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Honoring Natural New Year’s Resolutions: Home Made Bath Scrub

by Haley · 01/13/11

With New Year’s resolutions sometimes come a sense of failure. By mid-January, you have two donuts instead of one. You can’t believe she did that! You could’ve made a better choice.

Don’t torture yourself! You can make easier, less abusive, and more beneficial resolutions that will bear better results for you and the planet! What if resolutions went like this:

I vow to care for the environment I live in.
I vow to use healthful commodities for both beautification of self and cleanliness of the earth.
I vow to take the time to realize there are accessible, environmental, and sustainable methods to make otherwise harmful on the environment, creams, scrubs, etc.
So, therefore, I vow to use these methods and make a little sacrifice, so I feel better and Mother Earth can too.

Sometimes “environmental” resolutions seem to be too vast or to consume too much time, so to continue our normal routine is easier. So I decided to make something eco friendly, good for my skin, and DIM (Do It Myself!).

One of the first ideas I had was to make some sort of scrub using sustainable, biodegradable materials. I visited the Strand Bookstore (which all lit nuts would love!) to find some sort of “cookbook” that would tell me how I could make scrubs.

I scored a delicious read: “Home Enlightenment” by Annie Bond. I realized soon after that I had found the absolute eco-chic bible. I could now read on how to re-decorate and make all sorts of household commodities that mother earth would love. I found, in the section titled “Bathrooms,” several instructions on how to make bath scrubs, creams, and butters.
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