#32: Move Over, Cotton

Cotton balls and pads are such an ingrained part of many people’s bathroom routines that they are widely overlooked as an environmental problem. It’s staggering to think about our own cotton use and then multiply that by everyone on the planet. Yikes! But is there any other option?

Of course there is! Rather than using disposable cotton pads for your beauty routine, purchase some reusable cotton pads. You can store them just as you store your disposable ones, and they are washable so that they can be reused indefinitely. Like many other reusable products, these may be more expensive at first, but they pay for themselves because they don’t need to be constantly replaced.