The Green Recessionista’s Guide to Beauty & Personal Care
With the economy in shambles, it’s harder than ever to shell out $65 for face cream or upwards of $100 for a trip to the spa. If your pocketbook has been hit – or you’re just nervous and looking to save money – there’s no need to resort to using…
Eco Beauty Review: Everyday Minerals Makeup
I stumbled across the Everyday Minerals website a year or so ago when looking for alternatives to the MAC pigments I had been using as eye shadow and eyeliner for years. I was surprised to find a wide variety of foundations, concealers, blush, eye shadow, lip gloss and finishing powders…
Book Review: The Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel
These days, it can be dangerous to attempt to navigate the toxic waters of the beauty industry on your own. There’s trouble at every turn – neurotoxins, hormone disruptors and other baddies cloaked in innocuous-sounding alternate names abound in practically every product you pick up at the store. While some…
Eco Chic Weekly – December 9, 2008
The Alternative Consumer has some sexy and eco-savvy graphic T-shirts from Sustainabilitee! Eco-Chick tells you how to keep away the stink–the natural way! Fashion, evolved is drooling over the 100% sustainable and ethical jewelry by Dawes Design. Fig+Sage introduces Amala Beauty–and has a giveaway worth $152! Green Grechen has the…
Spirit Beauty Lounge Offers Organic Beauty Online
When you’re shopping for cosmetics, lotion, cleansers, shampoo and other beauty necessities, it can be hard to keep track of all the nasty ingredients you’re supposed to avoid. After all, companies are getting tricky lately with disguising ingredients like formaldehyde with relatively innocuous-sounding alternative names. That’s why it’s important to…
Are Aveda Products as Safe and Natural as They Claim?
Aveda is one of those brands that has long held a reputation for being pure, natural, safe and environmentally friendly. After all, Aveda brands itself as “providing beauty industry professionals with high performance, botanically based products that would be better for service providers and their guests, as well as for…
Beware of Greenwashing: Natural Beauty Products Flooding the Market
A study released by Mintel last week showed that the number of beauty products labeled ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ are at an all-time high, up 23% from 2007. This is great news for anyone who’s been frustrated in the past by the lack of ethical, healthy, natural options. While there are…
Top 5 Fave Natural Beauty Products for Fall
Now that we’re deep into October and cool weather has dominated for over a month here in the mountains of Western North Carolina where I live, I’ve had a chance to try out some fantastic products that evoke the spirit of the season in scent, color and texture. Some are…
Eco Chic Weekly!
Announcing…the new Blog Association that is heralding the Fashion Revolution! I am so pleased to introduce you to the new blog group Eco Chic Weekly. We are a small but rapidly growing group of writers that focus on future of fashion: Sustainability! The members of Eco Chic Weekly are all…
‘Teens Turning Green’ Eco Body Care Now Available at Whole Foods
Most teenage girls experiment with a lot of different cosmetics and body care products, trying out different brands, colors and scents. But concern about what’s in those products isn’t just limited to adults, and that’s how ‘Teens for Safe Cosmetics website: “Our goal is to affect change in a positive…
