Issue 78 Dec 2021/Jan 2022

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Good is the magazine for people who think and care about the everyday choices they make. Good is filled with inspirational stories, world-changing ideas and practical, down-to-earth advice on what to eat, grow, wear and more

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Contributors
After developing digestive issues, Kelsi turned to whole, plant-based food and couldn’t believe the impact it had on her health. The 24-year-old Kiwi surfer, diver and recipe developer set up @healthkelsii on Instagram during the 2020 lockdown to sha
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Editor Carolyn Enting Art director Archie Blohm Digital producer Millie Hinchliffe Contributing editor Sarah Heeringa Sub-editor Maddie Ballard Amber-Jayne Bain, Maddie Ballard, Kelsi Boocock, Dr Alice Boyes, Holly Jean Brooker, Catherine Cattanach,
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The Beauty Issue
Welcome to Good’s summer issue, which we’ve filled with beautiful things to fill up your cup as well as get you thinking. Our “Beautiful Things” wordfind will have you searching for sunrises and rainbows, while our gardening pages share how to plant
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Good Stuff
Maggie Marilyn’s highly anticipated menswear line, “Somewhere Man”, is here. It’s been designed to maximise wearability and create boundless mix and match styling opportunities, all manufactured via a conscious and visible supply chain. maggiemarilyn
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HOW TO FEEL beautiful IN 2022
During the 2020 lockdown, I stopped shaving my armpits and legs. There just didn’t seem to be any point: I wasn’t leaving the house, there was no one to see them, my partner didn’t mind. It started as pure laziness, then became something more. I bega
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Your Feedback
I found the article “The Girl With the Golden Heart” (issue 76) really inspiring. So much so that I shared it with my class of 12 year olds. We have been talking a lot about resilience and learning to cope with challenge and change. Harper is an insp
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Matoodles’ Hair Mask
“Don’t forget to use cold water to wash this out otherwise you’ve got scrambled eggs all through your hair. I know that’s really hard to get out because I’ve done it before!” 2 eggs1 tablespoon honey2 tablespoons coconut oil Mix everything together,
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Unfiltered
From the outside, Matilda Green’s life looks like a fairy tale. She met her prince, Art Green, on TV’s The Bachelor, got married and now has two children, a boy, Milo, 3, and a girl, Autumn, 5 months. Living the good life after trading Auckland city
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The Green Team
As a reader of Good, chances are you’ve heard of some of the biggest green beauty superstar brands: think Emma Lewisham, Aleph Beauty, Ethique. Not only are these companies leading the sustainable skincare and make-up space, they’re Kiwi-run (and fem
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Beauty Through The Ages
• Want beauty products that make them feel confident, rather than just pretty• Tend to have an established beauty regime• Less inclined towards impulsive beauty buys• Main forms of media: television and print media• Beauty icons: Meryl Streep, Madonn
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Quick Guide To Beauty Certs
NATRUE – This certification guarantees that all ingredients are natural, contain no synthetic fragrances and colours, no petroleum-derived products, no silicon oils or derivatives, no genetically modified ingredients, no irradiation of end product an
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Your Ethical Beauty Guide For 2022
The beauty industry can be bamboozling at the best of times. It continuously churns out new lotions and potions with performance claims that can be mostly attributed to tests done in a Petri dish. Do they really work? And what about all the packaging
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Headcase
Seeing beauty can promote feelings of awe and gratitude. When we appreciate something as beautiful, we tend to feel a natural urge to take care of it better. Awe is an expansive emotion. It helps us see the big picture, not sweat the small stuff and
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Leading the way FOR 100 YEARS
Marking 100 years as a world leader in natural cosmetics and sustainability – including 66 years in New Zealand! – is a milestone to be celebrated. Since the very beginning, taking responsibility for people, and nature has been at the core of the bus
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Coping With A Covid Christmas
Well, 2021 hasn’t turned out quite as we might have hoped. Finding ourselves in the midst of our longest lockdown to date, we might well feel despairing – when will life return to normal? What will next year be like? As we face the prospect of a fest
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Beauty Buzz
Made in New Zealand from natural ingredients, Omni is a range of multipurpose balms that benefit the skin. Our favourites include Omni Blush Ylang Ylang + Peppermint, $29, which also adds a subtle blush colour on the cheeks and lips; and Omni Polish
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Financial Wellbeing
Oh, the complexities of money! Money can be linked to feelings of power, exhilaration, and being in control, but it can also cause fear, guilt, shame and envy. Did you know your relationship with money started at a very early age? If your parents arg
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Nutrition
It probably comes as no surprise that the most common birthday in New Zealand is 29 September. With ten of the most common birthdays occurring between 22 September and 4 October, it seems “summer loving” is alive and well. But for many modern couples
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WAVE Wellness
The sun has barely begun creeping over the horizon as the first cars pull up in the gravel car park. One by one, women get out cradling their cups of coffee and make their way down to the beach to inspect the surf. Yesterday’s wind has made for large
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Meet The Game Changers
I’ll always remember making homemade ice creams and ice blocks growing up – strawberries and cream was always a favourite flavour of mine. Perfect for a hot summer’s day! Makes 4 ice creams / 10 minutes (and overnight) GF NF 2 frozen bananas400 grams
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Decoding DETOX
Detoxification is a natural process that is happening in the body all the time: it is the body’s way of neutralising and eliminating harmful substances and waste materials. The liver, kidneys and bowel are the main organs involved in detoxification,
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Beetroot and Strawberry Vegan Ice Cream
Craving a healthful pick-me-up ice cream treat this summer? This is delicious and loaded with great vitamins. I sneakily hide a vegetable in it too. However, you’ll need a powerful blender so that it makes the ingredients blend to that ice cream-like
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MESSAGE In A Bottle
Most wine lovers need no persuasion to believe that their favourite drink makes life taste a little better, but a new bunch of wines literally does give back to the world in good ways, if you’ll excuse the pun. A 300 per cent increase in certified or
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Planning The Holidays
Good giving is more than ever about choosing locally made this holiday season. The team at Scarecrow Kitchen and Grocer have heard the chatter about supply-chain challenges causing goods shortages, but they’re not fazed. As founder Alison Dyson says,
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Perfect FIT
With lots of white paint and a dash of artistic flair, Cathy Hansby has turned a tired bungalow in Pt Chevalier, Auckland, into a welcoming family home. “When you work with colour, it’s a relief to have a neutral space to live in,” says Hansby, who r
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Inspired By Nature
01 Adairs stone green marble candle holder, $20, adairs.co.nz
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Breathe EASY
New Zealanders spend up to 90% of their time indoors – so indoor air quality is important. That’s why Dulux created its UltraAir range. These Ultra Low Chemical Emissions* paints were specially formulated to emit fewer chemicals to maintain superior
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GOODBYE PACKAGING Hello Concentrates
You may have noticed a new kind of product in the bathroom aisles at the supermarket recently: shampoo bars. These super-concentrated, dry soap bars come with hefty sustainability claims: they’re light on packaging, need replacing much less often, an
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Wonderwall
We’re all familiar with the concept of the feature wall – adding texture or bold colour to demarcate an internal space. You can use similar techniques to great effect outside. Painting your fence or wall in a deep, dark tone helps the boundary to ret
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January Garden Care
January brings the start of settled warmer weather. With three months of hot days in front of you, plant another round of short season summer crops that ripen in that time or less. These plantings bring a lovely continuity, spreading summer harvests
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Butterfly Garden
Butterflies are somewhere in the same genre as fairies, for me – they’re small, magical, brightly coloured and can often be found amongst flowers. And while it may seem that they were created purely for their aesthetics, they in fact play a crucial r
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Drying Times
Once dried, you can use gathered flowers, homegrown herbs and surplus fruit skins to create soothing herbal potions, flavoured oils and tasty seasoning mixes. • Herb scissors or garden snips• Attractive glass jars and wide-brimmed bottles with lids,
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Bookshelf
Paul Kilgour, HarperCollins, $40 A charming, meandering read, Gone Bush is like setting off on a serene tramp in the mountains, a heavy frost underfoot and the sun on your back. Kilgour writes about his most unforgettable journeys during 50 years of
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Get Growing
Two years ago, we bought a two-acre block near Lake Taupo and Ruapehu to build a sustainably focused holiday pad with friends. Since the day I first stepped onto the land, I have dreamed of a city escape, where the kids could run free and we could ea
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Life Hacks & Facts
Consuming a diversity of fibres ensures that a diverse range of beneficial gut microbial species can thrive, promoting gut health. The best option is to choose wholefoods as close to their natural state as possible – wholegrains, fruits, vegetables,
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Travel Backyard
New Zealand is on the bucket list for travellers the world over and with our borders closed at present there has never been a better time to enjoy our backyard. It’s an opportunity to rediscover your region, see it through new eyes, and revisit favou
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Refresh Your Driving Skills
Andrew Kerr introduces some memorable techniques to help readers acquit themselves better behind the wheel so that their time on New Zealand roads becomes safer and more rewarding. Work out a plan for safely managing your phone and stick to it. We al
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A Hike Around The Headlands
Waiheke’s Te Ara Hura trail network measures 100km but most hikers choose to break it into bite-sized portions or day trips. One of the most spectacular sections is the elevated coastal path that hugs the headlands from Matiatia Bay to Oneroa Bay. Th
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Xmas Gift Guide!
Help plant millions of native trees this Christmas with Trees That Count. Your loved ones will receive a personalised gift certificate and a tree will be planted on their behalf. The perfect $10 gift that means the earth. treesthatcount.co.nz Keen to
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For The Love Of Words
1 Any devices able to record a visual impression (7) 5 Hapless, pathetic, wretched… (7) 9 Marine molluscs whose spiral shells have air-filled chambers (they sound like a mischievous fabrication!) (7) 10 Goaded with sharp criticism – or for 6s, having
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Beautiful Things
Words can appear forwards, backwards, vertical, horizontal, on the diagonal and overlapping. Two words appear twice. AURORA AUSTRALIS BEES HUMMING BELLY LAUGHS BIRDSONG BUTTERFLIES COMMUNITY DANDELION DANCING DEW DROPS ON ROSES FAMILY FEATHERS FLOWER

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