Earth Day is April 22. Celebrate it – and every day – with eco-friendly products that are good for the environment and that will help make you look beautiful too. Win/win!
Founded in 1972, Desert Essence offers a full range of beauty care collections based on natural botanicals. Their product line up includes body washes, body care, face care, hair care, deodorant and dental care. Desert Essence products are made from nutrient rich desert and natural botanicals like Aloe Vera, Jojoba and Tea Tree Oil. All products are free of SLS, PEGs, parabens, phthalates, glycols, artificial colors and fragrances, DEA, MEA, and TEA. All products are also vegetarian and cruelty free. Recently, Desert Essence launched eight new face care items including thoroughly clean oil control moisturizer, a blemish touch stick concealer, a daily essential defense lotion with SPF 15, daily essential de-puffing eye cream, gentle nourishing eye cream, gentle nourishing organic cleanser, gentle nourishing day cream SPF 15 and gentle nourishing night cream. Prices range from $5. to $20. Visit Desert Essence to learn more and to shop.
Ecofabulous.com is partnering with Birchbox, the beauty site that delivers the newest and best in high-end beauty products to members’ doors monthly, to create an Earth Month Edition for consumers. Ecofabulous has selected their favorite beauty and lifestyle products, which will be packaged and delivered to Birchbox subscribers in a green box made of recycled content. Twenty percent of all profits from full-size product sales of these select, curated products on Birchbox.com between April 13 and May 13 will benefit Global Green.org a non profit dedicated to fostering a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future by reconnecting humanity with the environment. A sample of products curated by ecofabulous and available for full-size purchase on Birchbox.com include:
Juice Beauty’s Green Apple Mask
Suki’s Exfoliate Foaming Cleanser
Zhena’s Gypsy Tea
Weleda’s Wild Rose Smoothing Facial Lotion
Live Green’s C2C Fragrance Collection
Zoya’s Spring intimate nail collection
Lavanila’s Healthy Body Butter
- Scotch Naturals Nail Polish, $14.99 from Gifts.com
Scotch Naturals is a new line of nail polishes with both style and safety in mind. They come in offbeat colors and are made with water-based and non-toxic materials. They require no top or base coat, so painting your nails can be a quick and fun process rather than waiting an hour and smudging your hard work. Available for $14.99 at http://blog.gifts.com/gift-of-the-day/eco-chic-scotch-naturals-polish.
Just like microwaves, blow dryers give off radiation – aimed straight at your head day after day. Who knew? The Eco Blow Dryer is one cutting-edge, earth-and health-friendly alternative. The ceramic heating element uses half the energy of a traditional blow dryer with coil heating and emits significantly less electromagnetic radiation (only an output of 5.1). Plus, it actually dries faster and produces negative ions that leave your hair looking glossy and frizz-free. It’s designed with a cool shot release button and 11-foot professional cord and operates on 1000 watts (comparable to 1600 watts) with multiple heat and speed settings and two concentrator nozzles. It’s available for $149.00 from Gifts.com.
21 Drops is a modern line of essential oils to help tackle everyday concerns. These pre-blended oils are sourced from sustainable and organic suppliers. Even the Jojoba carrier oil, of which there are only a few suppliers that offer 100 percent unrefined organic in the world, is selected carefully for these reasons. Packaged in recycled cardboard, 21 Drops is great if you’re looking for an all-natural remedy for sleep issues, stress levels, and even to help with focus. For more information, visit http://www.21drops.com.
- Wholearth Beauty Products
Wholearth Beauty is an organic, eco-friendly line of beauty and bath products designed to inspire consumers to live a life of organic well-being in today’s world. With sustainable style and a vision for the future, the products in the line, including a body soufflé, body wash and lotion, perfume, bamboo scrub, room spray and more, are all made using only pure organic extracts and essential nutrients and oils. Prices range from $22-65.
