A source of packaging waste, money expenditure and irritation for me is moisturizers. I have gone through so many! So I have decided to try extra virgin coconut oil on my face! Particularly to get rid of the hereditary dark circles. Day 3 of the experiment and I admit I have breakouts. They are not the too little sleep and too much chocolate combined with maybe too much alcohol kind of Breakout. They seem less threatening. For this reason I have decided its because my skin is not used to such an influx of nutrients. Time will tell.
Also I added some yummy smelling essential oil to my evoo body moisturizer. Photo above. Now I don’t smell like salad. Woohoo.
On other packaging news I read on zeroswastehome that organic muslin bags are great for buying fruit and behest and storing in your fridge. It prolongs storage. However I can’t seem to find those bags in Brisbane or online for the life of me. I think I might be forced to buy bulk from www.muslinbag.com. what am I going to do with 300 bags though?
Alright what kind of natural facial moisturizers have worked for you? And who would like some Muslin bags? Anyone?
Isis
Package free living 
You know, I’ve been wanting to try that EVOO and Essential Oil combo for a long time, but have been too lazy. Just switched to organic, cruelty-free (ie, expensive) lotions instead
If you’re pulling this off, it’s definitely inspiring to give it a shot!
Hi! I should post an update to this. I love using EVOO for skin. It works beautifully. Coconut oil is great too. At the moment I am using coconut oil as I have a lot of it and don’t really use it in cooking. Unfortunately, it didn’t work on my face very well as it irritated my eyes. I did a bit of research and others who have done laser surgery have had the same issue.
I just acquired some muslin bags from wholefoods. And by acquired i mean they weren’t wrapped up for sale anymore so i ‘assumed’ they were for grabs and an environmental donation from whole foods. And i love them and would love more 🙂
So you’re in australia permanently now??
Yep in Australia permanently! I gave up my muslin cloth bag search as I am not trying to figure how to reuse things instead of buying things to serve my purpose. I have managed to re-purpose laundry bags for storing veges.
What do you use your muslin bags for?
I use them in the bulk section for oats granola dates raisins nuts and those yummy dried banana chips. Makes sense no to buy packaging 🙂 we have a lo of plastic bags which could be repurposed as veggie bags but we use it for kitty litter anyway. I often jus let veggies be free in the cart or Basie and at checkout put them in their appropriate bunches and the cashier never has had a problem with that
ah yes that my original idea behind the muslin bags. Our bulk store has paper bags which I am planning to re-use on my next trip. Or I was just going take our jars that hold the item in question and they said they would just take the tare weight off 🙂
Not using those silly plastic bags to hold veges and fruit together is the simplest and most effective waste reducing step! I do the same which is just bunch them together for them to weigh. Its a tiny bit more inconvenient but I also noticed they don’t mind. Anyways I am moved to getting fruit&veges delivered might I would love to go to a farmers market instead. Just wish there was one walking distance!