TOXIC Overconsumption in the Beauty Industry

While most of us don't get PR Packages full of new beauty products to try - we might still have way too many products to ever use up. Social Media and the "Beauty Community" have normalized ridiculously massive "collections" of make up, skincare, etc.
Let's talk about why we overconsume and what the resulting problems are.

T I M E S T A M P S :

0:00 Introduction to Overconsumption
1:40 WHY do we overconsume?
3:37 The Problem with Overconsumption: Wastefulness
4:50 The Environmental Impact
5:46 Effects on our Money and "Treat Yourself Mentality"
6:49 What can we do?
7:43 Outro

L I N K S :

CNBC: The Increase in Beauty Product Sales in 2022
● https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/14/-the-...

Sources regarding environmental impact and produced waste:
● https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/beau...
and
● https://resource.co/article/only-50-c...

Another Article that I can recommend:
● https://www.trvst.world/sustainable-l...

D I S C L A I M E R :

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