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How "green" really are "green" makeup products?
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    Seems like everyone is going "green" or "organic" now adays, even makeup. But I was wondering how green these products are in the long term. (For example: Those lightbulbs everyone is suppose to switch to because they use less energy and are therefore "green" - but if you break them you have to evacuate your house for 30 minutes. So how "green" is a product that is basically hazardous waste?) I just wondered if in the long term these "green" products are doing more harm then good. Personally, I prefer kosher makeup.
  • PurpleRulesPurpleRules
    Do you mean the flourescent bulbs that you can replace incandescent bulbs with? The one's that have to "warm up" before they generate enough light to actually see by? A friend's mother replaced all the bulbs in her house with them to save money on her electric bill. Now she leaves them on all the time so she doesn't have to wait for them to reach full strength. Unsurprisingly, her electric bill hasn't gone down so now she claims that they "don't work."
    I'm skeptical of the "green" and "organic" products and I'm skeptical of the companies that produce them. Many of the are just jumping on the bandwagon and throwing in a few natural sounding ingredients so they can slap the word "organic" on the package. I'll buy the product if it's a good product and it's reasonably priced. As for living a "green" lifestyle, I think my money is better spent and the environment is better served by replacing my old appliances with ones that are more energy efficient. And by using those goddamn flourescent bulbs even though the wait is really annoying.
  • JamiSingsJamiSings
    If they're the curly ones, then yes. I really do not think something that is hazardous waste is really all that good for the enviroment in the long term. It's kind of like "low flow toilets." I say a toilet you have to flush sometimes up to ten times to get the poop to go down is not enviromentally friendly. You can save more water by using a high flow and putting a few bricks in the tank so there's less room for water. (Seriously, we did that back when we had the good toilets and saved a lot more water then we have with those crappy low flows!)
    So that's why I wonder if green makeup is actually green in the long term.
    I agree with you about the organic labels. It's not like the kosher laws which as super strict.
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