I started looking into eco friendly health and body care products approximately 18 months ago when I came a cross a small family business based in Germany that makes brushes in the traditional way, using wood from their own managed forests and bristles made from sisal or animal hair (no animals harmed may I point out).

At first the idea of a wooden toothbrush didn't really appeal to me. Like everybody else I presume, I was brought up with a plastic toothbrush in my toothbrush holder and it didn't occur to me how damaging plastic toothbrushes are to the environment. When you think about it, it's frightening: millions of toothbrushes are disposed of every year all around the world. 99% of them are made from plastic. And plastic takes a long time to break down in our landfill sites. Who