How Green Is Your Closet?musings on Fashion's environmental footprint...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Popeye Skin Care
Hear the podcast re-broadcast of How Green is Your Closet? from NexusRadio on 14 january 2009. This segment covers organic ingredients in skin care.
Till next week -- Restore, Recycle, Refresh, Renew
2 comments:
ecrummie
said...
I found the "Popeye Skin Care" podcast kind of funny because you would think we would all know that vegetables full or antioxidants would be healthy for our skin since they are healthy for our bodies. I think our societies forgets to use the things that the earth has provided us with. Instead of buying a bottle of anti-wrinkle cream that has made a footprint in our environment from manufacturing it, why don't you use the veggies you eat to create a face cream. Like in the podcast, make some kind of chile based face cream or mask to help tighten up your face rather than buying a $20 or more cream. It seems like all of us forgot we can make things ourselves. I guess it takes a chile sauce explosion to realize it? USE LESS, PLEASE.
I think it makes a lot of sense that one of the markets whose consumers would be most welcoming to organic products is the beauty product market. One, as you mentioned, because a lot of the ingredients that are being used are natural and have been for a long time, whether they are edible or not. Another reason is that beauty products throughout history, even from the ancient world, have drawn from nature’s colors and ingredients to keep skin younger, fresher and more beautiful. Aside from women in the 17th and 18th centuries who used lead and mercury in their cosmetics (yikes!) beauty products have always been natural and refreshing. I think beauty companies should really take advantage of the green movement because they could really raise awareness of it through products that do not seem so intimidating or “hippie” to consumers who are still wary of the green movement.
2 comments:
I found the "Popeye Skin Care" podcast kind of funny because you would think we would all know that vegetables full or antioxidants would be healthy for our skin since they are healthy for our bodies. I think our societies forgets to use the things that the earth has provided us with. Instead of buying a bottle of anti-wrinkle cream that has made a footprint in our environment from manufacturing it, why don't you use the veggies you eat to create a face cream. Like in the podcast, make some kind of chile based face cream or mask to help tighten up your face rather than buying a $20 or more cream. It seems like all of us forgot we can make things ourselves. I guess it takes a chile sauce explosion to realize it?
USE LESS, PLEASE.
I think it makes a lot of sense that one of the markets whose consumers would be most welcoming to organic products is the beauty product market. One, as you mentioned, because a lot of the ingredients that are being used are natural and have been for a long time, whether they are edible or not. Another reason is that beauty products throughout history, even from the ancient world, have drawn from nature’s colors and ingredients to keep skin younger, fresher and more beautiful. Aside from women in the 17th and 18th centuries who used lead and mercury in their cosmetics (yikes!) beauty products have always been natural and refreshing. I think beauty companies should really take advantage of the green movement because they could really raise awareness of it through products that do not seem so intimidating or “hippie” to consumers who are still wary of the green movement.
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