Even the humble loo roll, it turns out, has a story worth telling.
At Scanlon Hair we are serious about the products we choose to use: the colour we put on your hair, the brands on our shelves, the coffee in your cup. Lately we have applied this thinking to the other end of the salon. The smallest room in the building. The throne room. Where one goes to powder one's nose, spend a penny, see a man about a dog. In short, the dunny. Because even the humble loo roll, it turns out, has a story worth telling.
For a while our dunny was stocked with Who Gives a Crap, and we have nothing but respect for them. They proved a bathroom staple could be good for your bum and good for the world. But every so often something comes along that is too good to scroll past. For us, that was Yarn'n, which ticks every one of those boxes and then some.
Yarn'n is Australia's only First Nations-owned toilet paper brand, made right here in Sydney from 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper. They call it "deadly dunny paper." Frankly, wiping with anything else now feels unaustralian. Better still, 50% of profits fund boarding school scholarships for First Nations kids through the Yalari Foundation. So every roll quietly pays toward a young person's education, which is genuinely uplifting for something so bottom-focused. Each one even arrives wrapped in original artwork by Indigenous artists, story included. A small lesson in culture every time you reach for it. Suddenly the smallest room has the best reading material in the building, and we are genuinely chuffed to have it on a roll.
This is simply how we like to do things. Where we have a genuine choice, we try to take the more ethical, more sustainable one, because the small choices add up.
One last confession: our toilet is in a long-distance relationship.
We have twinned it through Toilet Twinning, which funds clean water and proper loos for communities that have none. Ours is proudly paired with a latrine at Banteay Kraing Village, Tay Ninh, Cambodia, certificate hanging where you would expect.
So pop in and say hello. It is the most worldly toilet you will meet all week, and it is flush with good intentions. And if our dunny rolls win you over, you can take the deadly ones home too: Yarn'n runs a subscription over at yarnn.au.