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Mother Earth Inner & Outer Healing
Herbs from the Lake District, infused by sunshine, plus unrefined beeswax from the Coniston fells go into the Mother Earth %100 natural body care collection. They also make a point of doing all glass, although it should be mentioned out that glass is so heavy that it requires more energy (and money) to ship, and polyprophylene is more inert (they use it for hospital specimen bottles because it contaminates the specimens less than glass does) as well as lighter and just as recyclable.
Raindrops & roses body butter, £17 for 250ml (use it sparingly, they warn - I have a similar product and it really does go a long way) was voted one of the top 6 body moisturisers by The Sunday Express Magazine. Contains organic sunflower oil, shea butter, comfrey oil, avocado oil, Lakeland spring water, beeswax, geranium & rose absolute essential oils, Wild Rose Flower Remedy, borax, grapefruit seed extract. That's all good stuffs, chilluns, and even if you used it like a typical body moisturizer, 250ml is a lot for £17. Don't we all have half (no, let's be honest, quarter) finished pots of luscious goop lying around?
April 18, 2006 in Health & beauty | Permalink
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Mmmm sounds nice. Regarding the glass vs plastic bottle issue, many of the UK recycling collection schemes (including mine) still don't collect plastic. So if the glass bottles will get recycled and the plastic is going to end up in the rubbish bin, then glass is better! Unless, like me, you're prepared to take everything recyclable to the local amenity site. Does anyone else have any thought on the issue?
Posted by: Ella | 19 Apr 2006 09:37:38
Fie! That's too bad. The dealers who care enough to make a premium ethical product are going to go with glass to encourage recycling, but that means their product will command a huge shipping premium if they expand abroad (to speak nothing of the extra charges at home).
On the other hand, I know much plastic isn't worth recycling (it costs more to purify than it does to make the original resin and has limited reuse compared with, uh, virgin plastic).
Probably until the real long-term cost of plastic (including disposal) is attached to plastic, that's how it's going to stay - but it's good to have an explanation of why Mother Earth uses that kind of container.
In New Brunswick, Canada (where I live), there's a 10 cent deposit attached to all drink containers (from milk cartons to water bottles), and five cents is refunded if you return the container for recycling. The other five cents goes to cover recycling costs. It's a start, (and newcomers get real sticker shock when they buy a 24 case of water bottles) although it seems arbitrary that there isn't also a fee for, say, plastic margarine containers.
Posted by: Gabrielle Taylor | 19 Apr 2006 20:01:55
