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Guide to Healthy & Sustainable Beauty

Our Healthy Beauty Guide will help you understand chemical constituents in conventional, even natural products, and their potential health effects, and find the best, safest available offerings that meet your needs. Gourmet beauty items and daily essentials are handmade by expert practitioners across the United States, and our Healthy Beauty Editor finds and tests these products and evaluates their claims.

While GrowandMake.com has taken every effort to review products in the Healthy Beauty Guide for their eco-conscious and natural qualities, we have relied on the individual manufacturers to share information about their manufacturing methods, ingredients, certifications, and sources.

WHAT'S NEW

Interview with a Green Makeup Artist

Being natural, sometimes it's hard to rationalize gushing about makeup. But as a long-time user of non-toxic health and beauty products, when I find something that works so well, and it's not a chemical threat, I am ebullient.

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NEW BLOG POST

What does your skin take in?

Cosmetics and personal care products (PCPs) contain numerous chemical constituents that cause adverse health reactions and disease - even cancer - and can disrupt human reproductive systems.

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RECENT ARTICLE

Green-up Your Make-up: Is it even possible?

Beauty products, and what's in them, absorb through the skin and possibly into the body. Chemicals accrue in the skin, and may react at the presence of additional chemicals. ... Read More

NEW RECIPE

Homemade Skin Scrub

Scoop about a tablespoon of naturally-derived coconut oil from a health food store and mix in about one teaspoon of unbleached sugar. Apply a reasonable amount to skin in a circular motion while bathing, and rinse. If you used too much, try castille soap or natural-base body gels to remove excess.

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RECENT VIDEO

Badger Lip Tints Demonstrated

Growandmake.com editor Andrea Fox demonstrates and discusses the Badger brand of organic lip tints. She's a big fan and wathcing this video you'll understand why. Watch the video now

NATURAL MINERAL MAKEUP

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NEW BOOK SUGGESTION

Kitchen Cosmetics, Natural Beauty Basics

Based on common kitchen and garden ingredients - from yogurt to berries to rosemary - these lotions, creams, and other moisturizers, masks, teas, toothpastes, deodorants, shampoos, and conditioners are easily prepared in the home.Read More

FAIR LABOR JEWELRY

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