Ocean Day

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 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 100% recyclable food service gloves, latex-free and PVC-free by glovenation.com! They are also cheaper than conventional ones!
🍃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 right 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! 💚💚💚

💙Everyday needs to be World Ocean Day! We all can contribuite on reducing the amount of plastic and pollutants in use everyday! Here is how: 

🌿 Sustainable straws​​

Reusable Veggie bag at the grocery store

💚 100% Biodegradable gloves

Reef friendly sunscreen

Clothing made with Organic Cotton Certified GOTS that preserve water waste

Only USDA organic food, read the number in the produce stickers: Beginning with number 8 the fruit or veggie is genetically modified, number 4 is conventional (both use pesticides). Number 9 is Organic!

eco-friendly razor

eco-friendly Hot Water Bottle 

Organic household cleaners packed in sustainable bottles

Organic Toys

Organic biodegradable sanitary pads

💖Nylon-free 100% Biodegradable floss 

Biodegradable, vegan, cruelty-free plant based glitters

eco, micro-plastic free body scrubs

eco-friendly, plastic-free, vegan leather

💚 Filter your water and carry it with an approved water bottle

💖 Purest bottled spring water on the market

💖 100% compostable phone case

Eco-friendly bathingsuit

Now you are ready for a more plastic-free, pollutant-free lifestyle! 🐚🐠🏄‍♀️

💙Everyday needs to be World Oceans Day!
In the ocean between California and Hawaii, there is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP)! The largest underwater waste island created with plastic.
1.8 trillion pieces of small plastic, 88,000 tons, more than 600,000 square miles, which is over twice the size of Texas or France. It has become a trap for marine life and the microplastic is mistaken for food by marine creatures. Local sea turtles' diet is made up of 74% ocean plastic. Plastic is leaching its toxic chemicals into the ocean, contaminating the area, and the food chain. United Nations estimates $13 billion in damage created by plastic to the marine environment. 
We can either wait for someone somewhere to take action against plastic pollution for us, or we can choose to reduce the toxic use of plastic ourselves.
Every time we shop we can either contribute to pollution or reward sustainable companies that make products for us to help the planet! 
Let’s reward the sustainable companies!
🐠Glass straws (or no straw at all)
🐬100% platinum food grade silicon bags

🐠Eco-friendly razor preserve products or get laser done @laseraway
🐢Biodegradable silk floss 

🐬Eco glitter litter
🐳Filter your water  and bring water with you or a glass bottle Mountain Valley Water 🐬100% Recyclable, disposable food service gloves, latex-free, PVC-free at glovenation.com
🐠Plastic-free pads natracare
🐢No microbeads toothpaste 

🐬No microbeads scrubs
Look for a clean-up near you at www.surfrider.org 
Now, you are ready for a more plastic-free, pollutant-free lifestyle! 🐚

🌿 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! 🌎 ​
​​

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. !

🚫🍹

💚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! ♻️

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

💙 Did you see that they found about 25,000 DDT laced barrels in the ocean off the coast of the Los Angeles area?
A massive underwater toxic waste site right here in California!!
I am shocked that it even happened: Marine scientists say they have found more than 25,000 barrels that possibly contain DDT dumped off the Southern California. There could be as many as 500,000 containers, many of which are broken or punctured!
The Los Angeles Times reviewed shipping logs from a disposal company supporting Montrose Chemical Corp. of California, a DDT-producing company. The logs showed barrels of DDT-laced sludge were dumped in the deep ocean each month from 1947 to 1961 off Catalina, and other companies also dumped there until 1972.
This location was used by industrial companies to dump their toxic waste until the Research and Sanctuaries Act, also known as the Ocean Dumping Act, was enacted in 1972
"Eric Terrill, chief scientist of the expedition and director of the Marine Physical Laboratory at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
According to CBS News:
The long-term impact on marine life and humans is still unknown, said Scripps chemical oceanographer and professor of geosciences Lihini Aluwihare, who in 2015 co-authored a study that found high amounts of DDT and other man-made chemicals in the blubber of bottlenose dolphins that died of natural causes.
"These results also raise questions about the continued exposure and potential impacts on marine mammal health, especially in light of how DDT has been shown to have multi-generational impacts in humans,"
High levels of DDT have been found in California's sea lions, with a startling, high rate of cancer, which they say is rare in wild animals.
While there are still big corporations that are thinking only of their interests, it is up to us to not give them our money!
We need to know who we are enriching and what are the consequences. I call for faster, better government intervention to protect us and to prevent other environmental disasters caused by unethical, greedy companies!

Support small business

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, octisalate, which are toxic for us and for the 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), and 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!)