SPF Sun Protection Factor & Mineral Makeup/Cosmetics

The SPF value reflects the amount of UV your skin absorbs for:-

  • SPF 15 =  1/15th about 6.7% of what you'd absorb wearing nothing
  • SPF 30 = 1/30th about 3.3% of nothing
  • SPF 15 = 93.3% UV protection
  • SPF 30 = 96.6% UV protection
  • SPF 50 = 98% UV protection

 

It's not uncommon to find SPF 30 sunscreens that cost 20% more than SPF 15, but you only get an additional 3.3% benefit

 

The mineral Zinc Oxide is the best broad spectrum UVA and UVB sunscreen available.

Titanium dioxide is the other mineral pigment used as a sunscreen.

More volume of Zinc & Titanium Dioxide is need for SPF in a formula than chemical compounds.

SPF rates UVB but UVA is unspecified.

UVA maybe covered but if your sunscreen uses chemicals to absorb the UVB it may miss the UVA.

 

Three important factors for Proper UV Protection

  1. UVA protection to stop sunburn and melanoma
  2. UVB protection for Ageing, winkles, squamous and basal cell carcinomas
  3. Antioxidants for mopping up the free radicals caused by the eneviable UV rays that will cause some oxidation.

 

Labeling Mineral Makeup for SPF

A secondary sunscreen

  • a product that is firstly something else, eg a foundation
  • then it is ALSO a sunscreen
  • can not list on the label an SPF higher than SPF15
  • even if the product does have a certified higher SPF.

 

The mineral makeup that we stock have a SPF of 15+ to 24+ but the labeling says they can only be labeled as SPF 15+ 

SPF rating is only for UVB rays - the ones that cause sunburn.

Mineral makeup has protection from UVB & UVA rays - the ones that can cause more damage.

Mineral cosmetics contains Zinc Oxide & Titanium Dioxide the best broad spectrum UVA and UVB sunscreen protection available while not using chemicals


Soyatoo! Ready to Use Soy Whip

Filled with ready-whipped Soyatoo organic vegan cream, this is a vegan dream come true! Perfect for desserts, topping hot or iced chocolates, scones, fruit or whatever you fancy.


250g. Ingredients: soy milk (water, soybeans*) (74%), coconut fat* (5%), palm butter* (5%), sugar beet syrup*, corn maltodextrin*, acidifier: tartaric acid, thickener: seaweed extracts, sea salt, natural vanilla flavour. Propellant: nitrous oxide.
*= certified organically grow

VeganGluten-freeegg-freewheat-free, lactose-free, dairy-free, cholesterol-free.Organic. The palm product in Soyatoo is organically produced and sourced from a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

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Handling the Pressurised Can

Basics
Ready-to-sue soy whip in the pressurised can is a new and at present worldwide unique product.  The can is an integrated system comprising both food technology and packing engineering.

Two unmixed  components
The can contains 2 separate components

  1. soy cream
  2. propellant gas (to be precise: nitrous oxide)

Both components are contained separately in every can.

How does the cream get out of the can?
Quite simply: in order to dispense the cream you must:-

  1. shake the can so that the cream lies directly in front of the valve
  2. once it is there press the nozzle (or to be exact the base of the valve), so that the gas simply expands and propels the cream mass forward.

 

Why are there handling problems particularly during the hot months?
Ready to use soy whip in the pressure can is a technically optimised but not impervious product and it tends to thicken when subject to severe temperature fluctuations.  It is most susceptible subjected first to heat then prolonged cold.  This makes it much harder to get the cream in front of the valve. (You have to shake it more vigorously, but it still works, of course).

What is the best thing to do in this case?

  1. Don't store the cream too cold.  Best of all, don't refrigerate it, or take  it out of the fridge at least 10 minutes before use.
  2. Give the can a vigorous downward jolt.  You will notice that something moves inside the can (tis is the cream mass).  Shake the can downwards only, not upwards, so that the cream moves in front of the valve.
  3. If only gas but not cream is expelled from the can, immediately stop pressing the valve (otherwise the gas will be completely expelled and the cream can no longer be dispensed at all).

 

Please do not try to pry open or cut the can to obtain the contents, either with or without tools.  The can is made of tin, and cutting it can create sharp edges which easily cause injury.

For technical reasons it is completely unavoidable and normal that longer cold storage leads to thickening.  The product can none the less be dispensed and consumed.

Stay "cool 'n' creamy" on hot days, too.
Soyatoo! tastes best on hot days with lemon ice cream.

SoyatooHandlingTips_english.pdf

Tasmanian Organic Wakame Seaweed

We now have stock of local Tasmanian Certified Organic Wakame.  We are packing is up in 50g and a value pack of 200g.  Larger quantities are also available on request.


This certified organic Tasmanian seaweed - the Undaria pinnatifida species or Wakame in Japanese.  This locally harvested seaweed is far less likley to be high in heavy metals though it might not be as beautiful and green looking as its Japanese counterpart that often has unhealthy artificial additives to give it more aesthetic appeal. 


 


Dr J.Helen Fitton - Scientist - "These versatile, abundant marine plants have been harvested for thousands of years and valued as both a food and a medicine. There is a long history of seaweed consumption in Asia, and the earliest mention of the use of seaweed in traditional Chinese medicine appeared in the 6th century AD."


"Today, the harvesting and cultivation of seaweed has become a major industry. Surprisingly, it remains one of the less recognised sources of food and medicine in our society."


photo & text from Seaweed - art meets science by Ian Wallace


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Grandvewe Sheep & Goat Cheeses

Grandvewe is Tasmania’s only Sheep Milk Cheesery.  Located in the picturesque Huon Vally overlooking the D’Entrecasteaux Channel


They make a wide range of sheep & goat cheese made on their farm.



  • Fresh cheeses

  • Aged hard cheeses

  • Sheep cheese

  • Goat cheese

  • Blue cheese

  • mature ewe’s milk Manchego

  • cheese is made in the traditional Roquefort style

  • traditional Manchego style of cheese

 


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Ashbolt Farm Premium Olive Oil, Elderberry & Elderflower Products

Annie Ashbolt herself delivers her handmade products that are a labour of love to our store. Elderflower and Elderberry are great immune stimulants. Great for Winter or just a refreshing pick me up! They make great gifts too. 

(from the Ashbolt website)

Situated in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley, Ashbolt Farm makes premium Award Winning Elderberry, Elderflower and Olive Oil products. Good health, exquisite produce and sustainable farming are our true life’s passions  – please take a moment to discover what we mean.

One of the reasons ASHBOLT products win awards is due to the way we grow their products
To nurture the soil, they use the clear clean water from the Derwent River and hundreds of tonnes of organic compost, seaweed fertilisers and nutrient-rich cover crops which they mulch back into tree rows.
Their unfinished goal is to drought-proof the farm, establishing efficient irrigation systems and shelter belts in each paddock and ultimately achieving a vibrant, relatively self-sufficient ecosystem.
They believe that the answer to the high quality and multi-medal winning status of our produce lies in the attention to detail and the particular ‘terroir’ (the interrelation between the trees, the terrain, the soil and its climate).

Unique Products

Drink to refresh body and mind.
A unique and delicate flavour with nuances of a sparkling wine, a mild ginger beer, lychees, flowers, lemons and cider.
Elderflower Concentrate 
Award-winning.
Our Elderflower Concentrate has been entered into 4 consecutive Wrest Point Fine Food Awards (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and won Gold Medals in each year and a National Champion Award.
Elderflower Sparkling
Pure elegance.
A wonderfully refreshing gourmet beverage. Serve chilled in a champagne glass - mix for alcoholic or non-alcoholic bliss.
100% natural. 100% Tasmanian.
ASHBOLT Elderflower Sparkling and Concentrate contains no additives, artificial flavours, colourings or preservatives. We're committed to sustainable, organic farming and use only pristine highland water from the Derwent River.
ASHBOLT Elderberry Syrup is the latest addition to our family of gourmet elder products.
Intense colour and flavour.
A stunningly rich ruby-red syrup, with a deep molasses berry flavour.
100% natural. 100% Tasmanian.
Like everything we make, ASHBOLT Elderberry is free of additives, artificial flavours, colourings and preservatives. We're committed to sustainable, organic farming and use only pristine highland water from the Derwent River.
Food and beverage versatility.
ASHBOLT Elderberry Syrup is perfect for both beverage (alcoholic and non-alcoholic concentrate) and food (a glaze, drizzled on dishes, a natural flavour burst) ideas.
ASHBOLT Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Complex, clean, fresh and fruity.
A truly 'balanced' oil, ASHBOLT achieves perfect equilibrium between fruit, bitterness and a mild chilli-like pungency, leaving a tingle on the lips, and a flavour that lingers in the throat and mouth for hours. A real WOW factor.
100% natural. 100% Tasmanian.
The special colour and unique taste of our oil very much comes from the land and the way we farm it, producing a vastly different technical and physical product than that produced by others.
The elderflower has a complex depth of flavours and the freshness and cleanness on the palate which cannot be replicated in any synthetic-based product and draws from the particular varietals, the land and our cool climate.
“Nurturing the land“ for us is not a cliché, it is a system of very structured and carefully planned farming practices that enrich the soil and enhances the depth of flavour of our products. You can actually taste the difference!

 

Ashbolt are committed to sustainable, organic farming and use only pristine highland water from the Derwent River.

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Elgaar Farm Premium Organic Dairy Producer

(From the Elgaar Website)


Established in 1986, we are now recognised as one of Australia’s foremost organic dairy companies.


Situated in the valleys of Tasmania's fertile north, our care for the earth is all part of our philosophy of supplying the freshest, tastiest and healthiest food available. Our range includes fresh organic milk (packaged in returnable glass bottles), natural yoghurt, cream, cheese and butter.


We firmly believe that organic farming principles not only take care of the environment, but also produce healthier and tastier food. Skills of true natural farming, with no need for artificial inputs of pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals are highly valued on Elgaar Farm. Our products are manufactured using only time honoured methods using only the absolute freshest and best ingredients.


 


Elgaar Farm has, over the years, received many prestigious awards and medals:-



  • “Best Organic Farm in Australia” at OFA Sydney 2001

  • Champion Cheddar ASCA (Australian Specialist Cheesemakers Association)

  • several gold and silver medals at ASCA, Royal Hobart, Royal Melbourne

  • various other fine food shows, in recognition of our passion to provide you with premium organic produce

 


It’s an organic dream for Grace, Susan, Jennifer and Ella. It’s back to pasture for these gorgeous, dewy eyed girls who spend their days in the fresh Tasmanian air with the wind blowing through their hair.


Grace, Susan, Jennifer and Ella are Jersey cows, part of a herd reared organically by Josef and Antonia Gretschmann at Elgaar Farm, near Deloraine in northern Tasmania. The Gretschmann’s arrived in Australia in 1986. Joe was born into a famil of dairy farmers in a Bavarian village where every farmer made their own cheese. Both Joe and Antonia have studied conventional agriculture and initially farmed that way when they took over Joe’s parents’ farm. But they soon switched to organic methods, “it slowly dawned on us that if we kept farming that way we’d keep depleting resources and polluting the ecosystem,” says Joe. “And it didn’t feel right not being able to allow the kids to play in the cropping paddocks because they’d been sprayed.”


The Gretschmanns bought Elgaar farm soon after arriving in Australia and immediately set about converting to a completely organic system of farming, receiving organic certification in 1991. Today Elgaar Farm’s organic produce ranges from milk, yoghurt and cream to mozzarella and hard cheeses.


The Elgaar cows graze in paddocks where grasses are mixed with herbs such as shepherds purse, self heal, chicory and Persian clover. “Organic farmers love them as they have a greater ability to search for nutrients in the soil, so the cows produce tastier milk,” says Joe. Like all the farm’s crops, the pastures are never sprayed with artificial chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.


The Jersey cows that graze on this green smorgasbord clearly thrive on the farm and enjoy a surprisingly long life. Any ailments are treated with homeopathic remedies, and the Gretschmanns pride themselves on the fact that it is ten years since they last had to call a vet – even then that was just help with a difficult birth.


The average Aussie dairy cow is sold off after five years of milking, but Elgaar’s work for up to a decade. Once they are deemed too old for milking duties, retirement means grazing the paddocks for the rest of their natural life, though they still front up for the twice-daily milking routine – old habits die hard. According to Antonia, one of their cows lived to 38.


During the winter months, milk is limited because many cows are “dried off” to calve in spring; there is only enough milk left to satisfy the regular demand for the farm’s fresh milk, cream, and yoghurt. Elgaar Milk is pasteurized, but not homogenized like most supermarket milk. Consequently, a rich layer of cream rises to the top of each glass bottle’s neck. More than 90 percent of the old-fashioned retrurnable milk bottles are returned for washing, sterilization and reuse, which is extraordinary considering some customers are as far away as Melbourne and Sydney


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Heritage Honey


Apiarist Peter Norris has built up the honey enterprise at the Gardens and he now tends 19 hives within a short bee flight of groves of prickly box trees on the Queens Domain as well as in the RTBG. 


The nectar-laden flowers are irresistible to the insects which make a bee-line for the prickly box (bursaria spinosa) over summer. 

Their numbers increase dramatically at the height of the season with up to 70,000 busy bees in each hive. 

Peter and his wife Trisha produce their own honey under the Heritage Honey label but has a soft spot for the RTBG prickly box variety. 

He says it has a lovely butterscotch flavour and is a soft-set style. 

"It has a high glucose content and is a bit difficult to handle," 
he said. 

"We warm it for day and break down the crystals so it does not set hard again." 

Peter started bee keeping as a hobby but now has 220 hives in the leatherwood forests of Tasmania's south west. 

Miellerie Cold Extracted Tasmanian Honey


Miellerie means "the house of honey" in French



  • Honey produced by Yves Ginat

    • a Frenchman now living in Tasmania

    • Yves began keeping bees as a young boy in France

    • brought his techniques with him

    • his honey, "it is a subtle marriage of French tradition and Tasmanian flowers."




  • Miellerie honey is 

    • unprocessed

    • unheated, thus maintaining the honey's

      • optimum natural aroma

      • health qualities

      • characteristic crystals

    • each of the honeys in the Miellerie range are crystallised, with a smooth, velvety texture that melts in your mouth!

    • based on biodynamic principles (including essential oils and herbal remedies) to harness the vitality of the bee’s colony


 


Miellerie endeavours to explore the Tasmanian landscape and wilderness for endemic floral diversity. We thank the Earth and cosmos for providing gourmet nectars and the bees for their honey.


Yves Ginat began beekeeping as a teenager, growing up in central France, in the medieval capital, Bourges. His mother’s family was from Bretagne, and his father’s family from Berry. Yves extended his education into organic farming before moving into commercial beekeeping in 1998 during which he arrived in Tasmania and it was November 2005 that the Miellerie business began.


Since 2006, Miellerie has developed from working 40 hives to 160 hives during which we have produced 5 different varieties of honey:



 


As apiarist, Yves nurtures the bee community using organic and biodynamic beekeeping practices to maintain health and harmony from the hive to the jar. Essential to the integrity of Miellerie is our trade practice of cold extraction of the honey from the comb to harness the vitality, aroma, flavour, colour and texture of the delightful nectars from Tasmanian native floras. As the seasons change, Yves continues to explore the floral diversity of this beautiful island, Tasmania.

Sea Shepherd voucher for food donations before "DIVINE WIND" anti-whaling campaign, tours prior

Vouchers are now available in $10 'chunks'  so a $50 contribution = 5 x $10 voucher.

Donate here  

This is a $10 (AUD) portion of a City Organics voucher for the guys @ Sea Shepherd to purchase needed food for their up coming "DIVINE WIND" anti-whaling campaign in the Southern Ocean, Antarctica.

The total amount donated will be totalled into one voucher and then the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Ships will use it at City Organics, Tasmania prior to leaving.

Before leaving on tours will be conducted

City Organics is a vegetarian shop in the centre of Hobart providing many specialty Vegan lines.

Inika Certified Vegan Mineral Cosmetics

 

 

 

 

 

Australian

That all of the cosmetics and personal care products made by Inika anywhere in the world will meet the standards and deadlines set by the European Union Directive 76/768/EEC to be free of chemicals that are known or strongly suspected of causing cancer, mutation or birth defects.

Organic Food ChainInika is Certified Organic with Australia’s Organic Food Chain. When you see this symbol on your Inika box it is your guarantee the product contains a minimum of 95% organic ingredients.

RecycleInika’s boxes are made from recycled materials and all Inika packaging is able to be recycled.

VeganInika is Certified Vegan with the UK Vegan Society. When you see this symbol on your Inika box it is your guarantee the product contains no animal derivatives.

HalalInika is Certified Halal with the Australian Federation of Islamic Council. All Inika products are 100% Certified Halal.

Cruelty FreeInika is 100% Certified Cruelty Free with Australia’s Choose Cruelty Free Organisation.

Certified OrganicInika’s Eye, Brow and Lip Liners are made from organic ingredients and meet the strict guidelines of manufacturing as specified by Italy’s certifying body Organic Cosmetic

Truth in BeautyInika is a Truth in Beauty Brand. As a Truth in Beauty brand you are guaranteed your products are SAFE, NATURAL, ETHICAL and ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS.

 

 

Inika's mission is to introduce the world to a new era in cosmetics. An era where eco and chic combine to offer style, performance and a natural, ethical choice in beauty.

Inika has been awarded one of the highest safety ratings in the world by the EWG

  • Contains no harsh chemical ingredients
  • No Talc
  • No Genetically Modified ingredients
  • No Parabens
  • No Bismuth Oxychloride
  • No harmful preservatives
  • No harmful fillers
  • No mineral oils
  • No petrochemicals
  • No fragrance

Inika is the only cosmetics company in the world to be

  • 100% Certified Vegan or Certified Organic or Both
  • 100% Certified Cruelty Free
  • 100% Certified Halal
  • Australian

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