I recently looked closer at the ingredients of my dish washing detergent and found Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLES) listed, not to be confused with SLS* (Sodium Lauryl Sulfate). They are both used to produce the nice soapy bubbles in cleaning and washing products.
SLES can become contaminated with (extremely small amounts of) 1,4-Dioxane [1] because [...]
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Soapy Bubbles
Posted in Chemicals, SLES, SLS, carcinogens, cosmetics, toiletries, tagged cleaning, fossil fuel dependence, sustainable living on 22 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
Could I be beautiful without petroleum?
Posted in Consumption, cosmetics, toiletries, tagged carbon emissions, Family, fossil fuel dependence, sustainable living on 15 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
Like Alina, the Closet Environmentalist, I have a love for potions, lotions and products that supposedly make me beautiful. Unlike Alina, I’m only now trying to wean myself away from them.
This started when I began to look at where my lotions were made. Spain, Thailand, Italy and the US made for a multicultural bunch, but [...]
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"We must head back towards zero. At one degree the genie is out of the bottle, at two degrees the bottle is broken"
– David Spratt (2009) "Time for a Plan B on climate?" Dissent, no.30, p.37
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I'm a librarian doing research, but my first love was science and as a kid I wanted to be an ecologist or botanist. Things got in the way and now I only "study" nature in my spare time. As the lazyst environmentalyst I write about what I do to try to ensure the nature of our world is still here for future generations.
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