by Laura | Aug 16, 2016 | Chemical Free Living, Eco Parenting, Live Lighter
Given that newborn babies can typically sleep around 16-17 hours a day, it’s worth putting some thought into creating a natural baby nursery to ensure your baby’s sleep environment is as safe and toxin-free as possible. In this post I’ll share five steps you can take...
by Laura | Aug 9, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
Dust… it’s not a sexy topic but it is an important topic when it comes to maintaining a clean and healthy home. With dust being a leading cause of environmental allergies in both children and adults, it pays to understand what dust is, how it accumulates in your home...
by Laura | Aug 2, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
When we think of air pollution we typically think of smog-filled cities, factories belching out toxic plumes or even just people in heavily populated cities wearing face masks to filter the air. But what if I told you that the air inside some of our homes is right up...
by Laura | Jul 26, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
For many of us, splashing or squirting perfume or cologne on ourselves is part of our daily grooming regime. But is our obsession with scent and smelling nice causing harm to ourselves and our planet? In this post I’ll share the health and environmental impacts of...
by Laura | Jul 19, 2016 | Chemical Free Living
Are you keen on removing toxins from your living environment and currently live in a small space like a boat or caravan and aren’t sure which products to whittle it down to? Maybe you’re just heading away on holidays and want to know which natural products to pack...
by Laura | Jul 12, 2016 | Chemical Free Living, Zero Waste Home
Plastics have been linked with obesity, early adolescence, infertility and cancer and take hundreds of years, if ever, to break down in our environment. In my last post I shared why we need to be concerned about plastics and how you can stay healthy in an increasingly...
Laura Trotta is one of Australia’s leading home sustainability experts. She has a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering, a Masters of Science (in Environmental Chemistry) and spent 11 years working as an environmental professional before creating her first online eco business, Sustainababy, in 2009. She has won numerous regional and national awards for her fresh and inspiring take on living an ‘ecoceptional’ life (including most recently winning the Brand South Australia Flinders University Education Award (2015) for the north-west region in SA and silver in the Eco-friendly category of the 2015 Ausmumpreneur Awards). With a regular segment on ABC Radio and with her work featured in publications like Nurture Parenting and My Child Magazine, Laura is an eco thought leader who’s not afraid to challenge the status quo. A passionate believer in addressing the small things to achieve big change, and protecting the planet in practical ways, Laura lives with her husband and two sons in outback South Australia. 
