The Human Footprint (4)

The average person in their lifetime will have 7,163 baths using 1 million litres of water.
You will also use 656 bars of soap, 198 bottles of shampoo, 272 bottles of deodorants, 276 tubes of toothpastes, 78 toothbrushes, 411 skin care products, 37 perfumes, 35 tubes of styling gel, 25 bottles of nail polish, 21 sticks of lipstick, 11,000 tampons/sanitary towels, and 5.6 bottles of fake tan.
Shower gel components take 800 years to disappear from the water system.
We wash our hair 11,500 times in a lifetime.

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One Comment

  • Gareth
    May 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am

    By my calculations (microsoft calculators calculations) that is only enough baths to last you 19,62 years. Are showers included in the figure? The water consumption works out to 139,6l/bath. Doesn’t seem right.