"Swap everything," she says, "Change to better stuff,' she says. So what does that look like? What can be swapped? Explain!! Explain!!!!!!!! Here is a list and some bonus notes. If there's anything that you feel is missing, I simply do not use it.
A replacement for liquids! They last forever, and (in my experience) the shampoos don't fade hair dye any worse than liquids do. You can get them online or at like any supermarket in Australia. I use whatever comes in a lavender scent, but can't easily get a lavender conditioner bar, so I haven't tried those. I also can't find a solid lavender moisturiser, but I've tried non-lavender ones and they're nice.
This one is weird!!!! Same concept, but toothpaste. I haven't yet tried it, but supposedly it's the same deal, you just have to chew them up a bit first? Will update when my current toothpaste runs out. Planning to buy from brush fresh when the time comes, since they're pretty cost effective.
Nothing special, just bamboo. Make sure it dries out. When swap time comes, I rip out the bristles and save them to use them as plant pot markers.
Another weird one. I have seen lots, I have tried one, I HATED it, I am planning on getting a waterpik when I have money. Would absolutely not recommend bamboo floss it was so weird it made my mouth feel weird it upset me ruined my life zero stars yucky yuck yuck. Waterpiks are also good for cleaning piercings, which is a plus for me as a mildly pierced person!
Jojoba oil and tea tree oil my beloveds... They are so wonderful.
Tea tree oil is wonderful to get pimples and such to go down or away faster, just dab a little on fresh out the shower.
It does melt nail polish a little bit though, so use a cotton bud or something if that matters, I dunno.
Maybe it would work as a nail polish remover alternative too?
Jojoba oil is my everything oil. I use it as lip balm, nail oil, piercing balm (I have smallish stretched ear lobes lol),
and the base for my perfume oil. It's also really close to sebum structurally, so it's good for your skin in
some way, although I haven't the faintest clue what it actually does.
Vitamin E oil's also good at most of the stuff jojoba's good at? I don't fuck with it but what do I know.
Unless you're willing to use henna (I personally am not), there's not much to say. I use Good Dye Young for dye and Brite for bleach. Both are cruelty free and vegan and easy to use. Fine line between limiting one's self expression and living as kindly as you can. Hm.
Better than disposables in almost every way. They do involve handling and keeping of razor blades, so they are not for everyone, but because of that whole thing they're also way less likely to give you ingrowns. Something about having one blade rather than three(?). If you get a decent one then it'll last you a lifetime. They are also absolutely terrifying for the first little while, but once you get over the spookiness, you are so set.
Okay so to be incredibly real, I don't use much, I just skip my periods with the pill. I feel like the best
option is a menstrual cup or disk, if you are able to use them. I am apparently physically incapable and
cannot get them right, so I am a shameful tampon user when I have to be.
I know reusable pads exist and cannot make any sort of judgement on them aside from touching bodily fluids! Yuck! I guess
if you're more okay with that than I am it's a non issue.
Just arrowroot powder or tapioca starch, but I put some dried lavender in it to make it smell nice. If you have dark hair, add some cocoa (anti-microbial!). Keep it out of your bathroom though, else it will GET WET and that is the end of the world.
Jojoba oil base, lavender essential oil as a fragrance. There are tutorials online which you should follow if you do this, especially if you use fragrance oils. Safety stuff primarily. They do involve a lot of waiting, especially if you care about having different fragrance notes.
Same deal as other solid soaps really. It's not hard to come across, but sometimes it doesn't lather as much. You really don't need much; super concentrated. If you're a soapy-water sink-filling girlie then all you need to do is let the water run over it while it fills.
I have never tried the latter, but I have heard good things. I think the ones in shops near me are from the luffa plant, so might as well plant it yourself if you're a big user of them. Wooden brushes however, are very nice to use. Not very different to a plastic brush. The one I have is one of those ones with the swappy heads so that you don't need to buy whole new ones every time. If they're still clean at the end of their life, you can rip the bristles out and use them as soap stands or paint them up as cute little garden rocks.
Used in place of glad wrap, and you can make these yourself! They're just cotton cloth coated in melted beeswax. Can't wash them on hot, but really you shouldn't wash anything on hot. I love them, my household hates them. They work exactly the same though!!
This seems super obvious, but using tea towels and rags and such instead of paper towel is like, awesome. You never run out, you repurpose old clothes, and it doesn't add much to your laundry loads. The only time I opt for paper towel is in miniature painting, and honestly, I probably don't have to. Also, as an aside, you can use your old clothes ripped up to fill those decorative pillow cases :)