We love making eco-friendly body products!  But we love it even more than we are connected to so many like-minded people who are equally passionate about 100% natural body care.  People who make a difference every day by using sustainably sourced ingredients, and eco-friendly packaging and that washes a biodegradable product down the drain without harming the environment.   Every day we make our body products count for something more than just personal care!    

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It is increasingly important to take stock of what we as consumers can contribute to a better environment on all levels.   We don’t want to harm ourselves or the planet we depend on to survive.  

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Let’s get real, what are you actually contributing when you go a bit ‘greener’ with your body products?  Rest assured, the impact is far greater than a recyclable box or tin.

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Let’s take a snapshot of your day and look at your daily shower or bath time.  Cutting down on a commercial body wash alone in the shower or bath is a big step towards sustainability.

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Eden Days Body sell real soap, made from a combination of butter, oils, water and lye.  This lye is crucial to the whole soap-making process, turning the butters and oils into soap and glycerine. The lye is used up in this saponification process, it completely disappears in the curing stage, leaving you with a 100% natural soap.

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A commercial body wash is a detergent, it contains additional chemicals called surfactants to help you get clean.  It takes 5 times more energy to produce and requires a lot more packaging.   The larger, weighty plastic bottles leave quite a carbon footprint to transport and recycle.  According to research, we use 7 times more shower gel per wash than what we would have with a bar of soap! 

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And getting back to the detergents, did you know they are usually petroleum-based?  Then you have the added parabens, preservatives & and phthalates, surfactants, artificial colours, and fragrances … you get the picture.  As it washes off your body down the drain, it leaves a different kind of footprint that stretches further than a plastic container.

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We’ve not even looked at shampoo bars versus bottled shampoo, shaving soaps versus aerosol foams, dry shampoos, body butters, etc…

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Just throwing it in here; it takes 10 -15 trucks to transport a liquid shampoo that gives you the same amount of washes as the one truckload of shampoo bars.   

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Your impact on the environment is so significant by just switching to a skin-loving soap bar!  If you manage to do it with more products, the circle of effect increases greatly. 

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We can safely say that you make quite a difference every day and you make such an impact in a year.  You chose a consumer to make your products count.  Tap yourself on the shoulder! 

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