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How to Know if Your Beauty Products Are Expired

By DivineCaroline Like some romantic relationships, no matter how much you adore your beloved favorite beauty products in the beginning, if you don't keep a close eye on things, they can get muck…

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7 Ingredients to Ban From Your Bathroom

From Experience Life Magazine The following ingredients usually appear in the products we use daily -- shampoo, sunscreen and the like -- and general scientific consensus concludes that they're bes…

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5 Homemade Natural Beauty Products

By Sawyard Rebhal, Networx In this eco-conscious time (and in this tough economy), everybody's trying to go green while saving some green. And the good news is, these two often go hand in hand.…

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The Dangers of Triclosan & How to Avoid It

Triclosan, the controversial disinfectant that many associate with hand sanitizers, is actually in all manner of cosmetics and personal care products. The Trouble with Triclosan Triclosan is an anti…

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Scary Beauty Product Ingredients – Book Giveaway!

Trying to decipher an ingredients list or figure out which personal care products are safe can be overwhelming. But as the author of Healthy Beauty points out, "conventional cosmetics and personal-car…

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Mid-Winter Mood Booster

It’s winter’s half-time, and even if Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow, there are days and days of cloudy, grey coldness and snow storm-induced lockdown ahead for many of us. To keep hope ali…

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Toxic Beauty

It all started with vanity: I hadn't meant to change my purchasing practices or become a "label-reader," that's just how it turned out. One day I decided that I wanted to have my dream hair: long…

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Beauty Beware

By Courtney Helgoe, Experience Life Of all the personal-care products sold in the United States, 99 percent of the chemical ingredients have never been tested for safety, despite research showing…

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Green Girl Takes to Teens Turning Green

After my findings about endocrine disruptors in teens, I have been extra careful about what products I use. I've had an eagle eye out for chemicals, trying to find brands to suggest that my friends s…

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I’m Gonna Wash Those Parabens Right Outta My Hair

Since I have been working at Care2, I have read many articles about these things called parabens. In my local health food store, and in magazine ads as well, I have seen claims of things having no par…

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