Yikes—High Levels of Lead Found in Popular Purses
Excuse the small digression, but I thought this was a topic worth tabling. New research done by the Center for Environmental Health has found significant levels of lead in many mainstream handbags, most certainly available at a store near you. The Center for Environmental Health pulled purses from 100 top retailers to test—everyone from Target to Neiman Marcus and H&M—and found that out of 300 tested, 43 bags contained significant levels... Read More
What Salon Treatments Do You (Or Your Friends) Still Get?
Salons are magical places where women get to forget their woes, read trashy magazines, and come out feeling like movie stars. But as many of you know, for a clean girl, the beauty parlor is a place shrouded in dangerous mysteries, where products and treatments are pumped out of big unmarked bottles and toxins waft through the air. And where there is no legal requirement to reveal ingredients. As it so happens, S and I are currently doing a little... Read More
Brazilian Blowout Will Have to Bear Warnings About Formaldehyde. Are You Satisfied?
For those new to the site, one of our kind-of claims to fame is for being early to sound the alarm, if you will, on the dangers of the Brazilian Blowout. Our book opens with a scene of us sitting in a fancy West Hollywood salon, choking on the formaldehyde fumes of this now infamous hair treatment. It marked the beginning of our journey into clean beauty—without the BB, there would be no book and no site. Behind closed doors, we were later told... Read More
5 New Beauty Classics Done Naturally
Elle Magazine has named five newish beautry trends that they believe are here to stay, or in their words: “Looks that hadn’t been invented—or weren’t possible—25 years ago are now part of today’s beauty lexicon” I love this idea! But more than that I love the challenge of finding ways to do these looks without breaking the bank or busting out the chemicals. So here are my clean-girl takes on these new modern classics. Beachy... Read More
The FDA Finally Gives Brazilian Blowout an Ultimatum—Meanwhile, Another Reader Loses Her Hair
In case you missed this on Friday, the FDA has issued a warning letter to the makers of the Brazilian Blowout saying that the product is ‘adultered’ and ‘misbranded.’ No shizzle! Here’s a quote from Michael W. Roosevelt, the acting director of the Office of Compliance at the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (via MSNBC): “Brazilian Blowout is misbranded because its label and labeling (including... Read More
