The biggest waste in my bathroom (I'll start on some other rooms in the house this year - honest!!) are the disposable razors. I've been meaning to pluck up the courage to get around to sorting this since I read Fake Plastic Fish 's post here....
http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/2007/08/plastic-free-shaving-part-1.html
Only I'm a coward.
My irrational fear of cutting my body to bits like a teenager with emotional issues to going to be put to the test as I now own a "Happiness double blade safety razor". I've no idea how old it is all I can tell you is that was made in the "People's Republic Of China" (which Wikipedia informs me only came about on 1 October 1949) and I have seen the blades for sale all over Ebay.
Wish me luck, if ladies in 1915 where able to cope with razors like this and people still today drive cars older than 1949 we should soon be walking out with nice smooth... un cut.... legs.
(Except that it's cold outside)
Showing posts with label The Bathroom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bathroom. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 January 2009
Monday, 29 December 2008
LUSH - My prayers have been answered.
I sent an email to Lush ( www.lush.co.uk ) asking if they can send their lovely sounding goods in plastic free packaging....
Looks like bath time just got more interesting!! You can buy solid bars of shampoo and soap and can be reassured that not only is the company supplying these against animal testing, produce vegan products in a "green" factory" but you're doing your bit for the environment by avoiding that plastic packaging!
Thankyou for your e-mail, we can pack your order naked with popcorn or we can bag each item and label this for you.
When you order just let us know.
Many Thanks
Becky
Lush Mail Order.
Looks like bath time just got more interesting!! You can buy solid bars of shampoo and soap and can be reassured that not only is the company supplying these against animal testing, produce vegan products in a "green" factory" but you're doing your bit for the environment by avoiding that plastic packaging!
Sunday, 28 December 2008
It's starting to have an effect.
As if breaking* my back again and suffering many many flare ups of the "chronic illness" wasn't a bad enough thing to have to contend with, the supply of luxuries around my house are starting to rapidly diminish.
Or in short
- I have no bubble bath and very little shower gel
- I miss a good steak (though not at the same time as taking a bubble bath)
My body is being washed with some soap I found in the back of a cupboard and while you don't get the interesting read when you're in the bath (what? You don't read the bottles when you're in the bath and wonder what all of those chemicals actually do?) my skin still seems as soft as ever. I do find my skin feeling "tighter" though straight after a wash - and not in a good way.
I am now on the look out for D I Y alternatives - the internet is amazing!
One thing I have struggled with though is shopping - not just because it is physically very difficult to go shopping right now but because while I am managing to reduce my plastic intake by just refusing to buy certain items (oh how I do miss berries - why must they pack fruit in so much plastic?) or by shopping around and only getting things if the packaging is 100% recyclable some things it seems are impossible to get right now without being liberally coated in plastic... meat for one thing.
I can cope with having to buy fresh vegetables and freezing it myself if I want to keep my freezer stocked up on frozen goods but I don't think I am yet able to home a young lamb in the garden (not until I have my vegetable plot built anyway. Even the local butchers (who are very expensive) look at me as if I am insane when I ask if they'll wrap the meat in paper rather than plastic. I guess I'll have to keep looking for this one.
But I can say having to look at everything that goes in your shopping trolley is an amazing way of keeping the cost of shopping low!! It horrifies me to think about how much we used to spend on stuff that
a) we didn't really need
b) and probably wouldn't have noticed if we had forgotten to pick up
c) was mostly priced on how shiny the packaging was.
More when I'm upwardly mobile!!
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*okay perhaps not that melodramatic - my sacroiliac jointkeeps "popping" out of place and requires my wonderful physio to force it back into place [which is more painful than when I really did break it!!]. Keep your fingers crossed for February when I see a specialist to hopefully sort it!!
Or in short
- I have no bubble bath and very little shower gel
- I miss a good steak (though not at the same time as taking a bubble bath)
My body is being washed with some soap I found in the back of a cupboard and while you don't get the interesting read when you're in the bath (what? You don't read the bottles when you're in the bath and wonder what all of those chemicals actually do?) my skin still seems as soft as ever. I do find my skin feeling "tighter" though straight after a wash - and not in a good way.
I am now on the look out for D I Y alternatives - the internet is amazing!
One thing I have struggled with though is shopping - not just because it is physically very difficult to go shopping right now but because while I am managing to reduce my plastic intake by just refusing to buy certain items (oh how I do miss berries - why must they pack fruit in so much plastic?) or by shopping around and only getting things if the packaging is 100% recyclable some things it seems are impossible to get right now without being liberally coated in plastic... meat for one thing.
I can cope with having to buy fresh vegetables and freezing it myself if I want to keep my freezer stocked up on frozen goods but I don't think I am yet able to home a young lamb in the garden (not until I have my vegetable plot built anyway. Even the local butchers (who are very expensive) look at me as if I am insane when I ask if they'll wrap the meat in paper rather than plastic. I guess I'll have to keep looking for this one.
But I can say having to look at everything that goes in your shopping trolley is an amazing way of keeping the cost of shopping low!! It horrifies me to think about how much we used to spend on stuff that
a) we didn't really need
b) and probably wouldn't have noticed if we had forgotten to pick up
c) was mostly priced on how shiny the packaging was.
More when I'm upwardly mobile!!
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*okay perhaps not that melodramatic - my sacroiliac jointkeeps "popping" out of place and requires my wonderful physio to force it back into place [which is more painful than when I really did break it!!]. Keep your fingers crossed for February when I see a specialist to hopefully sort it!!
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Bathroom - The Stock Check
The bathroom seems to have plastic hidden in every corner. Is it really necessary to have so much plastic packaging on everything?
The List....
Things I rather like
Well there you go, welcome to my bathroom! Luckily I'm not about to run out of anything in there so all I have to worry about right now is how to recycle the plastic bottles as I empty them. If I had to choose two items to keep I would choose toothpaste and my toothbrush. I am very picky about what goes in my mouth and a good minty toothpaste just seems reassuring.
Everything else I am now looking for plastic free replacements, whether that be by making them myself or just finding another way around the matter - why use all those scrubs when soap will do the job? Does soap still come in paper packaging?
Does anything still come in paper packaging?
The List....
Things I rather like
- Plastic tooth brushes x 3 (one electric, two manual)
- Toothpaste x 3
- Deodorant x 1
- Tube of gel for my TENS machine pads
- First aid box full of plastic wrapped things of joy
- Bag of cotton buds (can't think of a non plastic alternative for these!)
- Plastic lid on my tube of pain killing muscle rub
- Shampoo x 3 bottles. I'm not sure I have much confidence on a "natural" make your own method working on my hair.
- Sanitary liners x 1 box
- Plastic box containing plastic wrapped soap ducks x 1 (birthday present)
- Plastic box containing vitamin D tablets (Vitamin D is said to improve energy levels in people with CFS - but there has to be a nicer way of getting ones D than trying to swallow huge tablets!)
- Pack of wax strips (owwie!!)
- Plastic Packaging containing 24 loo rolls (do you really need to wrap them in plastic?)
- 345 cream. I'm sure there's something else out there!
- Facial scrubs. There are loads of recipes for make your own cleaning products. I'd best get reading!
- Body scrubs (smell nice, claim to make your skin tingle, don't help the environment with all that plastic wrapping!)
- Bottle of body wash for the chemically sensitive (why not get rid of all chemicals and make your own?)
- Bubble bath x 3 (makes bubbles and smells funny in the bath.... I can do that)
- 6 plastic razors
- Shaving gel (it has a plastic lid)
- Mouthwash
- Hairspray x 2 (plastic lid)
- Plastic tube containing denture cleaning tablets (from when I wore braces!)
- Hair gel
- Hair removing lotion (used it, hated it, but didn't want to throw it away)
- Nail polish remover (work ensures my nails are never suitable to be polished)
- Baby lotion (used it when I had sensitive skin, it didn't help. Having a baby seems an expensive way to find a reason to use it)
- Talc powder (what's wrong with a towel?)
Well there you go, welcome to my bathroom! Luckily I'm not about to run out of anything in there so all I have to worry about right now is how to recycle the plastic bottles as I empty them. If I had to choose two items to keep I would choose toothpaste and my toothbrush. I am very picky about what goes in my mouth and a good minty toothpaste just seems reassuring.
Everything else I am now looking for plastic free replacements, whether that be by making them myself or just finding another way around the matter - why use all those scrubs when soap will do the job? Does soap still come in paper packaging?
Does anything still come in paper packaging?
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