Articles tagged “Green Personal Grooming”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Get Your Butt Ready For Your Vacation By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jul 16 2011 When it comes to getting your butt into vacation shape, there are two things you must do: -Get a Fanny Facial -Do a Quickie Workout in Bed (daily) Exfoliated, lifted, and toned, you will soon be able to put your best butt forward and show off those assets on your beach vacation. + READ MORE

Formaldehyde In Your Body Wash? Yep, and 6 Other Surprising Places By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Apr 20 2011 Formaldehyde is a chemical that everyone knows exists, but does not know that they probably come into contact with it on a daily basis, if not several times a day. + READ MORE

7 Homemade Spa Treatments Made From Holiday Leftovers By Sara Novak IN Food & Health Dec 27 2010 From turkey enchiladas, to mashed potato fritters, we're always looking for ways to put our holiday leftovers to good use. But what if we stopped shoveling it in and started shoveling it on? Why not nurture your dry, winter skin with seasonal eats? And don't worry, we're not talking a gravy mask or mashed potato soak, these spa treatments are so indulgent you'll forget their former glory entirely. + READ MORE

Winter Fitness for Your Skin By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 17 2010 When working out, you can’t expect to see results in one day. Your body has to develop strength, in order to withstand tougher conditions. Same goes for the skin. And those "tougher conditions"- winter. Yes, the cold dry air can wreak havoc on both your skin and hair. But it doesn't have to. + READ MORE

The Safety of Personal Care Products By Care2.com IN Food & Health Aug 26 2010 According to the Environmental Working Group, the average American is exposed to more than a hundred different chemicals from personal-care products every day. We use multiple personal care products that contain chemical ingredients that are absorbed through the skin, inhaled or ingested. So it’s not surprising that potentially harmful chemicals get into our bodies, our breast milk and our children. + READ MORE

Allergies? Sinus Trouble? Ear Trouble? A Neti Pot Might Be For You By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Aug 17 2010 The neti pot worked when doctor-recommended treatments did not. + READ MORE

The Whole Story on Whole Foods' New Organic Beauty Standards By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 30 2010 How Whole Foods Whole Body is Changing the Personal Care Products Game with Stricter Organic Standards for Beauty Products. + READ MORE

Why You Should Put Oil on Your Face (and in Your Hair, too!) By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 26 2010 The co-authors of NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS explain why this counterintuitive (and completely green!) beauty tip actually works. + READ MORE

What's the Story with Cosmetics? And How Will the Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010 Help? By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 21 2010 The Story of Stuff Project is back with a new video; and Congress has a shiny new bill on the table to match. + READ MORE

What's in Your Cosmetics Bag? By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 19 2010 Probably lots of toxic chemicals that you'd rather do without. Learn more in this Q&A with Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt, co-authors of the new book NO MORE DIRTY LOOKS. + READ MORE

The Plastic Project Part 5: Three Natural Deodorant Alternatives That Work. By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 14 2010 How to solve the problem of antiperspirant? I've been test-running three less toxic, less plastic options for you. And so far, nobody's complained about the smell. + READ MORE

The Plastic Project Part 4: Safe Plastic Swaps For Your Hair By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 7 2010 Finding non-plastic haircare products is harder than you might think. Here's what's working for me, plus some DIY shampoo, conditioner and styling product ideas you can try at home. + READ MORE

The Plastic Project Part 2: The Plastic In My Bathroom By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 1 2010 I took an inventory of all the plastic products in my daily bathroom routine. Here's the tally of what I can keep and what I should ditch. What's in your bathroom cabinet? + READ MORE

The Plastic Project Part 3: What's In Your Tampons? By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Food & Health Jul 1 2010 Feminine hygiene products have a lot of plastic packaging — not to mention other additives that aren't so great for your health, says a new video from Seventh Generation. + READ MORE

Is Your Sunscreen Brand Lying to You? By Rachel Cernansky IN Food & Health Jun 29 2010 The FDA is considering new regulations on sunscreen protection and labeling claims, but the process is a slow one -- despite that many labels are currently misleading and as a result, dangerous for your skin's health. + READ MORE

Ditch the Chemicals: Make Your Own Perfume from Flowers in Your Garden By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Jun 10 2010 Learn how to make your own natural, chemical-free fragrances from the experts who already are. + READ MORE

How To Avoid Secret Toxins in Your Perfume By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty May 12 2010 A new report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics finds an average of 14 secret ingredients in major brands of perfume - most of which have never been tested for safety. Now that doesn't smell so great. + READ MORE

Banish Butt Blemishes With A Fanny Facial By Laurel House IN Fashion & Beauty May 6 2010 Savvy spa-goers know all about facials, they've cocooned their bodies in skin-satiating serums too many times to count, and have had their mangled muscles massaged into submission... and now they want more. Though not normally seen by the public eye (and even more rarely viewed by you), your fanny is about to strut it down the beach in a teeny eco bikini. Don't let it be an eye sore. Instead, treat it to a facial. A fanny facial. + READ MORE

What Makes a Beauty Product Biodegradable? By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 30 2010 While the word "biodegradable" should mean that a product (as in, both the goo you put on your skin and the box or bottle it comes in) will break back down into nature within a reasonably short time frame, there aren't any government standards for how it degrades or how quickly that happens and no government agency requires manufacturers to formally verify their claims. + READ MORE

Avoid the 'Toxic Trio' of Ingredients to Get Greener Nail Polish By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Apr 27 2010 Here's hoping this is the start of a new polish recycling trend for consumers and salons, too. Meanwhile, bring a bottle of toxin-free polish in with you the next time you get a pedicure, and suggest your local salon consider carrying a safer brand. And learn more about how you can support safer work environments for nail technicians from the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative. + READ MORE