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My name is Stephanie Safarian and you're listening to episode 442 of sustainable minimalists.

This is a show about intentional and eco-friendly minimalist living.

On today's show, we are taking our beauty regimens and we are making them a little bit healthier, a little bit less toxic.

And I wanted to cover this episode because, oh my goodness, I am turning 40 in four short months.

I never really thought about my age. I always just assumed youth was on my side but the number is approaching the big four oh the gray

hairs they are popping up faster than I can pull them out the

wrinkles are coming and so as I examine my own aging journey I realized that most of us women, we set about doing whatever it takes to conform, right?

Our culture does not like an aged woman. So that's where all of the things that we women do

to maintain our position in the herd, I'm talking hair dying and teeth whitening

and Botox and skin care regiments and

cosmetics all the things right at the end of the day we're doing all these things

so that we may conform with our peers now this is not a show about challenging our

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