156: The most important clean swaps to make | Lindsay Dahl, sustainability & consumer protections expert
Clean Beauty SchoolShow Notes
“Any issue that becomes a lighting rod means it’s powerful. ‘Clean’ is a term that people now debate. Some people love it. Some people hate it. But to me, clean living is just about making choices that are good for people and the planet. Simple as that. And I don’t think there’s any superiority to the term, either,” says sustainability and consumer protection expert Lindsay Dahl, Chief Impact Officer at Ritual. In this episode of Clean Beauty School, mindbodygreen beauty director Alexandra Engler chats with Dahl about her decades-long career fighting for consumer protection, how to spot greenwashing red flags, and why radical traceability is the future of the well-being space.
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Show notes: -Follow our guest: @lindsay_dahl -Learn more about Dahl’s work: https://lindsaydahl.com/about-lindsay-dahl/ -Follow Ritual: @ritual -Learn more about Ritual: https://ritual.com/ -Shop the products mentioned in this episode: Ritual Multivitamins, Prenatal vitamins, HyaCera, Daily Shake 18+, Osea body care, Beautycounter
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†Based on a 12-week randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical study on 63 women and men ages 26 to 64 years old
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