Julie Gabriel - The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances

Praise forThe Green Beauty Guide

All hail to the lipstick revolution! Today, our world cant afford beauty without a conscience. Even daily shopping habits that seem as mundane as our cosmetic and personal care product choices now have an enormous influence on our future. When shoppers read The Green BeautyGuide and put Julie Gabriels insightful green beauty tips into practice, they are also being Green Patriot environmentalists, helping to build a safe and secure future for the world and for our childrennot to mention improving their personal health and their appearance.

David Steinman, founder of the Green Patriot movement,
author of Safe Trip to Eden and creator of 50 Simple Steps
to Save the Earth from Global Warming

Once we read The Green Beauty Guide, we recycled all of our other organic beauty tomes. Julie is the definitive source, and we never hit a beauty counter without her short list of product recommendations and ingredient red flags. Julie educates and inspires us to simply be more beautiful. We could spend hours making all of her fabulous DIY green beauty recipes. Read this bookyour skin will thank you, and so will your health!

Lisa BlauandAmanda Freeman, cofounders,
Vital Juice Daily (www.vitaljuice.com)

I am often asked for a resource on cosmetics and ingredients. Julie Gabriels The Green Beauty Guide is an easy-to-read, informative introduction to many facets of the cosmetic world and how it connects to our well-beingfrom green to synthetic, do-it-yourself to superexpensive. If you are new to this world or even think you know green, step in and discover or rediscover this world and its underbelly.

Suki Kramer, Suki Pure Skin Care

Julie Gabriel has done a stellar job of creating an excellent resource that is powerful, thought-provoking, and incredibly bold. She challenges the system and encourages us to be diligent and informed about what we put on our bodies. Too often, as consumers, we complain to friends and ourselves, but rarely do we take action. I think this book is an incredible show of force, and for the right reasons. Thank you, Julie, for this important tool. I cannot wait to give it to my family and friends.

Anne Doulbeau, Inara

If you care about the health of the planet and your own well-being, Julie Gabriels The Green Beauty Guide will send you running to clean out your medicine cabinet and your cosmetic bag. This book is exceptionally well-researched and a compelling read!

Anne Dimon, TravelToWellness.com

Powerful and beautifully written! The Green Beauty Guide asks all the right questions about the beauty products we use daily on our bodies and offers many helpful suggestions for finding safer alternatives. Tell your friends about this important book. And lets give the beauty industry a makeover!

Stacy Malkan, author of Not Just a Pretty Face:
The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry and cofounder of
Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, www.SafeCosmetics.org

This is the book that I lie awake at night and write in my head. Its the message that we talk about every day on the phone with mamas who are concerned about toxins in mama and baby products. This is the information that pregnant women desperately need. Julie Gabriel has done a fabulous job of organizing the information in an understandable format, and mothers everywhere should start here for more information on toxic chemicals and how to decipher ingredient labels. The Green BeautyGuide is a must-read for all women, especially those who are carrying and nursing a baby. Our angel babies are worth it!

Melinda Olson, Angel Mama Earth Baby

the
green
beauty
guide

Your Essential Resource to
Organic and Natural Skin Care
Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances

Julie Gabriel

Health Communications, Inc.
Deerfield Beach, Florida

www.hcibooks.com

The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author and reflects the authors professional opinion. The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes in presenting this information to the public. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned herein, the reader should consult a professional healthcare advisor.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gabriel, Julie.

The green beauty guide : your essential resource to organic and natural skin care, hair care, makeup, and fragrances / Julie Gabriel.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

eISBN-13: 978-0-7573-9788-2 (ebook) eISBN-10: 0-7573-9788-3 (ebook)

1. CosmeticsEnvironmental aspects. 2. Hygiene productsEnvironmental aspects. 3. Beauty, Personal. I. Title.

TP983.G26 2008
646.7'2dc22

2008033951

2008 Julie Gabriel

All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.
HCI, its logos and marks are trademarks of Health Communications, Inc.

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.
3201 S.W. 15th Street
Deerfield Beach, FL 33442-8190

Printed on SFI-certified paper in compliance with the Sustainable Forestry InitiativeProgram.

Cover design by Justin Rotkowitz
Illustrations by Andrea Perrine Brower
Interior design by Larissa Hise Henoch
Interior formatting by Lawna Patterson Oldfield

contents

Introduction

1. The Nature of Skin

2. Beauty and the Toxic Beast

3. Become an Ingredients List Expert

4. Understanding Green Beauty

5. Do-It-Yourself Green Beauty

6. Green Cleansers

7. Green Toners

8. Green Home Facials