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.