Love this call to hold corporations accountable to take concrete actions that go against their profit motives rather than applauding them for empty marketing strategy to appeal to consumers who try to be ethical with their purchases. Just sent Planet A an email!
Love love love the way you've helped us do simple actions to push corporations. Will be pushing on social and email.
Maybe it's in your history (newer subscriber) are there any pieces you've done re: helping people improve their buying? I know that ethical consumption is an imperfect/heavily individualized issue. I'm wondering what resources I should look at/review before/when I buy new products.
Hi Lauren! It sounds like what you're interested in is SKIN... which is what I basically built my career reporting on! I have a ton of content out there about how soaps & skincare products are beyond useless and actually harmful. Here are some good ones to start:
For more on the shame/racism/sexism/classism of "cleanliness," I definitely recommend reading the book "Clean: The New Science of Skin" by Dr. James Hamblin if you haven't yet.
Love this call to hold corporations accountable to take concrete actions that go against their profit motives rather than applauding them for empty marketing strategy to appeal to consumers who try to be ethical with their purchases. Just sent Planet A an email!
Thank you!!
lol this has big 'opening a non-profit wing so people cant shame the og brand' vibes
Mhmmm spot-on
"Extinction economics" sums it up. Thanks for the script. Diving in!
Right?? That phrase makes everything so very clear.
Love love love the way you've helped us do simple actions to push corporations. Will be pushing on social and email.
Maybe it's in your history (newer subscriber) are there any pieces you've done re: helping people improve their buying? I know that ethical consumption is an imperfect/heavily individualized issue. I'm wondering what resources I should look at/review before/when I buy new products.
Thank you so much! I haven't done much on shopping yet but this is a great idea for a future post x
Looking forward to it!
Hi Lauren! It sounds like what you're interested in is SKIN... which is what I basically built my career reporting on! I have a ton of content out there about how soaps & skincare products are beyond useless and actually harmful. Here are some good ones to start:
https://slate.com/technology/2022/01/skincare-science-cleansing-dermatology-truth.html
https://coveteur.com/2020/10/21/microbiome-health-skin-care/
https://hellogiggles.com/beauty/skin-barrier-protection/
https://hellogiggles.com/beauty/dead-skin-cells-build-up/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/fashion/this-is-your-skin-on-stress.html
For more on the shame/racism/sexism/classism of "cleanliness," I definitely recommend reading the book "Clean: The New Science of Skin" by Dr. James Hamblin if you haven't yet.