Ablution pollution: minimise your hygiene carbon footprint with some simple regime tweaks

Beauty-promising products are tempting but a plastic-avoidant mindset makes it easier to just say no – and it’s often healthier on the hip pocket, too. Composite: Getty

With a multi-billion-dollar beauty industry constantly shouting in our collective ear, it’s little wonder that many Aussie home bathrooms contain a sea of plastic-wrapped potions and lotions.

But for all their promises of youth and clean beauty, these products are often detrimental to our self-esteem and our planet. Most are destined to be thrown into landfill after use or, at best, channelled into the resource-intensive recycling system.