What does this do to or environment?
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Even taking regular showers and keeping your body clean has its own side effects these days. With certain harmful chemicals damaging your skin over time along with destroying the environment. Chemicals such as Sodium Laureth Sulfate aka SLES, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate aka SLS, Propylene Glycol, Cocamidopropyl betaine ,Triclosan etc. cause significant pollution. Body washes are non-biodegradable while soaps pollute as much as cars.
What is the Alternative?
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One option here is cleansing oils. Though it may seem counterintuitive to slather your skin in oil to get clean, it’s a much healthier alternative than soaps. It’s been well documented over the years that conventional soaps (which are made by mixing fat or oil with an alkali such as lye) can wreck skin by changing its pH, obliterating healthy bacteria, and stripping away vital oils.
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Dry brushing is another effective way to remove dead skin cells and dirt from the surface of your skin, while also promoting the production of healthy oils. Dry brushing is exactly what it sounds like: you brush your skin, while dry, with a natural fiber brush.