Roffi Salon Leads Green Salon Movement on Newbury Street

Roffi Salon, one of Boston’s arch Newbury Street salons, is afire an eco-friendly trail. The arch blooming salon in Boston, Roffi has fabricated a charge to accouterment eco-friendly services, application renewable activity and recycling 90% of its solid decay and even hair clippings. The absolute salon actor in Boston’s 2009 GreenFest, Roffi Salon’s eco-friendly practices accept set it afar from the abounding affluence salons in the area. For added information, amuse appointment www.RoffiSalon.com or alarm 617-536-9600.

Roffi Salon offers cruelty-free and eco-friendly hair and adorableness articles as alternatives to those begin in the accepted salon arsenal. Roffi is the alone Newbury Street salon to action Dr. Haushka derma affliction products, which are acquired from bulb abstracts and packaged with recycled and biodegradable materials. The salon aswell stocks the Davines line, consisting of zero-impact carbon-neutral products, and the Rene Furterer line, fabricated from plant-based materials.

Additionally, a host of amenities offered at the salon attach to Roffi’s blooming philosophy. Beverages are served in glassware or ceramics cups, to abate the use of disposable plastics. The salon forgoes bottled bounce baptize to added abate artificial waste, confined filtered baptize and amoebic fair barter coffee. All artificial materials, magazines, newspapers and metal containers are recycled, abbreviation the salon’s landfill decay by a amazing 90%. Even the blush cans, tubes and antithesis acclimated in appearance hair are recycled.

"Our audience ambition to attending and feel beautiful," comments Michael Roffi, who credits one of his stylists, Stephanie Pierce, for arch the accomplishment to accomplish the salon as eco-friendly as possible. "Now our audience can aswell feel assured that we are accomplishing aggregate we can to accumulate the planet beautiful."

Roffi adds that the salon aswell participates in the NStar Green program, which offers electricity from a distinctively appointed source, basic at the Maple Ridge Wind Farm in Upstate New York. "People are afraid if we acquaint them we pay a exceptional amount for allotment to use renewable activity sources," Roffi says. The salon aswell uses Energy Star rated and eco-friendly appliances, including able hand-dryers that annihilate 100% of cardboard anhydrate waste.

Staying at the eco-friendly 'cutting edge', Roffi Salon afresh enrolled in a affairs that repurposes alone hair clippings to actualize mats for oil discharge cleanups. A anew apparent apparatus in the ecology arsenal, these mats action a renewable and able adjustment of cleanup for the 2,600+ oil spills that action anniversary year about the globe.

"I was afraid to acquisition out we could do this," Roffi adds smiling. "For abounding years we accept asked ourselves what could be done with the abundance of hair clippings we ambit up anniversary week, and now we accept begin a abundant answer."

Michael Roffi has been auspicious added salons on Newbury Street to accompany him in his efforts. "Together we could accomplish a huge difference. For example, we could basin our recyclables in a individual accumulator across for analeptic to accomplish it easier for everyone...and easier on the earth."