5 of the Best - Ethical Shopping

  • Source: The List (Issue 627)
  • Date: 16 April 2009 (updated 21 April 2009)
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Entrading

Entrading

Independent Shopping Guide

Entrading

West Regent Street, Glasgow, www.entrading.co.uk
From the outside, it looks like your average homeware shop, but inside Entrading is stuffed with sustainable and ethical household goods: everything from dishwasher tablets to the dishwasher itself.

Seesaw Toys

Broughton Street and Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, www.see sawtoys.co.uk.
Everything from organic baby potions and old-fashioned wooden toys to biodegradeable disposable nappies at this warm, family-run pair of shops.

Bolshie

Bank Street, Glasgow, www.bolshieclothing.com
All organic, ethical and sustainable clothing boutique-cum-coffee shop-cum-poetry reading venue, with a classy selection of labels and recycled fashion, a great music policy and an annual pavement catwalk.

Flux

Bernard Street, Edinburgh, www.gettoflux.co.uk
This cracking little Leith trader has some spectacularly random gifts, homeware, accessories and Scottish crafts. It’s special because everything is absolutely ethical and fairly traded.

Organic Pleasures

Broughton Street, Edinburgh, www.organicpleasures.co.uk
The world’s first ethical sex toy-shop, selling non-toxic toys, organic silks, lubes and massage oils and other dirty-but-clean deliciousness. Dear me, are you blushing?

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Bolshie Bolshie
57 Bank Street, Glasgow, G12 8NF
A one-woman operation run by Carolyn Manson since 2006, Bolshie is part boutique shop part funky café, all squeezed in behind a tiny bright-red commercial shop front on a West End residential street. Linking the two halves of the enterprise is a broad…
Entrading Entrading
88 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 2QZ
From the outside, it looks like your average surf and homeware shop, but inside Entrading is stuffed sustainable and ethical household goods: everything from dishwasher tablets to the dishwasher itself (completely recyclable, natch). There's also a…
Flux
55 St Bernard Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6SL
Cracking little shop in the heart of Leith ? although it sells Scottish crafts, don't think for a second it's the same sort of tartan tat you'd find in the tourist zones. They also come with a splendid all-ethical produce guarantee.
Organic Pleasures
71 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RJ
Being the UK's first all-organic female-focused sex shop makes this tiny Broughton Street indie pretty special anyway, but the sheer decadence of the interior, filled with with antique armoirs of non-toxic sex toys and organic silk panties, makes a…
Seesaw
109 Broughton Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RZ
A huge range of wooden toys, fair trade baby clothes and accessories, biodegradeable nappies, eco-friendly baby wipes and organic potions to satisfy the greenest of tots in your life. And we're not talking about jelly babies.

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