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Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide Q: Dear, wonderful, Petite Marie! You are a fantastic woman! I just found your natural skin care products and I’m so excited. I’ve been hoping to find quality products like yours that go for a great price…. When I can, I will get the herbal facial spray, moisturizer, and cleanser…. But, here is my question – I have super sensitive skin that gets very rough and scaly and I need to exfoliate but can’t find anything that won’t hurt or damage my skin. I... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide As I am enjoying my newly dark brown bob,  I am anxious to preserve the lovely shade of bitter chocolate achieved by using LUSH’s Caca Noir. More on the experience in my next post. I checked the drugstore isle for John Frieda’s color shampoo for brunettes, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was not actually as noxious as actual dyes. In fact, it was rather green, with cocoa and citric acid working to deposit coloring molecules into the... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide When strolling along shelves at our local Space NK (UK’s little and perhaps greener sister of Sephora) I couldn’t help but pick the jar of my old time favorite, Eve Lom’s Rescue mask. What never ceases to amaze me is the marketing genius who can take a couple tablespoons of clay, mix it with water, honey, and camphor, score a few celebrity testimonials, and sell the mix for $100 a jar. So what’s in the highly acclaimed mask which I diligently used... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide Q: What can we do to prevent lips from getting dry and chapped? Any useful tricks to protect lips in the winter? Jessica, New York (via email) A: Dry lips can be soothed and moisturised with olive oil mixed with beeswax. This is the purest thing you can apply to your lips. I love castor and coconut oils but I find olive oil more nourishing for winter time. Here’s a super easy recipe: take a tea cup and combine a small cube of beeswax... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide The hotel chain debuting organic skincare line? Only if you are taling French Alps. Pure Altitude is a brainchild of French mountain-inspired beauty manufacturer, spa and hotel operator Fermes de Marie. Comprising six products boasting anti-aging and regenerative benefits, the Pure Altitude Bio-Organic range features mountain-native plant actives including edelweiss, maca root and birch sap, in addition to hyaluronic acid and salicylic acid, also... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide There are three most popular types of skincare packaging: aluminium, glass, and various plastics. Packaging is perhaps the most neglected aspect of green skincare. Even when the juice is all roses and zero chemicals, the bottle often contains some of the worst environmental offenders. If you are paying attention to what goes inside the bottle, you may soon find yourself wondering, what’s the very bottle doing to the environment – and ultimately, your... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide Oils from plants and flowers have long been used in beauty treatments. The ancient Egyptians pressed olives and used the oil as an after-sun balm. The Queen of Sheba was said to have planted an almond plantation so she could extract the oil and use it for her skin. Cleansing oils are especially good for sensitive, dry skin that cannot tolerate foaming cleansers. “Oils are the oldest natural skincare,” says Liz Earle, author of New Vital Oils (Random... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide Q. I really wanted to send you an email thanking you for your absolutely amazing guide! I’ve been a bit of a nut, searching for makeup without nasty chemicals ever since I learned about the dangers of parabens a few years ago. I wanted to ask you about an ingredient I’ve noticed in several lists while I was perusing Sephora’s natural section for the past few days, Lauroyl Lysine. The EWG has it rated as a 0 though it does warn about a data gap, and I... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide The following foods are known to cause allergies and exacerbate acne, eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis. Save this list and share with your family members, friends and other people who suffer from skin conditions that may be related to their diet. Dairy and milk by-products Butter, butter fat, butter oil, buttermilk, artificial butter flavor, casein, caseinates (ammonium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium) cheese, cream, cottage cheese, curds... Read Full Story

Read full story on The Green Beauty Guide Hempseed (Cannabis sativa L.) is one of the healthiest, nontoxic, and abundant sources of oil. Beauty products made from organic, cold-pressed hempseed oil are great for skin, scalp, nails, and hair because they are an excellent source of the essential fatty acids (EFAs) omega-3 and omega-6. Since our dietary intake of omega-6 (n-6 linoleic) essential fatty acid has doubled since the 1850s, the intake of omega-3 (n-3 alpha-linolenic) essential fatty... Read Full Story