Chemicals & Carrots (a Rant).

So, I’m not an eco-freak, but I definitely try to be conscious of my impact on the environment & also my impact on myself. I use all natural shampoo & I try my best to use products that do not involve harsh chemicals or animal testing.

But today I’m thinking about The Story Of Stuff, & so I went on & I watched The Story Of Cosmetics. This freaks me out a little. Just a little. I mean, my shampoo is from Burt’s Bees. As are most of my cosmetics. Because, they’re a pretty eco-conscious company, right? They wouldn’t hurt me, would they?
Heh.
Trust no one, people.
I go to EWG’s Skin Deep Database & check everything. Not so good. I think my cosmetics are giving me cancer. So I go to my mother & I’m talking about how my shampoo is toxic & how I can’t use this stuff anymore & she’s looking at me like I’m crazy. Please note- I am the hippie of my family. Immediate & extended. I’m the one who listens to the music & won’t eat the icky chemical food & won’t use icky chemical things on my body. So, my mother is sitting there, across the room & she’s telling me that I “have to finish all the stuff I have now, & then I can get new, safe stuff” & so I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to do this because I have lots of stuff. People who have been to my house & have seen my dresser will tell you. I have perfume & lotion & makeup & insane amounts of all of it. & the thing is, I really don’t use it. I use peppermint body spray in the winter, but that’s really about it. I use Cetaphil lotion year ’round, & Yes To Carrots chapstick (I recently switched from Burt’s Bees). Burt’s Bees lipgloss… I’m really very good about the chemicals I let into my body. I use organic toothpaste for Christ’s sake. & organic toothpaste is kind of gelly & tastes kind of weird but you get used to it because at least I’m not using icky chemicals. & then I start wondering if maybe I’m going a little to far with this. I’m not a vegetarian. But that’s because I believe in the cycle. I only eat meat that I know comes from a place that I can trust. Animals have been eating other animals since the beginning of animals & I’m okay with that*. So why am I so weird about all the chemicals? I don’t like chemicals. It grosses me out.

So, anyway.

My point… Is that I don’t really have a point & maybe I’m going a little psychotic.

*I’m kind of okay with that. I actually wish I could be a vegetarian. But that would mean a few things:

* No more bacon.
* I would have to learn how to cook because there is no chance in hell that my mother would cook me a special meal every night so that I didn’t have to eat their meat.
* No more sausage.
* No more steak.
* No more ham.

So, I can’t bring myself to do it. Maybe I’ll do it in college.