So I’m browsing the articles over at Simple Mom when I come across this article in her green and frugal living section about washing your face with natural and cheap homemade cleansers.
A cleanser like oil.
Yes, you read that right. I too did a double-take.

I live in Southern California where summers easily reach 100-plus degrees fahrenheit so for me, I say air conditioning is a necessity as I prefer not to spend a majority of my days taking a siesta to beat the heat.

Unfortunately, as an apartment-dweller, Energy Star efficiency isn’t always available to us. Sometimes it is just that horrible fifteen-year old window unit in one room. So how is a person supposed to beat the worst of the summer heat?

Sleep is something I have been thinking much about, mostly because I’m not getting any thanks to my sweet 6-week-old little girl.
But it also got me thinking about what we sleep on. Most mattresses are made of metal springs (usually steel); cushion in the forms of polyurethane foam, puffed-up polyester, cotton batting or maybe wool; and ticking and/or quilting made of polyester or cotton-polyester blend. All this is usually covered in flame retardants and sometimes stain- or wrinkle-resistant chemicals. Put that on top of a mattress …

Among the Green Community, there are great proponents of organic, fair-trade, locally grown produce. But the reality is not everyone can afford to pay the organic prices at the large-chain grocery markets, not to mention the fair-trade mark-ups.
First let’s set up the order of importance in purchasing these items.

Local always surpasses organic -there’s less tax on the environment as a whole. Plus with local foods, most of them are from smaller farms that don’t douse their produce with ridiculous amounts of chemicals so a good washing in a plant-based produce …

A few weeks ago I did a post on ditching both paper and plastic bags to go reusable to which Matty, from Green Eggs & Planet, left this comment:
Excellent post — I too am trying as hard as possible to get into the comprehensive habit of ALWAYS having a bag with me. Maybe a post about how to establish some new habits with regard to that?
As promised, I have some great tips to get this green habit going.
Mostly, becoming eco-friendly comes down to thinking ahead as we humans tend to …