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We've got exciting news for you all today - our friends at {SIMPLE as that} have created an amazing, all-natural, two-ingredient MATCHA MASK!!!!  {SIMPLE as that} is all about skin health and promoting natural beauty, simply. We love their "less is more" philosophy and how easy they make a simple beauty routine based on organic, fair trade and vegan ingredients. {SIMPLE as that} products are made from scratch using as few ingredients as possible - they know that sticking to the basics is best for your skin and our planet. There are no cheap synthetic fillers and the team supports sustainable, local, small farm and organic sources to...

Latte love... One of Matcha Maiden's favourite ways to enjoy the Mix N Matcha magic is as a matcha green tea latte. Having given up coffee years ago for various health reasons, matcha lattes have been the answer to all Matcha Maiden's prayers.  One of the most common questions asked though is how to actually make these beauties. Matcha Maiden has compiled a little how-to guide for your enjoyment, including options for making them in cafes as well as at home.   Photo: Latte love at @sardicafe snapped by @brookeashleywilliams For our wonderful cafes As with any kind of latte, the exact preparation of...

For this month's Matcha Mail, Matcha Maiden had the privilege of sitting down with the beautiful Sally O' Neil aka The Fit Foodie!!! Born in the UK, Sally moved to Australia a few years ago to enjoy a little more sunshine and has been the gift that keeps on giving for the Australian health foodie population!  Her beautiful blog, The Fit Foodie blog, is a hub for all things healthy, fit, stylish, aspirational and influential. Sharing her passion for wellbeing and fitness, her mission is to give us the information and inspiration to feel nourished and happy. On top of this, she has an amazing range of...

Matcha Maiden recently had a wonderful opportunity to head back to her motherland, Japan. As she has been keeping busy growing a beautiful matcha family, she hasn't had much time to go back to basics since starting the matcha mission late last year. But at the end of the harvest a few weeks ago, she decided to take a few days to visit the tea farm and spend time with her beautiful tea farmers. It has been many years since her last trip to Japan when she first discovered the magic of matcha, but her love for the Japanese people, the food, the language and...

Our beautiful friend and rising superstar, Olympia Valance, of Neighbours fame has recently come back from a whirlwind trip to the UK to shoot the new lingerie range for Gossard UK (with her very own range coming out soon)! Matcha Maiden LOVES sitting down with Olympia and picking her brain about how she keeps in shape for her television and promotional duties, how she deals with her action-packed, exciting, celebrity-filled life on and off set, and how most of the time she's actually just a regular girl who loves regular things and is more down to earth than you could ever imagine. Since we find her endlessly...