A very eco friendly yet good looking solution to gift wrapping is gift bags. Within family, we have a rule that almost everything gets “wrapped” into bags and we just make reusable tag with name from either some old calendar or wrapping paper. At the end of the night, we pick our gift bags from the pile and store them for the next year and just recycle the little tags and some paper string that closes the bags shut. You can make yourself some reusable tags I guess but we are a little too lazy for that. Not RV friendly since you gotta store the bags but for regular folks, I recommend. :)
Travel bidets?!?!? Wow I never knew they even existed! Thank you so much. I am definitely checking them out! Another great video with lots of tips. Thank you 😍
GAME CHANGER!! I would love if you used my link to get one :) It gets you $10 off too! i.refs.cc/D6HYGRsq?smile_ref=eyJzbWlsZV9zb3VyY2UiOiJzbWlsZV91aSIsInNtaWxlX21lZGl1bSI6IiIsInNtaWxlX2NhbXBhaWduIjoicmVmZXJyYWxfcHJvZ3JhbSIsInNtaWxlX2N1c3RvbWVyX2lkIjoxMDQxMTY2MDE1fQ%3D%3D
I have 3 cotton face cloths which I’ve had for years are starting to break down but my favourite linin bed sheet was also breaking down and completely tore in the last wash so last night I sat down and made sooo many new face cloths, felt like a right little pioneer woman 😂
I reuse gift bags too! A few weeks ago I gave a friend a birthday gift in one of my reused bag, and she realized she had gifted me my birthday gift in that same bag 😂 (we're both gift bag re-users, so she had gotten it from someone else originally). Also for shopping lists, we have a small magnet whiteboard on the fridge where we keep track of things as they run out, or are close to running out. Then when it's shopping time, we just snap a picture of the whiteboard. Shopping list magic!
Oh, you make me feel old. My son also finished school 7 years ago and my daughter 3 years earlier. I am a planner girl. I use mine for every, appointments, shopping lists, budgeting and daily reminders and things.
I've only bought 4 boxes of tissues in 8 years, and that was last year when we had covid. Thank goodness for grocery home delivery when you can't leave the house. I have chronic allergies so we always have cloth at home. When we got covid no one was keeping up with the laundry. I have no guilt for buying those tissues as they were 1 off and for what we considered temporary medical needs.
Lots of great ideas! One thing I am doing right now is researching washable air filters for my home. We had one in our previous home and it was wonderful.
My favorite money saver/environmentally responsible items are my Saalt menstrual cup and Saalt period underwear, they don't have PFAs like many period underwears do. Their customer service is also great.
They are kind of expensive upfront so I only have 3 pairs, on heavy days I wear the menstrual cup and regular underwear with a regular pantiliner because it is a learning curve. lighter days I wear the period underwear depending on the flow I sometimes use a MC, too. I don't like the feeling of bleeding, I always wore tampons before the MC. I purchased the underwear later. I didn't donate my tampons until after using the MC for 2 months in case I didn't like it. @@andreaescobar5818
for real!! they're amazing :) I have a video coming soon on some PFA free period underwear since those of us with low cervixes can rarely use cups and discs :)
Thank you for this video, I've learnt alot from your channel. I no longer buy washing detergant, dishwashing detergent, body wash or hand wash that's not envirnmentally friendly or made too far away. Happy New Year!
My favorite brands of water bottles and tumblers are Camelbak and Yeti. Been using my plastic Camelbak water bottle for about a decade & had to replace the lid (the old ones would get a weird tacky feeling that wouldn’t wash off after a couple years) but it’s still going strong and I fully plan on getting a stainless steel one when the plastic finally kicks the bucket. One thing I love is the interchangeable lids since a stainless steel water bottle can be turned into a coffee or tea sipping cup or a straw cup. While I fully acknowledge there are other equally good tumbler brands I love the quality of my 30oz Yeti and especially the lids, I have an aluminum 16oz tumbler too and replaced the broken lid with a Magslide, the increase in heat retention was crazy. My aluminum one is getting pretty beat up since I have used it near daily for 4yrs and I am really looking forward to replacing it with a a Yeti since my 8yr old one looks brand new other than one dent (it may have slid off my icy car roof a few years ago… lol). My fiancé bought one of the off brand Stanley’s and has been using it for absolutely everything, can’t say enough good things about a stainless steel container that works for you whichever one you choose.
On the paper planner thing I could never make them work while working, then moved to a calendar on computer 💻 then phone… However, since retiring I kept loosing tasks that needed to be done because I wrote it down electronically and forgot to look again. This last 4-6 months I’ve taught myself the bullet journaling method (BuJo), but really simplified it because I couldn’t stand how what everyone seemed to be doing on RUclips liked like art projects with stickers & paints… nope, not doing that. I took the “field notes” sized notepad I have used for over 40 years and use that to cover about 4 months. I still write down appointments in my phone for long term planning, but keep the active week details in the notebook. One thing this has helped me with is not having to open phone which leads to rolling down the rabbit hole 🕳️ of internet scrolling time suck. Rubber bands, I use the big rubber bands from bok choy or broccoli, small bands from green onions. Haven’t bought any for years & years! Paper clips: I saved a zillion of them from pulling them off of old documents others gave me that I was shredding. Kleenex: I carry & use cotton handkerchiefs, especially this year with the crazy pollen count in PNW & Northern California. I started using them when I started working for a utility outside in the rain because paper Kleenex in the box self destruct in the rain.
that's great you found what worked for you! I don't think planners are wasteful so sorry if it came across that way, they're wasteful for ME cause I didn't use them haha amazing other tips, thanks for the additions!
Considering the beads (aka micro plastics) in body/face scrubs, it's also counter-productive to use them regarding skincare, because physical scrubs will tear your skin, whereas chemical peels (like AHA or BHA) won't and will do a better and more even job. Not sure I found zero waste options for AHA/BHA though... But it's still not as bad environmentally as using micro plastic just to scrub your face...
Yes, check on leather like cloth but made from pineapple peels. Check it out. Its like leather. Search on it. It maybe from hawaii. Its amazing. I dont know the company name.
Saying from someone who is not from the first world and who makes 300 dollars a month I can tell you this : caring about the environment is not a first world problem. They could care less. It is a third world problem. We are the ones who suffer the consequences. And it can save you money in the long run.
Yup I'm quite aware of this nuance and talk about it a lot on RUclips and my other platforms. Do not judge me or anyone else from one standalone video. While I talk about global and government change a lot, I like to encourage people who have the ability to make their own individual actions too cause we do need both individual and gov action. I'm aware that my actions have consequences and lead to pollution, etc which is why this video is important for wasteful folks
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist i am not judging you in no way. I love your videos and you are never elitist when talking about it. I am sorry if I came across that way. I just wanted for people from third world to understand that it is not a first worl problem it is a whole world problem and we will all be effed in the future if we don't do anything. And the third world is already effed in many ways because of this.
oh good! sorry I misinterpreted it, I definitely felt it was geared toward me haha and I do try my best to touch on every aspect of the movement but its hard! Thanks for clarifying :)@@carolinaazevedo2088
I really feel you with the conditioner bars! I have been trying out a few different ones and they just dont click for me like shampoo bars nd other swaps have, so I am considering going back to liquid since I need conditioner for my long har. I am trying not to beat myself over it too much and im sure im not alone in the feeling. Maybe you could make a video about it, like how to deal with some swaps just not working for you and needing to find slighly more wasteful ways around it.
If your hair doesn't curl at all and stays as straight as in this video, you might have low porosity hair and just don't need much conditioning. This could be better for your hair too. Especially if you keep it short, therefore healthy straight from the scalp.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist then your hair is like mine, which is low porosity (I had it checked under a special machine at the trychologist when I had intense scalp psoriasis). You can use a mask or a conditioner when you are sleepin at a family or friends place lmao. Keeping it clean and cut is the best for us. You can try herbal rinses, very nice for low por hair. I have blond hair so I use chamomile, you brew it like tea and let it cool down and pour it after washing your hair normally and just let it dry as usual. This can dry out some hair but for me I do it every wash and it's fine. Since your hair is a bit darker than mine I would recommend chamomile (gives your hair ligher, golden reflexes), birch, mullein, elderflower, calendula (can give ginger or rust coloured refexes). If you don't mind the darkening, rosemary, thyme, nettle, horsetail, hibiscus (this can give you a pink/ginger tint), cinnamon (not to be used on scalp itself), burdock, lime tree (thats what the dictionary tells me it's called, but leaves from a tree of Tilia genus, not the tree producing lime fruit.), mint and soo many more. Generally if the brew is dark it will darken your hair, with young walnut it can almost dye for hair a rich brown. Another tip is using a "mask" made from honey, leave it on hair for some time, generally the longer the better and wash it out as usual. Given the amount of translating and looking up, the english speaking world is a bit behind when it comes to hair rinses, oiling and such lol. You can also do a sort of masking from plants that create Mucilage, such as the root of marshmallow plant, linen seed, flowers of Alcea rosea (common hollyhock), seeds of Fenugreek, flowers of Verbascum, leaf of Tussilago. You can choose any od those, boil it and it should create a sort of slime that you can use on your hair (any of those is used medicinally for sore throats and skin issues and such because of the slime that calms down irritations). I recommend keeping your hair covered so that it doesn't dry out though. If it sounds as fun to as it does to me, then you can buy or find wild Saponaria officinalis which has natural saponins and can be used as soap or shampoo and has been used that way for generations, very cool. You get the root and it looks like soap bubbling up, but fresh stem does it as well. If you are interested in oiling your hair I can share the information I gathered through trial and error regarding low por hair, sorry I wrote so much!
ALSO for hair washing, my grandmothers and older generations used raw egg before soaps and shampoos were avaliable. It has proteins which can make our hair very nice and healthy but you can also sort of "overprotein" your hair. I forgot to mention vinegar or acid based hair rinses, which makes the hair sleek and shiny because it closes the "scales" of hair. You can dilute apple or spirit vinegar and rinse as with herbal rinses, if you make your own vinegar (very easy, I can tell how I make them) you have to use more, depending on how acidic it is. But those I highly recommend for this type of hair
Reusable tissues: so I tried using some cut up soft tshirts and also regular woven cotton and found they are too rough for my nose. I don’t see anyone talking about this, has anyone else noticed this problem? I do intend on looking for a new fabric probably a rayon or something but have not yet put in the effort.
They don't seem very pleasant to me and are just as wasteful. They cannot be recycled due to blood being on them. BUT they are less harmful to create, sorta. It's quite nuanced so I would go applicator free or if you need an applicator, get Dame's reusable applicator :)
Hi, can you please recommend books about how to go zero waste? I watched your videos about books but they are to convince us go zero waste, not detailed instructions. I'm dying to know more details. I read some books on kindle but a huge chunk of those books focus on the story of the author. Haizzz, I need books that tell me how to make fertilizer out of food trash, what chemicals I should not have in my groceries because they're pollutants, which trees I should plant because they are good carbon sink,.. I'm really overwhelmed to the point my brain circuit just pause now. If you can help me find the book(s), I'd be so freakingly grateful, that'll be like helping me 1/2 way. I'm 100% invested but I'm so lost.
For books I'd recommend Don't Be Trashy or 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste. As for trees or plants that are good for the environment, look into what is native to your area; that way you can reduce the need to water plants as well as support the local ecosystem... and it still helps store carbon.
For the examples you give you might have better luck searching for topics like "homesteading" or "green living" instead of zero waste. I'd also recommend seeing if there is a folk school in your area that teaches hands-on workshops.
A great book about the trees to help store carbon would be Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy. It is about how you can help the environment by planting native trees and plants.
Story of stuff Cradle to cradle The story of more Plastic purge This changes everything Braiding sweetgrass This is vegan propaganda And search your library app for keywords: garden, compost, sustainability, permaculture
yup! which is why I don't really like it. Some brands are making bioplastic pleather out of things like pineapple, coconut, cactus, and that is super cool and definitely eco!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Do you have a video on bioplastic pleather? If not, would you be willing to make one? I'd love to hear more in-depth thoughts on this.
Yeah, I find it HIGHLY amusing (a more than a little sad) that pleather has been rebranded as “vegan leather.” Personal opinion, but if we are trying to be good stewards of the earth why are we producing products that are not biodegradable (with the theoretical exception of bio plastics) when we have farming byproducts that is biodegradable & would otherwise just be tossed out? I understand how problematic the meat industry is but believe we have been given animals to use & eat though I think a true “plant based” lifestyle where meat is an augmentation of the meal rather than the bulk of it would be the healthier choice (that’s another term that bugs me lol).
You mention hair products but what about body products? Face cream, body lotion, hand lotion??? I live in Canada and it is very humid in the summer and very VERY dry in the winter and I need my creams, LOL!!! I'm not sure about not using tissues??? Hankies seem sooooo gross to me... like what do you do with them after you blow your nose? Stick them up your sleeve like my Gram did, LOL!!! But seriously, I get if you just have a runny nose but when boogies are involved.....YUCK!!!
Yeah I simply don't use any haha just lotion from Plaine Products, idk if they ship to Canada tho :( Hankies are not gross, just carry a fabric bag to hold them in until you get home to dump them in the wash. Boaty has an amazing travel hankie kit!
I highly doubt it, but I will look it up! Even plastic-based vegan leather would be less than feeding a 2000 lb cow for years and years. BUT I would personally seek out plant-leather such as cactus, coconut, pineapple, etc. But at the end of the day I know it won't hold up working in the outdoors so I'm sticking to what is most sustainable for ME!
Girl, forget those haters! You’re amazing and you’re an inspiration!
Right!?
oh yeah i don't pay them any mind haha I laugh at them honestly. Thank you so much :)
omg thank you! @@HolisticTake
A very eco friendly yet good looking solution to gift wrapping is gift bags. Within family, we have a rule that almost everything gets “wrapped” into bags and we just make reusable tag with name from either some old calendar or wrapping paper. At the end of the night, we pick our gift bags from the pile and store them for the next year and just recycle the little tags and some paper string that closes the bags shut. You can make yourself some reusable tags I guess but we are a little too lazy for that. Not RV friendly since you gotta store the bags but for regular folks, I recommend. :)
Yes for sure! We reused them growing up and it was so fun to go "shopping" for a gift bag hahaha
Travel bidets?!?!? Wow I never knew they even existed! Thank you so much. I am definitely checking them out! Another great video with lots of tips. Thank you 😍
GAME CHANGER!! I would love if you used my link to get one :) It gets you $10 off too! i.refs.cc/D6HYGRsq?smile_ref=eyJzbWlsZV9zb3VyY2UiOiJzbWlsZV91aSIsInNtaWxlX21lZGl1bSI6IiIsInNtaWxlX2NhbXBhaWduIjoicmVmZXJyYWxfcHJvZ3JhbSIsInNtaWxlX2N1c3RvbWVyX2lkIjoxMDQxMTY2MDE1fQ%3D%3D
Keep doing your thing! Don't listen to haters. Much love ❤️
Oh I don't pay them mind, thank you so much!
I have 3 cotton face cloths which I’ve had for years are starting to break down but my favourite linin bed sheet was also breaking down and completely tore in the last wash so last night I sat down and made sooo many new face cloths, felt like a right little pioneer woman 😂
omg that's amazing! Should you ever need to recycle clothing commercially I recommend For Days :)
I reuse gift bags too! A few weeks ago I gave a friend a birthday gift in one of my reused bag, and she realized she had gifted me my birthday gift in that same bag 😂 (we're both gift bag re-users, so she had gotten it from someone else originally). Also for shopping lists, we have a small magnet whiteboard on the fridge where we keep track of things as they run out, or are close to running out. Then when it's shopping time, we just snap a picture of the whiteboard. Shopping list magic!
omg you will just have to swap that bag for eternity haha! Those are some great ideas, thank you :)
Oh, you make me feel old. My son also finished school 7 years ago and my daughter 3 years earlier.
I am a planner girl. I use mine for every, appointments, shopping lists, budgeting and daily reminders and things.
Glad it works for you!
I've only bought 4 boxes of tissues in 8 years, and that was last year when we had covid. Thank goodness for grocery home delivery when you can't leave the house. I have chronic allergies so we always have cloth at home. When we got covid no one was keeping up with the laundry. I have no guilt for buying those tissues as they were 1 off and for what we considered temporary medical needs.
that's great! baby steps for the win!
Lots of great ideas! One thing I am doing right now is researching washable air filters for my home. We had one in our previous home and it was wonderful.
great idea!! So true they are designed to be disposable, what a waste!
My favorite money saver/environmentally responsible items are my Saalt menstrual cup and Saalt period underwear, they don't have PFAs like many period underwears do. Their customer service is also great.
Im considering buying this once I run out of my toxic tampons
Do you wear either or , OR both when you’re on your period?
I had a bunch of tampons, I donated them to a women's shelter in my town.@@andreaescobar5818
They are kind of expensive upfront so I only have 3 pairs, on heavy days I wear the menstrual cup and regular underwear with a regular pantiliner because it is a learning curve. lighter days I wear the period underwear depending on the flow I sometimes use a MC, too. I don't like the feeling of bleeding, I always wore tampons before the MC. I purchased the underwear later. I didn't donate my tampons until after using the MC for 2 months in case I didn't like it. @@andreaescobar5818
for real!! they're amazing :) I have a video coming soon on some PFA free period underwear since those of us with low cervixes can rarely use cups and discs :)
I just love your personality, and I love the style of these videos!
aww thank you!
Thank you for this video, I've learnt alot from your channel.
I no longer buy washing detergant, dishwashing detergent, body wash or hand wash that's not envirnmentally friendly or made too far away.
Happy New Year!
yay thanks for being here!
My favorite brands of water bottles and tumblers are Camelbak and Yeti. Been using my plastic Camelbak water bottle for about a decade & had to replace the lid (the old ones would get a weird tacky feeling that wouldn’t wash off after a couple years) but it’s still going strong and I fully plan on getting a stainless steel one when the plastic finally kicks the bucket. One thing I love is the interchangeable lids since a stainless steel water bottle can be turned into a coffee or tea sipping cup or a straw cup.
While I fully acknowledge there are other equally good tumbler brands I love the quality of my 30oz Yeti and especially the lids, I have an aluminum 16oz tumbler too and replaced the broken lid with a Magslide, the increase in heat retention was crazy. My aluminum one is getting pretty beat up since I have used it near daily for 4yrs and I am really looking forward to replacing it with a a Yeti since my 8yr old one looks brand new other than one dent (it may have slid off my icy car roof a few years ago… lol). My fiancé bought one of the off brand Stanley’s and has been using it for absolutely everything, can’t say enough good things about a stainless steel container that works for you whichever one you choose.
great options!
On the paper planner thing I could never make them work while working, then moved to a calendar on computer 💻 then phone… However, since retiring I kept loosing tasks that needed to be done because I wrote it down electronically and forgot to look again. This last 4-6 months I’ve taught myself the bullet journaling method (BuJo), but really simplified it because I couldn’t stand how what everyone seemed to be doing on RUclips liked like art projects with stickers & paints… nope, not doing that. I took the “field notes” sized notepad I have used for over 40 years and use that to cover about 4 months. I still write down appointments in my phone for long term planning, but keep the active week details in the notebook. One thing this has helped me with is not having to open phone which leads to rolling down the rabbit hole 🕳️ of internet scrolling time suck.
Rubber bands, I use the big rubber bands from bok choy or broccoli, small bands from green onions. Haven’t bought any for years & years!
Paper clips: I saved a zillion of them from pulling them off of old documents others gave me that I was shredding.
Kleenex: I carry & use cotton handkerchiefs, especially this year with the crazy pollen count in PNW & Northern California. I started using them when I started working for a utility outside in the rain because paper Kleenex in the box self destruct in the rain.
that's great you found what worked for you! I don't think planners are wasteful so sorry if it came across that way, they're wasteful for ME cause I didn't use them haha amazing other tips, thanks for the additions!
I recommend the feelgrounds Patrol Winter, they're vegan, durable and keep your feet dry
cool! boots?
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalistyes!
:) @@sunnyskies3707
Your account is soo underrated!
you are too kind, thank you!! your comments help out a lot :)
Considering the beads (aka micro plastics) in body/face scrubs, it's also counter-productive to use them regarding skincare, because physical scrubs will tear your skin, whereas chemical peels (like AHA or BHA) won't and will do a better and more even job. Not sure I found zero waste options for AHA/BHA though... But it's still not as bad environmentally as using micro plastic just to scrub your face...
so true!!
Yes, check on leather like cloth but made from pineapple peels. Check it out. Its like leather. Search on it. It maybe from hawaii. Its amazing. I dont know the company name.
how cool!
If you are from Brazil i reccomend the brand desembala for cleaning products and positiva for laundry detergent and personal Care.
amazing thank you!
Oh man as someone with super dry curly hair that naturally dreads itself without conditioner I am SO JEALOUS lol
my hair is the straightest it comes hahaha
Saying from someone who is not from the first world and who makes 300 dollars a month I can tell you this : caring about the environment is not a first world problem. They could care less. It is a third world problem. We are the ones who suffer the consequences. And it can save you money in the long run.
Yup I'm quite aware of this nuance and talk about it a lot on RUclips and my other platforms. Do not judge me or anyone else from one standalone video. While I talk about global and government change a lot, I like to encourage people who have the ability to make their own individual actions too cause we do need both individual and gov action. I'm aware that my actions have consequences and lead to pollution, etc which is why this video is important for wasteful folks
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist i am not judging you in no way. I love your videos and you are never elitist when talking about it. I am sorry if I came across that way. I just wanted for people from third world to understand that it is not a first worl problem it is a whole world problem and we will all be effed in the future if we don't do anything. And the third world is already effed in many ways because of this.
oh good! sorry I misinterpreted it, I definitely felt it was geared toward me haha and I do try my best to touch on every aspect of the movement but its hard! Thanks for clarifying :)@@carolinaazevedo2088
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist no problem! It is difficult to see tone in messages xD
for sure! and when I get 50% hate comments every day it's hard to filter out the well intetioned ones! @@carolinaazevedo2088
I really feel you with the conditioner bars! I have been trying out a few different ones and they just dont click for me like shampoo bars nd other swaps have, so I am considering going back to liquid since I need conditioner for my long har. I am trying not to beat myself over it too much and im sure im not alone in the feeling. Maybe you could make a video about it, like how to deal with some swaps just not working for you and needing to find slighly more wasteful ways around it.
You should give Plaine Products a try! They have liqid refills :) I should make a video like that thanks for the ideas!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist thanks for the recommendation :)
hope it works for you! I have a code if you choose to support them :) @@ronjatuovinen6907
4:08 girl you're haunted 👻
uh oh
haha i just watched it. def possible but it was just my cat coming out of her hiding place......i think
If your hair doesn't curl at all and stays as straight as in this video, you might have low porosity hair and just don't need much conditioning. This could be better for your hair too. Especially if you keep it short, therefore healthy straight from the scalp.
yup my hair is nearly stick straight naturally which makes sense why I don't need conditioner, interesting!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist then your hair is like mine, which is low porosity (I had it checked under a special machine at the trychologist when I had intense scalp psoriasis). You can use a mask or a conditioner when you are sleepin at a family or friends place lmao. Keeping it clean and cut is the best for us. You can try herbal rinses, very nice for low por hair. I have blond hair so I use chamomile, you brew it like tea and let it cool down and pour it after washing your hair normally and just let it dry as usual. This can dry out some hair but for me I do it every wash and it's fine. Since your hair is a bit darker than mine I would recommend chamomile (gives your hair ligher, golden reflexes), birch, mullein, elderflower, calendula (can give ginger or rust coloured refexes). If you don't mind the darkening, rosemary, thyme, nettle, horsetail, hibiscus (this can give you a pink/ginger tint), cinnamon (not to be used on scalp itself), burdock, lime tree (thats what the dictionary tells me it's called, but leaves from a tree of Tilia genus, not the tree producing lime fruit.), mint and soo many more. Generally if the brew is dark it will darken your hair, with young walnut it can almost dye for hair a rich brown. Another tip is using a "mask" made from honey, leave it on hair for some time, generally the longer the better and wash it out as usual. Given the amount of translating and looking up, the english speaking world is a bit behind when it comes to hair rinses, oiling and such lol. You can also do a sort of masking from plants that create Mucilage, such as the root of marshmallow plant, linen seed, flowers of Alcea rosea (common hollyhock), seeds of Fenugreek, flowers of Verbascum, leaf of Tussilago. You can choose any od those, boil it and it should create a sort of slime that you can use on your hair (any of those is used medicinally for sore throats and skin issues and such because of the slime that calms down irritations). I recommend keeping your hair covered so that it doesn't dry out though. If it sounds as fun to as it does to me, then you can buy or find wild Saponaria officinalis which has natural saponins and can be used as soap or shampoo and has been used that way for generations, very cool. You get the root and it looks like soap bubbling up, but fresh stem does it as well. If you are interested in oiling your hair I can share the information I gathered through trial and error regarding low por hair, sorry I wrote so much!
ALSO for hair washing, my grandmothers and older generations used raw egg before soaps and shampoos were avaliable. It has proteins which can make our hair very nice and healthy but you can also sort of "overprotein" your hair. I forgot to mention vinegar or acid based hair rinses, which makes the hair sleek and shiny because it closes the "scales" of hair. You can dilute apple or spirit vinegar and rinse as with herbal rinses, if you make your own vinegar (very easy, I can tell how I make them) you have to use more, depending on how acidic it is. But those I highly recommend for this type of hair
how interesting! @@langustajableczna
good to know thanks for all the info!@@langustajableczna
Reusable tissues: so I tried using some cut up soft tshirts and also regular woven cotton and found they are too rough for my nose. I don’t see anyone talking about this, has anyone else noticed this problem? I do intend on looking for a new fabric probably a rayon or something but have not yet put in the effort.
I think they can be rough if you're using them constantly. But I find using it occassionally doens't hurt!
So what are you going to use for laundry detergent when you run out of the sheets?
we will see! I still have sooo many sheets to work through and a lot of resarch to do but I will keep you and the channel updated next year hopefully!
I no longer buy any sort of air freshener.
that;s a great onE!
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:)
What do you think about tampons with a cardboard applicator?
They don't seem very pleasant to me and are just as wasteful. They cannot be recycled due to blood being on them. BUT they are less harmful to create, sorta. It's quite nuanced so I would go applicator free or if you need an applicator, get Dame's reusable applicator :)
Hi, can you please recommend books about how to go zero waste? I watched your videos about books but they are to convince us go zero waste, not detailed instructions. I'm dying to know more details. I read some books on kindle but a huge chunk of those books focus on the story of the author. Haizzz, I need books that tell me how to make fertilizer out of food trash, what chemicals I should not have in my groceries because they're pollutants, which trees I should plant because they are good carbon sink,.. I'm really overwhelmed to the point my brain circuit just pause now. If you can help me find the book(s), I'd be so freakingly grateful, that'll be like helping me 1/2 way. I'm 100% invested but I'm so lost.
For books I'd recommend Don't Be Trashy or 101 Ways to Go Zero Waste. As for trees or plants that are good for the environment, look into what is native to your area; that way you can reduce the need to water plants as well as support the local ecosystem... and it still helps store carbon.
Sustainable Badass by Gittemary Johansen gives a lot of directions for a zero waste lifestyle. ❤
For the examples you give you might have better luck searching for topics like "homesteading" or "green living" instead of zero waste. I'd also recommend seeing if there is a folk school in your area that teaches hands-on workshops.
A great book about the trees to help store carbon would be Nature's Best Hope by Douglas Tallamy. It is about how you can help the environment by planting native trees and plants.
Story of stuff
Cradle to cradle
The story of more
Plastic purge
This changes everything
Braiding sweetgrass
This is vegan propaganda
And search your library app for keywords: garden, compost, sustainability, permaculture
Isn't vegan/faux leather just plastic?
yup! which is why I don't really like it. Some brands are making bioplastic pleather out of things like pineapple, coconut, cactus, and that is super cool and definitely eco!
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist Do you have a video on bioplastic pleather? If not, would you be willing to make one? I'd love to hear more in-depth thoughts on this.
oooh yes I'll add it to my brainstorm list!@@mj2625
Yeah, I find it HIGHLY amusing (a more than a little sad) that pleather has been rebranded as “vegan leather.” Personal opinion, but if we are trying to be good stewards of the earth why are we producing products that are not biodegradable (with the theoretical exception of bio plastics) when we have farming byproducts that is biodegradable & would otherwise just be tossed out? I understand how problematic the meat industry is but believe we have been given animals to use & eat though I think a true “plant based” lifestyle where meat is an augmentation of the meal rather than the bulk of it would be the healthier choice (that’s another term that bugs me lol).
You mention hair products but what about body products? Face cream, body lotion, hand lotion??? I live in Canada and it is very humid in the summer and very VERY dry in the winter and I need my creams, LOL!!! I'm not sure about not using tissues??? Hankies seem sooooo gross to me... like what do you do with them after you blow your nose? Stick them up your sleeve like my Gram did, LOL!!! But seriously, I get if you just have a runny nose but when boogies are involved.....YUCK!!!
Just use water
what are you talking about? I'm very confused>
@@junglesuperstar9270
Yeah I simply don't use any haha just lotion from Plaine Products, idk if they ship to Canada tho :( Hankies are not gross, just carry a fabric bag to hold them in until you get home to dump them in the wash. Boaty has an amazing travel hankie kit!
they wash super well!
I will have to check out Boaty or see if anyone in Canada makes reusable tissues.
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalist
Doesn’t vegan leather produce a TON of carbon? More than cow leather.
I highly doubt it, but I will look it up! Even plastic-based vegan leather would be less than feeding a 2000 lb cow for years and years. BUT I would personally seek out plant-leather such as cactus, coconut, pineapple, etc. But at the end of the day I know it won't hold up working in the outdoors so I'm sticking to what is most sustainable for ME!
i confess to five years of washing my uniforms with fabric softener 🫣
oh no!! haha it's probably fine
I think they say that about military uniforms cause it makes them more flammable and should you be in a harmful situation it could make it worse
@@TheSimpleEnvironmentalisti was so desperate to make them softer until i finally decided i’d be wearing shorts and a waffle shirt every day 😂
hhahaha nice @@AprilCMango