Going Green is sexy and will always be the in-thing. Here are some innovative and prudent ways of going green.

Maxing Out Your Cosmetics

Most of us are aware of the 3 holy R’s, REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE. So, it is high time to put this knowledge into practice by reducing one’s requirement of replacing one’s preferred lipsticks or eyeliners by extending their lifespan. Rather than dashing off to shopping malls for a novel tube of one’s favoured lip lacquers when they have stopped twisting higher up, scooping the remnants on to palettes and applying it using lip brushes. In this manner one would be buying oneself loads of application thus postponing the requirement for picking up novel tubes. Another great tip to stretch out one’s cosmetics could be pertinent to cosmetic pencil types like eyeliners. No sooner has the eye pencil reached a particular stage; it would tend to become softer and trickier in sharpening. Rather than toss it out into the rubbish bin, attempt placing it in the deep-freeze section. Merely a few minutes of freezing the pencil, one’s fav brown eyeliner would be all set for sharpening and use.

Unusual Brassiere

The cheeky quotient of going sans support just shot up a notch with a Japanese firm ‘Triumph’ unveiling its one-of-a-kind brassiere doubling up as a re-usable bag. Folding half of the shopping bag would turn out to be the bra cups which act as pads when the brassiere is donned. While not conducting the principal tasks of bearing one weight or the other, the brassiere is designed to sensitize the masses on the profligacy of above thirty million plastic shopping bags annually employed in Japan. In case this is not ample sexy to adore, the brassiere is additionally created from polyester made from re-cycled plastic containers – ecopet fiber.

Green Cycles

Dumping of nearly two billion sanitary napkins and seven billion tampons is done into the N. America surroundings annually. Over 170000 tampon applicators had been gathered from the United States coastal regions during 1998-99. For making matters even shoddier, majority of the tampon and napkin brands have surfactant, adhesive and additive types whereas majority of the pad types have presence of polyethylene plastic whose manufacture is a contaminant. Moreover the carcinogenic agent, dioxin, is a spin-off of the tampon bleaching procedure and contains rayon. In a landfill, leaching of several of such matter into the surroundings like ground water, stream and lake could cause grave pollution and impact health.

A greener choice is opting for those firms making totally organic cotton, non-bleached or hydrogen-peroxide bleaching (rather than chlorine-bleached) tampon and maxi-pad types. Such tampon types do not need applicators or are created from recyclable cardboards and outer packing is generally kept to bare essentials and manufactured from bio-degradable and recyclable substances.

Natracare, Maxim, Seventh Generation are great choices which are available widely. In case one intends on lightening one’s freight on landfills, opt for cloth pad which could be washed. These are ideal means of decreasing the wastes and increasing one’s money surge. Re-usable silicone cups (The Diva Cup) is another innovatory, waste-proof, cash-saving alternative. During the subsequent menstrual cycle, go ahead and take the incentive of doing the earth and one’s body a big favour.