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Green Women's Personal Care: From the Archives
Dig deeper into these articles on women's personal care from the TreeHugger and Planet Green archives.
TreeHugger's Fashion + Beauty and Food + Health archive sections are a gold mine of information about female personal care. There are numerous posts on beauty products, eco-friendly brands, and personal hygiene issues. You can browse this section for inspiration at your leisure, but in the meantime the links below are posts related to the key points made in this guide. Many posts have generated reader comments that are also useful and thought provoking threads to follow.
Ready to dig deeper into skin care? Our guide for How to Go Green: Natural Skin Care will show you how to make beauty more than just skin deep.
Do it yourself
Here's a recipe for homemade lemon hand treatment that gently sloughs away rough patches, moisturizes, and brightens skin with sugar, coconut oil, and lemon juice.
A how-to guide on making soap at home—not quite as simple as the lemon hand treatment above but still it's worth a go!
A few suggestions on how to make the most of tea tree oil and its very useful natural antibacterial properties.
Planet Green has a wealth of DIY personal care info, including shaving cream, eco-friendly cosmetics, rose-scented lotion, bath bombs, and three ways to make your own shampoo, just to name a few.
Green women's personal care products
You can get paraben-free products from Bon Santé.
The Organic Pharmacy is a one-stop shop for organic lotions and potions, selling their own brand and others such as Dr. Hauscka and Living Nature.
Avalon Organics insures their Baby Avalon line does not contain synthetic fragrances, artificial colors, parabens, mineral oil, petrolatum, propylene glycol or sulfates.
The Razor Saver resharpens disposable razors and pays for itself in no time.
Lunapads makes all sorts of female protection products such as menstrual pads, panties, cups and sponges, all washable and reusable.
The Mooncup is a menstrual cup to be used as an alternative to using tampons and sanitary towels, therefore reducing the amount going into landfill and saving yourself money in the process.
The Keeper is a rubber alternative to the Mooncup.
Yes, even lubes have petrochemcicals and parabens in them. Sylk Personal Lubricant is a 100 percent natural lubricant to keeps things slippery when wet!
TreeHugger investigates...
Check out TreeHugger’s top five picks in the personal care aisle.
TreeHugger interviewed Anita Boen, manager and resident herbal expert at Rancho Tres Estrellas, a small organic farm that provides herbs, fruits and vegetables for the world-renown destination spa, Rancho La Puerta.
We look at the Ethical Consumer's investigation of the concern that the chemicals in the suntan lotion itself may be something to be wary of.
Take a closer look at the trend of transexualizing fish and the sunscreen connection.
Dig deeper into the growth of the natural skincare industry over the last few years. It also has information abut the U.S. government's ruling on organic labeling of beauty products.
As Europe reformulates the world's makeup, see how the U.S.'s beauty product market could be overhauled.
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