9 ideas for a Green Valentine's Day

Who said Valentine's Day could not be green? Aphrodisiac meal, organic flowers, dating sites in love with nature ... gives you 9 tips to see life in green.

Organic aphrodisiac menu, ethical gifts, eco-sextoys, tips in green preliminaries ...:
it does not joke more with the ecological love ...

An organic meal to wake up your sexual appetite

At the time of a romantic candlelight dinner LEDs, Valentine's Day "new consumption" makes you discover food products with exciting virtues: seafood and desire, vegetables with evocative forms, products for uncertain breath but excitement guaranteed , hormone-releasing spices ... all illustrated with mouth-watering organic recipes (eg Greek-crowned onions ... if it's not exciting!).

Toast to organic love !

What philtres of love poured into your glasses?

Who says dinner in love, often says glasses of champagne ... This one enjoys a solid reputation of exciting and yet: in high dose, the effect of the alcohol on our desire is rather deleterious! Nevertheless, taken in a reasonable quantity, it can favor the bringing together of lovers by its disinhibiting action.

For lovers of small bubbles, think of certified organic champagnes, products without pesticides and chemical synthetic fertilizers.

• The production and marketing of a single bottle of champagne generated 2.5 kg CO2 equivalent, because of its packaging but also the cultivation of vines and the manufacture of sparkling wine.

Live with love and hot water flavored

You do not have to live with love and fresh water. Because to accompany or end your meal of love, your green Valentine's Day has found better than small alcoholic bubbles: it has replaced them with tea or other drinks flavored with stimulating plants such as mint, vanilla or ginseng.

• Ginseng would be the most popular aphrodisiac on the planet! It even appears that the Chinese emperors used it to honor as well as possible their few thousand concubines.
• Vanilla would still be used in South America as a cure for erection problems.

But be aware that the exciting action of a tea (organic of course) with mint or vanilla probably comes from the caffeine contained in the tea leaves, and known for its stimulating effects.

The essential chocolates

This year, it's decided: you have decided to ban traditional chocolates in the heart of Valentine's Day, regime requires. But your libido may be taking a hit because:

• cocoa contains alkaloids of the caffeine family (theobromine) with stimulating, relaxing and even euphoric effects. We therefore opt for dark chocolate rich in cocoa (70% and more).

• The chocolate also contains arginine, an amino acid that the body transforms into nitric oxide that promotes the dilation of the blood vessels, and thus the erection. A natural viagra somehow...

• It also stimulates the secretion in the brain of anandamide that mimics the effects of cannabis. A (big) downside: you'd have to eat almost 13 kilos of chocolate to hope to reach nirvana ...

Buy flowers. Yes, but…

There is at least one class of people who venerate Valentine's Day: florists! But not really the planet: did you know that buying a bouquet of 25 "lambda" roses has the same ecological impact as a 20-kilometer car journey.

Discover the number of bouquets of roses sold in France since the beginning of the year on the Planetoscope

 Why ? Because 85% of flowers are imported by plane and generate CO2 emissions of the order of 570 to 1580g per ton of roses and per kilometer!

And as for organic labeled flowers, they are still very rare on the French market ... If your half is fond of its flowers, choose from now:

• for seasonal flowers grown locally and outdoors (bulb flowers). And if possible that last a long time like hyacinth or lily.
• for fair trade flowers (labeled Max Havelaar) that you can find in Truffaut garden centers for example. Flowers "solidarity" but that can come from the end of the world ...

Botanic garden stores are also committed to sustainable development. Also be aware that some AMAPs produce flowers in addition to fruits and vegetables.


In any case, do not hesitate to ask your florist the origin of his flowers and with which producers he works.

Offer ethical jewels

If the purchase of a jewel remains a classic of your Valentine's Day, avoid some materials that certainly please your half but not the planet (or your savings), such as:

• the diamond, at the origin of civil wars and arms trafficking in Africa,
• gold whose extraction process requires highly polluting products such as cyanide.

Think instead of so-called ethical jewelry such as craft jewelry respecting the principles of fair trade. Some are made with much greener materials: in recycled packaging or in vegetable ivory, alternative to animal ivory, for the brand.

The golden rules of eco-sex

After giving you her tips for gifts and a romantic dinner more eco-friendly than ever, Valentine's Day passes (finally) to serious things. It delivers exclusively to Internet users its 6 golden rules for a very ecolohot evening party:

1. Your organic lingerie, you will not forget to put on!
2. The bath will ban you, for the shower you will opt and divide thus at least by three your consumption of water.
3. The lights, you will not forget to turn off! If you want to see your partner, to candles you will think (in natural beeswax always).

4. The organic massage oils you choose. Elixirs with precious virtues, these oils promise relaxation and beauty to all those who have not been able to resist!

5. Lubricants based on petroleum jelly, you will drop. Lubricants based on natural products (with aloe vera for example) will succumb.


6. Covered with natural latex you will go out: at this time of pleasure of all kinds, the condom remains the only safe way to protect against AIDS and STDs. But most condoms are made from rubber, to which chemicals are added to produce latex. So condoms eco version, you will prefer!

Valentine's Day for green singles

For you, the Valentine's Day party comes down to a tête-à-tête with David Pujadas or Laurence Ferrari? You dream to meet the being who will teach you how to make your organic cosmetics and cleaning products yourself, you will cook good all organic dishes?

The solution (or not): the green dating sites! An example in France ... What to build a "sustainable" love? We are waiting for your testimonials.

Your green sex toys

Whether you are in love or alone, here are some objects that can come to liven up your evening: sex toys. But beware, not just any!

• Sex toys containing phthalates are to be avoided because they are harmful for the hormonal system. In 2006, Greenpeace warned against the danger of the materials used in their manufacture.

• Then prefer silicone products.

Without wanting to push to the end, there are even rechargeable vibrators or solar ... Be careful however to check their composition: it is not because they walk through renewable energy, they are free of toxic compounds ...

• The top may be the Irish sex toys Earth Angel: made from recycled plastic, it works thanks to the action of a crank (or via a USB connection for lazy wrists). 4 min of crank turns for 30 minutes of fun ...

An extra eccentric toy that makes you cry boom hue? Given the price to put it (about 70 €), not sure that the toy is worth the candle ...