10 years ago

Gift Guide: For the Wellness Junkie

  Okay people, I am going the extra mile for you.  I’m not just telling you about The Detox Market’s Black Friday-Cyber Monday Sale, I’m going to give you some unique gift ideas to boot! Clean Eats by New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Alejandro Junger: This book is full of delicious and easy-to-prepare Clean recipes aimed…

10 years ago

Black Friday and Cyber Monday

I would rather cook Thanksgiving dinner and do all the dishes every day for a week than physically go power-shopping amongst the masses on Black Friday – it just takes all the fun and glamor out of it for me.  I personally make 90% of my holiday purchases online the weekend following Thanksgiving.  In my pajamas.  Want…

10 years ago

The Perfect Gift: Kahina Glow Box

Bette Walker Photography   Girrrrrrl, I’m about to save your @$$ this holiday season.  The Kahina Giving Beauty Glow Box is the best Green Beauty gift set I’ve seen for under $100.  It contains Kahina’s organic, fair trade argan oil, a beautifully wrapped handmade rosemary lavender argan soap and their intoxicating FEZ body serum.  Not only is…

10 years ago

A Luzern Labs Gift for Bare Beauty Readers

I’ve written about Ayla Beauty many times (like here, here and here for starters) because it is one of the best places to shop for Green skincare; their customer service is incredible and they carry effective, hard-to-find product lines.  One of my personal favorites is Luzern Laboratories. Luzern doesn’t use Parabens, DMDM Hydantoin, Urea, Triclosan, Phenoxyethanol, Ethanol, Denatured Alcohol, Ethyl Alcohol,…

10 years ago

The SoGood Mom Files

Wow, two profiles in one week… Can you handle it?  Not sure I can!  My friends who started The SoGood asked me to put together a post for their very popular Mom Files column and I really loved writing it.  “What is The SoGood?” you ask.  Pretty much your best girlfriend, but more organized: it is a…

10 years ago

Winter Travel Essentials

When Zero George, an historic property that also happens to be the coolest boutique hotel in Charleston, asked me to guest-blog for their Black Book, I didn’t jump, I leapt at the chance.   After all, nothing is more sustainable than historic preservation and restoration, and their property is gorgeous.  If you ever visit Charleston, it is absolutely where…

10 years ago

LURK Made Natural Perfumes

Sniff, sniff….  Do you smell that?  It’s synthetic fragrance.  It stinks.  Like, so bad.  If we could only pass a law that no celebrity could create a fragrance ever again… the world would smell so much better…. If you are a Green fragrance convert like myself, you frequently find yourself gagging on other people’s perfume choices.  And…