I Love Lucy
Date: May 5, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Suncare
Looking for that healthy, sun-kissed glow? Attempting a perfectly smooth, natural-looking, sun-goddess bronze can often be a challenge, especially considering most self-tanners stocked at your local beauty store are chock full of toxic synthetic chemicals, making that “healthy glow” anything but. In fact, the EWG states that sunless tanning creams are some of the worst offenders in the skin category. Yikes! At ecofabulous headquarters, we swapped synthetics for plant-based bronzers long ago, but admit that few produced the golden results we’ve seen from Lucy B.’s Organic Bronzing Shimmer Oil. (more…)
Factory Girl
Date: April 7, 2010 | Category: Body Care, Fragrance, Home Furnishings, The Home
The prettiest of packaging to house the sweetest of scents. The Soap & Paper Factory (a merging of Brickhouse Soap & Dewey Howard Paper) has created a line of exquisitely beautiful, environmentally conscious home and body products with uplifting fragrances like orange blossom and cinnamon clove. (more…)
Beauty and The Brain
Date: February 11, 2010 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Hair Care, Skin Care
When smart design meets style and substance, the combination can be unstoppable. Such is the case with Intelligent Nutrients, the new certified organic health and beauty product line from Horst Rechelbacher (you may recognize the name as the original founder of The Aveda Corporation). (more…)
Va-Va-(La)Vanila
Date: December 28, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance
You’ve made the switch to organic food, you carry your reusable bottle and To-Go Ware with you at all times, and you’re even making conscious fashion purchases. But when it come to a lady’s, er… scent, it can be hard to make the switch to natural deodorant.
Best of the Breast: The Greenest Pink Ribbon Purchases
Date: October 20, 2009 | Category: Accessories, Body Care, Clothing, Fragrance, Guides, Holiday & Gift, Intimates, Jewelry, Makeup, Men, Office, Pets, Skin Care, Stores & Resources, Teens for Safe Cosmetics, Women
Women’s ta-tas are all the talk these days. October is national breast cancer awareness month, and by now you’re probably more than inundated with pink ribbon products that donate a portion of proceeds to breast cancer research or help fund mammograms. The ironic (and unfortunate) thing about many of these products is that they often contain chemicals that are not only harmful to the environment, but have been linked to cancer. (more…)
No More Waiting Online for Green Beauty
Date: October 16, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Hair Care, Makeup, Skin Care
Green beauty counters are few and far between, even at prominent department stores. Because we choose to eschew lead in our lipstick, we make a point of seeking out product lines that are guilt-free, cruelty-free, and that will gloss, highlight, and blush us just as well as their non-natural counterparts. Ordering online is quick and easy, but why should us eco girls be excluded from the fun of testing and blending different colors in person? (more…)
Scent-sational
Date: September 16, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Fragrance
The search for a signature scent is never easy – too floral or too potent, too sweet or too grandma-esque. We recently found our perfect pairing in Danny Seo’s new WHOLEARTH certified organic perfume spray. (more…)
Pass the Pacifica!
Date: August 3, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Body Care, Fragrance, Home Furnishings, The Home
When you dress to impress, not only do you want to look like a goddess, but smell like one too. But beware, an intoxicating scent may be toxic indeed—an ordinary vial of perfume contains carcinogenic chemicals that can be just as harmful as those found in cigarette smoke. Yet, rest assured on your search for the most scintillating scent—Pacifica Perfume offers an array of natural and sustainable fragrances for you to choose from. (more…)
Stop and Smell the Blunda
Date: March 23, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Events, Fragrance, Resources
The romantic days of perfumery are alive and well at Blunda Aromatics, a cozy studio nestled right off of one of L.A.’s most stellar shopping destinations, West Third Street. Founder Persephenie, whose warm demeanor immediately puts one at ease, sought to make the perfume making process personal again, and she’s succeeded in spades.
Bazil is Hot Stuff
Date: February 23, 2009 | Category: Beauty, Fragrance
With the bombardment of ever-increasing celebrity perfumes and designer fragrances, the cloud of olfactory sensationalism is great – but what if you’d like to avoid phthalates and preservatives without smelling like twigs and moss? (more…)
