Soap Anyone?
Do we really need shower gel?
This is a soapy situation. We only have ourselves to blame.
The fact is, according to Energy Live News
“A new report reveals UK homes produce 1.5k tonnes
of single-use plastic waste per year and only 9% of this is recycled”.
So, you have a shower, and you enjoy the
experience. But just hang on a little cotton minute. If you take a look at the
amount of shower gels available and how many are sold every week, that is a lot
of plastic. And where does the container end up?
Most of us never think about the consequences of what we purchase
And that’s when it came to me. The answer amongst the bubbles appeared as if by
magic as I looked at something I keep next to my kitchen sink, an
orangey-yellow bar of Wright’s Coal-Tar soap.
Now, I’m not suggesting you use that particular soap in the shower, but if
that’s your choice, who am I to argue?
Personally, I would use it as a hand-washing soap these days. But if that gets
your goat going then, bubbles aside, I'm all for it. It brings back nostalgic
tales of evening baths in front of the coal fire, deep within a large tin bath.
And if that’s your bag, go for it! A cup of tea and some toast and a favourite
film in the background. Just don’t come running to me when you forget to pull
the living room curtains and Aunty Joan pops round to borrow some milk. Anyhow I digress.
You see, so many soaps are available why do we need shower gel?
There are packs of lemon-scented basic soap, which are great and do the job,
but also lovely smelly soaps, that fill the position of body cleaner, just as
much as shower gels do. Hand-made soaps, scented, unscented, expensive, or not,
the choice is yours.
Has the bubble burst yet?
Well, if it has, you will have had one of those epiphanies you always longed
for. No, not the one when Glinda the fairy from The Wizard Of Oz appears within
a large bubble at the back door. This is the realization that you can help stop
even more plastic from ending up in landfills by your personal choice of what
you produce bubbles with whilst scrubbing your back.
Now, where is my rubber duck?
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