Back to school tips from an adult

Got an email in my inbox today with tips on keeping the planet green. I have a good mind to share them: Back to school tips from an adult

Using organic soaps and shampoos and benifiting the enviorenment as well as your health

When using soap and shampoo in your bath or shower, you release common chemical, processed soap and shampoo into the environment. Processed shampoo is also not the best for your hair and scalp.

Everyday chemical waste is thrown into rivers, lakes and seas, harming the natural environment. By using the common chemical soap and shampoo, you only add more to that unhealthy waste.

But by switching to organic soap you not only benefit your health, but the environment. It may cost a little more than processed soap and processed shampoo, but if you're an environmentalist it's all worth the cost.

But before using these organic materials, be sure to ensure there are no health hazards as some organic products may have them. Read up on the ingredients and tests done on the specific brands that you posses.

Also ensure from the labels or online researching that these products have not been tested on animals.

If these products are not available at your local store, they can be ordered from online sites such as Amazon as seen here.

Read more on the benefits of using organic soap.

Use recharchable electric shavers instead of regular shaving kits

This post is for men who do shave. When shaving with a regular shaving kit as pictures below, you use up water resources to clean your blade and your face when removing the cream. This also produces a lot of necessary sewage waste. Shaving with a kit is also costly as you have to keep buying new cream sprays after they run out.

Shaving with a kit is consumption and produces water waste as well as costly:

Now let's look at electric shaving and how it's done. The benefits of electric shavers are:

1) Money saving. All you have to do is recharge the electric shaver when it runs out of power. No need to go out and buy shaving cream or a new shaving blade when it's rusted.

2) No need to use up water and produce unnecessary water waste.

As pictured below, electric shavers require no cream, or washing of the face or the blades. All they require is to be opened and have the cut hair be thrown out. No water, no cleaning or cream required:

If you have a long beard and need to cut it off, use a pair of scissors to shorten it as much as possible, then use an electric shaver to shave off the shortened hair.

Using an electric shaver is environmentally friendly as pointed in this post and saves you the money of having to constantly need to buy a new shaving kit each time.