5 simple terrifying tips for a sustainable Halloween

Halloween has become a universal celebration from American culture, but sinks its roots at the Celtic party of "Final summer", Samhain, which has been reborn in the Galician Samaín.The fact is that Halloween fills many houses of a decorative paraphernalia that is not very sustainable.How can a "hallet" without lots of plastic and garbage be celebrated?

1.Make your own pumpkin decoration

Especially in autumn, nature offers many useful things to decorate the home: collect in the field or the colored leaves, chestnut and other fruits parks to decorate your home with them.

The carved pumpkins are a popular autumn decoration.Many types of pumpkin are not only decorative, but also edible.

If you want to use the seeds and pumpkin pulp buy a edible variety, not an ornamental pumpkin, which are also sold by these dates (their pulp is bitter).Buy the pumpkin from farmers in the region and, if possible, to be ecological.

Depending on the variety, you can use the excess pulp for a pumpkin soup, for pumpkin bread or pumpkin cake.And the seeds can dry them and toast them as we explain below.

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two.Candles for a terrifying light of Halloween

The terrifying Halloween pumpkins cannot be plastic or light up with bulbs.The candles are essential, but they cannot be paraffin, an oil derived product.

An alternative is the candles made with stearin, of plant origin, biodegradable and that barely produce waste when burning.Even better are bee wax candles or sails made of biomass.

3.Halloween makeup without pollutants

Shortly before Halloween, special makeup boxes appear in stores.Although children are painted only once a year, a view of the list of ingredients should scare ourselves more than a living dead.

That is why we recommend natural makeup for children.You can use it throughout the year and consists of vegetable oils (jojoba, hemp, etc), natural pigments and bee wax.

It is respectful of the skin, even that of allergic people.Oils do not dry out and also, makeup can be easily removed with a fat cream.

4.Halloween sweets, a sustainable booty

Some children are excited to pass or scare, but others deprive sweets.Conventional sweets are where to take them because they are full of added sugars or synthetic sweeteners, which are not much improvers.

There are natural and healthy alternatives such as dried fruit or tangerines, in which you can paint eyes, noses and black mouths as if they were small pumpkins.

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5.Costumes without plastic

You do not have to buy anything new for Halloween and, above all, no harmful plastic for the environment or cheap decorations manufactured, who knows under what conditions, thousands of quilometers away.

Instead, look to see what things you have at home and what can become a Halloween costume with little effort.How about the classics of crafts such as the old ghost costume made with an old sheet?

Another idea would be black clothes from head to foot and a face with a frightful makeup.A skeleton costume is also easy to do, everything you need are black meshes, a black shirt and white cloth paint.Paint the bones in the shirt with textile paint and voila.

Toasted pumpkin seeds

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