My two year quest for an effective, all-natural shampoo is over. It ended last week when I noticed that my newest bottle of all-natural shampoo (this time from Etsy…probably should have known better) seemed to be causing my hair to fall out. My panicked reaction: I went to the store and bought a $3 bottle of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘personal products’
27 May
Easy DIY: homemade lip balm & giveaway
I’m a self-confessed lip balm junkie, so what business I have making the stuff when I have more than I can use already, I don’t know. Excess isn’t green. But I figure that my predilection for lotions and potions is a fairly minor eco-sin in the greater scheme of things, and it’s good to know how [...]
24 Mar
Green vs. Safe? Disposing of Toxic Personal Products
Ignorance is [a short-lived, dangerous, unexamined kind of] bliss. Up until a few months ago, I was using lotions with parabens, lip balms with petroleum, shampoo with Cocamidopropyl Betaine, scrubs with micro beads (that get into the stomachs of marine animals), and sunscreens with oxybenzone. These were not cheap knock-off products picked up at the dollar store. They [...]
