The larger cost of beauty (cut, product, buy)

[Clarallel]

The issue of sustainability even in beauty products.


This Is the Cost of Your Beauty Routine
Here’s how you can create a more sustainable one.
By Andrea Cheng

“We’re taught in school to recycle, but it’s focused more in the kitchen than in the bathroom, so it doesn’t seem as important.”
The single-use phenomenon is a fairly recent development, Ms. Williams added. And, she said, “it’s happening without anybody realizing how much these items are taking over.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/s...y-routine.html

https://grandfatherclocksblog.com/th...eauty-routine/

[Sassybluesy]

Originally Posted by Clarallel

The issue of sustainability even in beauty products.


This Is the Cost of Your Beauty Routine
Here’s how you can create a more sustainable one.
By Andrea Cheng

“We’re taught in school to recycle, but it’s focused more in the kitchen than in the bathroom, so it doesn’t seem as important.”
The single-use phenomenon is a fairly recent development, Ms. Williams added. And, she said, “it’s happening without anybody realizing how much these items are taking over.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/s...y-routine.html

https://grandfatherclocksblog.com/th...eauty-routine/

I read the article more than half way through. I'm suspicious. It seems like an advertisement disguised as a news article.


Seems like the company Cadence, and Freya Williams of Futerra, just want to get their name out there, and say "buy me! buy me!

[fleetiebelle]

As I've tried to be more mindful of what I'm buying, and trying to cut back on single use plastics, I have noticed how there's practically no sustainable way to buy makeup and skincare. It's all packaged in a bunch of little tubs and tubes and pumps and compacts that can't be reused or recycled.