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Welcome to Breaking Beauty,

the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.

We're your host, Jill Dunn, and Carleen Higgins.

Welcome back to the show, everyone. Today we're asking how we can do better when it comes to

creating less waste in our beauty routines. That's right and I think it shows

honestly, Carline, how far this conversation has come,

you know, in our magazine days, back in the day, it would just be one month a year in April

when we would talk about sustainability or the environment or anything to do with green

beauty so to speak so I love that now it's just top of mind for people all year long

and I feel like that's a huge shift really.

That's right.

It doesn't have to be Earth Month to talk about looking after the environment.

Yeah, and I personally am really looking forward to today's chat because I honestly have so much guilt around

how wasteful my personal care routine can be, you know?

Yeah, I know you're personally very passionate about sustainability and beauty and I've always admired that about you

you so I'm excited for today's episode as well.

Yes and you know I've shared on the show before that I've gone to great legs to make sure as few things go in the trash as possible. Like, remember the time I took like more than a hundred bottles of nail polish to the hazardous waste depot to properly dispose of them because I just couldn't throw them out and I let them pile up.

Yes, I mean who knew they were hazardous waste but the one that actually had my jaw like dropped was when you told me more recently that you put

used beauty products on the curb after you cleaned out your bathroom and that they actually vanished right away.

People took them home from the curb.

Yeah, yeah totally. I mean I don't eat so many products and give them away but I had these

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