Attack Winter Chest Colds with These Herbs & Home Remedies
Image courtesy of Flickr user Freeparking: “The Sick Child” by Munch A couple weeks ago, upon returning from Christmas vacation and having caught a chest cold from a family member, I started to get that old familiar feeling: the onset of bronchitis. Ever since I first got it a few…
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…
Miss Vermont Chooses Eco-Friendly Gown for Miss America Pageant
There’s a lot I don’t like about Miss America. Sure, they give many scholarships to women, but let’s be real: Miss America isn’t about advancing women’s rights and causes, it’s about rewarding beautiful women for being beautiful. In my opinion, the pageant misrepresents itself as something greater than what it…
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…
Interview with Seth Leitman, Author of ‘Build Your Own Electric Vehicle’
Electric cars are the way of the future, but not many of us can afford a Tesla and we’re still waiting on that Chevy Volt. In the meantime, author Seth Leitman shows us how we can green up the cars we own right now and transform them from gas guzzlers…
Eco Chick’s Best of the Best Green Holiday Gifts
Merry Eco Chicky Christmas! The editors of Eco-Chick.com have chosen some of our favorite eco-friendly gifts for your shopping pleasure, and get ready to drool, because this stuff is awesome. Here are 10 gifts including reusable bags, luxurious sustainable jewelry, organic cotton pillows, beauty products, tea sets and more to…
Actress Kelly Rutherford Unveils Sylvania ‘Living Spaces’ Eco Lights
Actress and eco-advocate Kelly Rutherford, star of guilty pleasure TV hit ‘Gossip Girl’, helped debut the new Sylvania ‘Living Spaces’ line of compact fluorescent light bulbs last weekend and we were pleased to notice some exciting new features among the product line. Sylvania’s new collection is reputed to have a…
How to Rock an Ugly Christmas Sweater, Eco Chick Style
Image via: Flickr user tifotterThe Daily Green!). Somehow, guys can wear the most hideous Christmas sweaters and look hilarious, yet most girls end up looking like your dorky 2nd grade substitute teacher who wore holiday-themed turtlenecks under a denim jumper. So, how do you rock the ugly Christmas sweater if…
5 Ways to Warm Up & Relax After a Cold Winter Day
There’s something really satisfying about warming up and unwinding after a cold day out and about – whether you were hitting the ski slopes or just walking from store to store while holiday shopping. We all have our favorite ways to do it: curling up on a blanket in front…
Delight.com Giveaway: Win a Klean Kanteen & a I’m Not a Paper Cup!
UPDATE: And the winner is – Tara! Tara said, I will use the Kleen Kanteen to keep water in at all times for my daughter who absolutely “needs” water at any given moment. We are currently using glass jars for water (instead of plastic) and I put one of her…