Skin Savers: The Path To A Better You

Send to KindleTweet Fortunately for the companies within the multi-billion dollar personal care market, most of us care about vanity. To the outsiders that don’t care about makeup or skincare, the regimes us beauty junkies maintain are time suckers that also drain the bank account. Makeup is also unnatural to those that shun the daily [...]

Bright Eyes: A Roundup Of Eye Creams

Send to KindleTweet When a man that’s never worn moisturizer tells you that you need more sleep, you ask said man, a relative, “do I have lines around my eyes?” No, he says, they’re just, you need more sleep, he says choosing his words carefully. “They’re purple,” I question, fear and vanity taking over me. [...]

Budget Beauty Finds

Send to KindleTweet There’s no need to convince–when I wax on about Target, I’m usually preaching to the choir. It takes restraint to avoid this big box, but when a publicist pitched something, I was reminded of some fab deals at Target and another budget retailer. The pioneer of designer fashions for the masses, Target [...]

The Treehugger’s Guide To Oral Care

Send to KindleTweet Let’s stay civil for a moment–oral isn’t a referral to the Freudian topics, it’s a look at dental health. After years of fluoride and similar treatments, the market has a new subsector, one that is the dental sector’s equivalent to organic beauty products. So the concept that many a study could research [...]

Honest Dental Care

Send to KindleTweet The move to chemical-free household cleaners and makeup was quick, so why no sense of urgency for items we put in our mouths? The dental dilemma seems to have escaped us, but fear not, we think the likes of Tom’s of Maine will have more competition soon. We anticipate there will be [...]

Xango Beauty

Send to KindleTweet Xango’s Glimpse skincare line is not to be judged at first glance. One might assume from their website that it’s another pyramid item sales system with few differentials from other skincare items but we have one word for you: Avon. Glimpse emerges from the folks that created the liquid mangosteen dietery supplement, [...]

Israel’s Natural Resources

Send to KindleTweet One thing that unites all women is the love of cosmetics. Israel is often overlooked for some of its greatest resources and we are not talking about technology; this time, we mean amazing mainstays from nature, including olive oil and pomegranates. Here we focus on two skincare lines sourced in the tiny [...]

The Forbidden Fruit

Send to KindleTweet The bane of hemp’s existence is its roots with the Marijuana plant, which unlike hemp, does have a considerable THC content. Hemp on the other hand, or industrial hemp, as its referred to by the Canadian government, can be used as a base for making food (milk, flax seed-alternative), clothing (organic cotton [...]

European Beauty: Where Quality And Quantity Unite

Send to KindleTweet The sustainability that many American cosmetic companies adopt for sales and trend purposes is one that seems a genuine mission in the European community. Translation: it is quite rare to find a large, established cosmetic company in America that is creating products without harmful chemicals, in a sustainable manufacturing setting, simply because [...]

Global Soap: Earth- and Skin-Friendly Cleansers

Send to KindleTweet Say sodium lauryl sulfate three times fast. Now attempt to research the growing group of claims from organic movement followers who argue that the chemicals in our food and personal care products are the root of our health problems. One could argue either way, with many factors weighing in, such as stress [...]