Are jumpsuits really coming back in fashion? Michelle Smith at Pretty by Nature seems to think so — and even outlines 5 tips for making the jumpsuit work for you before recommending an all-bamboo jumpsuit: The Elroy Apparel Davidia Jumper, on sale for $126 at Elroy.
My question is simple: Would you wear this eco-friendly, Canadian-made jumpsuit?
Cuz the model in the Davidia Jumper above wears it well — but I’m not sure that actually means the Jumper itself wears well. In fact, I’m wondering if the tall thin model with the cool purse and crazy hair — along with her choice not to wear a tank under the plunging neckline of the Jumper — is simply detracting from the un-prettiness of the Jumper itself.
Which is to say — I don’t think I’ll ever be able to pull of this look myself. How about you?
No, the question’s not about the TV show, but about actual lipstick. More specifically, my question’s about Cargo Cosmetics’ PlantLove Botanical Lipstick, a tube of which I received at one of the eco-shows during L.A. Fashion Week.
PlantLove lipstick’s marketed directly at the eco-glam crowd. The EcoCert certified lipstick contains no parabens, phthalates, synthetic dyes colors, or fragrance. The tube packaging’s made of biodegradable plant materials — and the box around it’s not only biodegradable but plantable, since it’s embedded with wildflower seeds. Plus, $2 from the sale of each $20 lipstick goes to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
That all sounds good, right? The problem is that PlantLove lipstick scores a rather high 5 on Skin Deep, Environmental Working Group’s cosmetic safety database. The culprit ingredient appears to be oxybenzone, described by EWG as “a sunscreen chemical that has been linked to allergies, hormone disruption, and cell damage, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control.”
That 5 ranking’s higher than even some Revlon lipsticks that score a mere 3 — despite the fact that the Revlon product contains parabens!
So what lipstick would you buy? Feel free to share recommendation of your fave eco-lipstick in the comments –
I’ve called Terracycle’s other upcycled juice pouch stuff eco-fugly before — but the eco worm-poop company keeps comin’ out with new items, this time for the holidays.
Behold the Terracycle stockings and tree skirts, made with upcycled juice pouches and cookie wrappers diligently collected by Terracycle trash brigades!
Now in general, I consider both holiday stockings and tree pouches to be decorative items one saves and reuses year after year. Which makes me wonder — Even if I decided I was okay with cookie-wrapper stockings for one season, would I be able to stand looking at those things every year?
Then again, kids may actually really like this stuff (I’ve no firsthand experience and thus no clue — I’m totally guessing here) because the stockings may evoke warm memories of eating and drinking high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil. Yum!
Let me step back and say that I do love, in general, what Terracycle’s doing to eliminate the idea of trash. In fact, you only need to read TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky’s thoughts on the individual conundrums that non-recyclable, recyclable and biodegradable packagings all cause to know that Terracycle’s serious about its mission. About his own brigades, Tom writes: “these programs (almost 12,000 collection sites strong) are merely a drop in the ocean when compared to the many billions of used packages discarded every year.”
Other eco-conundrums posed by Terracycle’s upcycling ventures include: 1) People will come to think of nonrecyclable packaging as eco-okay since they can be upcycled — despite the fact that only a teensy amount of the stuff actually does get upcycled, and 2) The upcycled products themselves may serve as greenwashed advertisements for unhealthy, uneco products with non-recyclable packaging.
And yet, as far as stockings and tree skirts go, aren’t Terracycle’s products pretty far up on the eco-scale? Certainly since Terracycle’s goods are available via Home Depot at reasonable prices, one could make the argument that these products are the only eco-ones of their kind made accessible to the general public.
Would you buy a Terracycle stocking or tree skirt?
Posted by Siel in survey (Saturday November 8, 2008 at 7:28 am)
A while back, I switched banks and put my money in Bank of the West, the only “blue” bank with locations near me at the time. Lately, though, I’m wondering if I should move my savings to Shorebank.
Shorebank only has branches in Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit — but it does have an online high-yield savings account, which is offering 3.5% APY right now. Put $500 or more into your new account, and you also get a reusable canteen.
I do like having my savings and checking accounts linked up at one bank, but I’m considering starting a second savings account — but I’m afraid too many bank accounts will make life unnecessarily complicated. So I’m wondering:
Poll closes Monday night.
Update, 9/18/09: Since this post, I’ve opened — and am now in the process of closing, a Shorebank account. And I don’t recommend anyone opening an account with Shorebank — and it’s not because they kept lowering the APY.
Simply, Shorebank’s service sucks. The idealism’s nice, but the the horrendous, glitchy Firefox-incompatible web interface is a huge pain, transfers extremely slow, and the service full of weird rules and quirks no one should have to put up with.
No, the question’s not about the TV show, but about actual lipstick. More specifically, my question’s about 
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Let me step back and say that I do love, in general, what Terracycle’s doing to eliminate the idea of trash. In fact, you only need to read TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky’s thoughts on the individual