The Green Beauty Guide

As I browsed through my notes arranging them for a possible book of green beauty recipes I found some green beauty gems that may be helpful to soothe acne zits and pimples.
 
For some reason, pimples show up more readily just before the holiday. Maybe it’s all that stress; maybe worries about family reunions take [...]

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Winter is here, even in Southeastern England. As a homesick Torontonian who used to wrap her skin in insulating layers of beeswax, olive oil, and occasional mineral oil, I instinctively reach for my rich cleanser and moisturizer when the temperature drops below +5 Celsius. At night. Which is the lowest you can get here.
(Boy, do [...]

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Here’s a cheerful and incredibly to-the-point article by Erin Kobayashi for EcoLogic at Toronto Star.
I am thrilled to be covered by my hometown newspaper. I am so thrilled, I jumped like that vegan bunny.
Thanks Erin!
Pregnancy led blogger to book, skin care line

It took her “about a year to convince my mom that being green was [...]

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GREEN BEAUTY MAKEOVER
                                                            By Julie Gabriel, RHN
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To me, copper will always be something that makes some of the most gorgeous (and ridiculously expensive) pots and pans. It appears, though, that copper bound with proteins, can become a mighty anti-aging agent. Copper peptides, which are made of copper atoms bound together with proteins, can literally turn back the aging process. 
First reports [...]

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Are you looking to buy THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE book? There are many options available, depending on your location.
If you live in the US, you can buy the book at #1 US bookseller Barnes & Noble  both online and offline; you can also visit your local bookstore to check if THE GREEN BEAUTY GUIDE is available [...]

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Here’s a simple recipe of an exfoliating and yet exceptionally nourishing mask that costs pennies to make, even if you use all-organic ingredients.

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While paraben preservatives seem to (finally!) fall out of favour, cosmetic industry, even its organic wing, is surprisingly tolerant to phenoxyethanol preservative. It often appears in the ingredients list of otherwise perfectly natural and even organic beauty products. Sometimes the manufacturer would add a clause “derived from grapefruits”. So is phenoxyethanol that safe?
Apparently, phenoxyethanol [...]

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Bespoke is a hot word today, just like green beauty. It is slapped on anything from software to kitchen furniture. Meaning one-off original, designed and made from scratch, “bespoke” also describes made-to-order versions of a manufacturer’s standard range.
            Bespoke makeup blends are easier to create than you think. You will need to assemble a basic [...]

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See no evil?
The online beauty emporium Sephora removed the ingredients lists from their beauty product listings.
My first thought was, maybe they did it because they were increasingly shy to sell the chemical junk beauty at enormous prices.
But more realistically, maybe revealing that 99.9% of their beauty products is nothing but blend of petrochemicals, phthalates, and [...]

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