1 post tagged “regenerist”

What do you do EVERY day to take care of the earth's environment? What could you do more of?

Less PLASTIC.
I am trying to make myself more aware of wasteful packaging and stay clear of those products. It's hard, because so many things are just overly packaged. What can you do?
Would it matter to the folks at Oil of Olay if I stopped buying face creams that are packaged like they contain gold and the tears of Jesus? I love the Olay product, but they are at the top of the ridiculously wasteful packaging heap. I stopped buying their Regenerist and Definity line over a year ago because of the packaging. The packaging can't even be reused as a pencil holder or anything. At least with the L'eggs egg the kids could make crafts...

And I want to edit this and say something about reusing. I make the remark that at least with the L'eggs eggs the kids could make a craft. That is great, but then what do you have? A plastic piece of crap that even if it lasts 40 years, some day it will make it's way to the dump. It is great to reuse things, as long as you remember that reusing it does not make the plastic more bio degradable. When you scoop that poop into the bag and throw the bag away, it is still a bag in the landfill, only with hermetically sealed poo in it. How many times should we re-use something so that we get it's environmental worth?

BACK TO OLAY
Olay keeps coming up with new and innovative ways to use more packaging and disposable plastic crap. I saw the latest product last night and I just got angry...

New Olay Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention
You'll love Regenerist 14 Day Skin Intervention because you will experience a skin turnaround in just 2 weeks. Included are 14 individual anti-aging treatments for an intensive intervention to your normal skincare routine.

Fourteen plastic throw away tubes packaged in a plastic tray housed in a cardboard box!
I do not care if the plastic is of the recycling kind, which it may or may not be, that is too much packaging! I would really like to try this product - but I can't and feel good about it. They couldn't have put that goo in one or two (I think it is a two part system) big tubes?

I wonder how much less Olay would cost if the packaging wasn't so grand? How much more product could I get?

I would like to see more people concerned about wasteful packaging. It might not matter to Oil of Olay if I stop buying their products because of the packaging - but if you add half a million other boycotters maybe it might mean $omething.

I saw something the other night about wildlife mistaking our plastic garbage as food. The wasting carcass of an albatross showed that the poor thing had eaten a toothbrush handle, bottle caps, and other bits of plastic. Wake up world!