The average house has five sinks–kitchen, bathrooms, utility. Each sink comes with a towel and soap–which can change seasonally as some folks decorate with a Victorian extravagance, matching soap dispensers and towels to colors and themes. Enviro Girl’s own mother has over fifteen different soap dispensers for the seven sinks in her house–everyday, Christmas, fall, and disposable in the basement. Before you think she’s ready for an intervention, check your own inventory. Some time between Enviro Girl’s childhood in the Seventies and today, people made a shift from plunking down a bar of Ivory or Dial by each sink to buying liquid soap (anti-bacterial, scented, and sometimes moisturizing) to pour into pump-style dispenser.
When addressing the Trash Factor and reducing packaging and waste in our everyday lives, simply changing up your soap preference makes a HUGE difference.
Check it out. Four bars (18 oz.) of Ivory Soap (The soap that floats!) costs $1.99. A bar of soap is the equivalent of the 16 oz. bottle of liquid Ivory Soap which costs $1.99. And if you live with small children like Green Girl does, the Waste Factor with pumped-out liquid soap will be much higher than with a bar of soap.
Save money, save landfill space, save nonrenewable resources used in plastic packaging by keeping your hands scrubbed clean the Green Way. Switch to bars of soap.
Very interesting. We have both kinds, but we’re going to start moving more toward bars of soap.
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