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Flower & Herb Safety Guide for Homemade Body Care Products

August 27, 2011

If you’re going to use flowers or herbs as ingredients in a homemade beauty product, follow these safety tips… Use only organic herbs and flowers – you don’t want pesticides on your body. Know your herbs and flowers before you use them. Get a good guidebook so you can recognize the subtle differences between various herbs and [...]

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Homemade Organic Cranberry Lip Gloss

August 24, 2011

I was looking for a honey scrub, but found this great cranberry lip gloss instead at the National Honey Board. I think it’s perfect for autumn or and could make a wonderful homemade holiday gift as well. Especially if you find some cute little pots to put it in. You’ll need to gather: 1 Tablespoon [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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Body Care Product Ingredient To Avoid: Synthetic Musks

June 1, 2010

Found in: Nitromusks known as musk ketone and polycyclic musks along with Galaxolide and Tonalide are most commonly found in many perfumes for women, lotions, colognes and body sprays and fragrance for men. They’re less commonly  found in exfoliating products, acne treatments, facial moisturizer and other body care products. Health concerns: The biggest issue with [...]

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Body Care Product Ingredient To Avoid: 1,4-dioxane

June 1, 2010

Found in: Who knows what? An analysis by the Environmental Working Group suggests that 1,4-dioxane may be found in 22% of the more than 25,000 products in the Skin Deep database of cosmetics products BUT you likely won’t see it on an ingredient list.  1,4-dioxane is a contaminant not an ingredient and the FDA does [...]

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Organic vs. Green Body Care Products

May 3, 2010

Currently at Growing A Green Family we’re looking at how to keep toxic body care products and cosmetics out of your home. The other day we looked at USDA Certified Organic body care products. However, while organic is good, it’s not everything in my opinion when it comes to choosing safe non-toxic body care products [...]

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USDA Organic Certified Body Care Products

April 27, 2010

Currently we’re looking at how to keep toxic body care products and cosmetics out of your home. Choosing real organic products is one way to accomplish this. In truth, USDA Organic body care products and cosmetics have some flaws, but first we’ll look at the issue behind certified organic products and the pros of said [...]

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