Woman & Home Feel Good You – September 2019

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ONE THING BEAUTY

If you only do one thing

GO GREEN!

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our daily routine can help make

the planet more beautiful too,

as Brianne West, founder of

Ethique* by Brianne West, explains...

1

USE SOLID FORMULAS IN PLACE

OF LIQUID FORMULAS

A liquid shampoo or body wash can be

made up of up to 8 0 % water. Conditioner

is even higher, at up to 9 5%. Using one

conditioner bar, instead of the equivalent

five bottles, saves up to 1 4ltr of water.

Using less water reduces the amount of

energy used in the pumping of water,

which in turn reduces our

carbon emissions.

TRY Ethique

Pinkalicious

Shampoo Bar,

£12.99, Holland

& Barrett –

equivalent to

three bottles of

normal shampoo!

2

BUY PRODUCTS WITH

COMPOSTABLE/ZERO-WASTE

PACKAGING

A lot of beauty products on the market

will be packaged primarily in plastic –

and only 9 % is actually recycled. This

means that 8 0 million shampoo and

conditioner bottles go to landfill every

year, where they remain for hundreds if

not thousands of years.

TRY Hotel Chocolat Rabot

1745 Coffee Body Scrub,

£16, 280ml, rabot1745

beauty.com. Comes

in a reusable

coffee cup!

3

CHOOSE

MULTI-USE

PRODUCTS WITH

LONG-LASTING

FORMULAS

A product that does

more than one thing is

a great thing! For example, body oils

can double up as hair oils or cuticle

saviours, and clear lip balms can be

used as a highlighter or brow fixer.

This is a great way to reduce the amount

of packaging you’re throwing away.

TRY Balmonds Skin Salvation, £7.99,

30ml, Ocado

4

SAY NO TO WIPES!

Instead, use face cleansers with

face cloths or flannels. After a single use,

wipes end up in landfill or, worse still,

are flushed into sewage systems, ending

up in our waterways. Wet wipes are often

partly made with polyester, and as they

slowly break into little tiny pieces, they

release microplastics – marine life

consume them, and via the food chain,

eventually so do humans.

TRY The Ramer

Cleansing Shammy,

£4.99, ramer

sponges.com

That's how many units

of packaging are

produced every year by the

global cosmetics industry,

most of which are not

recyclable, according

to campaign Zero

Waste Week.

120

BILLION