Bam-Beautiful
Date: November 24, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Makeup, Teens for Safe Cosmetics
As an ecofabulous reader, you started to replace many of your beauty products with ecological options – sans toxins and chemical-based preservatives (always referring to the trustworthy Teens for Safe Cosmetics). And if you’re paying close attention, you are hopefully starting to question the “process” as much as the “product.” Well, the process for that pretty face can now include make-up brushes that carry your mineral-based powder from the compact to your cheekbones in full sustainable style. (more…)
Me and My Big Mouth
Date: November 17, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Featured, Makeup
With Hollywood starlets trying to pucker up like Angelina Jolie but instead usually ending up looking like Rocky Balboa after a fight, ecofab girls steer clear of collagen and such. So what is the best way to get your pout on? Jane Iredale’s Just Kissed Lip Plumper is a non-invasive solution to creating a fuller bouche. (more…)
Extra: Brad Pitt is Showering with Kiehl’s and Angelina is Happy About It!
Date: November 17, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Skin Care
In partnership with Pitt, Kiehl’s just introduced its first Cradle to Cradle Certified product. The delicately scented liquid body cleanser, is formulated without parabens, SLS or dyes and is packaged in a 100 percent post consumer recycled bottle.
All proceeds from the Aloe Vera Biodegradable Liquid Body Cleanser will support the work of JPF Eco Systems, a charitable organization created by Kiehl’s and Brad Pitt with the goal of maximizing awareness of environmental sustainability.
Think of it as six degrees of separation in the shower. You use the Aloe Vera Biodegradable Liquid Body Cleanser… Brad Pit uses it too…When it comes down to it, you may as well be showering together. The natural fragrance is so light that men and women can share it. Plus, it would save water after all.
What is Red and Blooms? No, not Roses!
Date: November 17, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Makeup
Carrying around extra cargo just got appealing!
Cargo Cosmetics’s PlantLove Botanical Lipstick is planted inside a box made of paper embedded with real flower seeds, which can be used in your garden or flower pot. Inside the box, you’ll find a tube made entirely out of corn. In the tube is lip-loving lipstick infused with Orchid Complex and meadowfoam seed oil as well as jojoba and shea butter.
Add to that the fact that Cargo will donate $2 from the sale of every $20 tube to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and you’ll want to plant a big, bright kiss on everyone you meet.
While Cargo has done a great job of creating eco-friendly packaging, unfortunately these lipsticks still contain parabens. We applaud the company for its efforts but wish that the product inside the tube was as green as the tube itself.
Saved by the Balm
Date: November 10, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Makeup, Skin Care
With winter on its way (or already here, depending on where you live) the ecofabulous office has been bombarded by a bevy of lip balms. One of our new favorites is from Save Your World.
Our complaint with many lip balms is that they are either waxy or greasy, neither of which feels good on your pucker. Save Your Lips lip balm is moisturizing but non-greasy and made with naturally healing ingredients, like organic aloe and coconut oil, while organic Yerba Maté adds a tiny bit of tingle. And in flavors like Green Tea, Grapefruit Mango and Pure (unflavored) there is something that will make everyone was to lick their lips.
Plus, the products are paraben-free, pH balanced, vegan, not testing on animals and packaged in recyclable packaging. And in addition, for every product you buy the company vows to donate enough to save one acre of rainforest.
Find Your Inner Glow at Epi Center
Date: November 10, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Featured, Skin Care
After a particularly grueling month of work, I noticed that my staff was starting to look a little bit, well, unwell, and I realized that as a team we all needed a little bit of TLC to get us back on track. There was never a question in my mind that the place for us to all recharge would be the Epi Center MedSpa, the nation’s original medical spa, which has recently given itself a facelift and gone green.
Epi Center has been a trendsetter in the skin rejuvenation industry since it opening a decade ago. It has offered beauty treatments with the expertise of a board certified plastic surgeon since its founding in 1988 by Margaret Mitchell and world-renowned dermatologist Dr. Patrick Bitter Sr., MD (who developed the revolutionary PhotoFacial treatment, the results of which are truly extraordinary!) Today, Epi Center combines its beauty-enhancing medical procedures with 100 percent organic treatments in an eco-friendly environment in sustainable LEED-certified offices at 450 Sutter Street in San Francisco. (more…)
Naturally Hugo
Date: November 3, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Hair Care
If your resistance to all-natural bath and beauty products originated with your high school guitar teacher, whose rhythmic strumming was all but obliterated by the cloud of Patchouli around him, you can (finally) take a deep breath.
More spa line than hippy potions, Hugo Naturals will set you straight about the state of natural bath options. The line of vegan, cruelty-free hair care products, soaps, lotions, scrubs and creams feels rich and indulgent, so much so that you won’t notice the missing parabens, alcohols, petroleum products, artificial colors or artificial fragrances. And the packaging, which can be recycled, is beautiful enough to make an impressive gift.
Deliciously scented with essential oils and plant essences, the smell wafting from your shower will recall visits to high-end spas, not poorly plucked attempts at “Scarborough Fair.”
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
Date: October 28, 2008 | Category: Fashion, Featured, Teens for Safe Cosmetics, Women
Whether you are looking for love or just hoping you won’t have to go to the prom with your cousin, this Boy Meets Girl t-shirt from Ravin is sure to attract eco-enthusiasts as well as their less noble counterparts.
Made of 100 percent organic cotton in a fitted girl-friendly shape, the tee retails for $40 and is so cute we’d be surprised if the boys don’t attempt to kiss you in the halls. Let your cousin know in advance that he won’t have to rent a tux.
A Drink to Your Face
Date: October 27, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Skin Care
Short of soaking in a pool of wine (which doesn’t sound half bad), there’s nothing like grapeseed oil for smoothing away fine lines and inebriating our skin in luscious antioxidents. Grapeseed Company has bottled this miracle elixir into a potent, plant-derived skincare collection.
Created from by-products of the wine-making process along with vitamin-rich ingredients, like damask rose and lavender, the line is 80 percent organic. Designed to rejuvenate and plump the skin, the five-step regimen includes a facial wash, toner, pure grape seed oil, skin serum and moisturizing lotion. So if your love of the vine knows no bounds, you can sink your skin into supple without the attendant hangover.
