Beauty products for you

Alternatives and tips for your beauty products:

• Cut down on products with petrochemical ingredients. These ingredients include: mineral oil, paraffin wax, anything ending with -eth, somethings ending with -ene or -nol, as well as anything with 'butyl', 'ethyl', 'methyly' and 'propyl'.

• Avoid/ cut down on products with parfum/ fragrance as an ingredient.

• Don't use cotton buds in your ears; they are actually not meant to enter your ears and can cause problems. Instead, use water or water, soap and a wash cloth or other methods. If you use cotton buds for non-ear cleaning purposes, use those with bamboo stems.

• Switch face wipes (which are not great for your skin anyway) and single-use cotton pads for reusable cloth pads and wash cloths.

• Favour products in tin, glass and wood containers.

• Favour silicone containers over plastic container only IF you must have something similar to plastic.

• Use bamboo toothbrushes and toothpaste tabs.

• Avoid plastic shower-caps (unless you have a rain-shower you can tie your hair up). If you must use one, buy the durable shower-caps i.e. no flimsy/ single-use shower caps.

• Swap single-use face and eye masks for reusable ones.

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