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The benefits of personal care and caring for the planet often overlap — drinking water instead of manufactured beverages, buying clothing made from natural fibers and using clean, cruelty-free beauty products...

Beauty lovers take note: Ecouterre is giving away an eco-friendly glam kit worth $120 and you don't want to miss your chance to get your hands on it. Packed full of brands you'll love like Real Techniques and Eco Tools, plus...

If winter’s left your hair looking like a pile of straw, revitalize it with this easy-to-make DIY hair mask. Whipped up by LUSH Cosmetics product inventor Helen Ambrosen, this rich mask uses just a few natural ingredients...

Whole Foods just made history by becoming the first national retailer to personally ensure that all of the body care products on its store shelves are certified organic...

We know this is bad news for those of you who thought of spray-tanning as a safe alternative to UV exposure, but the active chemical used in spray tans, dihydroxyacetone (or DHA), can cause genetic mutation and DNA damage...

Want to show your dad the glory of eco-fashion this Father’s Day? Or maybe he’s already a lover of planet Earth.  Either way, we’ve rounded up 14 of the coolest gifts around to spoil your padre.  Whether...

Being the eco beauty-addicts we are, we’re always on the hunt for new products that do well by the earth. Alicia Silverstone for Juice Beauty is the latest collection to catch our eye for its completely vegan and organic...

If you’ve been feeling good about your “three-free” non-toxic polish, we have some bad news for you, your splash of color may not be as safe as you think...

Think that crushed red bugs are only used to color Starbucks drinks? Guess again. Cochineal extract is also used widely in cosmetics, namely your lipstick. Aside from the cringe- factor, the dye is known to cause severe allergic...

From snake venom to snail goo to bull semen, there’s nothing some women won’t slather on or inject in their faces in order to keep themselves looking young...

We all know how important it is to protect your skin from the sun’s wrath, but we could definitely do without the ooey gooey mess and the splotchy coverage of traditional sunscreen...

Would you slather snail goo on your face if it meant a flawless complexion? One company believes they’ve unlocked an anti-aging miracle courtesy of the common snail. Smoothed on in cream or gel form, mollusk mucus...

If you’ve been looking for a excuse to keep all that scruff, then here’s you chance to do a little good while keeping it a little rough. Budweiser wants all you fine dudes to conserve 1 million gallons of water...

Pantene is a popular hair care staple for many women and men alike, so we were pleased to catch wind that the company will be shipping its first plant-based plastic containers to stores in Western Europe this month...

Utilizing animals in cosmetics testing seems awfully outdated, and it may soon be obsolete too as synthetic skins are now apparently good enough to imitate animal skins in lab tests...