For Your Baby Mama
Date: February 18, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Care, Skin Care
Stretch marks, morning sickness, back pain and all, let us not forget who brought us into this world (not like mom would ever let you!). This time around, along with not having to walk to school uphill (both ways) in the snow, there have also been some incredible developments in natural, organic skincare specifically designed for mommies and mommies-to-be. (more…)
The Rare Essentials
Date: February 17, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
It’s no surprise to find a product with the highest standard of luxury in Beverly Hills, CA - but with the highest standard of environmental sensitivity? Yes, it’s rare. But we’ve found a combo that’s taking the salon industry by storm - Rare El’ements International Hair Collection. (more…)
Beauty and The Brain
Date: February 11, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Hair Care, Skin Care
When smart design meets style and substance, the combination can be unstoppable. Such is the case with Intelligent Nutrients, the new certified organic health and beauty product line from Horst Rechelbacher (you may recognize the name as the original founder of The Aveda Corporation). (more…)
Teens Turning Green National Summit
Date: February 5, 2010 | Category: Events, Lifestyle, Teens for Safe Cosmetics
This Friday and Saturday, Teens Turning Green will host their 5th Annual National Summit in Marin County, California, bringing together students and community members with the foremost leaders and experts of the eco-space. We’re constantly amazed by what this group of passionate young leaders can accomplish (like the incredible Project Green Dorm and Project Green Prom), but even after 5 years, this summit continues to blow us away! (more…)
It’s Coming Up Primrose
Date: January 18, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care, Resources, Stores & Resources
When we first walked into Los Angeles salon Primrose Organics, the sweet aroma of botanicals immediately put us at ease, as did the sunny demeanor of its co-owners, Felicia Howe and Melissa Tornay.
Los Angeles is rife with glitzy hair salons, most of which tend toward a cold aesthetic and factory-like treatment of clients. Not so at Primrose, where a light-filled interior decorated with vintage vanities, painted with VOC-free paint, and stylists’ inscrutable attention to your - yes, your - needs make for a warm ambiance. (more…)
A Change of Face
Date: January 14, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Makeup
A new year, a new you. As the quest for health, wealth and happiness is picked up once again, consider indulging in a small change that promises big results - a beauty bag overhaul. Commit to ridding your routine of the dirty thirty and invest in a few pieces from Vapour Organic Beauty that promise to deliver results without the toxic side effects. (more…)
Color Me Natural
Date: January 6, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Hair Care
You color job may be a passing phase but the chemical damage done - to your beautiful self and the environment - is one bad dye job that will never rinse out. If changing your mane is the name of your game, rest assured that you don’t have to sacrifice true color in order to get a regimen free of nasties like PPD (a known carcinogen) or ammonia - do you really want to subject your tresses to the awful cleaner originally used to scrub toilets? (more…)
Va-Va-(La)Vanila
Date: December 28, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance
You’ve made the switch to organic food, you carry your reusable bottle and To-Go Ware with you at all times, and you’re even making conscious fashion purchases. But when it come to a lady’s, er… scent, it can be hard to make the switch to natural deodorant.
Change is at Hand
Date: December 22, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Care, Cleaning, Food & Drink, Kitchen, The Home
The concept of “disposable” items is one that we try to regularly offer alternatives to here at ecofabulous. As we all know very well by now, there is no “away” and the fact that as consumers, we continue to offer a demand for one-time use goods, is something that we need to take responsibility for - change the demand (give them no demand!) and the market will shift accordingly. That’s why we were so excited to meet with the founders of PeopleTowels at this year’s Opportunity Green conference, to get a first glance at the new stylish, reusable towels. (more…)
Style & Substance: “Gifts Giving Back” Event
Date: December 10, 2009 | Category: Events, Holiday & Gift, Jewelry, Lifestyle, Makeup, Shoes, Women
‘Tis the season for giving in many forms - gifts, thanks, and assistance to the less fortunate whenever possible. It’s also the season for champagne soirees as displayed at last week’s “Gifts Giving Back” event to benefit Toys for Tots in Los Angeles, put on by our friends at Coco Eco Magazine, Love Heals jewelry, Fred Segal Santa Monica, and Greenbees, among other ethical vendors.
The spirit of glitter and glam - inspired in part by celebrity chair Rachael Leigh Cook (pictured above with Rachel Avalon, winner of the Project Green Model Search) and the participation of ecofabulous-favorite, Linda Loudermilk - was alive and well. Many a stylish green shopper showed up with a donation for Toys for Tots, and took the opportunity to peruse some of Fred Segal’s many green gift options. While artists from Tarte Cosmetics gave mini makeovers and organic burgers from O! circulated the crowd, guests learned more about co-chair Love Heals’ ambitious, charitable mission. (more…)
