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• Genevieve St-Amour

Bees: as vital as water

    In our story , it is stated that Eco Loco was born from a tadpole. It could also have been true to say that it was born from...

• Genevieve St-Amour

A planet that is less and less enough

  The least we can say is that we are receiving some tough environmental news. Although cries of alarm from scientists and activists have been ringing out for decades, it...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Solid foundations: Zero waste approach

  Our landfills are overflowing. It's true here and it's true elsewhere. In Quebec, residual materials represent 13 million tonnes per year. The global global average is 1.2 kilos per...

• Genevieve St-Amour

What does “eco-responsible” mean?

First of all, the word eco-responsible is the junction of two words. The first word is “eco” for ecology. Ecology is first of all the study of the environments where...

• Genevieve St-Amour

How to choose the right (cosmetic) clay?

What is clay? First of all, the term clay refers to all minerals smaller than 2 µm in size in a rock. Clays therefore refer to very fine particles of...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Black soap in the home: from floor to ceiling and garden!

This is a product that makes housekeeping life easier and even more! There are even books on the market that give up to 1300 tips and tricks for using it...

• Genevieve St-Amour

White vinegar: an essential!

White vinegar is simply a miracle product, non-toxic, that can now be found in bulk! Following the article Alert to household products followed by that on Marseille soap , we...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Christmas and the Earth

  It's almost Christmas ! Boom, crack, pow! That's it, we're there. The holiday season is coming. This period when for most of us joy and magic takes hold. Children...

• Eco Loco (Dev main) Collaborator

Everyday green pays off!

We often hear a false belief that making a greener shift in our lives is more expensive than not doing so. Obviously, if the person who says it believes that...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Eco-anxiety: turn it into an asset!

We read it, we hear it everywhere, mainly among young people under 35, but all generations are affected. Anxiety, fear, anguish linked to the quality of our environment which puts...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Shea butter and its thousand virtues (recipe)

    The shea tree is a tree endemic to the savannah of central Africa. This tree is also called ''butter tree'' or ''women's gold''. Shea butter is extracted from...

• Genevieve St-Amour

The toxicity of cosmetics on the market

  Would you spread hundreds of products on your body daily without knowing what they are made of? Well, that’s what many people do! Is this your case? It seems...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Sodium PERcarbonate: a precious ally

    Are you really put off by the smell and composition of bleach? Are you looking for a healthy solution for you and the environment to whiten your bedding,...

• Genevieve St-Amour

10 practical tools for a zero-waste lunchbox

It's well known that lunch boxes are often full of single-use packaging products! Oh yes ? Good yes ! We only have to think of Tetra Pack juice boxes, Zip...

• Genevieve St-Amour

A clothes soap: 100% free

Free? Yes. Yes. 100% free. I know what I'm about to write might provoke a reaction. I haven't discovered anything. Quite the opposite. Like many things we think are innovative,...

• Genevieve St-Amour

Soda crystals: a household essential

Do you know soda crystals ? Not to be confused with baking soda and even less so with caustic soda, used to make bar soap! Soda crystals are ultra versatile....