Natural Bath & Body Care

Do Famous Environmental Activists Owe Consumers Anything?

April 9, 2011

I don’t have cable television, which means I miss stuff, like commercials that feature eco-model/author/activist Summer Rayne Oaks as the new face of Aveeno. I found out after seeing a tweet about a Greenwala post on the topic. I looked around a bit more to make sure, and found that, yup, Oaks is working with [...]

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Easy Homemade Organic Liquid Hand Soap

December 7, 2010

Hopefully, you’re already greening your hand washing routine with reusable soap dispensers and other tactics. However, another way to keep it green and clean is to reuse all those weird soap slivers you end up with. Homemade hand soap made with left-over soap slivers: Collect old soap slivers. You’ll need a bunch. If you just [...]

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P&G rolls out new eco-packaging

August 16, 2010

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has obviously never heard the line, “It’s what’s on the inside that counts.” Focusing instead on outer beauty, P&G just announced that they’ll be using renewable, sustainable, sugarcane-derived plastic on select Pantene Pro-V, Covergirl and Max Factor packaging. The new packaging, which will be rolled out globally over the next two [...]

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Stick it to fake organic products!

August 12, 2010

When I was 13 or so I read a book about women’s rights. In said book there was an order form for some awesome, “This offends women” stickers. You could use these stickers in stores, on products, a person – to label lame anti-female stuff. I loved my stickers. I know, I got started young [...]

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Homemade Organic Spice and Herb Face Toner

August 12, 2010

It’s silly to pay $30+ for a small bottle of organic face toner. You can make a nice batch of homemade organic face toner right at home. First you’ll need your toner base – witch hazel: Alcohol free witch hazel. It’s important to note that many commercial witch hazel products contain more alcohol than witch [...]

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Organic Essential Oil Safety & Buying Guide

August 11, 2010

Homemade organic body care is one of the best ways to avoid the toxic ingredients found in most store-bought body care products. That said, most homemade body care products have essential oils in them, and just because you made it at home, doesn’t make the product safe. Essential oils aren’t for everyone, so before you [...]

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One Good Reason to Shop at Whole Foods

August 8, 2010

I know everyone is annoyed that Whole Foods Market seems so expensive, but there will be one very good reason to shop there come June 2011. As you know, most ‘organic’ body care is anything but organic. Plus very few organic body care products are certified. However, Whole Foods has taken a huge step to [...]

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Homemade Organic Body Care: Safety Basics

August 5, 2010

For a while I was plugging away on safe, non-toxic body care, then got distracted with organic food and other topics. If you need to catch up, take a look at Organic vs. Green Body Care Products and Body Care Product Ingredients To Avoid. We should keep on looking at alternatives to toxic body care [...]

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New Story of Stuff Video – Story of Cosmetics!

July 27, 2010

I’m a huge fan of the Stuff series. I’m also a huge fan of organic body care industry reform. Mash them up and weeeeee! Check out the newest, just out this week, Story of Cosmetics.. Also see – Organic vs. Green Body Care

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Body Care Product Ingredients To Avoid

June 7, 2010

You know, with summer here and so much to post about I’ve sort of let the non-toxic body care series slide. In case you need to catch up, we first looked at how to keep toxic body care products and cosmetics out of your home. Then we looked at USDA Certified Organic body care products [...]