Organic Lifestyle Tips

By having an organic lifestyle, not only will your health benefit from it, but the health of the planet will too! 🌎
Choose:
🍃USDA Certified Foods, cosmetics, and home detergents, because they are made with at least 95% organic ingredients!

🍃Produce with a sticker that starts with the number 9 (organically grown). Avoid stickers beginning with number 8 (genetically modified) and avoid 4 number codes (conventionally grown)!
🍃GOTS (Global Organic Textile Standard) certified organic clothes! GOTS-certified textiles meet their strict standards necessary for the protection of the environment. No pesticides or insecticides, non-GMOs, criteria for dyes, water waste, soil preservation, working conditions, and animal protection.
🍃100% recycled paper products for your home! It will save trees, gallons of oil, energy, and water! Use paperless bills! It will save space, too!!
🍃Recyclable gloves, millions of disposable gloves end up in landfills each year. I use Eco Gloves.
🍃Buy Local! Support local production!
🍃Recycle your clothes! Some stores are accepting your used clothing.
🍃Avoid foods and cosmetic products with palm kernel oil (responsible for deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia, human rights abuses, and orangutan extinction).
🍃Support responsible companies that respect us, our health, the planet, and the future!
🍃To all my followers: Thank you for being so eco-amazing! 💚💚💚

Plastic straws are one of the most found items on Los Angeles area beaches! 500 million straws are used every day in the U.S. !

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💚Glad to see one of my favorite organic restaurants Malibu Farm is using paper straws! I hope more restaurants follow their example and more cities will follow Manhattan Beach (California), which banned all disposable plastic, including straws! .
Until then, we can reduce their use by simply asking to our server to bring drinks without straws. It is much better to avoid wrinkles, too! 😉✨

💚Opened recently in  Lanai, Hawaii, and in Miami, this Malibu Farm is a must. Located on the Malibu Pier, this restaurant offers healthy, locally sourced  menu. With farmed ingredients . Very popular spot, even film producer and Nobu principal Meir Teper comes over for breakfast.

🍃Other alternatives include stainless steel, bamboo, or glass straws, that can even be washed in the dishwasher! My favorite is Simply Straws 

🐠Let's eliminate the unnecessary use of single-use plastic straws. Join a beach clean-up, they are so much fun! ♻️

📬11.6 billion pounds of junk mail is delivered yearly across the USA. 
98% of it ends up in our landfills. 
Over 320 million taxpayer dollars are spent annually to dispose of junk mail. 
Here is what we can do to reduce our junk mail:
🍃Sign up for online billing, marketing, and online catalogs.

🍃If you receive mail fraud, you can reach the postalinspectors.uspis.gov
🍃Catalogchoice.org is an environmental organization that allows you to cancel a catalog and other types of paper mail delivery. It is free and will help preserve natural resources, while reducing junk mail.
🍃DMAchoice.org helps to take your name off of prospective lists from catalogs, magazines, credit offers, and others. Their opt-out service is $2 for 10 years. 🍃Return junk mail unopened to the sender by writing, ”Refused. Return to sender” on the envelope. The post office will return it to the sender!

For a full list of actions to reduce junk mail, click here!
💚Our post box and our environment will thank you! 📸 londonispink

🌿 My Plastic Free July list is here:
​​💚 Reusable 100% pure platinum-grade silicone bags
​​💖 Sustainable straws 
​​💚 Biodegradable gloves 
​​💖 100% Biodegradable floss 
​​💚 Biodegradable Glitter 
​💖 100% compostable phone case
​​💚 100% biodegradable organic hair ties
​​💖 Make your organic dairy-free milk 
​​💚 Filter your water and carry it with an approved water bottle. 
​💖 Purest bottled spring water on the market
​​💖 Now you are ready for a sustainable, organic, toxic-free, plastic-free, eco-friendly summer! 🌎 ​
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Have you heard that Google is now a drug company?
It was promoting Big Pharma’s agenda before and now it is turning into a drug company itself.💊💉
If you are looking to switch to something that is more aligned with your vision, here is ecosia, my new search engine!🌈 ​ ​​
​🌳ecosia instead uses its earnings from your searches to plant trees around the world! 🌎
​Ecosia's servers run on 100% renewable energy,♻ and every search request removes 1kg of CO2 from the atmosphere. ​
​🍃Also, they don’t sell data and they are completely transparent with their work and income. They publish their monthly financial reports, and everything is listed on ecosia.org It is nicer than Google and it works great!✨ ​ ​​
​I like the idea of planting trees, not enriching already rich people!🌳

🐠 Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is a trash vortex between Hawaii and California. With a size of 1.6 million square kilometers, it’s about twice the size of Texas or three times the size of France. 94% of the debris found in the patch is microplastics. 💦 
👗Washing clothes is known as a contributor to microplastic pollution. 700,000 microscopic plastic fibers could be released into the environment with each washing machine cycle, as synthetic fabrics break down!
Here is what we can do to reduce this impact:
🐳Use washing liquid instead of powder to avoid fabric abrasion
🐚Wash at a lower temperature to prevent clothing damage
🐠Dry spin clothes at a low setting Synthetic fabrics dry fast.

🐢 Front-load washer: Tests show that top-loading washing machines could release more plastic fibers.
🐠 Air drying: Tumble drying could cause your clothes to shed more plastic.
🐙 Place lint: in the trash when you clean out your dryer, instead of washing it down the drain.
🐬Natural Fibers: Buy clothes made from natural fibers such as wool, cotton, linen, silk, and cashmere. Avoid buying synthetic clothes. Polyester fleece could well be one of the biggest emitters of microfibers.
​🐳 Washing machine lint filter: PlanetCare Washer Filter, the World’s First washing machine filter with proven efficiency to stop 98% of microfibers! 10% promo code: PRETTYORGANICGIRL

📫11.6 billion pounds of junk mail is delivered yearly across the USA.

98% of it ends up in our landfills.

😤Over 320 million taxpayer dollars are spent annually to dispose of junk mail.

🌿Here is what we can do to reduce our junk mail:

👉Sign up for online billing, marketing, and online catalogs.

👉Catalogchoice.org is an environmental organization that allows you to cancel a catalog and other types of paper mail delivery. It is free and will help preserve natural resources, while reducing junk mail.

👉DMAchoice.org helps to take your name off of prospective lists from catalog, magazine, credit offers, and others. Their opt-out service is $2 for 10 years.

👉Return junk mail unopened to the sender by writing, ”Refused. Return to sender” on the envelope. The post office will return it to the sender!

👉To reduce your the unwanted junk mail: prettyorganicgirl.com/junk-mail 📮

You will find the direct links to the organizations!

I barely receive junk mail now!!!

💚Our post box and the environment will thank you!
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Every day needs to be World Oceans Day! 🐠🐚 🐬☀️When choosing a sunscreen, you have to start by ruling out UV-filtered chemical sunscreens. They contain chemical ingredients such as oxybenzone, oxtinoxate, and octisalate, which are toxic to us and to coral reefs.🐠 
🍃Mineral Sunscreen: Choose mineral sunscreens. Avoid chemical sunscreen 

🍃Active Ingredient Zinc Oxide: mineral sunscreens that contain zinc oxide, which has superior UVA and UVB sun protection. Avoid titanium dioxide.

🍃NON-Nano Zinc Oxide form: It is considered safer since it cannot penetrate into your skin. Avoid nano-forms.
🍃Approved forms: Choose only cream, lotion, or stick sunscreen. Avoid Spray sunscreens have been proven to be toxic to the lungs when it is inhaled! 
🍃Organic inactive ingredients: Then take a look at the other ingredients. Check that they are organic (or at least natural), such as aloe vera, beeswax, sunflower oil, coconut oil, olive oil, shea butter, jojoba oil, and calendula.
✨Now you are ready to choose the best organic sunscreens: mineral sunscreen, non-nano zinc dioxide (active ingredient), with fewer natural and/or organic other ingredients and Non-spray! 
Now you know how to choose a clean, effective, non-toxic, eco-friendly sunblock!

🏖️ (Remember to protect yourself with a rash guard, clothing, hats, and sunglasses, and find some shade for prolonged sun exposure during the peak hours!)