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Tag: self-care

  • Plastic Free Deodorant

    One of my goals this year is to reduce the packaging and plastic packaging that I end up buying when buying household products. One of the products that I have to buy regularly is deodorant and it almost always comes in a proprietarily shaped plastic container. This lead me to search the internet for plastic-free deodorant and of course, the first one to come up is the deodorant from the brand Native.

    Native three pack of deodorant

    Native is a brand that comes up frequently when one is searching for deodorant and body wash but they also have lotions and toothpastes. Currently, it appears that soap and deodorant are their only plastic-free or low-plastic product options.

    Reviews of their deodorants seem to be fairly good but I will have to put them to the test compared to other aluminum-free deodorants that I’ve tried. I hope to have a good review of the deodorants soon!

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  • One of My Favorite Resources: AllSides

    After I had watched the documentary “The Social Dilemma,” I have been off of social media and permanently deleted my profiles from Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. After a couple of days of the quiet of not hearing all the opinions and news from my social media newsfeeds, I began to search for other sources of news. Through my research of the people in the documentary, I went to the website for the Center for Humane Technology and on the “Take Control” page, I found different news sources that allow you to have more control on the news you see. The main resource that the page highlighted for this use is AllSides, which is a balanced news source that filters multiple articles for many of the same stories based on user feedback to say which “side” the news headline and article comes from. Some are labeled as being from the Left, the Right and the Center. This allows you to understand the writer’s bias, since many if not all writers and news organizations have a particular bias. For example, my local newspaper has even announced its chosen presidential candidate that it endorses and the reasoning why. This leads me to compare its news stories to those of other writers to see what is common between them and what is different. In using this system, I hope to view news stories with a clear mind and to understand what is actually happening rather than what each side claims about the other. I know that they do this because it’s their job to make their own side look good but I find it confusing. I also don’t want to just find news stories that I agree with but basically want to cross-examine as many stories as I can.

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