The Green Beauty Guide

REPRINTED FROM: The Toronto Star, Fri Mar 5 2010, Page: L03, Section: Ontario. Byline: Vivian Song
I feel this article is so important, I could not resist to add my effort in spreading the word about cancer prevention and vitamin D.

Rhonda Abrams sees the sun in a new light. For years she was afraid of it. Skin [...]

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I am more and more dissatisfied with alarmist policies of Skin Deep database. I just realized that they have labeled caramel with carginogenic label. People (not real scientists, mind you, just website editors) have assumed that caramel, a substance that you get by melting sugar, is carcinogenic.

Based on what? A name of the cancer research [...]

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Q: I have been reading The Green Beauty Guide and noted that Jurlique Herbal Recovery Gel is noted as a gorgeous product on page 60. Yet, it you review it on the Skin Deep website www.cosmeticsdatabase.com, it is rated a 7 out of 10, 10 being the worst.

I am just curious since I would like [...]

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If spring is not really here, it’s certainly on its way. So what’s better time to make your beauty routine greener? Here’s my modest round up of beauty must-haves for March.

Healthy looking skin is essential, especially after we start peeling off those layers of winter clothing. Moor Lavender
Body Oil by Dr. Hauschka is absolutely great [...]

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I was approached today to review a new product for skin lightening, JolieMD (Angelina Jolie, are you listening? Any chance you have a Jolie doctor in your brood?)

The JolieMD line, founded by plastic surgeons (none of whom carries Jolie surname) consists of two products which are claimed to be free from parabens, phthalates, artificial [...]

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Sometimes it’s tempting to ditch the no-paraben rule, especially if that pretty pink lip gloss is just what’s doctor ordered on a gloomy day. But even if the gloss is pretty, parabens themselves are perhaps the ugliest ingredients out there.

It was once believed that parabens, known as esters of para-hydroxybenzoic acid, are not stored in [...]

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I have developed quite a thick skin while working on The Green Beauty Guide and then facing the occasional outburst of chemophilic beauty junkies during the year after its publication in 2008. And I am going to need to build up my resistance even more, since my new book, THE NEW SEX LIFE DIET, comes [...]

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