From Farm to Face: Beauty Brands That Are Good For You & the Earth

No?l Duan

·Assistant Editor

Updated April 22, 2015 at 9:10 AM

Indie Lee

Founder Indie Lee was diagnosed with a potentially fatal brain tumor in November 2008, and her surgery was scheduled for April 22nd, 2009 exactly six years ago on Earth Day. “It’s my sixth tumor-vessary!” she says. The entrepreneur and self-proclaimed beauty junkie was told by her doctors that her tumor may have occurred due to the environment, or something she was putting on her skin, which is our body’s largest organ. After waking up from her successful surgery, Lee was inspired to create a luxury beauty line that both looks good in your bathroom cabinet and is non-toxic. The bottles are made from glass and the paper labels are made from recycled fiber. “Some of my products have one ingredient and some of them have four,” she says. “I source my products indigenously because I want to source them where they are grown most optimally.” Her favorite Squalane Facial Oil ($32) is made from only one ingredient, 100% olive-derived oil, and she claims that she doesn’t need to use foundation anymore. Simplifying your beauty routine doesn’t mean you need to give up on being fancy, after all.

Indie Lee

As beauty editors, our desks are always engulfed in packaging. There are piles of miniature bottles, goodies wrapped in layers of tissue paper, tons of cardboard boxes, along with paper bags and ribbons. While it is all beautiful, the truth is product packaging (including cosmetic products) takes up one-fourth of landfill space.

Another not so great aspect of the beauty world is the untested chemicals in so many products. While the FDA does review color additives that go into our cosmetics, it doesn’t review the other ingredients.

This Earth Day, we’re celebrating the beauty brands that are not only committed to safe products for people, but also committed to ethical production and sustainable consumption for the environment. There may be many options for good skin and hair care, but there is no planet B.

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From Farm to Face: Beauty Brands That Are Good For You & the Earth

Indie Lee