I had been using liquid body washes with exfoliating beads. Then I read on The Slate that the exfoliating beads are little pieces of plastic. The plastic pellets are slipping through sewage treatment facilities (because they aren’t designed to remove these “microplastics”) and going back into the rivers. The little bottom dwelling organisms are ingesting the microplastics and it is slowly killing them off.
So I told myself I wasn’t going to buy anymore exfoliating bead soap again. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I shouldn’t buy any liquid body wash. The plastic containers are completely wasteful, buying bar soap is a lot less wasteful, and comes in the same scents! It’s also so much cheaper.
I saw my fun colored pouf hanging out next to my exfoliating bead body wash. I started thinking about how it is kind of gross to be using the same thing to wash your body with every day. I mean yeah I rinse it out, but there are so many places for “stuff” to get trapped that it probably doesn’t do anything. They say you’re supposed to change it every month. I am a slacker and usually changed it when it started getting really big and came apart. So even if you changed it 6 times a year, that’s a lot of poufs to be thrown away. 6 poufs a year x 10 years = 60 poufs! Those puffy plastic poufs are stacking up in the landfills for no real reason.
So I found my washcloths in the closet and started bringing them back into circulation. They don’t take up that much space in the washing machine and they are actually CLEAN when you use them. They last for years! Its a no brainer. Wash cloths come in even more fun colors than the poufs.
Using a bar of soap was sort of strange. It didn’t “make any bubbles” until I realized you have to make bubbles (just like you do on a pouf). Now I’m kickin’ it old school with my bar soap and washcloth. TMI probably..
