social media, and being all too easily influenced into believing that the world is just getting worse. Of course, we all know that media (social and otherwise) thrives […]
Skincare is about more than just the practicality of health and good physical habits. Let’s be honest: it’s also about how we feel. The sensation of freshness, of rejuvenation, and the knowledge that you look as good as you feel, are major motivators for creating and sustaining a good daily skincare routine. Habits, of course, […]
Incredibly, the end of the year is upon us again – and for many of us, a sense of relief, too. There’s a peculiar phenomenon that seems to afflict many of us around this time of the year. We work hard, we stay focused on our goals, and we push through, no matter how difficult […]
Speak to pretty much anyone at this time of year, and it quickly becomes obvious that exhaustion is setting in once again. It manifests itself in the harassed faces that make up the supermarket queues, the impatient drivers, the thousand-yard stares of moms with squalling kids in tow. It’s a feature of conversation among family […]
Spending time in the garden is one of life’s simplest pleasures – and, it turns out, one of the best things you can do for your well-being. Whether your corner of paradise consists of acres of lawn, ornamental fountains and historic old trees – or a small urban rooftop garden, or even just a special […]
NEW LIFE Like a miracle, quietly, softly, it happens. Tiny leaves begin to appear on trees that have lain dormant for so long. The winds of change bring a fleeting promise of rain, a subtle shift in the seasons, blossoms burst into life, and the world inhales the freshness of nature’s rebirth. And, with the […]
August, of course, is celebrated as Women’s Month, and in South Africa, with Women’s Day celebrated on 9 August to commemorate the more than 20,000 South African women of all races who staged a march on the Union Buildings in protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. The march was […]
This month, we celebrate the life of a man who is not only a global icon, but who was deeply human, and who connected to all of us in ways we can only try to emulate. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison, it wasn’t just physical freedom that he enjoyed after so very long: […]
