7 eco-friendly alternatives to familiar cosmetics
Tanya Lebedeva
creator of LookBio magazine
Even if you are not ready to compost waste, change to the tram to reduce exhaust emissions, and cook natural cream in your kitchen, you can take a small, but tangible step towards more environmentally friendly and safer consumption. Let's start with seven tubes for safe and environmentally friendly cleanliness and beauty.
Toothpaste
Daily morning and in the evening you can do without chemistry. Just be prepared: natural toothpastes do not foam like shampoo, but that is why they are more suitable for sensitive teeth and oral mucosa. Without artificial fragrances and flavors, they don’t freeze their mouths with crumpled and menthol day all day, but they strengthen tooth enamel with silicon and calcium carbonate. In almost any natural toothpaste, plant extracts are abundantly present, which strengthen the teeth, heal the gums and lead an implacable anti-bacterial war. Many natural pastes contain sea salt, but most of all salt in Weleda Salt paste, which is already recommended not only by American, but also by Russian dentists. After her teeth literally creak clean and ring sea freshness.
Shower gel
Another tool on the shelf in the bathroom, which is able to minimize the amount of toxins consumed daily. The main thing here is a foaming base. In conventional products, it is made from sulfates (SLS and SLES), and those, in turn, from oil. This treated oil foams fantastically thick, but it is toxic to the environment, and it also mercilessly removes the natural hydro-lipid film. The skin dries, peels, becomes more sensitive. Natural shower gels contain more gentle frothers synthesized from sugar cane or coconut; they foam a little worse, but do not overdry the skin. When choosing a natural shower gel, the main instrument is the nose, it will select the most inspiring natural aroma composition. Just look to have an international eco-certificate on your shower gel pack: Ecocert, USDA, BDIH or other.
Soap
All Style Shops littered with color "homemade" soap. Allegedly natural. But do you know what the first signs of natural soap are? Natural color and a slight smell. Natural soap is made from oil: olive, palm (it is cheaper) and others, with the addition of alkali. After cooking, plant extracts and essential oils can be added to the soap, but neither one nor the other smells at arm's length. Just remember this when choosing a soap. The most natural will be nondescript bar with a delicate natural flavor.
Lip gloss
Glitter licks, eaten and kissed. So you want one that you can eat without danger. Natural shine is possible because they are made from vegetable oils, and mineral and vegetable pigments are added to color and shine. How do they differ from the usual Diorov and Lankomovsky? List of ingredients; for the better, of course. Although there is another difference: we sell them rarely and expensively. Dr. Hauschka, Phyt's, Natura Siberica, Lavera, Sante, Aubrey Organics - that’s probably all.
Lip balm
Natural hygienic formula lipstick elementary: oil (olive, coconut) plus beeswax. Other oils and aromas are added as desired. This lipstick, unlike the usual, paraffin, really cares for lips and prevents all winter lip troubles. One of the most beautiful natural lip balms is Katya Karpova, we have already written about her brand Pure Love.
Body cream
Again, no secrets: The basis of natural cream is vegetable oil. Olive, almond, jojoba oil - their chemical composition is related to human skin, so these oils are the best moisturizers. Emulsifiers, thickeners, preservatives needed to turn the oil into a cream can also be natural. Natural body cream in its pleasantness and effectiveness is not inferior to conventional cream. In order to distinguish a natural product from a pseudonatural one, one should read the composition, and if there is no urine, be guided by international certificates of natural and organic cosmetics. Or buy in Organic Shop, Morisania and other biocosmetics stores.
Hand cream
Some particularly astute men have learned how to determine the age of a woman by the arms. Particularly perceptive women look after their hands more vigilantly than on the face: for example, they hold hand cream at each sink and be sure to keep it at the head of the bed. Natural hand cream does not fill the wrinkles, does not leave the silicone-paraffin film, it penetrates the epidermis and moisturizes, regenerates the skin. Pure Love hand cream with cannabis oil is good: it smells like hemp, of course, but the skin after it is infinitely young.