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Beauty

Awakening Beauty
Beauty to Die For
A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
Organic Beauty
The Natural Makeover Diet

Baby and Kids

Safer for Your Baby: A Guide To Living Better With Fewer Chemicals

General and Cleaning

The Cancer Smart Consumer Guide
Ecoholic
Green Clean
The Healthy Home Workbook
Organic at Home

 

Awakening Beauty
A Consumer Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
Awakening Beauty - the Dr.Hauschka way
By: Susan West Kurz, 2006
Author and president of Dr. Hauschka, Inc., offers readers a transformative program grounded in the key principles of natural ingredients and working with the body's rhythms. Her advice on recognizing how skin behaves and responds to other parts of the body, coupled with specific practices can naturally restore healthy, radiant skin and improve our overall health.

Beauty to Die For - The Cosmetic Consequence
By: Judi Vance, 2000
This book is a practical guide that not only illuminates the hazards, but provides sensible suggestions for creating a less toxic life. It translates the technical jargon into language that everyone can understand to teach consumers about the products we use everyday and how to shop safely and wisely.

A Consumer's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients
By: Ruth Winter, 2005
Find out what's in your health and beauty products with this updated and expanded sixth edition in easy to use dictionary format. The book gives you all the facts you need to protect yourself and your family from possible irritants, confusing chemical names, or exaggerated claims of beauty from gimmick additives.
     
   
Safer for Your Baby
By: Lynn Tondat Ruggeri, Ph.D. and
Laura costa, Ph.D. 2006
This book helps consumers to identify the chemicals most likely to cause harm, to avoid/minimize exposure to those chemicals and to find safer options. Harmful effects are generally greatest prenatally as well as for newborns and young children. However, everyone can benefit from strategies to decrease their "chemical body burden."

   
     
Organic Beauty
By: Josephine Fairley, 2001
Unlike any other beauty book, Organic Beauty casts a discerning eye over the confusing number of products that claim to be "natural" and features an illustrated directory of the ingredients used in cosmetics currently on the market. Beauty recipes the use natural ingredients and methods of preparation offering a pure and simple approach to looking and feeling good.

The Natural Makeover Diet: A 4-step program to looking and feeling your best from the inside out.
By: Dr. Joey Shulman, 2006.
Dr. Shulman, a registered nutritional consulting practitioner and a chiropractic doctor, leads you through a makeover process to improve health and appearance, reinforcing the idea that beauty begins on the inside. The book offers tools and information to help you understand your body's functions and reactions.

     
The CancerSmart Consumer Guide
Green Clean
The Cancer Smart Consumer Guide
By: Sean Griffin, Labour Environmental Alliance Society, 2007
This guide offers a wealth of information on carcinogens, reproductive toxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are found in brand name household cleaning products, personal care products, plastics, pesticides and home maintenance products. Alternatives and product substitutes are suggested.
Green Clean - The Environmentally Sound Guide to Cleaning Your Home
By: Linda Mason Hunter, 2005
A definitive, step-by-step guide to cleaning better while using nontoxic and eco-friendly Chapter's on cleaning the Kitchen, the Bathroom, the Laundry, and every other room in the house. Chapters also dedicated to Storage, Disposal & Recycling, simple, do-it-yourself recipes for cleaning solutions, web links and other resources.

Ecoholic - Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada
By: Adria Vasil, 2007
This Canadian resource, with a city-by-city guide for Calgary, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg, offers practical tips and products to help do your part for the earth. Get the dirt on The Best Green Products, The Most Current Information, and The Most Helpful Services.

     
Healthy Home Workbook
Organic at Home
The Healthy Home Workbook - Easy Steps for Eco-Friendly Living
By: Kimberly Rider, 2006
The spiral binding and tabbed sections complete this handy reference guide that provides the reader with ideas on how to create a space that is stylish, affordable and friendly to the environment. Lot of colorful photos make this book a great addition to your coffee table.

Organic at Home
By: Murdoch Books, 2005
Organic at Home gives basic information and tools for putting an organic philosophy into practice in your home, from the soil and plants in your gardens, to the food in your kitchen, to the care of your body. Read it from cover to cover or simply select from among the hundreds of ideas.

 

 

Last Updated: 2007-05-08