Articles tagged “Hair”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

5 Reuses for: Shower Curtains II By Team Planet Green IN Wrecklamation Jul 16 2008 Thinking about changing up the color of your bathroom, but don't want to abandon your favorite shower curtain? Wipe your weeping eyes and read my five reuses for it. I promise your rubber ducky patterned prize won't have to... + READ MORE

Keeping Your Shower on the Down Flow By Trevor Reichman IN Home & Garden Jul 16 2008 Annabelle recommended shared showers for the fraternity brothers featured on Wa$ted as a way to conserve water. You will use a bucket to catch the water that would normally go down the drain while waiting for the water temperature to get to your desired comfort level. + READ MORE

G Word Episode: Getting Rid of Greasy Build-up By Team Planet Green IN G Word Jun 30 2008 Correspondent David Newsom learns how human hair is being used to clean up San Francisco bay oil spills; Todd Sutton the Waste Sleuth discovers the surprising uses for restaurant grease, and Suchin heads to New Jersey to visit the super... + READ MORE

Why I Wash My Hair With Floor Cleaner By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 17 2008 This is my vote for the most eco-friendly household product. I use this stuff to clean my floors, countertops, cabinets; I wash my hair with it, take a bubble bath in it and do my laundry with it. I use it for almost every cleaning chore I've got to do. And yes, I smell like candy canes during Christmas?what could be better than Dr. Wood's peppermint castile soap? + READ MORE

Get Green Hair for Prom By Lynda Fassa IN Fashion & Beauty Jun 12 2008 'Tis the season to updo, and if you want to help yur daughter go easy on the eyes and the environment, you might want to try some totally unplugged primping from green hair guru Katherine Semke, proprieter of Westchester's famed eco-salon, Katherine Winters in Irvington, New York. Here she reintroduces us to what our great grandmothers did to get soft, opulent tresses... + READ MORE

Ride The Wave With A Saltwater Pool By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 7 2008 We visit a beach house in Episode 1 of World's Greenest Homes where surf and sand meet green design. You can put a touch of the ocean in your own backyard by converting your swimming pool from traditional chlorination to an eco-smart saltwater maintenance system. + READ MORE

About Maria Menounos By Team Planet Green IN Hollywood Green Jun 3 2008 Maria Menounos brings glamour to green living as the hostess of Hollywood Green. Both as the special correspondent for daily entertainment newsmagazine "Access Hollywood," and on Hollywood Green, Maria provides TV viewers with comprehensive coverage of entertainment and news personalities.... + READ MORE

Greensburg Families By Team Planet Green IN Greensburg Jun 2 2008 THE BROWNS Marilyn and Robin Brown and their daughter, Kodi Lynn, live in a FEMA trailer and are in the process of rebuilding their home green. Marilyn works in the county appraiser's office. The family is having financial issues with... + READ MORE

Ask Summer Rayne: Are There Eco-Friendly Options for Hair Dye? By Summer Rayne Oakes IN Fashion & Beauty May 21 2008 I stopped coloring my hair a few years ago because of the toxins and heavy metals contained in conventional hair dyes. I'd like to tell you that I'm comfortable with going gray, but I'm really not! Are there safer alternatives for coloring my hair? + READ MORE

Being Ed By Team Planet Green IN Living With Ed May 14 2008 While he's well known and respected for his work in the acting realm, Ed has never shied away from his roots in environmental activism. Tailoring his lifestyle to be eco-friendly and green thinking, Ed's house is a concrete example of... + READ MORE

Solve Diaper Rash, Choose Calendula By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health May 2 2008 A friend called me this morning with the exciting news she's about to become a mom! Since she's adopting from Vietnam--and kids from Southeast Asia have a high propensity for eczema--she asked me for advice. + READ MORE

Cut Your Own Hair By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Apr 9 2008 Obviously a task suited only for the brave of heart-and steady of hand-trimming your own locks will not only save you time and fuel, but also a whole lot of dough.Be aware that on most people, the hair on one side of their head grows faster than on the other, so if you choose this method, you will need to visit your... + READ MORE

Look Before You Leap Into the Indoor Pool By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Mar 14 2008 Indoor swimming is a great form of exercise, especially in the dark winter months when we're not exactly champing at the bit to freeze our tuckuses outside.The flip side is that chlorine is highly reactive; it not only kills bacteria, but also combines with organic chemicals coming from people's bodies, [such as] sweat... + READ MORE

Skip the Shampoo, Get Cleaner Air By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 13 2008 We only wish we were kidding: A new study has discovered that greasy hair may actually reduce the amount of ozone you breathe in. Although ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from shriveling up under the sun's ultraviolet rays, ground-level concentrations of the gas can cause respiratory distress and even... + READ MORE

Use Baking Soda to Strip Paint, Shampoo Your Hair By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Mar 6 2008 Sure, we know that baking soda is a great multitasker, unclogging drains, cleaning up grease spills, and curing indigestion (not to mention fluffing up cakes and cookies!). If the idea of boiling your hardware makes you nervous, soak it in the solution for a couple of hours, instead; if you can n't take the hardware... + READ MORE

Remove Pet Hair the Easy Way By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 5 2008 One of the downsides of keeping a pet: Unless you're living with a naked mole rat (or you're a poor housekeeper), you spend more time than you'd like picking up hair that your pooch or kitty just shed with reams and reams of disposable lint tape. Rather than constantly removing and washing the duvet cover to rid it of... + READ MORE

Rest Your Head on a Greener, Healthier Pillow in Eight Ways By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 29 2008 You may not think too much about where you lay your head at night-and, hey, you're asleep, so we don't blame you-but there are handful of things to look for if allergies or the thought of breathing in chemical fumes or being exposed to synthetic dyes and other toxins are keeping you up at night. Millet offers another... + READ MORE

Lend Your Locks to the Environment By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Jan 8 2008 Your snipped-off tresses at the hair salon can do much more than sit idly in the trash. Plus, 98 percent of the oil sopped up by the mats can be recovered, according to OttiMat, the company that invented the mats and loans out the design to Matter of Trust for remediating emergency spills, including the Nov. 7, 2007... + READ MORE

Save Time With a Quick Honey-Sugar Face Scrub By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 20 2007 This writer doesn't have a lot of time (or patience) to putz around with complicated skincare regimens, so I whipped up a quickie face scrub I could use in the shower whenever my complexion started looking wan and lifeless.No Time to Lose Honey-Sugar Face ScrubMakes 1 portion 1 tbs organic, unprocessed honey1 tbs... + READ MORE

Combat Dandruff with Household Staples By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Dec 11 2007 If your noggin is perpetually snowed in, you don't have to look further than your kitchen cabinet to find nontoxic relief for your weather woes, according to the authors of Extraordinary Uses for Ordinary Things (2007, Reader's Digest). Think lemon juice and apple cider vinegar, for starters, and avoid most... + READ MORE