Peace, Plants, and Harmony

Date: September 16, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Hair Care, Skin Care

You feel better when you eat better. It’s that simple. But somehow this well-understood fact doesn’t translate to skincare. Think about it: if you put organic, healthy ingredients on your body, your skin will feel better and actually be healthier - our bodies absorb 60% of what we put on our skin. So next time you feel like getting healthy, why not take a stab at improving your skin routine. We recommend transitioning to life as a Nature Girl. (more…)

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The Ecofabulous Guide to Yoga

Date: September 15, 2010 | Category: Guides

This guide is presented by PURE organic bars.

September is National Yoga Month, and in celebration of the practice that so many of us at ecofabulous HQ hold dear (before founding ecofabulous, Zem had started creating an eco-friendly yoga apparel line of her own!), we wanted to offer a guide of our favorite companies and products. While yoga is a beautiful thing, many of the products that support your poses are anything but healthy. We believe that everything associated with yoga should be as conscious as your asanas so we’ve curated a list of top yoga apparel and accessories just for you. Read below to learn how you can ditch the PVC-laden mat for one made of natural tapped rubber (and recycle your old one!), and commit to purchasing apparel that is produced without pesticides. Enjoy!

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A Drink for Mind and Matter

Date: September 14, 2010 | Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle

In a sea of sports drinks, electrolyte gels and energy powder, it’s hard to know where to turn to refuel. For athletes that aim to refine their mind and matter, YogaEarth nutrition drinks offer two phytonutrient powder mixes (just add water) packed with protein, amino acids, B-vitamins, macrominerals and more. (more…)

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WEEKLY GIVEAWAY: Haute Handmade

Date: September 13, 2010 | Category: Accessories, Fashion, Jewelry

With such a warm response to one of our recent “Zem’s List” weekly newsletters about some of Zem’s favorite haute handmade jewelry pieces, we thought we’d offer up a few this week to our subscribers. (more…)

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Announcing “The Gentlemen’s Green”

Date: September 10, 2010 | Category: Fashion, Men

We are thrilled to announce the start of a new feature on ecofabulous. While we occasionally cover men’s fashion and lifestyle products, we are often asked for more of the ecofabulous man - not just by men themselves, but by stylish and sustainable ladies looking to outfit their guys (and since female consumers make a majority of the purchasing decisions, we wanted to make sure we’re providing all the relevant info needed to make conscious choices). Given that the current ecofab team is sans male voice, we turned to our friend (and long-time blog crush) Brad Bennett over at Commerce with a Conscience. (more…)

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VIDEO: 5 Tips for Designing a Green Kitchen

Date: September 9, 2010 | Category: Green Building, Kitchen, The Home

The last in a 3-part series of videos filmed at the MODERN LIVING Showhouse at Dwell on Design takes us through 5 of Zem’s tips for designing a green kitchen. Presented by Electrolux, the video walks us through the showhouse kitchen and highlights a few of the ways the ecofabulous team incorporated energy-efficiency, water conservation and recycled materials into her stylish design. (more…)

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Amazon Woman

Date: September 8, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care

While still on the search for a product that will actually give us longer legs, in the meantime, we’ll be satisfied with discovering the secret to picture perfect, thick, flowing, lustrous hair. From the depths of the Amazon forest comes the Rahua (ra-wa) nut from which restorative oils are found that revitalize and repair hair cuticles leaving you with smooth and oh-so-silky strands. (more…)

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Music to My Ears (+ WEEKLY GIVEAWAY)

Date: September 7, 2010 | Category: Lifestyle, Tech

iPad cover, check. iPhone cover, check. What other tech accessory could you possibly need? Why earphones, of course. From the design team at Vers Audio comes the Vers 1E, sound isolation earphones with a microphone and a touch of sustainable wood or bamboo. (more…)

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Best of the Rest

Date: September 6, 2010 | Category: Home Furnishings, The Home

Naps are a treat no matter where you lay your head, but a lazy afternoon snooze in the sun? Few things in life bring such simple pleasure. (more…)

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Boxing Day

Date: September 3, 2010 | Category: Lifestyle, Stores & Resources

As eBay’s Eco Lifestyle Expert, we often hear ecofabulous founder Zem Joaquin spreading the good news of buying vintage or pre-owned. We’ve always known it was eco-friendly to reuse and purchase products that are already in existence rather than using virgin resources, but it’s surprising when you take a closer look and evaluate how good it really is. According to the calculations done by Cooler Inc., commissioned by The eBay Green Team, buying a pre-loved silk dress saves 95% of the CO2 needed to make a new one! Choosing a pre-loved sweater saves the energy equivalent of 68 loads of laundry, and choosing new-to-you leather shoes saves more energy than an average household uses in a day (watch Zem discuss this further in a recent video). But now, The eBay Green Team’s got another green initiative up their organic cotton sleeve: simple green shipping. (more…)

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