CONCENTRATE YOUR EFFORTS

DITCH: Liquid soaps. SWITCH TO: Concentrate and bars. BY REFILLING your existing containers with concentrates (which you then dilute with tap water yourself) you cut the carbon emissions of household cleaning and beauty products by a staggering 95 per cent.

That’s because water is fuelintensive to transport. Many household cleaning concentrates such as ocean-saver.com and ironandvelvet.co.uk come in dissolvable or paper sachets in a small cardboard box, others such as smolproducts.com and gethomethings.com come as effervescent tablets which you drop into water.

Use bar soap and ‘solid’ shampoo or dissolve deliciously scented soap powders in water to create liquid shower gel and body wash at forgo.se and ulule.com.