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1st Secret Key To Begin Your Green Beauty Salon Journey – Evaluate Your Current Systems For Enviromental Sustainability
When I first began my journey to sustainability with my salon, I took a look at how we might improve enviromental sustainability immediately and easily. In the video below I introduce the three area that I looked at first to jump start our success: Three ways you can make an immediate impact when going “green [...]
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10 Top Secret Keys To Starting Your Green Beauty Salon Journey – A New Video Series…Here’s a Sneak Peek
As my green beauty salon journey continues the more the enthusiasm from my staff, guest, friends and family grows! I am pleased to introduce to you my first video series: 10 Top Secret Keys To Starting Your Green Beauty Salon Journey These are keys that I have introduced at my salon with great results. Watch [...]
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Sustainable Is Not Just About Being Green!
My business has gone from problem solving to strategic planning on a journey to creating a wonderful place for both clients and staff. Worth every minute of your time.”
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Looking for Organic Beauty Products Specifically For The Professional Salon/Spa Industry
I have been diligently looking for professional retail organic beauty product lines for my salon. I have spent months looking for organic beauty product lines. However, there are many varieties of what is organic, and as we all know, the labels are tough to figure out! There are three levels of organic as defined by [...]
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Why Wait To Reduce Your Footprint? Have Your Own Green Week! And Watch The Awareness Grow.
Start a CONTEST for your own GREEN WEEK! Set a goal and offer a reward for success.
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Reducing the Footprint With Hair? Yes…It Seems So With Hair Mats for Oil Spills
I am always looking for new green salon ideas as part of our journey to sustainability. For several months I have heard about and looked into the idea of collecting our hair clippings from the salon and sending it off to a company in the West Coast (Matter of Trust) that is able to use [...]
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Check out: Ten Tips For Choosing An Organic Beauty Product
In researching an organic beauty product, I came along this great YouTube video. It gives tips on choosing organic skincare products. I think she did a great job outlining the important things to look for! Enjoy! Lorrene
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Financial Hurdles in the Journey to be a Green Salon
On my journey to sustainability and my business, I have found there are definite hurdles along the way. I have two 75 gallon hot water heaters. Unfortunately one of them went out on a Saturday, one of our highest volume days. I thought what a great opportunity to incorporate a tankless system! My ideas were [...]
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Confusion About What Is Organic
I have been seeing more and more companies introducing Organic beauty products. They are additions to already existing companies, that are not green. So, I started looking up what constitutes Organic? There are many levels of organic, just like in foods. I followed a few links, with still no answers. I did hear some industry [...]
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Interesting Video That Illustrates Further The Confusion Surrounding Organic Beauty Products
I just happened across this video (see below) in my research and though I cannot speak effectively to the accuracy of all the statements that she is making….I can certainly agree that the definition of “organic beauty products” is at best confusing. In my most recent post, I shared with you some of what is [...]
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