Back To School - Are you Ready?

Just in time for back-to-school season, I came accross this great article with tips on how to make this school year a greener experience. So before you head out to do your back-to-school shopping this weekend, take a minute to load up on great tips.

Back To School - Green Tips

Happy Shopping!

Mosquitoes hate Deet

If you've ever used Deet to ward off mosquitoes you might find this article interesting. Turns out eucalyptus, cloves, menthol and camphor are all natural choices that you can consider instead.

Click here for the full story.

Recycle - The Raw Way

I just finished my second round of Raw Minerals. But instead of throwing the empty container away, I just use it as a travel pod for my custom-blend of the two foundation shades. I'm sure I'm not the first person to think of this, but wanted to share this 'recycling' tip nonetheless.

Open Invitation: Campaign for Safe Cosmetics - Sept 11, 2008 Los Angeles, CA

As a Raw Beauty customer you are most likely the kind of person who cares very deeply about the ingredients in your cosmetics and beauty products. If you are in the Los Angeles area we encourage you to join us for an event hosted by the Environmental Working Group, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Breast Cancer Fund. They will be discussing how minimal exposure to the toxic chemicals found in our everyday products/environment can have a serious effect on our health over time. The founder of Healthy Child, Healthy World will also be there, presenting ways to reduce your child's exposure to toxic chemicals. The event takes place on Sept 11th at 6:30pm and is open to the public.

Please click here for more information on this very special event and to RSVP



Look forward to meeting you all!

Is your moisturizer causing skin cancer?

A study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology found that four moisturizers (one is Eucerin) dramatically increased the growth of skin cancer in mice. I love that the researchers did not set out to study if the moisturizers promoted skin cancer. This was discovery was a complete surprise, which I think lends credibility, since we can assume that they did not go into this with a bias.

Moisturizers Linked To Skin Cancer?

This is great support for why we need better safety testing of our products!!!!

Is Blue the new Green?

Go Green !

Live Green!

Think Green!


Going Green has gone mainstream. From Green celebs to Green tweens, Green Living has infiltrated fashion, beauty, and mainstream media - and the slogans and trends to prove it are everywhere. The Go Green trend is going strong and seems to be here to stay ... or is it?

Advertising firm JWT predicts that we may soon be Going Blue. Blue? Yes, JWT predicts that one of the top trends of 2008 will see blue replacing green as the color of environmentalism, social conscience, an all-aroud niceness.

If JWT is right, Going Green may soon be "so yesterday" ... say hello to Go Blue t-shirts.

Are you ready to get the blues?

Read the entire article JWT says blue will be the new green

Ingredients to Avoid in Cosmetics/ Reduce your children's exposure to toxic chemicals

For anyone living in Los Angeles who wants to learn more about ingredients to avoid in personal care, I encourage you to attend this event on September 11th. Please find the details in the flyer below:

Toxic chemicals contaminate every American's body and have been linked to serious health affects like cancer, reproductive problems and learning disabilities. Join us as we expose the hidden dangers of chemicals found in our everyday environment and common products, and focus on what we can do to change this moving forward.

What: What's Going On? A presentation and discussion on the toxic chemicals in our toys, cosmetics and in our bodies.
When: Thursday, September 11th at 6:30pm (RSVP at ewg.org/LAevent)
Where: Louis Room, Bullocks Wilshire BuildingSouthwestern Law School, 3050 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles

Who: The Environmental Working Group will discuss the 287 chemicals found in the blood of 10 special people in a multimedia presentation called "10 Americans.” Stacy Malkan of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry will read an excerpt from her book about toxic chemicals in personal care products. Christopher Gavigan author of Healthy Child Healthy World and Executive Director of the non-profit with the same name, will provide simple steps everyone can take to reduce children's exposure to toxic chemicals.

Free and open to the community. Refreshments will be served and companies that have signed the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics will be on hand with personal care product samples. For directions, please visit http://www.swlaw.edu/directions

Check out Raw Skincare in W Magazine!

Our Ambiaty Skincare was part of a great article in W Magazine called "Garden Variety - the newest antiaging wonders are harvested from nature and far from ordinary."

Penelope Cruz is on the cover - check us out on page 124!

The Electric Car is Coming Back!

One of the best things we can do is support the return of the electric car. It’s really sad that the efforts to bring it to market in the 90’s were overturned…but it’s better late than never!

Can you imagine no oil changes, no tune ups, no dependence on foreign oil? Not to mention no more worries over skyrocketing gas prices!!

I also love that electric vehicles have less than 1/10th as many parts as a gas car. There's no engine, transmission, spark plugs, valves, fuel tank, tailpipe, distributor, starter, clutch, muffler or catalytic converter.

Check out the website Plug-In America for more information on electric cars and what you can do to support their return. Right now, making the choice to use an electric vehicle would be one of the best ways to reduce carbon emissions.

Sign the petition at We want plug-in Hybrids!

In the meantime, I'm loving my Camry Hybrid!!!

Lucky Mag's Sweet Sixteen of Green

Yippee! Raw Natural Beauty is in the September issue of Lucky Magazine! Our fabulous, Natural Transfirmation Brightening Powder is featured as the ‘tawniest bronzer’, described by Lucky as “the best toasty-golden color with a hint of pink shimmer for luminosity.” And it does so much more that that! Natural Transfirmation features our Liquid Blending Technology, developed by the pharmaceutical industry. This technology allows us to create a powder that is so super-refined it let’s you control your level of coverage, while delivering incredible luminosity with an absolutely weightless feel. The peachy shade is the perfect, universal tone for brightening the complexion and for hiding uneven skintone, discoloration and redness.

Some days I wear it in place of my regular mineral foundation to just brighten and hide problem areas, and other days I use it over foundation as a highlighter. I love it because it leaves my skin looking smooth, even-toned and naturally radiant. Another added bonus, because the powder is so finely milled and contains this amazing, freshwater pearl powder, you can brush it under your eyes to conceal dark circles and just brighten the whole eye area. Multifunctional to the plus!


Check us out in Lucky - page 261!


Cheers,

Christina