My 3 year old daughter sprayed some perfume into her eye the other day and screamed in pain for at least 5 minutes. This reminded me of all the animals that have to endure this pain x100 in the name of beauty. I’ve seen the photos of cosmetic animal testing. Rabbits lined up in contraptions [...]

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Cocoon Apothecary Named a Champion for Safe Cosmetics by the Environmental Working Group.

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Here is a list of the beauty brands owned by multinational corporations. One thing that truly sucks is that almost all of them still test on animals. The brand itself may not test on animals but it is owned by a company that does. Same thing in my books. Clorox (tests on animals) Burt’s Bees [...]

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There are two forms of sun protection out there – physical and chemical. Physical sunscreens are formed with millions of particles that act like tiny mirrors to deflect the sun off of your skin. Chemical sunscreens create a process in which the energy that comes from the light gets turned into heat.  This not only sounds dodgy but [...]

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Did you hear about the Brazilian Hair Straightener/Blow Outs? They made people’s hair fall out (including Mary Louise Parker), made people sick and even killed one women in Brazil (she died of asphyxiation while doing it herself). The culprit – formaldehyde. Health Canada claims that this treatment tested 6000% the levels permitted by law. Yikes. This is [...]

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Over the years, I have heard many customers tell me about the evils of sodium laurel sulfate (sls), a widely used surfactant (foaming agent).  I have also read ‘no sulfates’  written on personal care labels and marketing material in order for the product to seem clean and non-toxic. The truth is that not all sulfates are bad. In fact, [...]

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I’ve got to say, sometimes the quest for clean products can seem like a hysterical witch hunt. People demonize ingredients without researching what they are. You hear things like, “if your can’t pronounce it, you shouldn’t use it”.  One thing we have to make clear is that skin care products are generally the product of [...]

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Once a year, you should have a look at all of your personal care and skin care and throw out old stuff – the products that have been sitting around because they obviously haven’t rocked your world. Take it one step further and chuck products that contain petroleum byproducts.  There is NO reason why we [...]

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“Our real identity is that we are both biological organism and biosphere constantly recycling and evolving” – Deepak Chopra In the past year, the planet has experienced two perilous events connected to our energy industries – the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the partial meltdown at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. It has begged us to [...]

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