Clean Beauty Needs a New Name; In the Meantime the Movement Still Needs You.
As I run out the gate on this HUGE topic I want my purpose of this article to be clear. It’s complex and I want to simutaniously celebrate the incredible…
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Understanding When Cosmetics Ingredients are Dangerous: A Beginners Guide
We need to reset the vocabulary friends! Chemonoia (fear of chemicals) has become a REAL part of the human experience and not without reason. There’s a lot of scary, health…
How Shame and Fear Disempower Progress Toward Wellness
Shame and fear are powerful content creating and marketing tools in a time when the internet and social media have become the acceptable destinations to find solutions (and even self…
Ethical Makeup and Sustainable, Cruelty-Free Skincare Products Available in Canada
The first thing to understand about “Cruelty-free”, “Vegan” and “Ethical” is that they are not mutually exclusive when it comes to beauty products. Please understand if you are searching for…
Three Ways Grief Impacts Your Skin: Weeping Your Way to Wellness
Measuring time has become a bit of a challenge for me. I find when I try to express how long ago something happened, I can’t seem to tell the difference…
Liberated Beauty is Rooted in Sustainability
I love how the words “sustainable”, “eco” and “ethical” are changing the conversations around how people seek beauty and personal care products. Being on the front lines as a lifestyle…
Top 20 Of 2020 Ethical Beauty Products at TGV
2020….what a year for shifts in how we consume beauty!! So many people chose to join our community and adopt our culture of getting real, talking about the tough stuff…
Three 2020 Lessons that Brought me to my Knees
It’s not very often that we have to physically write the date on anything anymore. Last week (last week of 2020) I needed to, and I wrote March …. and…
4 Practices to a Spectacular Relationship with Your Evolving Beauty
It wasn’t so long ago that I was a deeply influenced participant in the “never enough” beauty culture and industry, that has deeply wounded generations of women. Our fears exploited,…
Three Epic Hacks to Guarantee Washing Your Face Every Night
Hacks! Easier, faster results! Click bait. It’s an incredibly successful yet wildly unethical and unsustainable marketing ploy that has been used against you for years. Companies invest a fortune to…
Do you REALLY Know if Your Beauty Products Have Been Tested on Animals?
Back in March 2019, animal activists and cruelty-free shoppers rejoiced at the news that China was taking strides to accept alternative testing options to replace animal testing for cosmetics. This…
Sustainable Beauty is a Practice, Not a Product; So Let’s Get Real
Being the owner of a (clean) beauty retail store has me questioning the effects of consumerism. In a time where humans are referred to as consumers and are at the…