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With so many different products on our bathroom shelves, the smallest room is a big source of plastic waste in the home. Here are some of The Green Shopper's top tips for plastic-free alternatives for common bathroom and beauty products.

Colin Birch with a light-hearted guide to trying, and sometimes failing, to be ethical. This week he grapples with ethical sunscreen.

We caught up with Kathryn Adams at Ecotricity, an ethical Best Buy company in our guide to Energy Suppliers and operator of Ecotalk, featured in our guide to Mobile Phone Networks.

Why is palm oil such a popular ingredient in toiletries and cosmetics, and what are companies doing about it? Ruth Strange gets to the heart of palm oil and personal care.

Here are ten companies whose behaviour in the midst of this crisis has stood out to us as exceptionally poor.

The kitchen is a great place to start if you want to reduce plastic in your home. From single-use food packaging through to larger items like cleaning equipment, there are lots of simple and inexpensive household swaps which will make a real difference to your plastic waste. Ruth Walton from The Green Shopper website explains.

We caught up with a number of companies featured in our cosmetics shopping guides to ask how they are being impacted by the current crisis. Tim Hunt looks at their responses.

How ethical is Truthpaste?

For years, campaigners have been calling for a ban on the animal testing of cosmetics and toiletries and the ingredients inside them. So could a full ban ever be achieved and how could we go about it? 

All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic is revealing structural inequalities and the precarious situation that workers and communities face. For many, the economic fallout poses a crisis of its own. Yet, as governments, civil society and consumers respond, the pandemic could also be a catalyst for change. Clare Carlile explains more...

A seasonal worker is suing the Spanish government for confining him to a makeshift home without water or basic supplies during the coronavirus pandemic.

How ethical is Georganics?

Over the past year, Mona Bani followed Dee Woods and Leslie Barson, co-founders of Granville Community Kitchen (GCK), as they reject the concept of food banks and now step up to meet demand during the lockdown.

Memories of Rana Plaza remain raw – yet sweatshop conditions persist in Bangladesh and are being made worse by Coronavirus says Jay Kerr from campaign group No Sweat.

Our highly targeted readership represents some of the most ethically engaged consumers in the country. It's an audience that companies with an ethically-focussed marketing campaign should be talking to.

COVID-19 has had a huge impact on consumer habits with shops shut and deliveries becoming more difficult.  Sophie Billington looks at what it means to be an ethical consumer in this time of crisis, with some simple suggestions on how to live a good life on lockdown.

Workers in Almeria, Spain say that they are denied the minimum wage and left without employment if they speak out.