Sustainability Journal

  • Clean Screens

    Clean Screens

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    The United States is not a leader in clean ingredients. Our standards for cleanliness in food and cosmetics are frighteningly low compared to those of other developed countries. However, we actually have better standards when it comes to sunscreen. I...

  • Zero Waste Home: a book review

    Zero Waste Home: a book review

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Bea Johnson is one of modern day’s OG zero wasters. I was gifted her book Zero Waste Home years ago by one of my closest friends and have come to rely on it for quick and easy reference. The book...

  • Wellness Pie

    Wellness Pie

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    What is wellness? Everything and its mom have their own definitions. Social media will tell you through framed, little boxes with words inside, or pictures of bodies in mirrors, that wellness is a cacophony of contradictory things. I looked up...

  • Thoughts on slowing down. Part 2.

    Thoughts on slowing down. Part 2.

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Find water.
  • Activated Charcoal, So Hot

    Activated Charcoal, So Hot

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    Wellness ingredients wax and wane with the times, but it is the hope that we’re continually moving toward a more natural way of life. I’m grateful that this seems to emphatically align with the time we’re living in now. One...

  • The Beauty Scaries

    The Beauty Scaries

    By Brooke Hamilton-Benjestorf

    There are a multitude of voices swirling through the ethosphere, telling us what we should fear. Actually they’re not just swirling - they’re swirling and screaming like banshees. So. Much. Noise. So. Much. Anxiety. Here are a few of the...