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Perfumes and deodorant

Aug. 12th, 2008 by Al

 I ran out of body deodorant so after work yesterday, went down to the nearest pharmacy shop to get one.It dawns upon me how we take personal  body care items like this for granted. Considering the huge amount of revenues generated by the perfumes industry to France and Italy.One realise the vanity of this comes from cheap oil, transportation of this products worldwide by cargo ships and trucks .

One day the perfumes and deodorant may not be so widely available causing prices to escalate and then the piorities of men may changed from vanity to sustainabilty.

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