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ECOHEADS – Making Your Salon Efficient with Sustainable Products

February 5, 2018 By themovement1 Leave a Comment

ECOHEADS – Making Your Salon Efficient with Sustainable Products

The Salon Movement has a passion for bringing you sustainable beauty ideas, and we love that the world is listening. We’re proud that The Movement is gaining popularity among salons and individuals, and we’re excited to see this continue into 2018. It’s our pleasure partnering with several sustainable beauty companies and brands to bring awareness to protecting our planet. And by doing that, it offers us a huge step towards making our salons more efficient.
 
We’d love to take this opportunity to introduce one of our awesome partners – ECOHEADS!
 
ECOHEADS is a fabulous company that truly cares about the environment and works to make the life of both clients and hairstylists easier. What a fabulous combination!
ECOHEADS is a relatively new company but with a LOT of thought and love behind it! Established in 2012 in Sydney, Australia, this company has taken the sustainable beauty world by storm. They’re changing things for the better with their amazing philosophy and products.
 
Some of the products we LOVE and highly recommend from ECOHEADS are:
 
Showerheads
 
We must start with the ECOHEADS showerhead – a truly innovative product! These amazing showerheads are a necessary addition to your sustainable spa as they reduce water usage by an amazing 65%, keeping both your finances and carbon footprint low. Water pressure is doubled, helping save water and a time by cutting your rinse time in half. Also, the added pressure allows your clients to experience an amazing massage type experience with their rinse. That’s a triple win in our books! As an added bonus the nozzle cradles nicely in the stylist’s hand to give a pleasant washing experience for everyone.
 
These showerheads are easy to install and will adapt to most sinks. If they don’t, not to worry, they only need an inexpensive hose instead.
Bang Face Shields
 
Another exciting must-have product for your salon is the ECOHEADS Bang Face Shields.
 
Use bang shields to protect your clients face against irritation from hair, product and colour. These inexpensive face shields are one of your best and easiest investments if you want to make everyone’s experience better.
 
And don’t worry about waste – these are 100% recyclable!
The Ping
 
Even sustainable dyes can be a bit on the smelly side so ECOHEADS offers The Ping to offer fume-free mixing of colour products!
 
Mixing hair colour perfectly every single time is The Ping’s speciality and will reduce colour waste in your salon. The colour mix comes out noticeably creamier and smoother than with traditional hand mixing methods. With The Ping, your stylist saves both time and energy. A detachable blade and smooth bowl offers cleaning that’s just as easy as cleaning the traditional bowl and spatula mixer.
 
We thank you ECOHEADS for thinking outside the box and offering us amazing earth-friendly products. Salons all across Canada and the U.S. are experiencing and loving the ease and sustainability of these products. Check them out today!

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Zero-Waste Lifestyle

December 15, 2017 By themovement1 Leave a Comment

Zero-Waste Lifestyle

After seeing a Facebook video of a young woman who has been living entirely waste-free for five years, we were inspired to write this post. The small amount of waste she accumulated fit into a small mason jar consisting mostly of receipts, clothing tags, and straws. This small amount of trash pales in comparison to the amount the average Canadian creates everyday.  “In 2009, Canada produced 777 kilograms of garbage per citizen. Across 17 countries studied, the average was only 578 kg produced.” Even for those of us who religiously recycle and try to reduce waste as much as possible, that kind of lifestyle is still seen as the holy grail. Although incredibly difficult in some aspects, the ethics and value behind it are inspiring. The first question you may have is what exactly is a waste-free lifestyle? It’s a green movement aimed at sending nothing to a landfill. It relies upon the “R’s,” – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Reducing what we need, reusing as much as possible, recycling when needed, and composting everything else. Landfills are a huge current problem that most people tend to forget about or overlook. It’s easy for most of us to avoid the truth and turn a blind eye because finding a solution requires effort. Most of us know that producing a ton of garbage is bad for the environment but just how bad is unknown to most of us. By living in a disposable society, the landfills we contribute to are very toxic by nature. “They produce tons of greenhouse gases, are not aerated for proper decomposition of natural materials which then release high levels of methane, unnatural chemicals leach into the soil which can run off into the ocean, groundwater, and soil.”

Plastic is especially dangerous to the ocean, marine life, and our health. It will never actually disappear completely and is filled with toxic substances. The root of this issue lies in the number of products sold to us that are completely unnecessary. You don’t NEED a separate brush, sponge, soap, spray for every tiny separate thing. A great example of this is using natural cleaning products such as vinegar or castile soap for many household chores. You might be thinking but I recycle all the time, how is this different than being waste-free? Recycling is awesome but in reality, most things aren’t fully recyclable. Due to difficulty in separating raw materials, lots of recycled goods end up being discarded anyway.

Taking small steps to reduce your footprint is an excellent start that can benefit the environment and your own life. Contact us for more questions about a waste-free lifestyle and how you can get started recycling in more areas of your life. → http://thesalonmovement.com/.

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