Caffeinated SuperJuice

Send to KindleTweet It won’t make you immune to aging or cancer, but Bai drinks are an alternative to the spiky jolt that comes from pure coffee. Bai Brands‘ Bai5 line now includes a Congo Pear flavor , which is 20-calorie per bottle juice-cum-tea product, with about 70 mg of caffeine, an amount slightly higher [...]

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 [...]

Uncompromised Ethical Cleansing

Send to KindleTweet For the thinker, beauty begs the question—what do cosmetics do to help pretty the world? When we received samples of Skin 2 Skin, we chocked it up to another green-friendly, California beauty company safe enough to fit our new high standards. But, as we primped and rotated our weekly masks, we kept [...]

The Supplemental Beverage

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: The latest in beverage trends isn’t another malt variety but the merging of low-calorie juices with homeopathic-type supplements. One of our favorite companies in this sector is a United Kingdom outlet called Firefly, which is widely distributed all across the U.K. and Ireland, and gaining wider distribution in the United [...]

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 [...]