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ECO BOUTIQUE LAUNCHES ITS FLAGSHIP STORE SELLING SUSTAINABLE HOME, BEAUTY, AND FASHION GOODS WHILE OFFERING EDUCATIONAL AND RECYCLING PROGRAMS TO THE COMMUNITY
ECO BOUTIQUE LAUNCHES ITS FLAGSHIP STORE SELLING SUSTAINABLE HOME, BEAUTY, AND FASHION GOODS WHILE OFFERING EDUCATIONAL AND RECYCLING PROGRAMS TO THE COMMUNITY
Fall Beauty Faves with Nordstrom
Hi friends and happy Thursday! I hope you’ve had a great week! Truth be told, this week has been a little frantic and busy, so I am honestly looking forward to a little downtime this weekend. Do you feel me? Sometimes, I swear the 4 day weeks (My kids were home Monday) are busier! I am so excited to be back partnering with Nordstrom today to share some of my recent and tried and true beauty favorites! Nordstrom is always one of my favorite one stop shops for the whole family. I have shopped at Nordstrom since I was a kid, so it’s always the first place I head when looking for pretty much anything and everything that we need. I get a lot of my hair and makeup products at Nordstrom because they have such a huge selection. The Dyson Airwrap is a recent favorite and Reagan and I are both loving it. Not only does it dry your hair, but it has curling capability, too! It’s perfection! Even easy enough for a 9 year old to do herself, which I love! I have added some other fun things to my beauty routine that I am excited to share with you in today’s post!
Plus, there is an awesome new concept that Nordstrom just launched in all stores that I want to tell you about because I thought it was such a neat concept! It’s called Beautycycle. The goal is to help our customers create a zero waste Beauty routine! Any empty packaging that can’t go into your regular curbside bin can be dropped off in the Beautycycle bins in the beauty department at every Nordstrom and Nordstrom Local location in the U.S.- this is everything from pump and spray bottles to mascara tubes! Nordstrom is hoping to recycle 100 tons of empty beauty containers by 2025! I am loving this new concept and what a great way to make it easy for people to recycle! Speaking of products, today I am going to walk you through a few Nordstrom holiday beauty sets that I am loving and a few new to me and tried and true products in my daily routine! Take a peek!
SWEATSHIRT (medium) // JOGGERS (medium)
KOPARI DEODORANT // LIVING PROOF FLEX HAIRSPRAY // DETOX DRY SHAMPOO // TRIPLE SEC TEXTURE SPRAY // LIVING PROOF DRY VOLUME BLAST TEXTURE SPRAY
NARS ORGASM SET // NARS CLIMAX EXTREME MASCARA // THE BEST LASH CURLER // CLEAN BEAUTY POWDER SPF // SLEEP OIL TANNING DROPS
NARS ORGASM HOLIDAY SET // SWEATSHIRT (medium) // JOGGERS (medium) // HEADBAND
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Nordstrom Fall Beauty Faves

World Series spotlight on heroes, voting
Major League Baseball has devoted much of its pregame pageantry at the World Series to honoring real-life heroes who have helped navigate the country through a trying year. As Game 1 of the Fall Classic between the Dodgers and Rays commenced Tuesday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, healthcare workers from nearby regions were recognized on the field with ceremonial first pitch honors.
Four individuals participated in the Game 1 first pitch ceremony:
• Jamie Edens and Ryan Ward, a married couple who resigned from their nursing jobs in Tulsa, Okla., and drove to New York to help on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of July, they drove to Texas to do the same for COVID-19 patients in that area.
• Erika Combs, an oncology and kidney transplant nurse at a Dallas hospital, who voluntarily switched units to serve in the COVID-19 unit for more than a month.
• Brittney Burns, a nurse practitioner who left her home in San Antonio to work in New York at the onset of the pandemic. After 101 days there, she came back to her hometown, where she aided patients for another 100 days.
Reusable packaging at Burger King is a Whopper of an idea
In a bit of non-cow farting news, Burger King is quietly experimenting with a potentially environmentally friendly change by testing out reusable packaging for food, soft drinks, and coffee, The Hill reports. BK is partnering with TerraCycle’s zero-waste delivery platform, called Loop, to get this started.
When you order your food and choose the reusable packaging option for the first time, you’ll be charged a deposit fee which will be returned when the reusable packaging is returned, Burger King’s press release states. Everything will be washed and reused to prevent excess packaging waste.
Reusable packaging at Burger King is a Whopper of an idea
In a bit of non-cow farting news, Burger King is quietly experimenting with a potentially environmentally friendly change by testing out reusable packaging for food, soft drinks, and coffee, The Hill reports. BK is partnering with TerraCycle’s zero-waste delivery platform, called Loop, to get this started.
When you order your food and choose the reusable packaging option for the first time, you’ll be charged a deposit fee which will be returned when the reusable packaging is returned, Burger King’s press release states. Everything will be washed and reused to prevent excess packaging waste.
I am in favor for this idea, though I’m sure, knowing me, some of these containers are going to sit in my car for a little too long. I can’t guarantee they’ll smell too good, either, but now that cold weather is coming, maybe it won’t be as bad as food remnants in summer heat. Or, I imagine, if people really like the packaging they’ll just keep it at home for a while and reuse it there, though I’m not sure how much use you could get out of a plastic clamshell box, except maybe as a place to save extra ketchup packets.
Rinse, refill, repeat
P&G Beauty strikes a major blow to plastic waste with its new refill system including a reusable aluminium shampoo bottle and recyclable¹ pouch that uses 60% less plastic²
Tom Szaky, CEO of TerraCycle, works with every major cosmetic company in the world, helping them to be more sustainable. He says this is the first time he has seen a large company with mainstream brands create a refillable bottle at scale, out of an alloy. “From a supply chain point of view, this is a big undertaking. Hopefully, it will inspire other organisations to do the same and create a movement where we start buying more of our shampoos in reusable systems versus single use systems.”Pastoral Cuidadores da Casa Comum amplia projeto de reciclagem na Paróquia Ascensão do Senhor
Sabe aquela esponja usada para lavar pratos ou fazer a limpeza pesada da casa? Quando ela fica velha vai pro lixo, certo? Errado! Ela tem que ir para a reciclagem. Assim, com o objetivo de estimular ainda mais o consumo consciente, os Cuidadores da Casa Comum, da Paróquia Ascensão do Senhor, agora vão passar a recolher as esponjas. A meta é conseguir, pelo menos, dois quilos que serão levados para o fabricante que fica em São Paulo: a empresa vai cuidar dos custos com o transporte e a paróquia vai receber um valor financeiro que será destinado para as obras sociais do Centro Comunitário Monsenhor José Hamilton; e as esponjas vão ser transformadas em cestos de lixo, bancos e outros objetos que utilizam o plástico como matéria-prima.
Covid-19 e embalagem: Ital aponta reflexos da pandemia em questões de sustentabilidade e tendências no mercado
Diante da maior preocupação com higiene para evitar a contaminação pelo novo coronavírus, a pesquisadora Leda Coltro, do Instituto de Tecnologia de Alimentos (Ital-APTA), da Secretaria de Agricultura e Abastecimento do Estado de São Paulo, afirma que houve aumento do uso de embalagem e produtos descartáveis. Isso vai na contramão do banimento progressivo de embalagens descartáveis assinado por mais de 350 organizações na União Europeia em outubro de 2018, o chamado Compromisso Global para a Nova Economia dos Plásticos, com a visão de economia circular, mantendo-os na economia e fora dos oceanos.