February brought a snowstorm to Texas, Black History Month, Valentines Day, and new sustainable beauty. In addition to new products, we got a new brand and a brand relaunch. Read on to see what I'm most excited about. New in February Ace of Air launched in late January with a unique approach to sustainable beauty. Their [...]
My favorites in sustainable makeup and skincare for 2020 I don't need to tell you that 2020 was a year! And I can't say I'm sorry that it is ending. The one good thing about having so much more time at home was that I had the opportunity to try so many beauty products. Here [...]
Holiday Gift Sets for the Sustainable Beauty Lover We all know somebody who says sustainable products don't work as well as traditional beauty. Or they think ethical and eco-friendly products are inconvenient. Or maybe you're here because you have an eco-conscious friend and you don't know what to get them. Not to worry, one of [...]
“Waterless beauty is not a trend or fad, but will increasingly take the guise of an everyday necessity. With water reserves running low, consumers are making incremental lifestyle changes that posit planet positivity. Going waterless will mean swapping convenience for conservation — and that’s a good thing.”- Shanu Walpita This post contains affiliate links. For [...]
The Sustainable Beauty Roundup is now monthly! With my daughter back in (virtual) school, I don’t have the time to do a roundup each week. This also led me to rethink the roundup. My original intent was to engage with the green and ethical beauty community. In doing the roundups, I discovered the best engagement [...]
Learn how to develop a sustainable beauty routine in 5 steps. Ethical, eco-friendly, cruelty-free. All are worthy goals. But it can be hard to know how these ideals fit with our own beauty and wellness goals. All the choices make it even harder: natural, organic, clean. How do you even start? Of course, there probably [...]
A Review of Tata Harper Crème Riche Velvet Moisturizer Cream, Including a Discussion on Sustainability A lot was happening in May. Well, really COVID was the only thing happening in May, but it felt like a lot. Which might explain why I bought myself a $195.00 moisturizer. Afterall, I had just started a sustainable beauty [...]
Plastic is forever. You can recycle plastic into new plastic, but it will never biodegrade. Plastic can break down into smaller pieces of plastic (microplastics), but it still exists. We could potentially reduce the need to produce plastic by recycling, but only 9% of plastic is recycled (Geyer et al.). To explain just how harmful [...]
Millions of animals are killed by plastics every year, from birds to fish to other marine organisms. Nearly 700 species, including endangered ones, are known to have been affected by plastics. Nearly every species of seabird eats plastics."The World's Plastic Pollution Crisis Explained" National Geographic Did you know that every year 8 million tons of [...]
A Review of Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen’s Sensitive Mineral Sunscreen, Including a Discussion on Sustainability Blue Lizard Australian Sunscreen Sensitive Face Mineral Sunscreen ($17.99) is Blue Lizard's mineral face sunscreen. It features a cap that changes from white to blue when exposed to UV rays. This was actually an impulse purchase. I had gone into [...]
