Starting on the path of green cosmetics - How to Switch?
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Once you have made up your own mind on what you will and won't use (and which brands you will and won't use) then its time to see what you are going to do about it.
There are two different ways to approach your switch:
Throw everything you own into the bin right now, regardless of how much is left or if it has even been opened. Go to a green shop/website and re-buy everything you own.
- Problems? Being green isn't just about using different cosmetics.
- Look at what you would be throwing away, where will it go? Are you recycling the plastic or is it going to landfill?
- Are you emptying the contents down the drain, where it will go into the water system?
- Are you using more plastic by buying new products that you actually don't need right now?
- Above all, it will cost you a lot of money.
OR
Take stock of your products and look at what is in them. The best, most economic and greenest way is to use up what you have now, try and recycle its packaging and then replace with a green alternative.
- You also get the added bonus that while you are using it up you can have a look at all the wonderful green products out there and decide which one you really can't wait any longer to try.
- If you absolutely will not use an ingredient a second longer then can you use it for something else you aren't too bothered about? Can you give it away?
Don't feel guilty about not changing immediately, go at your own pace and if you slip up, accept it, then learn from it as you know for next time.
Even I slip up! I unwittingly believed a large US brand was "natural" from its many claims and prominent plant ingredient mentions, bought a set, got it home and then read the ingredients. The lip balm that is raved about? 90% petroleum jelly. Shampoo? SLES as second ingredient. Prominent plant ingredient? Halfway down the list, in a lower concentration than 2 different preservatives.
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