This week I tried an experiment.
You know I'm trying to eat healthier and reduce my impact at the same time. One thing I am trying is giving up my normal shampoo in favor of an organic, non-chemical version. My normal shampoo is a prescription dandruff shampoo which I use regularly on both my hair and eyebrows (yuck). I also have gross dry flaky skin in general and tons of creams for that too. I'm trying to improve my skin and hair through improved diet and vitamins (including a pre-natal multi, fish oil, and biotin). My head itches, but I'm also working my willpower in trying not to scratch.
This whole dryness issue also carries over to my lips, so I'm always in possession of lip balm, keeping a tube in my desk, car, purse, medicine cabinet, and next to my bed. Seriously. I've heard many times that if you just stop using the product, and don't lick your lips, the dryness will eventually go away. I quit cold turkey and Monday and finally gave up about an hour ago. They just didn't seem to be getting any better so I got out my tube and lathered on a layer of sweet soothing protection.
Now, you might ask, why not just zip over to CVS and grab a tube of Bert's Bees since it's so readily available. Well, it's an issue of less is MORE. Part of my resolution here is that I really want to make less trash. Perhaps the tiny packaging of a tube of lip balm is a weird place to draw a line, but I am trying to focus my efforts on buying fewer things that have packaging and when I do, choosing paper packaging over plastic whenever possible.
So I'm going to keep trying not to lick my lips and hope that when another week passes, I'll be permanently free of my many many tubes of lip balm.
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