This is everywhere in the cosmetics industry, almost all brands are green washing.
Green washing is a term very common for environmentalists, it basically means to spend more funds on publicizing and marketing yourself as a environmental friendly company than on reducing the actual effect their product has on the environment. This strategy is designed to target environment friendly consumers. Greenwashing is considered an unsubstantiated claim to deceive consumers into believing that a company’s products are environmentally friendly.
What you think is that you are protecting the environment by purchasing eco friendly products but you are damaging it yourself. Companies lie all the time. There is no regulatory body to check and confirm that a product is green and safe to use.
1. Green Labeled Products are safe for the environment.
Companies label themselves as green labelled. The chemicals are tested and approved by the manufacturers themselves. Dr. Megan Weil, the director of master program in John Hopkins university says and I quote that out of 69,000 of chemical inventory, only 9 are banned by U.S EPA. So, that means every product is green if a company wants it to appear green and label it respectively. Never trust the green label!
2. A cigarette is not a drug.
I had a debate with smokers telling them that cigarette is a drug. Because it had the same effect on your brain as any drug. There is a movie based on a true story in which Russel Crowe from the movie Gladiator is a scientist that took money in paying his part in cigarette manufacturing and promoting calling it safe and its effects are safe apart from other drugs.
3. Low Tar Cigarette.
The cigarette industry is one of the largest and most important industry for the current world economy in the world. In our world economy is considered more important than the environment and human health. Companies appear innocent and clean by not promoting low tar cigarettes and make products that have same taste but with some minor changes but when tested for their health impact by National Institute of Health the effects was just slightly lower than the cigarettes that had the full amount of tar in them.
4. Energy Drinks Boost Your Performance.
You probably heard about Red Bull Gives you wings or seen an advertisement where a guy or girl drinks an energy drink does extraordinary things like flying, charging a dead battery. You probably bought thinking this might help you in real life as well. But in reality, it just has higher caffeine content that what keeps you going and you can push your self to stay wide awake. Which will eventually turn you into a zombie and lead you to insomnia permeant. I know you didn’t actually believe redbull will be make you fly, and now you also know it does not provide any energy.
5. 100% Pure Juice.
Back in the days when juice companies were establishing their foot in the consumer market, they claimed their juice is 100% fresh and original but eventually they are now committing they have 25% to 35% fruit content in the rest of their product. That’s because they now have a huge number of consumer that are either addicted to the taste, now they don’t care about it being ecofriendly.
Watchout for these lies and buy your daily products after thorough research, environment is more important than economy.