{"id":9868,"date":"2018-11-30T17:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T22:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2018-11-25T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T22:28:57","slug":"darling-hair-boutique-has-green-product-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/darling-hair-boutique-has-green-product-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Darling Hair Boutique Has &#8220;Green&#8221; Product Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Darling, owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/darlinghairboutique.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darling Hair Boutique<\/a> in downtown Needham, first became interested in \u201cgreen products\u201d about 15 years ago.\u00a0 She was having some skin issues, and noticed that products <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291-270x270.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291-230x230.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/darling-hair-salon-pic-1-e1539699493291-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>with botanicals (and shorter ingredient lists) were less irritating on her hands.\u00a0 After this observation she researched hair care lines that had mostly natural ingredients, and she found several.\u00a0 One, Davines, an Italian, family-owned company with a hair and skin care line, was very environmentally conscious.\u00a0 They source natural ingredients with slow food farms in Italy, and have a manifesto called &#8220;Zero Impact&#8221; &#8211; for all the emissions their manufacturing emits, they plant trees to create a carbon neutral footprint.\u00a0 Now, Darling Hair Boutique uses mostly &#8220;green&#8221; products.\u00a0 Usually these products are different from conventional drugstore, or even some salon, lines. They are more concentrated, so you don\u2019t use as much or as often, and less product ends up in our sewer systems. The packaging is also designed to be efficient for shipping, thereby saving on trucking and fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p>If you like to think of yourself as being environmentally conscious, then using \u201cgreen&#8221; beauty products is an easy fit.\u00a0 Not only is it beneficial for our planet, it can also be better for your health. Taking out some of the harsher cleansing agents and preservatives in shampoo will leave your scalp and hair looking and feeling healthier.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important that we all try to live more sustainably in all aspects of our lives.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what our<em><strong> GO GREEN<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/em>Needham Campaign is all about.\u00a0 Find out how you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/gogreenneedham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">participate in the GO GREEN Needham Campaign.\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Or follow us on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greenneedham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/greenneedham\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#GOGREENNeedham<br \/>\n#ZeroWasteWednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Darling, owner of Darling Hair Boutique in downtown Needham, first became interested in \u201cgreen products\u201d about 15 years ago.\u00a0 She was having some skin issues, and noticed that products with botanicals (and shorter ingredient lists) were less irritating on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":9665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}