Your sustainable swimwear guide for summer is here! I know words like 'sustainable', 'eco’, 'green' and 'conscious' are being thrown around everywhere – and not always with transparency – which can make shopping confusing. Ideally, we should be looking for brands that are both sustainable AND ethical too.

Standing barefoot on an icy slipway in the dark, wearing only my dressing gown and swimming costume, I shivered as I realised this was it. The headlights of my friend's car illuminated the breaking whitewater of the Atlantic Ocean as we braced ourselves for our first official cold water sea-swim.

This is the second in a series of overly honest product reviews, featuring some cringe-worthy experiences, one mention of my labia and a small amount of credit card debt. After the disconcerting success of the previous instalment – period pants and mooncups – here is my overly honest product review of the metal safety razor. Side Note: I'm not paid to say this and it’s not #spon or #ad.

The reality is our cities are killing us. We have completely lost touch with our surroundings and our urban lifestyles are damaging our health. We’re stressed out, suffering from mental health problems, obesity is through the roof and pollution is at dangerous levels. There’s a solution at the heart of this. Movement.

i’m delighted to announce I’m now an official Mooncup Ambassador (after being an unofficial one for years!). I started using a Mooncup about four years ago and have been raving about them since to just about every person with a period who will listen. And some people without periods too. Having a plastic-free period is really important to me for both my body and the health of the oceans.

Period products are the fifth most common item found on Europe’s beaches, more widespread than single-use coffee cups, cutlery or straws. I’m stoked to be a part of this short film raising awareness of the issue with City to Sea. The soundtrack is entirely made from plastic waste sounds and all period plastic imagery is CG so no plastic was bought to create this

So, your social media timelines are full of people splashing around in beautiful, remote-looking locations – coastlines, lakes, rivers and reservoirs – and this heatwave (read: climate crisis) has got you thinking maybe, just maybe, now is your time to start wild swimming.

What do a shoe, a toothbrush and a tampon applicator all have in common? They are all examples of plastic washing up on beaches worldwide.

Veja is an ethical footwear brand born in 2005. Co-founded by school friends Sébastien Kopp and François Ghislain Morillion, its goal is to create trainers that are ecologically conscious and fairly produced.

Last year I spent my birthday working on a feminist porn set with production company Sugar Town Girls.. I wrote the following about my experiences and why i think we need to make more porn, not less. Sorry mum.

Did you know that three-quarters of UK children spend less time outdoors than prison inmates? Get Out are a new charity that offers environmental education and outdoor adventure for free to the children of Tower Hamlets – the area with the highest rates of child poverty in the UK.

I just did a calculation that made me feel so sick. I added up the number of flights and air miles I’ve accumulated in the past year to determine my carbon footprint. On my last trip to Brazil alone, to research an ethical clothing manufacturer, I racked up eight flights in eight days, totalling more than 17,000 miles. I’m supposed to be a sustainability blogger – talk about irony.

Most shoes are made of complex materials and glues which can only be down-cycled or thrown into landfill. It's a massive, global problem and thankfully manufacturers like Adidas are now seeking to tackle it …

Me and my friend Flora sat down to answer your assumptions about us (as requested by you guys via Instagram). We answered everything from “I assume you don’t have an actual job” to “I assume you don’t trim your bush”.

It’s 10pm on a Sunday night and I’m lying in bed wondering if I need to bleach my anus. I’m a 31-year-old woman and a proud feminist but I’ve somehow fallen into a deep, dark Instagram hole. At least my labia don’t need tightening, I think to myself. Or do they?

So you want to start cold water swimming but the furthest you’ve got is dipping your toes in in August? You’re scared of the sea? You live in the middle of the city? Well, this guide is here to give you that extra nudge to just jump in. Or rather get in slowly and carefully depending on the location and temperature. Trust me, if you can get in the cold water, you can do almost anything. You got this.

I have a subscription to Who Gives a Crap. 100% recycled toilet paper delivered right to your door. You’ll never have to lug home a multi-pack of toilet paper wrapped in plastic from the supermarket again. Each roll comes wrapped in bright coloured fun paper so they even look cool in your bathroom and the website makes it super easy to adjust the amount of rolls in each delivery or change the delivery date.

This is the fourth in a series of overly honest product reviews following the positive feedback from both my safety razor review and my period pants & mooncup review (you can read about my grazed labia here!). Seeing as you all seem quite interested in the goings on of my lady region I thought I’d throw my armpits into the mix too. I popped a poll on instagram asking who wanted to know more about The Natural Deo Co. and a whopping 97% of you answered “Yes Please I Smell”, so here you are.

A piece I wrote about our time in the Maldives last summer was featured in Surf Sessions Mag. If you speak French go grab a copy here: https://www.surfsession.com/. If not there’s a translation is below …

I finally get to share my TEDx talk with you. It’s about the power of social media to organise and promote environmental activism but in it, I also manage to wave my mooncup around on stage, throw a tampon applicator at someone and say ‘poo’ three times.