Makeup+for+the+Environment

1. **Essential Question** Are businesses willing to hurt animals and use materials that harm our planet to gain profit? 2. **Challenge** To inform people about harmful products and help them find alternative products. 3. **Guiding questions** Why is it important to use eco-friendly beauty products? Would people still use their favorite products if they knew they hurt the environment or animals? Are people informed about the new eco-friendly beauty products? 4. **Notes** - find companies that offer eco-friendly beauty products or companies that do not test on animals - find companies that are harmful and do test on animals - Take a survey with the following questions 1. Would you still use your favorite beauty product if it was tested on animals? 2. Would you still use your favorite beauty product if it hurt the environment? Do you know about eco-friendly beauty products? - find someone to interview about topic - make imovie with text about what we have found out about our topic based on interview, survey,etc. -our solution is trying to get people to use eco-friendly products - MAC helps the environment by doing back to MAC. This is when you bring 6 empty MAC containers back to a MAC store or counter and you can get a free lipstick and MAC can recycle the containers. This makes people want to recycle more because they are getting something out of it. - This is beneficial because the store is reusing what people would normally just throw out - find ways that beauty products hurts the environment - Companies are now making hairspray with pumps instead of aerosol cans such as herbal essences and aussie. - Benefit Cosmetics also helps (research more) 4. **Solution**- Inform people about eco-friendly products and programs like back to mac

Survey __Classroom #1:__ 18 students would still use their favorite product even if they knew it was tested on animals 15 students would still use their favorite product even if they knew it hurt the environment 17 students have heard of eco-friendly products 11 students think that testing on animals should be stopped
 * Guiding Activities**

__Classroom #2:__ 13 students would still use their favorite product even if it was tested on animals 9 students would still use their favorite product even if it hurt the environment 8 students have heard of eco-friendly prducts 10 students think animal testing should be stopped

__Classroom #3__ 2 students would still use their favorite product if it was tested on an animal 2 students would still use their favorite product if it hurt the environment 10 students have heard of eco-friendly products 10 students think animal testing should be stopped

__Classroom #4__ 9 students would still use their favorite product if it was tested on animals 10 students would still use their favorite product if it hurt the environment 16 students have heard of eco-friendly products 17 students think testing on animals should be stopped

__Classroom #5__ 0 students would still use their favorite product if it was tested on animals 2 students would still use their favorite product if it hurt the environment 6 students have heard of eco-friendly products 14 students think testing on animals should be stopped


 * Solutions**

There are a few solutions to the problem of beauty products being tested on animals or hurting the environment. One solution is making people aware of eco-friendly products. Not everyone has heard of them. We took a survey in 5 different classes and the results show that not everyone has heard of eco-friendly beauty products. If more people knew about them then there would be a higher chance of more people switching over to eco-friendly beauty products. Though some people might be negligent and not care to switch over they probably don’t realize how well eco-friendly beauty products work. One company even make eco-friendly make up brushes called eco-tools. They actually work really well. Also they are very affordable, so its not like your spending more money and going out of your way to get environmental friendly make up brushes. You are most likely going to spend less on these and they are easy to find in many drugstores. Paris Presents the brand that makes eco tools also has environmental friendly bath brushes, sponges, shower mitts, facial and body buff, and pedicure tools. There are many ways too become more environmentally friendly just by switching to a few new products.

Another solution to this problem could be recycling old beauty product containers. How many plastic containers from shampoo, conditioner or make up do you just throw away? This all hurts the environment. Some companies such as MAC have come up with ideas to help people recycle. MAC has something called back to mac this is when you bring any six empty MAC containers back to a MAC store or counter and you get a free lipstick. This is a great idea because it makes people want to recycle. This shows that big companies do care about the environment and so should everyone else. Every little bit helps protect our environment. That is why people should switch from aerosol cans to pump or spray bottles for hair products. Companies like Aussie and Herbal Essences now have more hair products that do not come packaged in aerosol cans. Aerosol cans pollute the air and hurt the ozone. Another benefit to switching over to spray bottles or pump bottles is that they actually smell better. All together a solution to this problem is simply switching beauty products even if its just hair spray or recycling the plastic containers. There are a few things everyone u can do to help the environment.

http://www.maccosmetics.com/giving_back/btm_return_packaging.tmpl