a very, very good guide.

wedding day with all natural makeup

if you are anything like me, you care what goes into and onto your body.  not so much during sunday brunch when it's time for bottomless mimosas, but you catch my drift.  we don't eat processed foods and try to eat as much organic and locally-grown food as possible.  i am now doing a lot of cooking and trying new, wholesome recipes for us.

about two years ago, i read an article about how eating healthy is all great - but if you are smearing your face with makeup that can include ingredients like formaldehyde and other nasty chemicals that are banned in other nations - it's not all that great.  i decided then and there that i would start using all natural beauty products. considering my decade-plus addiction to sephora and beauty products of all sorts, it was a big change for me.  but i've come to love it, and two years later my skin has never looked better.  my makeup is so natural you could eat it [but i don't, just to clarify].

so you can imagine how happy i was to find this!  it's a purchase analyzer from good guide, possibly the best website ever.  how it works is like this: you take a product you want to purchase, say your mrs meyers rosemary all-purpose cleaner [which i use religiously] or your favorite smashbox luminizer and type it into the site.  good guide will rate the product - on how healthy or hazardous it is for use, the company's environmental impact, and their societal impact.  the best thing about it is that it links up directly with amazon, so you can get a little thumbs up or thumbs down on products you are looking at purchasing right on amazin.com.  but good guide access means you can find out which of your favorite brands supports water pollution, child labor, and other awful things - as well as which companies rock all around.  it's phenomenal.  lately i've taken to shopping around on sephora, but checking out the brands and products on the guide before i buy.  wonderful.

that made me super happy today - so i thought i'd share with everyone!  enjoy and happy [and healthy!] shopping.

til next time...