Articles tagged “Skin Care”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Make Your Skin Younger with Green Tea By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 8 2008 Might green tea, with all its celebrated health benefits, also keep your skin looking younger when applied topically? Some researchers think it could, in a variety of ways. + READ MORE

A Green Family Read, How to Reuse Clothes Hangers, and The Skinny on Skin Soothing Black Soap By Jessica Root IN Work & Connect Sep 4 2008 Make Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment a family bedtime story. Learn how to reuse clothes hangers to keep them out of landfills. Get smoother, younger looking skin with organic, fair trade black soap. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Make Your Own Egg White Mask—Treats Acne By Lynda Fassa IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 4 2008 OK, I'm going to get right to the point—because when your skin breaks out, there's no time to lose! And this might be just the solution—it's all natural, probably something you already have in your house—plus it works like crazy and is super-cheap. + READ MORE

Use Lemon to Banish Shine on Your Face By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 29 2008 You can use lemon as an effective toner to help reduce oil and prevent shine on your face. Lemon juice has astringent and antiseptic properties that clear up excess perspiration and eliminate unwanted shine caused by high humidity. What a simple solution, especially when of the most recent and suddenly indispensable products we're seeing in ads and on the shelves are the shine-stoppers, promising to provide all-day protection and a soft, matte glow just like the ones in the airbrushed magazine photos. But do we really need all those prepackaged cosmetics? + READ MORE

Make Your Own Eco Blush with Strawberries By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 25 2008 Have you ever stopped to wonder what is in your makeup? After all, you're spreading it all over your face and there's no way you can avoid some of it sinking into your pores. I have personally heard horror stories about some of the ingredients in makeup. + READ MORE

Organic Orange Ginger Skin Salve, DIY Kitty Litter and the iZip Tricruiser By Jessica Root IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 21 2008 Stave off dry skin this Fall with Perfect Organics' All-Natural Orange Ginger Shea Butter. Reuse newspaper with DIY kitty litter. Take your groceries home in the iZip Tricruiser. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Throw an Easy Eco-Spa Party By Blythe Copeland IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 21 2008 Making your own bath and beauty products is an admirable pursuit, but even the most die-hard DIY'ers need a break now and then. That's where Green Bliss Eco Spa?and its owner, Randi Ragan?come in, with organic facials, skin care, and eco-friendly manicures and pedicures. Green Bliss also saves resources by, well, using some of yours: the company offers in-home spa days for all ages, with massages, holistic body treatments, and reflexology, among other services?so the next time you need a vacation from trying to relax, you can be pampered without ever stepping foot outside. + READ MORE

Greenvention: Eco-Friendly Tattoo Removal By Brian Merchant IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 12 2008 It turns out that some tattoos may be toxic--but fear not. Now you can get that ink removed in a newly greened procedure. That's right?the green revolution has even influenced things as unlikely as the procedure of tattoo removal. + READ MORE

Prep Your Party Face with House of Deming Mask By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 8 2008 Putting on a party is a lot of fun and a lot of work. It can be a flurry getting everything ready, making everything look beautiful...including you. + READ MORE

Full Steam Ahead to Great Skin By Jeannine Ouellette IN Fashion & Beauty Aug 5 2008 Skin problems like acne breakouts are trivial in the face of global warming, but this matters little when they happen to you, especially if they happen repeatedly.Rose petals or mint leaves are also a sensory delight, as are essential oils of clary sage, tea tree, or neroli (but if you are asthmatic or have breathing... + READ MORE

Tanning: The Healthy Way By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 30 2008 For a lot of people these days, the idea of a tan comes along with some unhealthy connotations. And why shouldn't it? I mean, skin cancer is on the rise and there's not too much good that comes along with the rays from tanning booths. Meanwhile, sun blocks and self-tanning lotions aren?t exactly made from the best stuff on earth. It seems as though the answer would be for everyone to simply be OK with their own skin color. + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Six: Drying, Out! By Blythe Copeland IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 25 2008 I've never been too into dry cleaning, but not for any environmental reasons?mostly because I always forget to pick up my clothes until weeks later when I realize they're missing. But for the last few months, I've been dutifully dropping off all my husband's dress shirts on a rotating schedule at the dry cleaner across the street from our house. I work from home, so I can (and sometimes do) wear sweatpants all day, but he works in an office. He needs his clothes spotless. + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Six: Bath Sense By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 23 2008 I'll admit it: I'm a bit of a bath product junkie. I've never really had to face my addiction to gels, soaps, sprays, and lotions?although I was embarrassed by the sheer quantity of them when my mom helped me pack before I moved a few months ago. (My mom has always been a just-Ivory-soap kind of lady.) But since I've been trying to green our house, I've stopped buying anything beyond basic soap and shampoo and?for a while?I even traded plastic bottles of body wash for cardboard-packaged bar soap. + READ MORE

Going Gorgeously Green By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 23 2008 Sophie Uliano, author of Gorgeously Green, is the definition of eco-chic.The average four minute shower with an old shower head (built before 1992) uses 20 gallons of water. + READ MORE

Emeril's Roasted Beet Salad With Walnut Dressing By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 21 2008 3 to 4 small beets, (red and/or golden) tops removed and washed 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons water 1/2 teaspoon salt plus more for seasoning 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper plus more for seasoning 1/4 cup sherry or banyuls vinegar 1 tablespoon finely chopped shallots 1 tablespoon honey 1/4 + READ MORE

Will Solar Rays Produce Three-Eyed Fish? By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 20 2008 As one might expect, Ed goes nuts over the solar power at Jackson Browne's home (not to mention the wind power). In addition to causing sunburn and other directly solar-related injuries, the high concentration of ultraviolet rays hitting the seas can strengthen toxins that are already present, resulting in super-potent... + READ MORE

How do you wax organically? By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 18 2008 Wanting to wax a part of your body is absolutely ok.Moom Organic Hair Removal Kit This stuff is especially cool because it cares for your skin while removing the hair from the root ... and with organic ingredients! + READ MORE

Is There Toxic Gas in Your Pool? By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 17 2008 Ah, summer: the sun, the ice-cream trucks, and the smell of chlorine that lingers on our skin hours after swimming. Many of us think of ozone merely as that vague substance in the sky that makes us feel guilty about using our air conditioners. Put simply, ozone (or O3) is a gas, present in the air in small amounts, which... + READ MORE

Living with Ed Episode: Two Busy Begleys By Team Planet Green IN Living With Ed Jul 13 2008 Rachelle is asked to help design an eco-friendly skin spa belonging to her new friend, Renee. Rachelle begins by consulting Janis; Janis is an artist, colorist and longtime friend. As they meet, Janis convinces Rachelle to add some color to... + READ MORE

Face the Facts: Homemade Face Masks Are Greener By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 4 2008 As we recently saw on Hollywood Green, there are ways that you can green up your beauty without utilizing harmful chemicals or even additional packaging.Here are some basic face masks that you can make on your own, and in a matter of minutes.All of these ingredients are simple to put together to make a great face mask. + READ MORE