UNLOCK PLANT POWER WITH THE SMART BRIIV AIR FILTER

The Briiv Air Filter is all about creating healthy and happy environments in a home. It works to remove pollutants from your home. Good air quality means better sleep, higher energy levels and improved cognitive function. I could do with more of all 3 in my life please! Better sleep equals higher energy levels for juggling family life and enriched brain power to remember our son’s ever changing schedule at school, birthdays, blog post deadlines, wedding anniversaries etc etc! It’s a very attractive proposition.

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What causes air pollutants?

Pollutants don’t just come from traffic and factories. Tiny particles and harmful gases are released into our homes every time we cook a meal, or light scented candles to remove the smell of what we’ve just rustled up after a hard day at the office. Our family favourite at the moment is cooking salmon and vegetables; simple and quick, delicious but incredibly smelly! We use cleaning products to clean up after our beloved little ones meals that end up on the rug in the back room and pollutants are present even when we play with our pets; Louis our 13 year old cat is a bona fide lap cat and we love him for it. Briiv helps to remove these pollutants so we can enjoy life to its fullest.

Commitment to circular design

Briiv’s concept to design is what has really grabbed my imagination. They have a commitment to what is known as a ‘circular design process’. It’s an actual thing. Google it and read up on circular design products. It’s a refreshing approach to designing and producing products which Briiv also explain in a blog post here https://www.briiv.co.uk/blogs/news/embracing-the-circular-economy-the-briiv-story-so-far?_pos=1&_sid=920c4cd0e&_ss=r  . Simply put, circular design is where products are designed with the end of the product's life in mind.

Super low maintenance

With one simple setup, Briiv is zero maintenance – no watering required - making it the most sustainable filter on the planet. When you’re done with the filter it can be thrown in the garden or compost to become part of the earth again – how cool is that?! A sustainable air filter that is good for the environment from design to manufacture.

 

Briiv utilises a combination of natural, non plastic filters which have been proven to mop up all manner of airborne pollutants. The green material is an ethically harvested inorganic material called Reindeer Moss, renowned for its innate ability to trap particulate matter in its structure. This layer will comfortably capture pollen and other allergens.

 

The middle layer is taken from waste coconut product and repurposed into a fantastic coir filtration fibre. This dense mesh targets even smaller particles like bacteria and mould.

 

Working in the core of the machine is the bespoke Silk Matrixfilter. Combining Activated Carbon bonded with a fine silk based protein web, this can trap the smallest of particles like harmful fine dust and large viruses as well as mop up unpleasant smells and other VOC’s. The raw silk is Ahimsa or ‘Peace Silk’ sourced from sustainably and humanely harvested moth cocoons.

 

Best looking filter around - bar none

 

Designed to improve your environment, Briiv is functional and looks great anywhere, bringing natural style to your home or office. Briiv blends beautifully into your interior and sits perfectly alongside plants or displayed as a centrepiece. Somehow Briiv have managed to package together a filter that looks aesthetically cool and pleasing on the eye. The best way I can describe it is if you have watched karate kid (that’s the 80’s kid in me) Mr Miagi prunes a beautifully cultivated bonsai tree with nail scissors. It’s like if a bonsai tree was planted in Scandinavia and then ikea bottled it up in a shiny glass dome. It’s sophisticated, calming, peaceful, efficient and is as powerful as 3,043 medium size houseplants. That’s right 1 Briiv is the equivalent of 3,043 medium size houseplants - but without watering and maintaining them (if your house can hold that many houseplants that is).  It’s at home as the centrepiece on my dining table when I’ve got the Friday afternoon school mum crew round for end of school week drinks, to when I am having a get fit moment on the Pelaton and I’m cycling like mad to Queen’s don’t stop me now and the air filter is keeping the air in the back room fresh by filtering out all the sweaty and smelly bi products of my workout.

Briiv efficiency

Briiv will effectively improve the air quality in a 36m² (387ft²) living space in just one hour. So you don’t need it on constantly if you don’t want to! Ultimately this amazing little filter has been a game changer in our house, the hubby suffers from hayfever (it seems like all year round he’s mentioning hayfever!) and the little one brings back all kinds of germs from school. Having a filter that purifies the air and does it naturally and sustainably can only be a win win.

CREATING A SUSTAINABLE KITCHEN WITH DUALIT

Dualit Classic Kettle and new gen toaster.

Dualit Classic Kettle and new gen toaster.

It's 5.30am at the weekend and my 14-month-old is full of the joys of spring. It's my turn to give the husband a lie in and I'm keen to get downstairs and start the day. Take on the world. carpe diem? or something like that. Anyhow, what better way to kick off the day than to make myself a cup of coffee and get that first caffeine fix using my new Dualit coffee bags.   

My Dualit Classic Kettle

My Dualit Classic Kettle

Having tended to the wee man (not literally) and ensuring he is tucking into his brekkie (2 weetabix!!) in his high chair, I head to my Classic Dualit Kettle. Ah. There she is. In all her finery. What a beauty. It's not just the polished, stainless steel finish that shimmers in the early morning light that makes me love this kettle so much. It's the fact it's so darn quiet when the water is boiling. It's not like my old one that resembled a rocket launch every time I boiled it to make a cuppa. So, what makes it so quiet? well, the clever folk at Dualit have come up with a game changer patent; Whisper Boil Function. Don't ask me how it works, all I know is my quiet, serene, tranquil start to the day remains just that. By quiet, serene, tranquil I mean listening to bubba munch away on his weetbix and guzzle down his bottle of milk without taking a breather. That is the sound of one satisfied baby! 

Now the kettle has boiled (in under 1 minute) I pour the boiled water into my favourite coffee cup – A 70s retro paisley pattern and I enjoy the Dualit Coffee which give that intense cafetière flavoured coffee I love minus the fuss and time of using a cafetière. Time is precious with a 14-month-old on the loose and the less work I have to do the easier my life is. And did I mention the flavours? Today I am having the Dualit Sumatra Mandheling, but I’ve also had the Dualit Intense compostable coffee bags and the Dualit Decaf Blend. Game changer right there. These coffees are strong and rich in flavour and the coffee bags are all compostable making them more sustainable for the environment. They even come in recycled cardboard boxes which is refreshing in itself to not have wasteful packaging. Thanks’ Dualit for giving me a Barista style coffee ready in 60 seconds from my own kettle is an absolute revelation.

One final thing, and in my book a crucial thing to note. The longevity, sustainability and value for money which this Classic Dualit Kettle has been so smartly designed.  It has a replacement element that ensures the kettle perpetually makes my favourite coffee. Having a replacement element means that when it does eventually fail (after all the use it gets in my house) you don't need to chuck the kettle out. You just order a replacement element from Dualit and connect it up and you're good to go and carry on getting that caffeine fix!

Dualit classic Toaster and New Gen Toaster.

Dualit classic Toaster and New Gen Toaster.

Alongside my kettle I have been using my Dualit 2 Slice NewGen Toaster to make mine and little Jimmy's soldiers in the mornings to accompany our coffee, bottles of milk and Weetabix. This toaster has been with us since we moved into our house 8 years ago and bubba was just a twinkle in our eyes. The toaster, like the kettle has been designed with a replaceable element so you are on to a winner. Plus, like the kettle design, the toaster is also a design classic; curved stainless steel, retro, timeless design which is yet to fail me in its performance. No one makes a kettle or toaster quite like Dualit do. Built to last a lifetime and more sustainable for all of us. I’m sure we’ll still be talking about their timeless, clever design for many years to come.

 

Now, to cease the day! (carpe diem).

 

This post was sponsored by Dualit, however all opinions are 100% my own.