Clean your house with soap nuts

Imagine a detergent that is completely natural, with no animal ingredients, capable of washing your clothes, washing your dishes and cleaning the house.  Your dream will come true with soap nuts which were used as a detergent for centuries.

Soap nuts are actually berries (also known as a soap berry) that grow on the Sapindus tree, an evergreen tree belonging to the Sapindaceae family. Sapindus are common in India and Nepal mostly but also in Southern Asia and in the USA. Nuts contain saponins which produce a foam when shaken in liquid, just like regular soap.

My manifest for the International Animal Rights Day

82.966 was the approximate number of animals killed by human actions every 30 seconds last year. Every day we fight to reduce these numbers but we don´t stop until animals get their basic rights: the right to life, to not be tortured and not be considered a property of the human being. T hat's why the millions of people who fight against speciesism worldwide receive with optimism and hope 10 december - International Day of Animal Rights. 

As a result of terryfing number of deaths left by the Second World War - 60 millions of people, including 6 millions of Jewish Holocaust victims, - in 1948 there was adopted the Universal Declaration of  Human Rights. Now we need to establish the same declaration but according to every living being as a next step to antoher, better civilization - the Society without Suffering. You think that's not necessary? 

And if I told you that every 33 minutes animals suffer their own holocaust, would you belive? Every 33 mintutes dies around 6.000.000 animals in slautherhouses, fur farms, laboratories etc. Millions of senseless deaths, that we could prevent...

For that reason since 1997 we celebrate the International Day of Animal Rights, our purpose is to change our beliefs, our traditions and attitudes towards non-human animals. 

Our whole economic system is built on the explotation of billions of living beings with the same capacity to feel  pain and express complex emotions as human animals do. For this reason the aim of all of us, who struggle against speciesism, is not only to celebrate this day in the thousands of public events all over the world, but to be concious in our daily acts and reclaim that animal rights were respected.

 "Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals."                                                                                                    

                                                                                                                                       Theodor Adorno

Milk & cookies

I didn´t write anything during last week but it doesn´t mean I did nothing. I cooked a little bit and prepared fantastic and natural washing-up liquid! So these days I will put new recipes that I hope you like but also some music, news, something to read.

Ok, so we have winter here in Poland and everything has turned completely white, and when it´s so cold I love drink a glass of warm vegan milk and cookies! I think it tastes much better if you prepare it by yourself. So check this out.

Coconut milk

1 cup grated or desiccated coconut

3-4 cups water

1 cup soy milk (optional)

Soak the grated coconut for about 2 hours. Add remaining water and a little of soy milk if you prefer the stronger texture. Grind all together for a few minutes. You will notice some strange dense foam on the surface of your milk, but don't be afraid it´s only coconut cream! Do throw it away, you can use it for some desserts, sauces and soups. You have to pick it up anyway because it´s pure fat :)