Best 8 Eco-Friendly Personal Care Products

One way to be kind to Mother Nature is by using eco-friendly personal care products. Many of these products frequently use organic and natural ingredients, biodegrade quickly and completely, use eco-friendly packaging, don’t test on or use animal products, and are often safer and gentler for us to use. In addition, environmentally friendly companies pay close attention to their impact on the planet through the lifecycle of their products including manufacturing, use, and even disposal. By buying green you are helping to protect the world, and all the creatures that live in it, for future generations.



Below is a list of eight green personal care products that live in the bathroom. Don’t see one of your favorite products here? Please add a comment at the end of the article and share your great find with fellow eco-minded gals!

a. Soap

Pangea Organics Indian Green Tea with Mint and Rose Petal Soap. The name alone conjures up images of a hot, relaxing, aromatic bath. Pangea’s products are made from organic ingredients, have no synthetic preservatives, no GMO’s, and no petrochemicals or parabens. The product biodegrades within 48 hours and its packaging is 100% post-consumer material so you can even compost it in your garden. Pangea’s soap won the Best Green Product of the Year at the 2005 Natural Products Expo East. Other brands selling green soap bars are: Burt’s Bee’s, Kiss My Face, and Dr. Bonner’s Magic Soap (certified Fair Trade).


b. Toothpaste

Tom’s of Maine brand toothpastes. A favorite among eco-friendly shoppers, they come in eleven flavors, ranging from traditional peppermint to exotic apricot, use only natural ingredients, use recycled packaging, and give 10% of profits as well as 5% of paid employee time to communities. Other brands that sell eco-friendly toothpastes are: Burt’s Bees, Jason Natural Cosmetics, Nature’s Gate, and The Natural Dentist.

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Makeup Tips

Beauty makeup tips provided by us to refresh your look is a skill as well as an art that can be learned by anyone and, with our online guidance, any woman (teen) can learn to use these cosmetics tips to make the most of her own natural looks.

You may be wondering makeup is only for women, well go through the fine print a in our website and be surprised to know that we even have makeup tips for men.

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Tips to Impress your girlfriend

Make her feel protected
It is good idea to make her deem that you care about her. And it is not erroneous as well. You really love your gal and want to let her feel safe with you. Just hold her face or give a tight hug. Don't try to reach for her petite derriere. Go slow.

Esteem her
Everyone loves admiration and your girlfriend is no dissimilar. So, why don't you admire her attractiveness and looks? Tell her how beauteous, lovely, bright and all the blah on and blah forth that actually made you fall for her. She resolve like it for sure.

Take her out
Take her for a picture or to a restaurant. But before preparation a date, take a note of here likes and dislikes and plan accordingly. Even if you love sci fi movies, don't haul her to watch it with you. Instead go for a romantic movie. So what if you don't like it, if your gal is happy so do you.

Gift her Teddy
Gift your gal a soft white bear bear. Almost every girl loves to have a soft teddy bear. She would remember you when you would not around. The teddy will be your delegate she can keep with her.

Be Sincere
Be honest to your girlfriend. This is maybe most important tip we can give. Think about your relation. How serious you are with it? If you feel that you indeed love your gal and feel deep love for her, show it to her.

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Exercise keep us Healthy, isn't it?

Exercise has long been touted as the panacea for everything that ails you. For better health, simply walk for 20 or 30 minutes a day, boosters say — and you don’t even have to do it all at once. Count a few minutes here and a few there, and just add them up. Or wear a pedometer and keep track of your steps. However you manage it, you will lose weight, get your blood pressure under control and reduce your risk of osteoporosis.

If only it were so simple. While exercise has undeniable benefits, many, if not most, of its powers have been oversold. Sure, it can be fun. It can make you feel energized. And it may lift your mood. But before you turn to a fitness program as the solution to your particular health or weight concern, consider what science has found.

Moderate exercise, such as walking, can reduce the risk of diabetes in obese and sedentary people whose blood sugar is starting to rise. That outcome was shown in a large federal study in which participants were randomly assigned either to an exercise and diet program, to take a diabetes drug or to serve as controls. Despite trying hard, those who dieted and worked out lost very little weight. But they did manage to maintain a regular walking program, and fewer of them went on to develop diabetes.

Exercise also may reduce the risk of heart disease, though the evidence is surprisingly mixed. There seems to be a threshold effect: Most of the heart protection appears to be realized by people who go from being sedentary to being moderately active, usually by walking regularly. More intense exercise has been shown to provide only slightly greater benefits. Yet the data from several large studies have not always been clear, because those who exercise tend to be very different from those who do not.

Active people are much less likely to smoke; they’re thinner and they eat differently than their sedentary peers. They also tend to be more educated, and education is one of the strongest predictors of good health in general and a longer life. As a result, it is impossible to know with confidence whether exercise prevents heart disease or whether people who are less likely to get heart disease are also more likely to be exercising.

Scientists have much the same problem evaluating exercise and cancer. The same sort of studies that were done for heart disease find that people who exercised had lower rates of colon and breast cancer. But whether that result is cause or effect is not well established.

Exercise is often said to stave off osteoporosis. Yet even weight-bearing activities like walking, running or lifting weights has not been shown to have that effect. Still, in rigorous studies in which elderly people were randomly assigned either to exercise or maintain their normal routine, the exercisers were less likely to fall, perhaps because they got stronger or developed better balance. Since falls can lead to fractures in people with osteoporosis, exercise may prevent broken bones — but only indirectly.

And what about weight loss? Lifting weights builds muscles but will not make you burn more calories. The muscle you gain is minuscule compared with the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body. And muscle has a very low metabolic rate when it’s at rest. (You can’t flex your biceps all the time.)

Jack Wilmore, an exercise physiologist at Texas A & M University, calculated that the average amount of muscle that men gained after a serious 12-week weight-lifting program was 2 kilograms, or 4.4 pounds. That added muscle would increase the metabolic rate by only 24 calories a day.

Exercise alone, in the absence of weight loss, has not been shown to reduce blood pressure. Nor does it make much difference in cholesterol levels. Weight loss can lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels, but if you want to lose weight, you have to diet as well as exercise. Exercise alone has not been shown to bring sustained weight loss.Just ask Steven Blair, an exercise researcher at the University of South Carolina. He runs every day and even runs marathons. But, he adds, “I was short, fat and bald when I started running, and I’m still short, fat and bald. Weight control is difficult for me. I fight the losing battle.”

The difficulty, Dr. Blair says, is that it’s much easier to eat 1,000 calories than to burn off 1,000 calories with exercise. As he relates, “An old football coach used to say, ‘I have all my assistants running five miles a day, but they eat 10 miles a day.’”

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Make your Husband Happy

Beautiful Reception:

After returning from work, office, travel, or whatever has separated you, begin with a good greeting.

1- Meet him with a cheerful face
2- Beautify and perfume yourself
3- Start with good news and delay any bad news until he has rested
4- Receive him with love and endearing sentences
5- Try to prepare delicious food for him and have it ready on time
6- Soften Your Voice

Physical Beautification:
1- Take care of your body and fitness
2- Put on nice and attractive clothes and perfumes
3- Bathe regularly
4- Avoid that your husband should observe you in dirty clothes or rough shape
5- Avoid prohibited types of ornamentation
6- Use the types of perfumes, colours, and clothes that the husband likes
7- Change hair style, perfumes, etc. from time to time
8- However with these things you should avoid excessiveness and, of course, only act as such in front of mahrem men and women

Be Happy With What Allah Has Ordained:
1- You shouldn’t be depressed because your husband is poor or has a small time job
2- You should look at the poor, sick, and handicapped people and remember Allah (SWT) for all that has been given to you
3- You should remember that real wealth lies in one’s Iman and piety

Indifference to Worldly Things:
1- You should not consider this world as your last hope and interest
2- You should not ask your husband for unnecessary things
3- Asceticism does not mean not to enjoy what is good and permissible (Halal), but it means that one should look forward to the life hereafter and utilize whatever Allah has given us to achieve paradise (Jannah)
4- Encourage your husband to reduce expenses and save some money in order to give away as charity and feed the poor and the needy

Be Grateful:
1- According to the Prophet (PBUH), the majority in the hell would comprise women because they were ungrateful for the good done to them
2- The result of being grateful is that your husband will love you more and will do his best to please you in more ways
3- The result of being ungrateful is that your husband will be dissappointed and will start asking himself: Why should I do any good to her, if she never appreciates?

Devotion and Loyalty:
1- Support your husband particularly when he is going through a bad phase in life , e.g. an accident or a bankruptcy
2- Support him through your own work, money, and property if needed

Obedience:
1- Obey your husband in all that he commands you, unless it is prohibited (Haram)
2- In Islam, the husband is the leader of the family, and the wife is his support and consultant

Please Him If He Is Angry:
1- First of all, try to avoid what makes him angry, but if you can’t, then try to appease him as follows:
a. If you are mistaken, apologise.
b. If he is mistaken then:
- Keep still instead of arguing with him; or
- Yield your right or
- Wait until his anger subsides and discuss the matter peacefully with him

2- If he was angry because of external reasons then:
a. Keep silent until his anger subsides
b. Find execuses for him, e.g. tired, problems at work, some one insulted him
c. Do not ask many questions and insist on knowing what happened,
e.g.You should tell me what happened
d. I must know what made you so angry.
e. You are hiding something, and I have the right to know

Guardianship While He is Absent:
1- Protecting yourself from any prohibited relations
2- Keep the secrets of the family, particularly intercourse and things that the husband doesn’t like other people to know
3- Take care of the house and children
4- Take care of his money and property
5- Do not go out of your house without his permission and put on full hijab
6- Refuse people whom he does not like to come over
7- Do not allow any non-mahram man to be alone with you in any place
8- Be good to his parents and relatives in his absence

Show Respect to his Family and Friends:
1- You should welcome his guests and try to please them, especially his parents
2- You should avoid problems as much as you can with his relatives
3- You should avoid putting him in a position where he has to choose between his mother and his wife
4- Show good hospitality for his guests by arranging a nice place for them to sit in, perfection of food, welcoming their wives, etc
5- Encourage him to visit his relatives and invite them to your home
6- Phone his parents and sisters, send letters to them, buy gifts for them, support them in time of distress, etc

Admirable Jealousy:
1- Jealousy is a sign of wife’s love for her husband but it should be kept within the limits of Islam, e.g. not insulating or backbiting others, disrespecting them, etc.
2- You should not follow or create unfounded doubts

Patience and Emotional Support:
1- Be patient when you face poverty and strained circumstances
2- When you face hard times and disasters that may happen to you, your husband, your children, relatives or property, e.g. diseases, accidents, death, etc
3- When facing hardships in Da’wah (imprisonment, getting fired, arrested, etc.), be patient and encourage him to keep on the path of Allah and remind him of paradise
4- When he illtreats you, counter his ill-treatment with good treatment

Good Housekeeping:
1- Keep it clean, decorated and well arranged
2- Change house arrangements from time to time to avoid boredom
3- Be Perfect of food and prepare healthy foods
4- Learn all the necessary skills for managing the house, e.g. sewing etc.,
5- Learn to raise your children properly and in an Islamic way

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