Hi everyone welcome back to My Green Closet. Today I have another green
favorites video for you so let's jump right into it. So my green product for
this month are toothpaste tablets. Now I had these in a recent video and I wanted
to talk about them because there were some questions about them basically it's
solid toothpaste, and the way you use them is you put them in your mouth you
bite them between your teeth a little bit so it becomes kind of like a powder
and then you take your toothbrush and you brush like you normally would and it
becomes pretty similar to toothpaste I found some of them are pretty frothy
where some of them aren't so much. Now you might be familiar with these from
Lush, although the Lush ones aren't zero waste because they still come in a
plastic bottle. I get mine at a local unpackaged store. I buy them in bulk just
in a container so unfortunately I don't know the brand who makes these ones but
I think there are some different companies that make them. Somebody also
was asking about fluoride and these come both with and without fluoride. I think
these are a great zero waste option to toothpaste and they're also really good
for traveling super easy to travel with and you don't
have to worry about toothpaste spilling or security or anything like that
so the brand I wanna share with you this month is Folk Fibers which is not a
fashion brand but she makes these beautiful naturally dyed quilts. Now I've
known about folk fibers and been a fan of them for years I first discovered
them when I was initially learning about slow fashion. I was looking into how to
make things more sustainably and specifically natural dyeing and small
businesses and I just love what she does so much, I've always been really
interested in natural dyeing and all of her quilts are naturally dyed and hand
quilted. And there's just this really beautiful tradition and craft that goes
into quilting that yeah I just think her work is absolutely stunning, so I wanted
to share that with you. The quilts of course are not at all cheap because
they're all handmade but yeah if that's something that you are interested in and
investing in a beautiful piece like that I really recommend checking out Folk
Fibers and also just following them on Instagram because
the behind-the-scenes I think is really fascinating to see what goes into
natural dyeing and also making something like that. The book I want to share
with you this month is "Women in Clothes" now I've always been so interested in
why we wear what we wear and how we get dressed and this book is basically all
about that. It's a ton of different interviews with women about clothing and
style and why they wear what they wear and just what their thoughts are on
fashion and I think it's absolutely fascinating and really interesting to
hear all of these different perspectives. It's quite a big book I've been reading
it for quite a while because it is just short interviews so I read one at a time
but if you're interested in that kind of thing then this is a really great book.
And the new thing I learned this month is that a robot sewing factory is
opening up in Arkansas or it might even already be open. And this I feel really
conflicted about because robots sewing clothes obviously on one hand means that
there aren't any ethical issues around how those clothes were made because
robots don't need fair wages or safe working conditions but making clothes is
also a huge industry. What really concerns me about this though is that
they say this one factory can produce 1.2 million T-shirts in one year
so these robots can make clothes very quickly and also compete with fast
fashion cheap prices. So these robot factories can produce
even more cheaper clothing which as you know if you watch my channel, that's a
really bad thing for the environment. And there's no way that slow fashion brands
can compete with that especially when you remove the idea of sweatshops and
investing in clothing because it wasn't made in sweatshops. So anyways I just
thought that this is something really interesting
obviously the future is going more to automation and robots and that kind of
stuff and I would love to know what you guys think about that do you feel very
conflicted do you think it's a good thing do you think it's a terrible thing
I would really love to know your thoughts.
The blog I want to share with you this month is my own blog, a bit of self-promotion because I
recently launched a new blog over at MyGreenCloset.com and I'm super excited
about it. I've transferred over some of my old posts but I'm also creating a lot
of new content there. I'm posting there things that maybe don't work as well as
a video also just extra information and all kinds of different topics. I have
some recent posts on the ethics or if it's authentic to edit photos, finding
reliable information online and where to look for that, and there's a bunch of
other stuff there as well so if you like what I do on this channel and you'd like
more content or extra information then I would love for you to go check it out.
So I hope you enjoyed this month's video, as always I'd love to hear your thoughts
and your favorites in the comments. Thank you for watching and thank you so much
to those of you supporting me on Patreon and I'll see you in the next one!