June Eco Tip Of The Month
June Eco Tip Of The Month
In
my April Eco Tip Of The Month I
showed you how you can help cut down on petroleum oil derived products
in your home by switching your laundry detergent from an oil base to a
vegetable oil base laundry detergent. If everyone just
switched
one bottle of detergent we would save 233,000 barrels of oil
each
year. That is enough to heat and cool 13,400 homes for a whole year.
In May Eco Tip Of The Month we talked about how to save even
more
petroleum oil by switching the dishwashing detergent in your household
to a vegetable base liquid dish soap. Just by switching one bottle each
we would save 81,000 barrels of oil.
You
would be surprised of all the products that contain petroleum
based ingredients.
June
Eco Tip Of The Month- Stop using Mineral oil based skin care products.
Mineral oil is
nothing more than refined petroleum oil. While
there is not enough evidence to say for a surety that by using mineral
oil on your skin causes cancer it is known that Petroleum is a cancer
causing agent.
But worse than that,
mineral oil clogs your pores.
Mineral oil is a thick base product that when you apply it to your skin
it creates a barrier so that nutrients can not get into your pores and
your skin can not do its' job of releasing toxins. Basically, your skin
is suffocating. Skin needs to breathe, the pores need to be free to do
their job.
If you want to
use mineral oil you can go to your local drug store and buy a gallon
for just over $1.00.
Skin care companies use mineral oil in their products because it is
cheap. Now when you go and buy an herbal skin care product paying a lot
of money for the Vitamins and herbs they added to the product but it is
in a mineral oil base, well, none of those things you are paying for
are even getting into your skin because the mineral oil blocks their
absorption.
Almost all the skin care
products on the market contain mineral oil.
Choose products that have pure essential oils and vegetable derived
oils. I do not suggest purely organic products because most of them
mold very easily which can cause botulism. A safe amount of
preservative is 1%. This has proven to be safe to humans. This
preservative prevents the nasty bacteria to grow in your skin care
products. Products with 1% preservative have about a 2 year shelf life.
Most products you buy in the department stores are formulated with so
many preservatives so that they can have a very long shelf life.
After
much research several years ago I chose to use the Arbonne
International Skin Care products.
I liked them so much I chose to buy them wholesale and then I signed up
all my friends and agents I worked with and after a few years I
realized I had a part time business. I have a website that I created
about a year and a half ago that tells you all about the benefits of
using all natural skin
care products and dealing with skin care issues such as Rosacea, Acne
and Eczema.
You can tell me what you think of my site. It still needs
work
but I have of course been busy with my coaching and short sales!
I also have an official
Arbonne website
that anyone can go to place orders on. If you would like me to send you
any samples just email me. I use their all natural anti aging skin care
line that has kept my skin looking youthful and wrinkle free
(mostly) without any surgery or dangerous ingredients.
My
favorite skin care line is the Arbonne Baby Line.
This is the product that relieved the awful pain my son was going
through from his eczema. He is now eczema free. I have people all over
the world on this baby line from babies to adults who suffer from
Ezcema. The wash is naturally tear free. The most disgusting thing that
I found out about was that the 'tear free' products they sell you in
the stores is actually so full of harsh chemicals that they add an eye
desensitizer to the product so that it 'numbs' your baby's eyes! How
disgusting is that! The Arbonne baby wash is made from natural
botanicals that are naturally tear free! They don't have to add any
chemicals to keep your baby from crying!
I
can just
imagine how much petroleum oil we can save by not using any skin care
products that contain mineral oil. Just one more way to cut down on oil
consumption! Every little bit helps.
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Katerina, thanks for providing these Eco Tips. My wife's reading a book called "Gorgeously Green" which is a great guide to everything green for "today's modern woman." I actually bought some of the 7th Generation detergent yesterday. Oh, and driving down the street yesterday I also saw the following sign in neon:
It's Here!
Organic Dry Cleaning
We'll be checking that out this week.