Body care products. We use them every day. On our hair, on our body, on our face. And, sometimes but not often, we think about the environmental, ethical and social impacts it has. Nowadays, it’s a standardised idea that it is extremely important to take in these factors when choosing and purchasing products; however, is it really as important as it is portrayed to be? To come to a conclusion as to whether or not it is important to think about the environmental, social and ethical impacts when buying a product, both sides shall be discussed.
The environment is probably one of the most debatable subjects around right now. And yet another debatable aspect about the impact on the environment is related to the body products. One must be thinking, “What do my body products have to do with the environment”; however, they have a much bigger impact than at first glance. These issues include the pouring of dangerous chemicals into oceans and the non bio-degradable packaging.
One may have never realised but our body care products are in fact loaded with dangerous chemicals. Body products such as facial scrubs are especially dangerous. The micro-beads inside are able to bypass the sewage treatment plants and are flushed into the ocean. The beads are perfect bait for fish who unsuspectingly think it is fish food. Other animals can also choke on these tiny micro-beads. These are only some of the ingredients loaded in our body care products: Parabens, Sodium laureth sulfate, BHA(butylated hydroxyanisole), BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) Siloxanes, Petrolatum and Triclosan; these countless names of chemicals may mean nothing to you until you realise how dangerous they actually are. These chemicals can potentially cause damage to the re...
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At present, cosmetics are always used in daily life. When we talk about cosmetics, most people will think of the things that only use for make-up such as lipstick, eye-shadow, mascara, blusher etc. But in fact cosmetics are not only mean to the things that only use for make-up but also shampoo, lotion or sunscreen. According to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) explains “Articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human body… for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attractiveness, or altering the appearance.” (2014) The reason why people use makeups have different ways such as some people use for more confidence, some people use for protect the sunlight, and some people use for maintain their skin. However, there are a lot of people still worry about using the cosmetics since they believe that cosmetics are contained the dangerous chemicals that damage their body so they afraid of using them and try to avoid to use them. Although many people will be concerned that applying cosmetics may destroy their health, in fact, many experts have been confirmed that the use of cosmetic is not harmful to the human’s body. Moreover, cosmetics are also useful for users.
Thesis Statement: When anything is applied on the skin, all of its ingredients absorb into the applicant’s body, which means, when applied, the harmful ingredients perfumed products get into the body, causing it harm.
The Associated Chambers of Deals and trade of Republic of India (ASSOCHAM) has printed a survey that expressed that sixty fifth of the teenagers declared that their expenditure on loud cosmetics had hyperbolic seventy fifth within the past ten years. in contrast to the western states, whereas fifty five and era cluster is that the target cluster, in Republic of India the target scope is from thirty and era cluster. Indian men ar progressively grabbing to cosmetics aboard men’s personal-care phase approximated at on top of $200 million. Later contrasted to their feminine counterparts, the price of the male phase has described a progress of considering eightieth on top of this era. India’s import of cosmetics, beauty manufacture and intermediate raw materials like very important oils is regarding $400 million each single year.
It is time, at last, to speak the truth about toxic chemicals behind personal care and beauty products. The daily products of an average person consists of face wash, hand soap, shampoo, conditioner, floss, toothpaste, and deodorant. Surprisingly, all of these products listed contain toxic chemicals that are harmful to our body. If we use these products to maintain our hygiene, does that mean we are not clean without these products? For example, a common shampoo many people use is Head and Shoulders. However, do we know if the shampoo is cleaning our hair from beginning to end or is it damaging our hair? How often do you read the ingredients labeled on your personal care products and wonder if they are safe to use? More importantly, if you
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Thai Namthip’s eco-crush bottle, marketing project done by Coca-Cola Thailand is an excellent case study of a contradiction in ethical marketing. In recent decades, ethical marketing mix has become increasingly important among all organization especially the concern over environmental impact of packaging. Plastic waste problem becomes a momentous issue globally (Hawkins, 2011). Many leading businesses have tried to develop new approaches in producing green packaging or named as Design For the Environment (DFE) approach (Hauschild et al., 2004). Namthip drinking water has rebranded itself and launched new slogan, ‘Namthip Thinking Water’. The claim on its green packaging is that eco-crush bottles will help saving the environment in many aspects. This leads to several amounts of benefits and innovations within the society. Furthermore, it has yielded back an ethical criticism on its marketing as well.