hi guys welcome back to my channel today
I'm doing something that I wanted to do
for a while now and it's happening this
is the lazy girls guide to save the
environment now let me start with a
disclaimer I am by no means perfect I'm
not vegan I don't lead a zero-waste life
I use plastic unfortunately I'm not here
to preach or to tell you that how you
lead your life is wrong after a little
bit of research and finding realistic
ways I can incorporate being a little
more conscious about the environment
into my lifestyle I wanted to share it
with you I was scrolling through
Instagram doing my own thing and all of
a sudden I stumbled upon this one quote
from Robert Swan and it says the
greatest threat to our planet is they
believe that someone else will save it
and you know what I'm taking full
responsibility and what I've learned
being on social media is that now more
than ever our voices and our actions do
make a change if you are new to the
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I love you just heads up if you see me
doing something don't go and be like oh
you're such a hypocrite you did this
video don't do that I don't like it I
haven't I've noticed from my voice in my
head thank you so first things first
is talking about beauty we are using
body scrubs face scrubs face wash
toothpaste on a daily basis something
that is present that been found to be so
so bad for environment are microbeads
microbeads are like small tiny plastic
particles that are so tiny they get into
the sewer system into our drinking water
the ocean the lakes they don't degrade
easily and they are such a big big
hazard I actually was really happy to
find out that Canada ban microbeads you
can check a website that I'm gonna link
in the description where you can type
any of the products that you use and see
if there are microbeads there there are
today better ways to get that
exfoliation and
more sustainable way I found that most
of the microbeads come from like body
scrubs and face scrubs so I wanted to
show you an option like super lazy super
easy so basic like on Pinterest II way
to create your own scrub at home so all
you need is granulated brown sugar half
a cup of coconut oil and essential oil
and a mason jar you mix it all together
and tada you got your scrub you can put
your name on it your label on it and
here you go just created your own
product you can honestly add any
essential oil that you like I personally
love the smell of lavender so I've added
my lavender in it and that's it
something that's also super easy to do
is taking a cotton pad that most of us
have I personally use 100% cotton make
sure that you do as well everything
that's natural or organic I like have to
smell it because I look expected to
smell that but we're good anyways you
take a cotton pad and you cut it in half
and there's actually a few recipes that
I created in some of my youtube videos
where I show you easy kind of hacks for
eye patches like a DIY one of them you
can just soak it in rose water
I made this lemon and cucumber
concoction which is super hydrating and
I keep those in the fridge another
little recipe that I found is soaking
the cotton pads in whole milk and some
rose water and putting it on your eyes
this is amazing for hydrating and for
reducing puffiness under the eye leave
it on for about 15 to 20 minutes and
take a selfie and let me know how it
went and then the next thing I think is
super super easy to introduce into your
life and something that we all have in
our homes is coconut oil I personally
think that taking off makeup with any
type of oil is the best way to do it
ever just make sure that you do cleanse
your face after it to make sure that all
the oil is off coconut oil is
super multi-purpose you can use it as
your eyebrow gel like hair mask makeup
remover moisturizer if this works for
you so many uses in one product and can
you imagine how much plastic you're not
buying the next category I want to talk
about in something that I've been
researching really really heavily is
hygiene especially feminine hygiene or
buying pads or buying tampons there's so
much plastic involved that I don't even
like you can't recycle it it's a
reoccurring thing that you constantly
have to purchase it's really freakin
expensive so something I've been looking
into was the Diva Cup diva
this is a menstrual cup you wear up to
12 hours at a time I know it sounded
really weird for me as well it's seven
dollars which is insane and it's
reusable it's a hundred percent silicon
so there's no latex dyes rubber plastic
or BPA they had this whole discussion at
the office with the girls about the Diva
Cup and none of them actually tried it
so I posted a story on my Instagram and
I got an overwhelming response from so
many of you guys saying that you've been
using the Diva Cup for years and you
absolutely love it my biggest concern
was the whole like leaks and spills
especially if you're at the office you
go to work you go to school and got so
many reassuring messages saying that it
literally like can hold out for 12 hours
even if you have a pretty heavy flow so
that's really really cool if you guys
abuse this or are interested in using it
let me know I want to hear more the next
thing that I wanted to mention is
changing your toothbrush so instead of
the plastic classic toothbrushes that we
grew up on go for a wooden one
this can be recycled and you're just
again not buying any more plastic and
throwing it into the environment how
easy is that I went to the store the
other day and I was standing in front of
these like gazillion options for
toothpaste so many of them are in a box
which literally has zero use like the
minute you get home you take the product
out of the box and you throw the Box
away and I think that once all of us are
going to start being a little more
conscious buying things that are not
packaged the big big companies will get
the memo
and maybe start investing that money
that goes into completely useless
packaging that pollutes the environment
into something more good like planting
trees or something look at me so granola
and that takes me to the next subject
which is food I am NOT a vegetarian I'm
not vegan I do eat animal products I try
to buy sustainable meat and I'm trying
to buy local as much as I can making
sure it comes from good places with
animals that are treated well there are
said well I am by no means judgmental
towards anybody if you are a vegetarian
or a vegan or anything like that like
good for you I think that even if you're
not there are ways to be a little more
mindful about what's going on something
that I think super easy to think about
is maybe having one day a week that it's
kind of meatless day something that
we're doing in this house is meatless
Mondays on Monday we try to eat a
plant-based diet and just feeling a
little bit better that we don't like
consume so much I think that eating meat
is totally okay but you don't have to
eat meat six times a day every single
day we consume so much more meat than we
ever did that's why there's so much GMO
stuff going on so just being more
conscious of that and when you do buy
meat and eat meat start a relationship
with the local farm and know where your
meat is coming from and how its treated
if you guys want me to share some of our
meatless Monday recipes on Instagram let
me know the next thing is grocery
shopping something that I've learned
recently is that there's actually like
zero waste grocery shops where they
avoid any packaging there's no plastic
bags which is pretty cool so you guys
can kind of go and look it up if there's
one in your area something that I do
that I think is so simple is just
bringing your own bags when I move to
using reusable bags I kept forgetting
them when I go to grocery stores so now
I have like ten of them I'll keep it in
the car I'll keep it everywhere so
whenever I leave I don't have to like
remember bringing it with me those meal
delivery companies
you cook your own meal but they have
like recipes and they bring you all the
produce that's amazing because you
literally just get the ingredients that
you need so there's no food waste but
there is quite a bit of packaging there
I actually emailed the company that I
use to give them feedback and say you
know what that doesn't need to come
packaged and this doesn't need to come
packaged like I would appreciate the
service much more if there's not so much
waste these companies depend on us as
consumers to keep them going even
sending like a quick email being like
hey love your product but can you please
consider and I think if all of us do it
enough it will make a difference instead
of buying food in small little packages
you can go to a place like bulk bar and
just buy it involved that way you don't
keep consuming and buying all these
small little packs everywhere the next
thing that I was actually surprised to
find out is that coffee pots are a big
environmental hazard though there are
companies that actually have ones that
are recyclable Nespresso actually offers
reading bags where you can discard the
puck and it goes into a recycling
facility and they separate the coffee
from aluminium pucks and then they
recycle it properly this is a great
example of a company that understand how
to cater to their customers and I'm sure
that they created this method because
people were giving feedback the next
thing we can keep in mind is not buying
bottled water and having mugs with you
or these little fellas with you and you
can have your coffee in it just have
your own personal mug with you I make
sure that I have one of the authors that
comes to constantly refill it one in the
car and one at home we really try not to
get any plastic bottles anymore I did a
subscription to try out the flow water
they come in like a paper container and
also the cap is recyclable so that's a
great option as well the next thing is
straws having plastic straws is so not
cool anymore and when I decided to stop
using plastic straws I went for the
paper ones there honestly they suck if
you don't like will
oh she grows I don't like it so what I
did is I went on Amazon and I got myself
metal straws this is all you need and
you don't keep buying unnecessary
plastic and the next thing is instead of
using aluminum foil or zip locks you can
use wax paper this basically acts like
aluminum foil and as a ziplock so you
can wrap anything inside of it it's made
out of 100% soybean wax specially with
kids you want to use different kinds of
things to carry their snack so there's
this thing that's super awesome which is
this plastic free reusable storage bag
and you can just fill it up with
whatever you want snacks nuts fruits
whatever it is this is a great option
and you just wash it I would literally
just watch my ziplock so I still
actually do it because we still have
some that we keep reusing over and over
again so you don't even have to like
discard everything that you have at home
just like try to reuse as much as you
can the last category I want to talk
about is fashion this is not me telling
you stop buying fast fashion it's so bad
because I understand that fast fashion
is very accessible to a lot of people if
it's price point or just like
availability in their country so I'm not
saying to stop I'm saying that first of
all you want to be smarter even when I
shop at Zara and H&M and the prices are
not so high I'm not buying such trendy
pieces that I know they're a little
where once that's number one number two
even when I buy it fast fashion places I
always make sure that the quality is
there like I still have Blazers have
dresses up quite a bit of things that I
bought from Topshop or any places like
that and I've had them for seven eight
years I always make sure that I attached
a fabric I see how it stretches all
these things I keep in mind when I shop
another thing that's honestly so amazing
and I always super recommend you guys to
do is drifting drifting is the best
thing ever it's so fun to do actually
got like two of my most favorite boots
from thrift stores for like twenty
dollars and they're leather they're
amazing quality and people always ask me
where they're from that's always so good
it's like so
we go also don't forget to donate your
clothes whenever you're done using them
and you're not interested in them
anymore there's so many amazing
organizations out there they're
accepting that another thing you can do
instead of using a drawing machine to
dry your clothes you can actually dry
them on a wrap it's actually better for
the clothes and it's cheaper and you're
not using an unnecessary energy this is
it you guys these are all my lazy girl
hats and tricks of how to become more
conscious with the environment with what
we can do for our planet because it
needs us small change makes a difference
so just to sum it all up here's a few
points that I want you to remember reuse
when possible do not waste food water
energy try to fix instead of throwing
away invest in better quality and the
last thing is spread the knowledge let
me know if you have any lazy girl and
I'm saying with basic tips that you can
give to myself and other viewers that
can help us being more conscious more
environmental and just better citizens
of the world thank you guys so much for
watching and I will see you next time
you