Andrex Eco Competition :D

Beauty Life and Babies has teamed up with Andrex® Eco, the pioneering sustainable toilet tissue and headline
sponsor of Climate Week, to help you to take a small step to care more for the environment.

 You may have read my Climate Week  updates here and here and Andrex came up with the lovely idea to offer one lucky reader the chance to win all the lovely goodies below. 

Climate Week (4th – 10th March 2013) is Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, promoting ways
that people can live and work more sustainably.

Andrex® Eco is working with Oliver Heath, renowned expert on eco-living, to help raise awareness of
the little things you can do in and around your home to make it more environmentally friendly.

To help your family live more sustainably, Andrex® Eco is offering one of my lucky readers the
chance to win a fabulous pack full of little things to kick-start your eco-living journey, handpicked by
Oliver Heath. This pack includes:

- Oliver Heath’s Eco Chic book
- Bamboo socks
- A green bathroom recycling bin
- A fun shower timer
- A water hippo – a device that sits in your cistern to save water when flushing
- Andrex® Eco

- A stylish, reusable Andrex® Eco shopping tote

To enter all you need to do is be a follower of this blog, either Google Friend Connect or Bloglovin', leave me a comment in the post below letting me know why you would like to win the prize and just tick it all off in the Rafflecopter form below :) Easy Peasy, this is currently only open to UK entrants but I shall be running a worldwide competition shortly for all my lovely subscribers to enter! Competition closes on the 31st March 2013.

 a Rafflecopter giveaway

For more information and little things you can do to make your home more environmentally
friendly, visit www.andrex.co.uk/sustainability

Good Luck Everyone

Love Kayleigh x

Andrex + Climate Week Update

 A little while back I mentioned that I was asked to take part in Climate week, well, I have tested out some cool products and here are my findings for you all. 

My main reason for joining in with Climate week was to see if along with being a little more Eco we could see if we could save any pennies. I think being more aware of the amount of energy and water your using you can look to cut back a little. 

*a little off track here but thought I would share a tip with you, this week our energy supplier gave us estimated readings for our gas and electricity but we decided to take a note of our actual readings and let them know - you can even text them nowadays! So we got a letter the other day advising us we were nearly £200 in credit and they can pay it too us directly because the summer is on its way, great stuff. It only took 2 mins and we now have a little spends for the month*

The main thing I focused on in Climate Week was looking at our water usage, and boy was I shocked how much we use. 

Within the pack that Andrex sent was a little shower timer that also measures your water usage. 

Well I set it all up and it told me that in only 3 minuets of showering I am using 35 litres of water! Now, I timed myself for an average shower including hair washing, scrubbing and all that jazz...and guess what I was in there for 17 minuets - granted that isn't an everyday pop in and out kinda shower but I was shocked when I worked out the figures (which took me hours because I am rubbish at maths, and are possibly slightly incorrect due to my lack of mathematical skill) 

In total I used 198 litres of water which is the equivalent of 99 2 Litre bottles of Pop! Sheesh!

From some statistics I found on Google here 5 litres of water cost just under 1 pence, not alot but if we could all save a few litres a day by cutting down our shower times, turning off taps when they aren't needed and making sure our washing machines are full when we have them on, the savings could really mount up. 

Another little water/money saver is this Hippo bag, you pop it in your toilet cistern (not the most attractive of jobs, but hey - were all money savers here) and it can save 2-3 litres of water per flush! Great idea if you have a busy household with a big family who are always in and out of the bathroom. 

Overall Climate week really made me more aware of what I was using and how to cut back a little, without even really noticing a change. I am hoping to carry on looking for those little things to tweak and in the long run save the Bamber Household some serious pennies. 

If you would like to have a chance to take part in your own Climate Week then you can, Andrex have been kind enough to offer one lucky ready the chance to win a Eco Pack full of lovely goodies. If you would like a chance to win click here to go to the post and enter away - good luck.

Thanks everyone for reading and I hope you have picked up a few little tips.

Love Kayleigh x

Its time to go Green

Hands up how many of you are already going green or consider yourself an already fully fledged Eco Warrior? I ask for a very good reason as this week running from the 4th March 2013 - 10th March 2013 is Climate Week!

When I was asked by the lovely team over at Andrex to take part and join in I panicked a little, I think the word 'Eco' can sometimes sound a little intimidating and conjures up all sorts of images in my head. People living in tents in the woods, using leaves as toilet roll and only eating lentils. But after doing a little more research I soon realised that we all do our own little bit to be more Eco friendly almost every day...and it doesn't always have to involve leaves!

Look - No Leaves necessary

We already recycle all cardboard and plastics, we have a water meter to make us think about every drop we use and I also take the bus to work - meaning one less car on the road. There is probably so much more we all do but just don't think twice about it - it is becoming easier and easier to be a little more Eco friendly. Lets see how easy it will be as we commence with Climate week...

This week Andrex are sending out a Climate pack for me to use in the Bathroom so I can see just how much energy and water we use and more importantly we can save! Having Finley certainly has increased our 'Bathrrom traffic', more baths, teeth brushing and obligatory hand washing has no doubt had an effect on the bank balance but also on the environment too.

I will keep you all updated with how we get on and if the products we use are family friendly and ultimately if they help save us some money!

If you have any tips or advice how I can be a little more Green please let me know, or if you want to join in leave your comments below and keep a log of how you are doing!

I shall be back throughout the week with little updates on how we are coping and also if we are saving the pennies. 

Keep your eyes peeled for another competition also to win some more lovely goodies

Love Kayleigh x