We wrote about the chemicals in your beauty products and why reusable shopping bags are the way to go. See the post for the goods!

We covered decreasing your electricity use and your indoor air pollution. Click on the post to get the links.

This tip is a simple one that I think is really important. So often as Americans, we buy products based on the commercials that promise any array of imperfection correction.
But have you ever thought about what you are washing with? What exactly is in that mascara that gets in your eyes?
Skin Deep (http://www.cosmeticsdatabase.com/), a website run by the Environmental Working Group, lists various cosmetics and rates their toxicity hazard on a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high). They are very clear that their research is not the be all …