My sustainable habits in the bathroom (Part 2)

In my last article, I talked about how I managed to switch to a vegan diet. Most of all, I talked about how I could have become a vegan in 2011, but for some reason, it didn’t cross my mind as an option.

Very often, what we do and feel ready to do has to do with what we see people around us doing and consider normal. Questioning my habits in the bathroom started with an Instagram story that Alex Linotner posted a couple of years ago.

It was a “before and after picture” of her bathtub shelf. “Before,” she had a bunch of plastic bottles. Then, the “after” picture was a shot of a tray with a soap and a solid shampoo.

I saw the picture, I admired it, it took me years to take any actions. However, I’m glad I did.

I have finally ditched conventional shampoos

Thank you, Alex Linotner, for having been a great inspiration in this regard.

On my very last day of pre-adult life, I dyed my hair blonde. Up until then, I had healthy hair that was like nails. I was blonde for one day and one day only. It looked awful. It was this one day that completely changed the structure of my hair.

I’m lucky to have a lot of hair. I have a lot of very fine hair that likes to tangle up and glue to a point where hairdressers think I have extensions that I’m concealing. For years, I’d have to switch shampoos every couple of months as I was trying to prevent that.