#10: You Can Make Hair Masks & Rinses for Little Money
One of the hottest trends in hair care is natural hair mask and hair rinses that you can make from basic ingredients found in most kitchens. After all, why spend $$ or $$$ on a bottle of fancy conditioner when you can make an amazing one from products that cost pennies?
#11: Skip the Makeup Remover, Use Almond Oil or Olive Oil Instead
Rose-Marie Swift is a NYC-based makeup artist and founder of the pure organic skincare line rms beauty. She is revered among NY's coolest glamourati. Since Swift is an organic beauty guru, I had to share her makeup removal trick, which is simply cold-pressed olive oil or almond oil with a cotton pad and warm water.
Note to self: Skip the Clinique makeup remover you've been using for years and try this.
#12: The Buzz Over Moroccan Oil: Truth or Hype?
It seems every single person I know with dry or curly (or dry AND curly) hair swears by Moroccanoil hair products. The main ingredient in Moroccanoil products is "argan oil" which comes from the kernels of the argan tree found in Morocco. Used on its own, argan oil is an incredibly rich source of Vitamin E and essential fatty acids. It can be used on the hair and skin. Argan oil on its own is organic.
Moroccanoil the brand contains a ton of other ingredients (mostly silicones) that aren't organic. But they still work wonders to control frizz.
According to Wikipedia, the number of personal-care products on the US market with argan oil as an ingredient increased from just 2 in 2007 to more than 100 by 2011. But overproduction has led to an environmental problem with deforestation of the argan trees (perhaps "deforestation" isn't the correct word since the argan tree grows in deserts). Turns out, argan oil is incredibly rare and demand is putting the trees at risk. In the end, this organic product may not be very environmentally-friendly, after all.
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