The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances

½ cup grape seed oil ½ cup wheat germ oil Optional: 3 drops lavender essential oil or 2 drops rose essential oil or 3 drops cale ...

pack of larger-sized disposable diapers (not training pants) for diaper rash emergencies. If keeping an emergency supply of disp ...

5 drops rose essential oil Yield: 5 ounces Sometimes it’s unclear whether your baby has diaper rash or a yeast infection. Cornst ...

chapter 14 green mineral makeup ...

we all want to look good naturally. In a perfect world, we could face anyone barefaced and confident, but most of us need a help ...

by the Carcinogenic Potency Project at the University of California, tests on animals did not reveal any carcinogenic activity c ...

cosmetic surgeries. Fans of chemical skin care complain that mineral makeup is complicated to apply, drying, not portable, and a ...

Each of us has a skin tone that is based on yellow or pink. Here’s how you can determine whether you have a pink undertone or a ...

talc, silicones, and other additives. Dark-toned mineral foundations must contain a bit of a golden shimmer to avoid that unattr ...

will result in an overly done, flashy effect. On the plus side, mineral blushes are versatile: you can mix a little bit with you ...

from your nose and blending the color just into the cheekbones. Do not paint your entire cheeks with color, either. To prop up ...

ruin your foundation. Mineral eye shadows can be applied wet or dry. With wet applications you can create an intense, long-lasti ...

Green Lip Balms Are you a big fan of lip-gloss? I’m sure you are. Millions of women (and thousands of men) claim they are addict ...

Golden Lip Healing Balm 1 tablespoon organic soy wax flakes 1 scoop of coconut butter with a tablespoon 3 drops vanilla extract ...

conventional lipsticks have been proven to contain considerable amounts of lead, and red lipsticks were especially rich in this ...

neutral and still enjoy a range of options. If you have a yellow-toned complexion, you can use warmer shades, from pale bronze t ...

chapter 15 green fragrances ...

i cannot possibly think of a better introduction to the chapter about natural fragrances than this excerpt from The Picture of D ...

Coco Chanel opted for synthetic ingredients not for the lack of money: she believed that artificial scents would emphasize the n ...

NewYork at Albany found synthetic musks in most breast milk samples collected in Massachusetts in 2007 in concentration of “five ...