One of our favourite eco-friendly cleaning companies, Ecover, has been allowing it's loyal customers to fill up their old bottles at specially designed refill points all across Europe in an effort to reduce packaging waste and save a few pennies (So Organic have even got a refill station in their Greenwich store).

But now clean green eco machine has gone one step further by introducing an extra huge 15L size for their core products, that is, the popular ones most of us use. It comes with a tap you fix to the box to make for an easy pour into your old smaller bottle. If you don't have an Ecover refill station close to where you live this extra big box means you have to buy less often and receive more value for money.

You can now get a 15L ‘bag in a box' in the Ecover Washing Up Liquid Lemon, Ecover Washing Up Liquid Chamomile, Ecover Non-Bio Laundry Liquid, Ecover Fabric Softener Amongst the Flowers and the Ecover Multi-Surface Cleaner.

What's more at the moment you will receive a free tap when you purchase any 15L Ecover cleaner as well as a free 750mL toilet cleaner. That's two freebies for the price of one value box. All that's left is to get out those cleaning gloves and get a scrubbing!

The Spiezia brand of organic skin care products lends itself to a simple philosophy and that is to be Made For Life. It's a good one too. It carries through to our bodies, a greener lifestyle and the quality of the products they make. "Beautiful skin is healthy skin" and we agree with so much evidence supporting the natural way over the chemical one.

Spiezia's complete line of beauty products is organic. Certified by the Soil Association the Spiezia products are created using processes that extract their essential oils and other ingredients from nature in a way that doesn't produce damaging chemical by-products, only organic matter that can be fed back into the land.

Not only is this organic brand concerned about what we put on the skin, our largest organ of our body, it also has the environment in mind in what they do. They use eco friendly labels on recycled glass bottles and jars that are made, by hand, in their workshop in Cornwall. They also work hard to source ingredients that are as local as possible.

They've won numerous awards for their products including the Lifescape Beauty Award for Best Facial Cleanser with their very popular Spiezia Cleanser and the Soil Association Organic Industry Award for Best Organic Beauty Product with their Lemongrass and Marigold Soap.

Growing organically from a small team in a little cottage in Cornwall Spiezia has truly blossomed into one of the leading health and beauty brands in the industry.

What goes on behind the scenes of a company, particularly when it comes to sourcing and production methods, is increasingly important with the consumers informed ethical-skeptic eye on the prowl. For the little-turned-huge environmentally friendly cleaning product company, Ecover, taking a ‘no-excuses' approach to working a sustainable business is a necessity. The Ecover brand is built on a reputation of, if anything, being environmentally responsible.

In 1980 Frans Bogaert set out to create a washing powder that worked well but didn't contain chemical phosphates for the simple reason - they are bad for nature. He succeeded and as the product range widened so did the amount of people using it.

The Ecover Factory in Malle, Belgium and was built using recyclable materials or those that respect the environment. Electricity to run the factory comes from a green supplier and it is designed to let in as much natural daylight as possible. It also has its own water purification system. In 2007 Ecover opened a second eco-factory in France. This ‘green' roof with its layer of flowering plants atop it provides thermal and acoustic insulation and also runs on green energy.

Ecover continues to expand its reach to provide great cleaning products with ingredients made from renewable plant extracts or sustainable materials. The new factory in France means less distance travelled to supply the growing UK market - that means less carbon emissions in each bottle of your favourite little clean green helpers!

Ecover have also just launched a new 5L laundry liquid box so we can now have our very own home refill service.

Trilogy is one of those beauty brands we find very easy to talk about, probably due to a few stand out features the product range has.Firstly it is made in New Zealand. It is the number one natural skin care product range in its home country with a lot of fuss being made in the media particularly about its brilliant anti-aging and healing properties.

All thirty products in the range are based on organic rose hip oil. The hips of nature's love flower contain 80% essential fatty acids (oleic, linoleic and linolenic), vitamin E and the antioxidant lycopene. These are all work wonders to promote skin repair and rejuvenation of skin cells and can help scarring, eczema and wrinkles. Trilogy take full advantage of it's healing powers.

The rose hip beauty specialists are soon to be launching a new AGE PROOF range specifically designed to help combat the aging process and nourish mature skin. The three new products are Daily Defence Moisturiser with SPF15, Nutrient Plus Firming Serum and Replenishing Night Cream.

If you can't hold on rest assured your skin will still benefit from the amazing anti-aging properties of rose hip oil contained in all the other Trilogy products. I tried a Booster Capsule last night and it gave my tired face somewhat of a skippy glow. The capsules contain CoQ10 and tamanu oil, in addition to the organic rose hip, to really work on minimising those fine lines and firm the skin. The Ultra Hydrating Cream and Eye Contour cream are other rose goodies for the face to soak up.

In term of green cred Trilogy was the first company in Australasia to be certified carbon neutral and all their packaging is recycled.

Stay tuned - next week we interview Trilogy co-founder Sarah Gibbs and ask her, amongst other things, how beautifying ourselves can save the world!

Our friends at Bags of Change - those lovely people who make gorgeous ethical shopping bags - have won the Most Innovative Green Product in the Green England Awards for their loyalty-scheme-in-a-bag service. People who shop in selected retailers using their Bags of Change carrier receive a discount (5% at the So Organic Greenwich store!). Why? Because those of us who are working to protect our planet by not contributing to plastic creation and waste deserve a little treat for ethical actions!

Faith Simpson, who started the green bag company with her business partner said of winning the award "we are delighted that Bags of Change has won a Green England Award for the second year running... a big thank you to everyone who voted for us!"

The Green England Awards are all about celebrating innovative green and ethical products made by eco conscious organisations. They select companies that have demonstrated their commitment to the planet, provide quality products and excellent service. The public then vote for those who they believe best meet this green criteria.

So Organic stock the full range of Bags of Change bags. To take a look click here. Our favourite is the Tree Tap Rubber bag - £1 from every bag sold goes Survival. Made in the Amazon by local tribal communities who tap the natural rubber. This helps save thousand of hectares of rainforest from exploitation. Prices start from £15.85.