If you have been paying attention to what has been happening to our environment, you should not be even asking this question. We have seen so many natural disasters happening around the world. In Australia alone, the bushfires had devastated many lives, the community, the environment and wildlife, and the economy. The plastic pollution, the melting ice and rising sea-level, the river and ocean pollution. The list goes on. we really cannot stay passive and wait for others to take action. WE need to take action.
After seeing the movement started by Greta Thunberg and so many distressing posts on social media about the effect of pollution have on our planet, I got really inspired to change my lifestyle to a sustainable and low toxic journey. For me, it is not just for the environment, but for myself, and people I love. It has been a life changer for me and I have been loving all the processes, the changes, and the results.
I actually started my sustainable journey from stumbling upon this beeswax food wrap workshop that I decided to attend. Really random but it was fun to connect like-minded people and make something pretty awesome for daily use. We can use beeswax wrap to replace cling-wraps, something we use a lot at home and got thrown to the landfill immediately after, this will cut down our plastic usage. It is the first easy step in reducing plastic in our household.
The second workshop that I attended was the natural anti-ageing skin care workshop. This was a absoulte gem, totally life-changing for me. I learnt to make my own face skin care routine from scratch and they are totally low toxic, natural, and much cheaper compared to buying conventional skin care available in the market. This workshop introduced me to the magical world of essential oils and that opened up so many new possibilities for me. Nowadays we have so many skin care products sitting in our counter where most of them cost a fortune and filled with many toxic chemicals. We are probably never question what exactly is in each product that we use at home and the scary things are they probably contains loads of chemicals that can cause cancers, hormone disruptions, etc. After the workshop, I totally ditched all my skin care products and made them myself, I save so much money, cut out so many toxic and synthetic chemicals from my life, my skins are now amazing and really, I never even consider of going back to those conventional products.
Since then I have completely ditched all my cleaning products for my skin and my household, my perfumes, and also started on other things like composting.
All in all, there are so many benefits from converting to sustainable and low tox living such as saving money, reducing our carbon footprints, saving the environment, promoting better health for ourselves and our family, feeling good for accomplishing all these amazing things all while inspiring others to follow our footsteps. There are now so many people going into the lifestyle and it is something we need to celebrate as sustainability are about collective effort. If everyone starts taking action, no matter how small it is, we will eventually make a big difference.
Being sustainable is not about following a trend, it is something life-changing and requires commitment and continuous effort. It is a marathon, not a sprint. Most importantly is to know what is it that important for you and why. Some people go sustainable because they are concerned for their children’s welfare in this chemical-laden environment. Some changed because they are genuinely want to save the environment because they see the devastation around us. So before you start your own journey, find out the what, how, and why for yourself and start making the change in your own pace.
If you have decided to make the change, come and join me in my journey where I can show you my stories. Together we can make this work.
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