Our Blog: Sustainable Stories

How to Have a Plastic-Free Period

This week marks Water Saving Week (23rd to 27th May) and Menstrual Hygiene Day (28th May). With both awareness campaigns just a day apart, we wanted to explore the links between plastic-free period...

Everything you need to know about smear tests

It’s Women’s Check Up Day, an annual reminder to schedule routine check-ups. For those of us who put off appointments because of the pandemic, it’s time to get tested! Regular screening can help di...

Bras vs Bralettes: Which is Healthier?

Most people with breasts can relate to struggling with tight underwires, restrictive cups and digging straps due to wearing bras. However, feeling secure and supported doesn't have to be accompa...

Period Poverty: What Y.O.U can do.

What is Period Poverty, and who does it affect? Period poverty is the lack of access to safe, hygienic menstrual products and the inability to manage menstruation due to safety concerns and stigma...

A Guide to Sustainable Hair Removal

  Whether it's shaving, waxing, plucking or epilating, the hair removal industry thrives on women and girls’ body hair insecurities, so much so that by 2025, the industry is projected to be worth...

A Guide to Checking Yourself - Breast Cancer Awareness

We're so excited to be launching our new pink Future Dreams Collection in collaboration with breast cancer charity Future Dreams! To encourage everyone to check their breasts and chests regularly, ...

How to remove blood stains from your Y.O.U underwear with Lucy, Founder of Save My Knickers.

Yes, you can wear your Y.O.U knickers every day of the month!  As the proud owner of your amazingly comfortably and beautiful Y.O.U underwear you’re going to want to make sure you keep them lookin...

6 Ways To Have a More Sustainable and Plastic-Free Period

  Disposable menstrual products create lots of waste and can also be damaging to the environment. According to the Evening Standard, women in the UK use an average of 11,000 disposable menstrual pr...

Why We're Anti-Airbrushing and Pro-Ethical Marketing

According to a 2020 study conducted by the Women and Equalities Committee, 61% of all adults feel negatively towards their bodies. Whilst the circulation of flawless, ‘bikini ready’ bodies of mode...

6 Tips for Wild Swimming This Summer

  I’ve been wild swimming - or just swimming as we’ve always called it - since i was a child. Jumping into water at any opportunity and spending hours in the sea, rivers or lakes whenever I could!...

How to manage Sensitive Skin with Emma Heathcote-James, founder of Little Soap Company

This time of year can play havoc with your skin. As we move from rooms heated artificially to the good old British wind and rain outside, the changes in temperature and air quality can result in d...

Ethical Bralettes Designed by Girls, For Girls!

We’re so excited for the upcoming launch of our new range of organic cotton bralettes for younger girls and teenagers in December 2020. We’re hoping to be able to expand the options currently avail...

The Benefits of Reusable Masks

We’ve just launched a range of beautifully patterned reusable face masks on our website. So we thought it was about time to explore the subject of masks - and PPE - in a bit more detail!  As we app...

5 Reasons To Buy Organic Cotton Underwear

Wondering why you should buy organic cotton underwear? We've come up with 5 reasons!  Organic Cotton is Super Soft and Comfy Underwear is worn right next to the most sensitive parts of our bodies,...

What's the Difference Between a Bralette and a Sports Bra?

What's The Difference Between a Bralette and a Sports Bra? What is a bralette? A bralette is a less structured version of a bra – it’s a hybrid garment that lies somewhere between a bra and a tank...

How sustainable is organic cotton?

Organic cotton is a popular alternative to non-organic cotton, and it’s the fibre we’ve chosen to use in our own super-soft undies! But how sustainable is it? There has been debate recently over th...

Bra vs Bralette: What is a Bralette and why should you wear one?

The choice between a bra and a bralette is something that many of us confront at one stage or another, especially as the complexities surrounding women’s underwear styles only ever seems to increas...

What are the Health Benefits of Organic Cotton?

Did you know that organic cotton is far better for people and the environment than its conventional, non-organic, counterpart? In addition to using fewer resources and causing less pollution, garme...

Ethical Marketing: What is it and What are We Doing?

What’s the link between body image and marketing?   In a lot of marketing and brand imagery, there’s an underlying assumption that unrealistic, airbrushed, images of men’s and women’s bodies promot...

Comfortable underwear: an essential part of your loungewear collection

Beards, buzzcuts and…boobs! Self-isolation is also the perfect time to experiment with comfortable underwear (if you’re not too busy growing a beard or shaving your head).  If you’re enjoying not h...