The Nature of Beauty
Date: December 15, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Hair Care, Makeup, Resources, Skin Care
Here’s the truth about beauty: as glowing as our morals, character and values may be, a girl will always love her products – who can blame her for adoring that perfect red lipstick?
But for an ecofabulous devotee, it can be hard to sort through all the lines claiming to be “all-natural” and “eco-friendly,” only to find out that the product still contains a host of harmful chemicals, usually bearing unpronounceable names.
Earlier this year, The Nature of Beauty launched with the goal of becoming the premier source of natural and organic beauty, body and hair care in America. The Nature of Beauty has emerged as a sweet solution for concerned eco-cosmetic devotees everywhere. With a comprehensive inventory of eco-products – including those for the ladies as well as for the eco-man and mom & baby – The Nature of Beauty is the Sephora for eco-conscious consumers. (more…)
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…)
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.
Read My Lips
Date: October 21, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Makeup, Teens for Safe Cosmetics
Whether you’re a mom who thinks your teen is perfect just the way she is or you’re a daughter whose mom equates makeup with toxic overload, have we got news for you!
Smooth Color Lip Cream by J. Lynne Cosmetics provides the perfect sheens for tweens. This smooth balm comes in seven sheer shades, with enough razzle to dazzle without being heavy on the eyes or earth. Part of a full line of environmentally conscious cosmetics–including powders, blushes, foundations, eyeliners and shadows–it’s so naturally glamorous, it might even inspire moms and daughters to share.
Countdown to Eco Chic Shopping SF Style
Date: October 13, 2008 | Category: Accessories, Bags, Fashion, Jewelry, Makeup, Shoes, Skin Care, Women
If you just couldn’t justify turning Columbus Day into an excuse to shop, perhaps Appel & Frank’s Eco-Chic Shopping Event might just qualify as a must-spend evening. A few of us are making plans to attend and indulge in two of our favorite pastimes: drinking wine and shopping for great green finds!
On Thursday, Oct. 23, eco-inclined shoppers in the Bay Area have the chance to spend an evening perusing green fashion items by designers like beacauseatom and Fair Tribe, as well as ogle the wares of mineral makeup vendors, ethical jewelers, natural bath product companies, environmental media groups, vintage clothes sellers, advocacy groups, and more.
The event runs from 5-9 p.m. at the Regency Center in San Francisco (1270 Sutter Street @ Van Ness). As incentive to get there early, the first 300 guests to walk through the doors will receive a reusable gift bag filled with green goodies like eco eye shadow, organic tea, Green Zebra guides, Bloomsberry chocolate, and other treats.
You can pre-order tickets online at the two-for-one price of $15. Now you can pick up all your sustainable holiday event gear on an organic shoestring budget.
A Calorie-Free Chocolate Treat
Date: October 13, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Makeup, Skin Care
Seriously, is this stuff actually lip balm?
On a recent jaunt down Hayes Street in San Francisco, Heather picked up a tube of Ganache for Lips in a tiny boutique called jacqueline talbot. The lip balm, which is made using Scharffen Berger Unsweetened Chocolate, smells and tastes so good that she has been licking her lips like a lunatic ever since.
The products were first cooked up in May 2003 in the kitchen of owner Patricia West, who was recovering from treatment for breast cancer. West set to work on creating an all-natural, healing lip balm for herself and her friends using aromatherapy concepts she had employed as natural remedies for the side effects of chemotherapy.
Ganache for Lips makes nine amazing flavors, all of which are 100 percent natural and free of petroleum products. And whether you are a vanilla enthusiast, deep into chocolate or like to pucker up with a lemon-flavored lip balm, none of the company’s products are tested on animals.
Just in time for winter, the creamy salves will prevent chapping… that is, of course, if you are able to resist devouring the tubes.
Eye-Catching
Date: September 1, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Featured, Makeup
A company after our own hearts and eyes, Organic Glam has an ironclad commitment to ethics, glamour and efficacy. Their new mineral eye pencils are the perfect incarnation of those three tenets. When the ladies at ecofabulous are looking to achieve the sexiest eyes to wink at the bartender serving us organic cocktails, we’ll turn to these wands for some instant smolder. They’ve replaced the customary hydrogenated fat with natural beeswax - which actually gives a perfect texture to this eye pencil - sans the risk of toxicity. Also void of preservatives or fragrances of any kind, here’s pure mineral eye enhancement at its finest. Available in navy, black and dark brown for $30 at The Organic Pharmacy.
The Future’s So Bright, I Have to Wear Shades of Green
Date: August 25, 2008 | Category: Body Care, Featured, Hair Care, Makeup, Resources, Skin Care, Stores & Resources
If you’ve ever been frustrated trying to figure out what beauty products are as gentle on the planet as they are on your skin, futurenatural has come to your rescue. This online hub was founded by “Organic Glamazon” Emma Pezzak, an amazingly talented and qualified make-up artist who also believes that natural does not have to mean any sacrifices in quality or style… in fact - just the opposite. That’s why her site is stocked full of the best natural, organic, biodynamic, wild-harvested and artisan beauty products in the world, also providing full disclosure of ingredients, an onsite glossary and personal stories behind each brand. futurenatural only sells products from companies that have no petroleum derivatives, no parabens, no synthetic colors or fragrances, no formaldehyde or any other known harmful ingredient. And of course none of their products are ever tested on animals. So when you shop futurenatural, you’ve already got an eco leg up. What shade of green you want to go is then up to you! Live Well. Do Good. Look Gorgeous. - as they say.
