Making Your Own Eco-Friendly Bathing Products
By Mike Zook
There are a million reasons to be wary of commercial bath products. Like many of the cleaning products lining the shelves of your nearby grocery store and pharmacy, bath products are also full of toxic chemicals. Even “safe and gentle” children’s products can be toxin-laden and dangerous – both formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane have been found in children’s bath products. Both are linked to cancer and skin allergies. Safe and gentle? Not exactly.
There are a number of eco-friendly bath products on the market. Many brands not only use organic material in the soaps, balms, and oils themselves, but also incorporate reused materials in the bottles and jars as well. When considering whether a product is environmentally sound, water content also plays a role: the less water used in making the product, the better. The drawback of many of these products, though, is that they are significantly more expensive than their mass-produced, bad for the planet counterparts.
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2012-08-18 06:42:52
Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2012/08/making-your-own-eco-friendly-bathing.html
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