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Eco-Friendly Toiletries

2 months agoYolanda Marie4 min read

Bar Soaps & Eco-Friendly Toiletries Update:  Nestor and I are on a mission to reduce single-use plastic packaging, both now at home, and in the nearish future when we live on a boat. We don’t...

Appreciating the pure luxury of a hot ten-minute shower, after three weeks of boat life, water conservation & “Navy showers” 💜. Our boat has a 90 gallon fresh water tank that we aim to conserve for one full week, split among 6 people, each person should use ~15 gallons total for the entire week. This includes all of the water to brush our teeth, wash our hands, shower & do dishes. In my ten minute shower, I just used about 20 gallons, 5 gallons more than my share for an entire week on the boat. What a privilege to have access to clean, endless, fresh, hot water. Enjoy the little things, sometimes they are the big things ✌🏻.
Super chill downwind spinnaker sail today from English to Jolly, closing out another excellent week of sailing with good friends & great vibes✌🏻.
One of the views from our hike today. Falmouth Harbour, Antigua.
Dinner date at Sea Dreams Restaurant.
Small training spinnaker. #trainingwheels
Jolly Harbour.
Rockin the UPF baclavas like Pirates of the Caribbean👩🏻‍🎤🏴‍☠️✌🏻.
((full post / link in bio)) Bar Soaps & Eco-Friendly Toiletries Update: We are on a mission to reduce single-use plastic packaging, both now at home, and in the nearish future when we live on a boat. We don’t want to contribute any more trash to local landfills than necessary. To accomplish this, we are starting to buy our body care products in bar form and without plastic packaging. Before our current trip, I purchased bar versions of: shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, face cleanser, face scrub, shaving cream, body lotion, and body wash. All of it arrived in paper packaging. The deodorant lives in a cardboard tube and the Ethique self-draining plastic-looking holder I bought (not pictured) is actually made from bamboo and cornstarch, should last ~5 years and then is compostable. A few of the other travel/storage containers actually are plastic, so I plan on using them as long as possible and then finding biodegradable alternatives. We are by no means anti-plastic saints and I am embracing an “every little bit helps” approach, rather than trying to be perfect. Now that I’ve had a week to try them all out while traveling, I wanted to write an informal and totally unsponsored review. Overall, they have all worked out exceptionally well, taking up very little space in my carry-on and creating no plastic/packaging waste for the local ecosystem. I have found that it is best to let them air dry in a non-damp location between uses, but that doesn’t mean they have to be fully out of the bathroom, they just shouldn’t be hanging out in the shower…. ((review continued, link in bio))
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