Peppermint Magazine

Peppermint is a green fashion magazine, covering eco and ethical style with a fun, fresh, intelligent and positive spin. Encouraging you to get off the trend mill, Peppermint promotes individuality, respect and DIY personal style, by showcasing the best of eco designers from Australia and the rest of the world. Fashion, beauty, art, craft, and culture; all with a twist of lime.

let’s plant the future • When it comes to the fight against climate change, every tree – and every action – matters.

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K-Rae Designs

Seven Clean Seas + Lo Bros

shrub club • These besties from Ballina are returning to traditional methods of making tasty tipples.

all about that base • Less is more with these natural products that let your gorgeous skin shine through.

on the nose • Smell could perhaps be the most underrated but powerful of all the senses – transporting us through time and space. But how can we make sense of scents?

the art of survival • For Lismore-based Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens, art isn’t only political: it’s about survival.

MODEL CITIZEN • Laura Wells’ passion for the environment, love of the ocean and interest in facilitating climate change action shine bright as she traverses the activist-model tightrope.

voice, a new vision • The Uluru Statement from the Heart, released in 2017, is the largest consensus of First Nations peoples on a proposal for substantive recognition in Australian history.

Referendum Process and Principles

I believe in the Voice because…

A chronology of action • First Nations peoples have been showing up and demanding to be heard for decades.

Actioning solidarity • For 30 years, Arnold Bloch Leibler, a leading Australian law firm, has worked with First Nations peoples, most often pro bono, on matters at the core of Indigenous self-determination resolve. Here, they speak to the power of solidarity in action.

courageous creativity • The path to creative entrepreneurship is paved with mistakes made, lessons learned and, hopefully, even some success. As part of the Finders Keepers Creative Summit for 2023, we asked some of the courageously creative speakers one simple question:

take heart • In 2016, one Hobart woman decided to sew and distribute small felt hearts to anyone who felt in need of love or wanted to offer some. She had no idea this kindness project would become a global phenomenon.

WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? • Could love languages be the answer to your own achievable climate action?

A MOMENT LIKE THIS • Life is not solely made up of transformative moments. But throughout the ordinary, sudden and piercing sweetness is still profoundly possible. In this photo essay, ‘The Sweetness of Everyday Joy’, photographer Ella Saunders-Cuming celebrates the magically mundane.

quite contrary • Legendary Finnish fashion and lifestyle house Marimekko is embracing its rebel spirit to journey towards a more sustainable future.

retro revival • My Keeper’s Sera Choat leans into frolicking flower-child vibes with her vintage-inspired, New Zealand-based label, while staying across all sides of sustainable fashion.

sacred storywork • Gudanji/Wakaja artist Ryhia Dank created our latest cover, a piece titled Our Land, to speak to our collective imperative to care for Country.

kiss the cook • Keep your clothes clean and live the cottagecore dream with this adorable DIY apron.

NOW TRENDING • What’s the 411 on trends and can they save us from the fashion...