The Green Beauty Guide

In summer time, it’s best to leave our nails go au naturel, without any nail polish so that they would benefit from air and moderate sun exposure. The best way to keep our nails groomed and healthy is cuticle oil.
Cuticles stretch with the natural growth of your nails. If your skin or cuticle does not [...]

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As someone with less-than-pretty post-acne marks, I am constantly on search for products that may help erase them completely.

Bio Oil, made by South African company “Union-Swiss” (J) is currently touted as a cure-all for scars and stretch marks.

I am seeing Bio-Oil everywhere, in pharmacies, online stores, and even in supermarkets. And of course, since it [...]

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What they claim: Shine Refined.

Full list of ingredients:
Polybutene, pentaerythrityl tetraisostearate, C18-36 acid triglyceride, tridecyl trimellitate, bis-diglyceryl polyacyladipate-2, silica dimethyl silylate, linalool, geranoil, calcium aluminum borosilicate, calcium sodium borosilicate, eugenol, sodium saccharin, silica, limonene, citral, synthetic fluorphlogopite, polyethylene terephthalate, polymethyl methacrylate, benzyl alcohol, benzyl benzoate, benzyl salicylate, alpha-isomethyl oilone, hexyl cinnamal, isobutylparaben, isopropylparaben, butylparaben, bht, fragrance.

Beware:

Along [...]

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What they claim: Allergy tested. 100 per cent fragrance free. Winner of Cosmopolitan Beauty Awards 2006.

Full list of ingredients:

US Version: Water (Aqua Purificata) Purified, Mineral Oil (paraffinum liquidum), Sesame (Sesamum Indicum) Oil, Propylene Glycol, TEA Stearate, Glyceryl Stearate, Lanolin Alcohol, Petrolatum, Methylparaben, Propylparaben.

UK/EU Version: contains more of natural ingredients but is abundant on triethanolamine. Still, [...]

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It perhaps takes two years after giving birth for a new mom to start feeling like a woman again. At least that’s how long it took me. On Marie’s second birthday I gave myself a mani/pedi; a week later, I’ve got Victoria Beckham’s short bob and super-dark brown Aveda hair color that I have been [...]

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After 2 days of using skincare products by Nutriganics (The Body Shop) I am utterly disappointed.
Let’s begin with the better products. The mask is OK. For the clay mask, it dries to invisibility which is weird. Normally, clay masks dry to bright white/gray/yellow/pink. This mask dried and became invisible. Lookes unusual, weird, but all right [...]

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Apparently they are. A few days ago I’ve been lured to Clinique counter by a clever promotion that promised an airport-security friendly makeup bag with mini clippers, hair brushes, and other cute travel accessories. Just out of a sheer curiosity (and to earn the bag!) I made an honest attempt to choose a Clinique lippie.
To [...]

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Things are getting litigious on green skincare front. Stella Nude by Stella McCartney, a new fragrance to be released later this year, has come under fire from Nude Skincare founded by Bono’s wife, Ali Hewson.
I’ve been watching the case development with great interest. First of all because I am a huge fan of Stella [...]

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In my book THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE I mention lots of amazing beauty products made by equally amazing organic skincare brands. It would have been so much easier just to push my own brand on every page, but being a professional journo, I am trained to present the whole picture and give voice to all [...]

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Beautifully speaking, I am a happily self-sustained person. All my moisturizers, cleansers, and toners are leftovers from Petite Marie Organics production. My bathrooms are crammed with prototypes of masks, scrubs, and toners in unlabeled plain glass jars. Needless to say, the last thing on my shopping list is a new cleanser or a toner.

But this [...]

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