Anne Drake

Anne Dra­ke used to work in the pack­a­ging indus­try befo­re she tur­ned her life around. Back in 2013, she wat­ched a docu­men­ta­ry cal­led Pla­s­tic Pla­net by Wer­ner Boo­te and it chan­ged her life. Ever sin­ce, she has been com­mit­ted to a zero was­te life­style and hel­ping others in their tran­si­ti­on nota­b­ly through her books ​‘Eco­lo­gie op hoge hak­ken’ (‘Eco­lo­gy in high heels’) and ​‘Eco-life­style. Aan de slag!’ (‘Eco-life­style. Get to work!’) (unfort­u­na­te­ly not available in Eng­lish yet) and her workshops. 

Anne deli­vers her work­shops all over Fland­ers and tea­ches atten­de­es how to make natu­ral cos­me­tics and eco-fri­end­ly clea­ning pro­ducts such as solid sham­poo bars and dis­in­fec­tant clea­ner. Check out the dates and loca­ti­ons of her upco­ming work­shops here and join Anne for a who­le­so­me and pro­duc­ti­ve few hours. 

If you’re not able to attend a work­shop in per­son, no panic! Anne has laun­ched a web­shop whe­re you can order han­dy boxes with all of the raw mate­ri­als nee­ded and access to an online ins­truc­tion video so you can make your own care pro­ducts such as solid sham­poo, con­di­tio­ners bars and make­up remo­ver from the com­fort of your own home. You could even make an event out of it and have some fri­ends over so you can all learn and be inspi­red together. 

Anne’s web­shop also sells ever­y­day house­hold items to make your sus­tainable life­style easier. Redu­ce your envi­ron­men­tal foot­print and switch to vegan floss, sus­tainable tooth­brushes and all natu­ral pack­a­ging-free soaps!