Obsidian Star is a sort of full-time/part-time home-based business. Focused on providing eco-friendly products.
It began back in 1999, selling Pagan items from a "New Age" shop in Lilydale (Victoria). This grew to a small online business, which had grown and changed over the years into what it is today.
After discovering cloth pads back in 2000, the desire to share these fantastic things with other women, and to make something a bit different to what was available at the time, brought about the Obsidian Star brand of cloth pads.
In the last few years, other products such as reusable sandwich wraps and jewellery have been added to the product range, just to keep things interesting :)
Since I discovered cloth pads I have been actively involved in increasing the awareness of reusable menstrual products of all brands. I run a website giving general information on reusable menstrual products - www.ecomenses.com (also known as www.clothpads.org).
I have also set up a website to help bring attention to the lack of appropriate menstrual products in impoverished countries - www.donatepads.org, and I organise donations of cloth pads to charities that distribute cloth pads into these areas. I've so far personally sewn over 400 cloth pads for donation, and collected this much again from other pad makers to send off.
After the "Moonhut Naturals" forum was closed down, I took on the role of creating and maintaining a review forum for reusable menstrual products - http://clothpadreviews.forumotion.com - a useful resource for reviewing different brands of reusable menstrual products (Unfortunately our old "makeforum.org" forum died so we've had to start again).
