Cruelty-Free Steals & Deals
We’ve rounded up some great coupon codes from some of our favorite cruelty-free brands. Enjoy!
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Anti-Aging Favorites – Chella & Talika
I’ve been trying two products from the Chella line: the Intensive Formula Eye Crema and the Skin Firming Serum. These products are packed with ingredients including amino acids to increase collagen formation, hyaluronic acid for moisturizing, antioxidants, vitamins, and botanicals including butcher’s broom, calendula, horse chestnut, green tea, and pomegranate extracts. Well, something in them IS working!
Yesterday I received a wonderful compliment on my skin. Sitting next to my mother at lunch, she commented that my skin looked so smooth with no visible pores (leave it to your mother to give you all the details). I don’t think I’ve been complimented on my skin in my whole life.
You’re supposed to use the products twice a day, however I find that my silicone-based foundation makes the products rub off in the daytime, so I only use them at night. Still, I’ve gotten great results.
I’ve also tried the Talika hand ritual kit. This kit includes a sugar and salt exfoliator with vitamin C and apricot kernel oil and a skin serum with seaweed extract and orange oil. These products are supposed to smooth, brighten age spots, and protect your skin. I really didn’t expect much. My hands aren’t rough and I didn’t see the need to exfoliate.
I was pleasantly surprised to find my hands really looked and felt better after using them… much smoother and softer. I really liked that the exfoliating scrub completely dissolved (some products leave grit behind).
Guest blog post by The Mature Bunny (AKA Jen’s mom!)
Testing…One, Two, Three.
Do we really need animal testing? Particularly for cosmetics? This video from PETA is graphic, but it reminds me why I started this blog. If you’re sensitive, please watch it when you’re alone – it made me cry quite a bit. It’s okay to be shocked or sad – that’s what makes us take action. That’s why we should pledge to only buy cruelty-free beauty products.
Sign the Pledge Against Animal Testing
How Green Can You Be Living in the Desert?
Part 2… The Green Man of Burning Man
This is my second Burning Man so I know something of what I’m in for. Two years ago I went to the 2007 Burning Man where the art theme the year was ‘The Green Man’ (a big incentive for me to attend in itself). This year the community delved into exploring the self-sustaining ethos and eco credentials of Burning Man - which, as you may have gathered, is a burning, carbon-emitting event.
One word - MOOP - gives you an idea of the ecological ideals of this festival. Matter Out Of Place is everyone’s responsibility - reuse it, recycle it, as a last resort, bin it. But you won’t find bins scattered all over this desert. No, this is truly the Nevada Desert, not some theme-park-the-cleaners-will-deal-with-later place. Burning Man is a Leave No Trace Event and everyone is expected to clean up their own act. It can be a hard reality of sustainable living - dealing with your own… errr… rubbish. Here, every little bit of scrap you create or bring you must also take home! After a week of desert shenanigans the potential to take home a trailer load is possible if you don’t plan well.
Bicycles and art cars are the only form of transport other than your own two feet to get around. Thankfully this desert playa is hard clay not soft sand. Riding a bike around the desert is something else. You feel like a cross between a Mad Max movie extra and a Traveling Wilbury. You can ride from the dusty desert roller skating rink to the Crude Awakening art piece within minutes on your trusty bike. There’s just so much to explore that two wheels can help no end.
Always working to reduce the environmental impact, The Green Man, took the opportunity to find solutions to improve it further. Burning Man is a place of experimentation as much as it is play and survival, and tends to attract some of the worlds most innovative, progressive thinkers. For example one year hundreds of pastel green bikes were gifted to the community and spread around the playa for anyone to pick up, borrow and re-lend anytime, anywhere (very handy and ingenious idea indeed). Rumour has it was the founder of a certain giant search engine (rhymes with boogle), a burner himself, who made the drop.
Some of the ingenious green inventions and eco highlights at 2007’s Green Man were the solar photovoltaic panels to power the Green Pavilion (an all-eco education area under the man); 11,000 gallons of petroleum were replaced with reclaimed veggie oil from nearby Reno to power 85% of the cities generators; experimental biofuel technologies, including a greenhouse-gas eating algae; and The Mechabolic, a trash-to-fuel land speed racer art car that produces a potent carbon fertilizer by feeding it organic matter (in other words, it runs on food scraps).
Another green project inspired by the earth guardian ethos of Burning Man is the Cooling Man. Initiated by an environmental scientist and an economist, this project aims to encourage burners to buy ‘carbon offsets’ to cancel out the greenhouse gas emissions generated during the festival. It has been estimated that if every burner offsets 0.7 tons of carbon then Black Rock City would be the first carbon-neutral city in the world.
Post from: So Organic Blog
Skin care products
What different types of product for skin care are available? It seems that manufacturers can make the most outrageous claims for their skin care products. Can we believe any of these companies? All natural skin care products that we use need to be of excellent standards.
The history of skin care goes back to prehistoric times. History records some early examples of skin care products as well. This is also true the history of perfume and cologne.
The whole reason for using skin care products is to take care of our skin. We can regard these products as means of protection and control. Skin care products can help to curtail some of the toxins damage done to our skin.
History and skin care products
Natural skin care products have been used by farmers and fishermen throughout history to protect their skin.
The toll that the weather takes on the skin of the fishermen or the farmer would be even more so without the aid of some protection. The same can be said for the farmer out in the field all day on all types of weather. Now, in the past there were no such things as shop bought skin care products so I would imagine that’s the fisherman and farmer could protect their face and hands with natural products.
Skin care products that nature provides
It doesn’t take much imagination to conjure up images of what kind of protection the farmer and the fishermen would use, for instance the fisherman might have used some whale blubber.These skin care products were all natural at least.
Is very difficult to hold any belief in the miracle cures that most skin care product manufacturers are telling us. With all the chemicals in today’s skin care products how can it be any good? Also it will be said of natural hair care products We rely too much on the miracle cure in the jar, which are usually full of chemicals. We should be relying more on the natural skin care product because we already get enough chemical toxins from the environment
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