Artistic Trends is known as an education salon - it is what we strive to do. We want our clients to have the information they need to continue their beauty at home. We do this in many ways: email newsletters, in salon hands on classes, education by the stylist when you have your hair, nails, skin care done.
Not only do I like to inform clients on how to care for themselves but I really want others to take care of our Earth. I am sick of seeing trash along the roads, overflowing trash cans in public, bottles in trash cans, etc. We have become a society of use and throw away. What ever happened to the days when we didn't have all these convienences that we just throw away? Bottled water? Soda? Paper, paper, paper. Our forefathers saved what they had an used most things in other ways.
When I was a kid, my parents bought a 10 acre farm in Roaring Branch,PA. The house was old, built in 1895 or so by this couple and their 2 kids. Their son, Willard, stayed on the farm after his parents died. He didn't throw ANYTHING away.... He had a compost bin. He had glass jars in the garage that he put nuts, bolts, nails in. He saved wood and either burned it or carved it, I think he even carved a set of crutches out of wood! He used stained, torn clothes as rags. We did find a pile of old cans too -not sure what he was going to do with them. We found so many things in that home, barn and out buildings - unbelievable the things we saw!
What am I getting at? We don't often think of reusing things. We buy new and get rid of what we don't need. We are a society of misuse. Of course, our municipalities don't make it easy on us when they do not offer ways of us ridding the trash. For example - how many times to you throw a #5 plastic in the garbage because our area does not take it? LOTS! Cream cheese containers, yogurt, sour cream as well as other food items often come in #5. What do you do with them? Rinse them, save them. Go to
http://www.earth911.org/ and type in #5 plastic - there is a place in Allentown where you can drop them off. They melt them down and make little plastic pellets which become new plastic items.
How about used up gift cards and such? DO you know how much plastic that is? Again go to earth 911 - gift cards can be sent to this company with recycles them into new items! Did you know that the plastic bottle lids from our waters, sodas, etc should NOT be left on the bottles? They are a different plastic and can actually ruin a batch. Save them up, bring them into the salon and I will take them to the nearest Aveda store. They recycle them into NEW Plastic bottles! Bring me your used of makeup containers - Origins takes them and turns them into containers for all kinds of things.
Oh...the newest thing to recycle??? HAIR! Lauren at the salon found a website called
http://www.matteroftrust.org/. They take donations of hair cuttings to make oil spill mats. So you could get your hair cut and the clippings will go to save water, plants and animals from the dangers of oil spills in our waterways! They also make these into mats that help plants grow better.... I need to check into that.
See - hair, skin and nails has been a 20 something year passion for me. Welcome to the newest addition to my list of passions - I love to educate others on the positive virtues of recycling, reducing and reusing. I think real beauty comes from within and from around - I think someone can be beautiful - until I see them throw something recyclable away!
Please - no throwing stones. I know there are people out there who think I am kooky, off my rocker, etc. I don't think of this as saving the Earth this minute, but when my kids, grandkids, etc are growing older and having their generations following them. Other countries have been greener than we have for some time. It is nothing new - we just don't want to do it because YES< it does take some extra time. But have you ever SEEN a landfill? Where is all this trash going to go????? If not for you, do it for the people not here yet. Your genes will be living on in someone else someday - if you don't have kids thinks of neices, nephews, etc.
Let's make the Earth a place where animals and humans can survive for a long time to come.
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