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For too long, women's personal care has involved unregulated products marketed to capitalize on male-created standards of beauty. Slowly, all that is changing as women not only are creating their own individual, healthier standards, they are also going green in the process. To get more personal about your care, join us at Planet Green's "How to Go Green: Women's Personal Care."
Top Tips for Greening Your Women's Personal Care
Oil is Out: Petroleum, it seems, is everywhere and many cosmetic products contain oily ingredients like mineral oil, paraffin, and propylene glycol. In other words, the quest to reduce fossil fuel consumption extends well beyond transportation and home heating.
Read Labels: Can you tell a paraben from a phthalate? If you're like most folks, you've never even heard these words. Thus, it all starts with educating yourself about ingredients and then allotting enough time to read and re-read labels when shopping. It also helps to choose a health food store instead of your local strip mall discount shop.
Don't Be Cruel: The institution of animal experimentation is the hidden ingredient in a wide range of personal care products. Do you know which companies do and don't rely on this practice? To help end this archaic practice, we must educate ourselves and work toward alternative methods to create cruelty-free products.
Did You Know?
- Cosmetics is a $35 billion a year industry
- 33% of personal care products contain at least one chemical linked to cancer
- 38,000 animals die needlessly in the EU every year in tests for new cosmetic products
For more on Women's Personal Care Tips check out Planet Green's Guide, How to Go Green: Women's Personal Care. For more on Going Green, check out the Planet Green How to Go Green Archives.
