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After hours of scrolling, finding nothing, and swiping past a few “take a break, you’ve been scrolling for a while” alerts from TikTok, I said, “f@!k it,” out loud to an empty house, and decided to make the content I’d been hoping to stumble across: a Day One of Healing video. I turned on my phone’s camera and, through tears, said, “I’ve been going back and forth on if I wanted to do this, but if it can help anybody, then it was worth it.”
However, the situation in the UK is much better than in Switzerland, where the average age of a first-time buyer is 48 years old. The central European country is known for its high salaries, but property prices are sky-high too. The average two-bed property there costs £501,000, which is nearly double the £254,000 that the average two-bed property in the UK costs.
Though not a quick fix, Olioso suggests that buying locally may be helpful in reducing carbon emissions and therefore climate change. Under licence, Haeckels – founded by beach warden and coastal enthusiast, Dom Bridges – harvests hydrating antibacterial seaweed from Margate beaches for use in handmade skincare products like cleansers and serums, alongside ingredients we all know and love, such as exfoliating acids and essential vitamins. Products are packaged in a way that minimises any adverse effects on the environment, with bottles made of biodegradable algae instead of plastic, outer packaging grown from mushrooms and candle holders which can be reused as drinking glasses. Neal’s Yard often uses recyclable packaging sourced from the UK to reduce transport miles, too. “All our gift boxes and product cartons are FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) sustainability-sourced, and use World Land Trust certified Carbon Balanced packaging,” its website reads. “This means that we offset the amount of CO2 used to make our packaging by protecting tropical forest.”
