Most of us get the odd pimple from time to time but many over the age of 25 still can get a fair few too many for their liking. If you're someone who's long said goodbye to your teens but still suffers from bouts of spots say just before your period it may help to use skin product specifically designed for spots.

Here are a few organic treatments and pimple care tricks to remedy and camouflage those spots!

A good toner and cleaner are essential at spot time. Two specifically formulated for oily or blemish prone skin are the Clarifying Toner by Dr.Hauschka which helps to regulate oil production and tighten and refine large pores, and the Palmarosa Facial Wash by Neal's Yard Remedies which is mild and effective cleansing gel with palmarosa essential oil which is scientifically proven to remove the bacteria that cause acne.

To cover up a mineral foundation is ideal as it does not clog pores like other powder or liquid foundation do. You also receive excellent coverage to hide even the severest of skin conditions like acne and rosacea due to the very dense pigments of the minerals. Inika Mineral Foundation is best for overall coverage. When it comes to focusing in to unfocus those spots a good cover stick like Dr.Hauschka's Pure Care Cover Stick will help to not only hide redness but will also heal.

If you are going through a particulary stressful time in your life and your skin is feeling the full brunt of it you may need a more thorough skin spot detox. The Intensive Treatment 02 by Dr.Hauschka (use treatment 01 if you're under 25) is a 28-day course that helps the skin rebalances its own cleansing processes.

This year at the London International Documentary Festival Ecover's Working With Water short film was screened. It follows two Ecover employees to the Ethiopian communities where Ecover, with the help of the charity Water Aid, is helping to provide safe water and sanitation for hundreds of people.

Working With Water shows how villages in the Hintalo-Wajarat region benefiting from the project Ecover has funded with the help of course of us buying their fantastic eco-friendly cleaning products. The project empowers local people by giving them the tools they need to provide safe water facilities. So far, 2 springs have been capped, 4 hand-dug wells and 16 traditional latrines have been build. Children especially benefit as they are often the ones given the job of collecting the water. For some having clean water closer to home means they can now go to school.

But there is still a lot of work to be done. As you will see from the film, there are still many children suffering from poor health because of the water they have access to - unsafe water that they walk six hours to fill containers twice the size of the containers on our Ecover refill station.

Because Ecover realise water is such a precious commodity they have created products that use water more efficiently. Their toilet cleaner requires 400 times less water to neutralise after use than any other product.

Here, Natalie Imbruglia explains how using water and 'clean' household products will benefit you and those in need of good water all over the world.

It's so common for weekend newspapers, magazines and morning shows to feature some green tip/sustainable living piece - we all want to be greener and the media are entertaining our minds with the details of how we could go about it. But how often do watch or read a ‘how to' and fail ‘to do'? Most of us would have to admit a lot.

What if you were given a list of practical courses that didn't cost the earth (literally), promised to be fun and educational? The Soil Association, with the support of the Daylesford Foundation, has launched a series of 300 courses which could be your ticket to self-sufficiency.

From one-day introduction courses to longer professional level courses there's sure to be something of interest here that will enrich your understanding of sustainability and improve your practical skill set. Farm school makes learning easy and accessible to everyone.

Some of the kitchen courses include preserving pickles and jams, to cheese making, curing meat and gluten free baking. Growing courses include planning your kitchen garden to learning the best seasonal and organic techniques. Smallholding courses include keeping your own chickens, bees, sheep and pigs and the self-sufficiencies gained from doing so - honey and eggs for a start. Seasonal and special courses include herbal medicine making, woollen spinning, woodwork for beginners, soap making, willow garden sculpture creating and stone walling.

One student who attended the attended the Butter me up! Class at Wester Lawrenceton Farm gives us an idea of how fulfilling these courses are: "I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed myself. The day was both stimulating and relaxing. And the resultant butter and baking were delicious... I'm wondering why I didn't join years ago."

Courses are held across the UK in Somerset, Wallingford, Cornwall, Gloucestershire, Devon, Kent, Shropshire, Sheffield, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk.

For the full list of courses, locations and prices (Soil Association members receive 25% off the cost of all farm school courses) visit the Soil Associations Organic Farm School webpage here.

In the organic industry and amongst ethical product (as opposed to service) based companies it's common for suppliers to go down the non-air freighted route of delivery for the sake of their environmental values. Some of the active ingredients of our favourite organic skin care products just can't be grown locally in the UK and have to be imported from abroad.

Air freight produces 100 times as much CO2 per tonne kilometre, according to Scenta the information and resource body for the science, engineering and technology industries. But Scenta also highlights that ‘shipping carries 80% of world trade and 92% of British trade. It is a vastly bigger industry than aviation and performs a completely different role.'

The United Nations shipping agency IMO (International Maritime Organization) has started to implement measures to clean up and reduce the harmful emissions from ships. The package of new measures has been ratified by 53 countries which equates to 82% of the total gross tonnage of the world's merchant shipping fleet. A global sulphur cap will be gradually reduced from the current 4.5 percent to 0.5 percent in 2020 as ships start to use cleaner forms of residual fuel oil.

So Organic-ites everywhere (manufacturers, retailers and of course consumers) can rest assured that actions are being taken to make our industry as clean and environmentally ethical as possible.

According to Environment Canada, cows produce about three-quarters of total methane emissions with most of their gas coming from their burps. Burps are a powerful thing it seems; twenty times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas in fact.

With this fact as the eco focus Canadian scientists set out to help the humble cow reduce its footprint. Scientists first examined the genes in all four of a cow's stomachs (no wonder they produce so much gas) responsible for methane production in the hope they may be able to breed more efficient, eco friendly cows. It seems by using advanced genetic technologies it's possible to breed animals that produce 25% less methane.

Other ways we can reduce the ecological footprint of cattle is by farmers breeding cattle that grow faster. This will reduce the time the animals are left standing in a paddock and moved to market faster (which doesn't bode well to animal advocates) and reduce their gas emissions.

Another method is to feed cows a diet higher in energy and rich in edible oils such as alfalfa, flax and hemp. These forms of food nutrients will ferment less than grass and lower quality feed.

Burp-less beef could be the way forward for meat eaters everywhere.