Psssssst…
A few days ago, Alex and I went to Rite Aid because I decided that I no longer wished to be a blonde. In fact, I needed to get the blonde out right then, so we picked ourselves up off of the couch, paused the Law and Order DVD (painfully), and trekked over to the drugstore.
I picked up my hair dye, and as I was walking out of the aisle, I casually looked down to the bottom shelf and let out a huge, embarrassingly loud, excited gasp.
“ALEX! I FOUND IT!”
“Jesus, what exactly did you find?”
“OMG I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS STUFF FOREVER!!!!111” I handed him the small spray bottle.
“Instant spray shampoo? Really?”
“YES.” I wasn’t even defensive about it. I was proud.
Then earlier today, I was in the bathroom, brushing my teeth, and I happened to pick up my can of instant spray shampoo. And since I was one of those children that wouldn’t eat her cereal unless I had the back of the box to read, I read the directions, warnings and ingredients.
It’s flammable. Easy-flow spray. You can use it when ill (you know, because you can’t really take showers when ill?). All standard.
Then I start to read the ingredients: propane, SD Alcohol 40, Aluminum Starch, etc… it took me a full 10 seconds to realize that the first ingredient is, in fact, PROPANE.
That really threw me off. I don’t consider myself to be too fussy about organics or even the environment really. I should be; I should take an interest in what I’m putting on, in and around my body, but I don’t. I leave that to my tree-hugging hippie sister. But propane. I can’t justify even to my “non fussy” self why a highly combustible substance, one that I use to cook hamburgers and hot dogs when I’m not too lazy to actually use the grill, is in a hair product to begin with, let alone the first ingredient listed. It scared me. What has our society come to when I use gas in my hair to get it clean? Some soap would probably work.
I threw out the small bottle of magical hair cleaner. I mean gas. I mean- when I don’t even know what I’m using as “beautification” how do I know what I’m using to pollute? I thought pollution couldn’t be worse than some propane, carbon dioxide, and some methane. But it does get worse when those are just the things used for beauty. What then is left to pollute with?
I’m not sure I want to know.
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