▲ 11 r/Felting
Winterlamb - wet felted from a winter lamb's wool! r
Had this bag of "winter lamb wool". If you haven't seen the movie Sheep detectives- doit doit doit.
u/Main_Bid8104 — 1 day ago
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▲ 322 r/nontoxic
YAY! We are not crazy for making the switch- new research proves it!!!
Ever feel like maybe, just maybe you are not focusing on the most important things in life when you are worried about your plastic spatula or your plastic lotion bottle? Yup me too but there is new research that is very redeeming and even hopeful!
A team of researchers in Australia wanted to know if cutting back on plastic contact in your daily life could actually lower the amount of plastic chemicals in your body — and how fast. They recruited 211 people, tested their urine, and found plastic-associated chemicals in every single one of them. Then they ran a 7-day experiment where some participants switched to food that had never touched plastic from farm to table, and plastic-free cookware as well as personal care products without plastic-associated chemicals. After just one week, the people who made those changes had over 44% less phthalates and over 50% less bisphenols in their urine. I really love the bishphenol finding. After all that "BPA free" bit that the plastic industry did we got BPS which was just as bad and now it turns out we can reduce our exposure in just one week!
So keep on making the switch folks- it's working!!!
study (paywalled) : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04324-7
press release (not paywalled) https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2026/april/research-shows-fast-and-effective-way-to-reduce-plastics-in-body
u/Main_Bid8104 — 3 days ago
▲ 1 r/DIYBeauty
I saw some elderberry tints in someones lip balm but elderberry and red beet just do not disperse in oil base. Anyone have sucess with a true natural tint?
u/Main_Bid8104 — 15 days ago
▲ 5 r/NaturalBeauty
I have been a little irritated w Burt's Bees- the ethos of down to earth crunch vs the being owned by clorox and their slow ingredient shift.
They moved to cheaper oils in the ingredient label - soy and canoloa are now listed
The "99%" natural label is just screaming "what's in the 1%" to me.
Then the addition of hexyl ciniamal - a potent allergen in their product - and the limonene another ingredient that can cause so much trouble for sensitive folks its on the EU "mandatory allergen declare" list.
So lots of ingredient shifts that don't make a product better, they make it cheaper but then i saw that they switched to recyclable packaging. Or did they. It was on their website at least and a friend send me a pic of one but I have never seen any in the wiild. They have a huge multiplyer when they sell 10 million balms a year or more so a shift to cardboard tubes would be a big move. It wouls also require them to increase the fill content by almost 100% - the cardboard tubes are 8g vs the standard lip balm tube is just 4g and I cannot really see them doing that without raising the price. Anyone out there seen one?
u/Main_Bid8104 — 18 days ago