I've been making a conscious effort to be a little less wasteful these days... to buy things that don't come in fatty packages, to buy things made from natural and/or sustainable ingredients, to recycle as much stuff as I can. You know. Be TRENDY.
Fail:
I bought a simply-packaged lotion from the local store, where it was displayed in the "natural" section, but when I visited the website, it's this HUGE chain of lotion and cosmetic anti-wrinkle lotion brands, and is just regular lotion with a boring label. But I have to use it, because it would be EVEN MORE WASTEFUL not to. AND, the pump wouldn't come up. Damn big-box lotion pump-top. At least it smells OK. Like chemical fruits.
Fail:
I also bought a bamboo shower poof, as my old one was shredded to bits from my apparently shark-like skin. It had a name like "ECOPOOF" or something with a recycled label and green edges. OH FICKLE SELF, HOW EASILY YOU ARE FOOLED BY GREEN THINGS. Come to learn, contrary to popular propaganda, though bamboo is indeed sustainable, so is cotton, and bamboo takes FAR more chemical processing to render into soft fibers for bath poofs. Also, my ecopoof is still 20% cotton and 7% nylon, as evidenced by the tiny label tucked deftly into the folds. ALSO. Adding water to a bamboo poof is much like adding water to a 3-foot wad of paper towels hanging on an ECOSTRING. It turns into a solid, unmalleable hunk of fabric, unable to hold the smidgeniest particles of soap or do anything but beat your skin into cleanliness submission. I kind of doubt the cleanliness of that beating, though.
So I'm going to use my ecopoof until which point I run out of liquid soap, and switch to bar soap because a) less packaging, b) no ecopoof of death, and c) I can buy them at farmer's markets in myriad flavors. Stupid poof.
The moral of this story: if you're trying to live a little better, read up on the subject first, and buy things at health-food stores and Trader Joe's, etc. BAH
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