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Green is the New Black | Environmentally Friendly Bags are the Latest Trend

April 14th 2008 10:00

Forget basic black and charcoal gray. The hottest fashion color this season is green. We all know about the impact of global warming and climate change and everybody wants to do something about it. And that includes some of the world’s hottest bag designers.

Cool eco-friendly shopping bags like Baggu reusable totes and Envirosax shoppers make it easy to ditch old-fashioned plastic and paper varieties. These clever creations are lightweight, spacious, and stylish. They’ll hold a lot more than those nasty plastic bags, and they’re made of strong fabrics to withstand the extra weight. The playful patterns on the Envirosax and bold colors of the Baggu bags make these environmentally fashion bags great fashion statements.

We all know recycling’s a great way to help our planet, and some of our favorite fashion houses are getting in on the act. I love Nahui Ollin’s colorful purses made from gum wrappers, soda bottle labels, and candy wrappers. These materials make much better fashion accessories than landfill!

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and the Aussie company Trash Bags firmly agrees. It’s taking old telephone books, juice cartons, plastic bags, and newspaper and turning them into designer bags. And their cool creations aren’t just eco-friendly. They’re also socially responsible, with profits helping to improve communities in the Asia Pacific region.

These hot eco-friendly bags will help you save the planet in style!

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Natural Instinct - The Vegan Way of Beauty

August 17th 2006 04:24

At last I have found a natural beauty range that won't require any real estate as collateral. Natural Instinct makes a huge array of products ranging from conditioner to dish washing liquid that doesn't contain any chemicals or animal derivatives. All that practicality for a bargain price of $20 a litre, you can slap it on all year round, a little more clean, a little more pure, and a little more prosperous.

The stuff feels sort of like home-made jelly that's been left in the sun for too long. However, for that price, who am I to complain? Fragrantly herbal, it foams up like a charm, without containing any of the SLS that makes you dry and flaky. The stuff is so placid and mild you can squirt it onto your eyeballs without getting blinded.

With no animal derivatives, Natural Instinct has also become a favourite among the vegan society. It's so natural I almost want to eat it, after checking that no warnings against consumption was issued on the bottles.

Riding the entrepreneurial dream wave in the organic market, this delightful product has planted itself in heath stores all over Australia. However I wouldn't buy the whole range; something cynically suspicious in me sees the possibilty that you can do your dishes with the shampoo, after splashing some in your salad, and cleaning off that spot in the carpet.....

Household Cleaners

Hair Cleaners

Can you tell them apart?

*images taken from naturalinstinct.com.au and are used to commentary purposes only

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Posted By: Bunbury - Category: Fads

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You & Your Dog Cleansing Kit by Aesop

July 4th 2006 08:49

Everyone coo on the count of 3....awwww

The Aesop You & Your Dog Cleansing Kit is one of the most bizarrely adorable playthings I've come across. For dog lovers who always wanted to smell like their dogs, and vice versa, this product is for you. The pack comes in a little red (or green) box which includes two massive bottles: one for the two legged and one for the quadruped.

The human body cleanser has extracts of ylang ylang, wild lime, and bergamot that delivers fresh bursts of herbal goodness while you scrub up. While the animal shampoo (creatively named "Animal") contains sweet smelling natural anticeptics and deodorants such as lemon rind extract, tea tree, and spearming leaf extracts which leaves your furry fluffs pleasantly fragranced and thoroughly cleansed.

Aesop You & Your Dog Cleansing Kit

Although in reality, they're just two gigantic overpriced bottles of soap and shampoo costing $65, the idea is so damn cute, makes me want to buy a puppy just to play bath time with it!

I also think this great idea can be used (as much a gimmick as it is) by animal rights organizations such as WSPA and RSPCA . It would give them boundless market exposure and bring more animal lovers together to fight cruelty. It'd be so cool if some proceeds went to these charities, or if they launched their own line of pet care/body care products. This little kit is too cute not to turn heads!

Help Puppies...www.wspa.com.au

*Images are taken from wikipedia, aesop.com.au, www.wspa.com.au and are used soley for commentary purposes

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Posted By: Bunbury - Category: Fads

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Philosophy Shower Gels - To Smell like Food

June 21st 2006 04:31

Of all the ridiculous products that cram our shelves right now. Of all the gimmicks that try to pry our hungry hands away from our hard earned cash. Of all the marketing tricks and packaging tactics of the beauty industry. We will all be tempted to give in to some of these fads once in a while.

Looking at the Philosophy shower range, it is difficult to resist paying a ridiculous dollop of money for a plastic bottle filled with fragrance enhanced soap. It's hard to forsake yummy names like "Gingerbread Man", "Frozen Lemon Custard", and "Waffle Cone" and the incredibly realistic scents of these soap products.

I haven't seen the entire range for sale in Australia, but here are some that I've seen around our shelves at MECCA Cosmetica:

Hot Cocoa

This is by far the most popular flavour as shown by its rapid disappearance from the shelves. The rich chocolate aroma hits you like a punch out of the bottle. Obviously ideal if you want somebody to eat you up after your shower.

Strawberry Milkshake

This is my favourite, I'd actually buy it if I'm crazy enough to spend $35 on soap. It smells like that thick shake you get from MacDonalds. Yummo.

Pumpkin Pie

The sales assistants claim this to be a favourite, I think it's revolting. Why would anyone want to put pumpkin pie on their wet naked bodies?

Coconut Cream Pie

A fancy name for a Coconut oil shower gel. That's all I have to say.

Gingerbread Man

Cute packaging, innovative concept, ridiculous idea! This is the newest addition to the shower range but haven't been gaining popularity. Maybe at Christmas.

Cinnamon Buns

I actually quite like this one. Warm and prickly, it smells like coming home. This one's very popular in America. What's with Americans and cinnamon?

Egg Nog

I actually forgot what this one smells like, surely not egg nog. Very unmemorable.

Other than fathoming the idea of paying premium price for fragranced soap, these bottles actually make very fun and quirky gift ideas. Half of them don't smell too bad. But be warned; my friend's mother went to bed after using one of these, she smelt so delicious that a cockroach bit off part of her fingertip in her sleep. If they release a cheese flavoured one, I'm sure more than one rat would come-a-scurrying.

*All images are taken from meccacosmetica.com.au and are used to provide commentary on these products

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S.Korea: The Cutting Edge of Beauty

May 21st 2006 09:01

As consumer demands, economic conditions, and medical skills dramatically increased in Asia, there has been a huge wave ofcosmetic surgery among teenagers; the target market is getting dangerously young.

This is especially common in South Korea.Seoul has long been notorious as "the" place to go for a slice of beauty. The kids are not knifing themselves behind their parent's backs either. Instead of tucking their chidlren into bed, these parents are nipping and tucking them into better shape for employment or college instead of nurturing healthy self-esteem at a young age.
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CRAZED, but good-looking.

April 21st 2006 20:15

As the age of consumerism overwhelms us, our intellects may be less than impressed by our increasing obsession with aesthetic qualities.
Our rational selves observe in horror as we launch into another detailed analysis of our pore sizes and follicle structure, and embark on another rampage into the world of skincare & cosmetics on the quest for beauty.
As great thinkers of the 18th century have it, the essence of beauty incorporates unity, order, proportion, and symmetry. There is an essential beauty which is absolute, a natural beauty that exists in all things being, and a beauty instituted by man. The latter order of beauty is what our society encourages us to seek.
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