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Celebrate World Vegan Day with Lucy Rose

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Vegans all around the world will be celebrating in style on Sunday 1 November as they join forces to enjoy the annual World Vegan Day.  Our friends at The Lucy Rose Organic Beauty Boutique, www.lucyrose.biz are celebrating too as they launch a brand new section dedicated to the vegan lifestyle.  All of the beautiful organic and natural ranges have been either accredited by The Vegan Society, or are vegan-friendly and totally natural and organic.

Lucy Rose organic skincare

And the celebrations don’t just stop there.  Lucy Rose is offering a free vegan-friendly travel hand cream and an exclusive 10% discount off their naturally gorgeous collections right through to 30 November.

You can be confident of the best pure, chemical free beauty brands at www.lucyrose.biz and the new vegan section will guarantee that the products, or their ingredients, have not at any stage been tested on animals.

The new section is growing fast, but you can expect to find:

Lucy Rose organic skincareThe Purest Skin Care: The Natural Elements range is a professional certified organic skin care range which is produced in the UK and is Vegan and Vegetarian Society approved. This collection has unique products specifically for dry, oily or combination skin, as well as anti-ageing solutions and eye care.  It is renowned for its effectiveness resulting in being voted ‘The World’s Most Natural Effective Skin Care’ by Today’s Therapist.  The new 100% botanical range from Dr Wendy’s has been created by a vegan, for vegans, and uses the purest natural and organic ingredients sourced from the land that is 100% in touch with nature – New Zealand.

Fashion Forward Makeup:  Lavera Trend is a natural vegan-friendly make up range for all skin types, even those with sensitive or hyper-allergenic skin, which offers co-ordinated natural colours and an extensive suite of products. Inika mineral make up promises great application and a beautiful finish, and has a loyal following among vegans.

The Body Beautiful:  Green People has an extensive range of natural and organic treatments for the whole body, which are Vegan Society, Soil Association and Organic Food Federation approved.   Or try the reinvigorating body collection from Essentially Yours which blends essential oils to create bathing and hair products which are set to stimulate all the senses.

Let Your Hair Down
: You won’t have to with the extensive vegan-friendly  collection from Essentially Yours.

Nail It:  Spoil your hands with SpaRitual hand and nail care, and finish off with a formaldehyde-free polish from Zoya.
Lucy Rose provides an inspiring on-line experience for vegans who genuinely care about good quality natural ingredients, what they put on their bodies, where it comes from and how it has been produced.  Postage and packing is free on all UK orders received, regardless of the size, with most deliveries arriving within 1-2 days.

To claim your exclusive World Vegan Day discount, use code VEGAN at the www.lucyrose.biz checkout.  Offer eligible until 30 November 2009.

Article by Kristine Nudds

Eco Chic Weekly – 29th August ‘09

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Eco Chic Weekly BadgeHere’s the latest on everything chic, stylish and green.

Fashion, Evolved
Interviews Jaszy McAllister creator of ethical, beautiful Jaszy’s Jewelry.

Eco Fashion World
Interview with Maroussia Rebecq, founder of Andrea Crews.

Eco-Chick
Keeps us updated with the week’s eco fashion news.

Eco Diva
Shows us how to go local with Etsy.com

Ethical Style
Bangladesh Garment Factories Going Fair Trade

Feelgood Style
Popomomo introduces the Curatorial Collection

Green Grechen
Milk silk and the environmental effects

Green Lashes and Fashion
Amazing finds from organic fashion sales

Greenopia
8 Best Ways to Get The Closest Eco Shave (for Men and Women!)

Inhabitat
NoonSolar Bags: Solar Power Your Electronics with Your Bag

Modern Hippie Mag
Ask the Beauty Chick – Question and answer about chemicals in hair oil

Planet Green
Take the quiz to find out if you’re a green beauty

Alternative Consumer
Gorgeous upcycled vintage red bag

The Green Girls
Obsessed with vintage jewellery this fall

The Thrifty Chicks
Standing naked in a thrift store.

Treehugger
Beyond Parabens: 7 common cosmetics ingredients you need to avoid

Eco Chic Weekly is coordinated by the fantastic ADQ of Fashion Evolved.

Eco Chic Weekly – 15th August ‘09

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Eco Chic Weekly BadgeThis week’s round up of everything stylish and green…

Eco-Chick
Check out the 2009 Collection by Samantha Pleet

Ecco*Eco
Leblas collection Filigree Chic.

Eco Fashion World
5 Cheap & Easy Ways to Green Your Wardrobe

Eco Diva
Review of Flip & Tumble shopping bag.

Girlie Girl Army
Pinups for Pitbulls. An original way to raise awareness and funds for pitbulls!

Ethical Style
iWood Sustainable Sunglasses is on their wishlist.

Green Grechen
Vintage Week: How to Shop for Vintage Clothing.

Green Lashes and Fashion
Looking for the Best Vintage Skirts!

Greenopia
Natural make-up by Suki.

Organic Beauty View
Introducing Sabon NYC new organic skincare line.

Feelgood Style

Osea, new organic skincare from the sea

Eco Chic Weekly is coordinated by the fantastic ADQ of Fashion Evolved.

What have underams got to do with being green? By Diar

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I’ve been dealing with underarms issue: they smell (well, whose don’t?). And they’re really dependent—with that said, I always had to spread something on them, be it fragranced powder or deodorant.

Deodorant

When I was much younger, I constantly provided myself packs and packs of this not-commonly-sold fragranced powder made specially to get rid of underarm odor. Growing up as an older young adult, I felt that said powder was just so not modern, so I changed to a branded (and imported) roll-on deodorant. Without anything on my underarms, I simply smell horrible.

Being more eco-conscious now for the past a year or so, I knew that the aluminum contained in most deodorant (including the one I used) was basically dangerous to my body, sooner or later, not to mention that the after-use sticks contribute piles of trash (we’re not yet familiar with recycling—or even living green in general!—here in the city I live). But the fact that my underarms being too dependent could not be ignored easily as well.

Yet a while ago, collecting my courage, I used the evidence of my deodorant being used up as an excuse to stop using it once and for all. For the first one month, my underarms simply smelled even though I’ve sprayed a big amount of cologne on them. And now? They no longer smell too strong (just like a miracle!). Maybe the one month period of smelling bad was their way to adapt, I still can’t comprehend why. I just know that leaving deodorant is one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, ever.

Well, the cologne I’m using still contains mysterious fragrance as one of its components, but at least it’s a local product—an excuse, I know. But a good start for me :)

Diar A.
Pontianak, West Borneo
Indonesia

Eco Chic Weekly – 20th Oct ‘08

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Eco Chic WeeklyHere’s this week’s ECW roundup.

Over to you ladies……

Fashion, Evolved

What does fashion have to do with poverty? Check out Fashion, Evolved’s Blog Action Day post!

Victoria E

Says eco oral care is easy, affordable, effective and artistic

DC Goodwill Fashion Blog

Looks back at the inspiring colours from New York fashion week

Eco Chick

Eco Chick dishes on this autumn’s four sexiest sustainable shoes!

Greenmystyle.com

Greenmystyle.com chats fashion, celebrities and fair trade with Safia Minney, founder of People Tree and the First Lady of eco style

Green Girls

Check out the weekly video wrapup of everything that happened on GreenGirls.tv!

Green Cotton

Green Cotton’s Visit to Belize Last Week from an Eco-lens

Green Grechen

Grechen Looks at the Reality of Conflict-Free and Diamond Alternatives

Fig and Sage

The much anticipated AVEDA Organic collection is available as an “exclusive sneak peak” here..

The First Eco Chic Weekly – 13th Oct ‘08

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Eco Chic WeeklySo here’s the first Eco Chic Weekly, an exciting new collaboration from some of the greatest green style blogs on the web.

Check out our Eco Chic Weekly page to see what we’re all about.

Here’s what the Eco Chic Weekly team have been talking about this week. Click on the subjects below to find out more…

Green Cotton

Welcomes EcoChic Weekly with hot posts and areas of interest for new visitors.

Eco Chick

Tells us about Teens Turning Green eco body care

Green Girls.tv Wrap up

Get a video wrap up on what happened with the Green Girls on GreenGirls.tv

Fashion Evolved

Says “Jerrel Wuz Robbed!” In her recap of Project Runway Season 5 Finale – part 1

Victoria E

Provides a preview of Ecoist’s new collections and an exclusive discount code for 10% off everything in their online store.

Michelle Elaine Pham-Crepps – Positive Changes in Cosmetics

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Do you know what is going on your face? Do you even stop to think about your morning ritual? Maybe you should. Everyone seems to have heard of lipsticks being tested for lead and mascara containing mercury. But what is the real harm of these chemicals and how prevalent are they?

LipstickThe Campaign for Safe Cosmetics recently tested a multitude of lipsticks on the current market for lead and found that 61 percent of lipsticks tested contained a detectable amount of this contaminant. Lead has been known to harm the developing brain of a child, and the government has already demanded its removal from gasoline and house paint, but not hair dye.

And that’s not all. Skin Deep (a thorough site that reviews all the harmful products in current cosmetics) found that when washing the mascara off your face every night, you may be washing a small dose of mercury right onto your eyes or face. Mercury in mascara has been known to damage brain function at low levels.

CosmeticsAnd this is just the makeup that you apply on a good day! What about the skincare products that you need to cleanse and refresh your face and body every morning and evening? Sodium laurel sulfate, found in common shampoos and cleansers can be potentially damaging, drying and cause irritation if left on the skin for prolonged periods of time. And parabens, which are the most commonly used preservatives in the United States have been known to cause skin irritations and rashes.

Luckily, there are brands out there trying to make a difference. These include Weleda, Burt’s Bees, Dr. Hauschka and Edelbio Skincare. Edelbio creates products that are Swiss-certified organic, dermatologist tested and safe for use on the most sensitive skin types, with no harmful chemicals. It’s nice to know that there are companies out there trying to positively change what we put on our skin. Now it’s up to us as consumers to start thinking about and buying products that are good for the environment and our bodies.

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