How to simplify your beauty routine
With salons and beauty services temporarily closing, there's never been a better time to start a DIY, at-home, simplified beauty routine.
How to deal with chapped lips
You shouldn't have to suffer through the winter with dry and cracked lips.
Do women really need trash cans everywhere they go?
Surely there's a way to ditch our wasteful, disposable habits.
This Canadian company sells zero-waste, plastic-free toothpaste
It comes in dry tab form. Just bite and brush!
I used to be a beauty routine maximalist
Now I'm obsessed with paring it down to the absolute minimum.
The great sunscreen fallacy: Lack of sun exposure might be killing us
Experts suggest that the health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risks.
Banish 'thigh chafe' with these simple solutions
Women share their tried-and-true fixes for this incredibly common yet rarely discussed problem.
Say no to DIY sunscreen
This is one of those rare times when we tell you store-bought is better than homemade!
Is there a fishy ingredient in your cosmetics?
Shark liver oil is a common moisturizing agent in many beauty products. Stay away!
Leaf offers the plastic-free shave you've always wanted
Say goodbye to disposable cartridges and plastic packaging with this solid-steel beauty.
How whitening strips can harm teeth
New research reveals that the active ingredient in whitening products can damage the layer beneath the tooth's enamel.
The hidden health risks of breast implants
This is serious surgery with long-term implications. We need to stop treating it so lightly.
The key to great skin? Leave it alone.
When it comes to a clean and green beauty routine, less is more.
Has the wellness industry overtaken fashion?
Both offer a 'dream version' of yourself, but one is far trendier than the other.
American cosmetic regulations haven't been updated in 81 years
The United States lags behind more than 40 nations in banning or restricting chemicals for safety reasons.
Anti-pollution skincare is the latest beauty trend
New products for 'urban skin' are booming, but do they actually work?
13 zero waste beauty essentials
When zero waste lifestyle bloggers debate their go-to beauty products, these are the ones that keep coming up.
4 ways to make your hair look great without showering
Because we don't all need to look like Barbie dolls all the time.
I finally found a perfect shampoo alternative
After years of no-shampoo approaches, I found a way to clean my hair that actually works for me.
Want nail polish with fewer chemicals? Check out ella+mila
It is"7-free," which means it does not contain 7 of the harshest chemicals commonly used in nail polishes.
Bar soap is making a glorious comeback
Sales of bar soap had been sadly slipping, but now shoppers are wising up to its many benefits.
Keep your skin hydrated this winter
Supple and glowing is preferable to chapped and flaky.
8 makeup brands that are fighting plastic packaging
The beauty industry has a long way to go, but these companies prove that change is in the air.
How to grow and harvest 'cut and come again' lettuce, for perpetual salad greens
Harvesting a large crisp head of lettuce from the garden is a wonderful thing, but for faster yields and longer harvests, a cut and come again lettuce bed can put salad on your plate all season long.
Grow a 100-year-old forest in your backyard in just 10 years
Obviously, you can't literally grow a century-old forest in just a decade, but by mimicking nature's forest-building process, it's possible to kickstart your own mini-forest.
Take back the streets and give them to restaurants
Vilnius has an idea that would work in a lot of places.
The Coronavirus and the future of Main Street
What can we do to save our streets? Decentralize everything.
Open streets and parks are a matter of equity and fairness
In many cities, politicians are looking at the world through their windshields.
Urban design after the coronavirus
Urbanists are rethinking what's important about our cities in view of the pandemic.
It's time to take back the streets for people who walk, run, or bike
We really have to change the way we use our cities.
Urban density is not the enemy, it is your friend
The parts of New York City with the lowest density have the highest rate of COVID-19 infection.
City, suburb or country? Where's the best place to ride out this crisis?
Apparently, policy is more important than place.
How we get around determines what we build, and also determines much of our carbon footprint
Transportation has a much bigger impact on urban design than we think.
US government goes after green modern design, will make architecture classical again
They will also likely offer a new definition of 'sustainable design'.
Jargon watch: "Hipsturbia"
A new report describes this trend, happening in suburbs and small towns near successful big cities.
Wood architecture meets nature in new community in Copenhagen
Henning Larsen's design for Fælledby is "a model for sustainable living."
IKEA is building a big new store in Vienna with no parking
They say it's the new megatrend: customers without cars.
How Ghent got rid of cars and transformed the city in a decade
Why can't we do this in North America?
Three tweets that changed my decade
A look back at the tweets that changed the way I think about sustainable design.
If cities are going to curb their carbon emissions, they have to consider consumption
It's not just about how we build and how we get around; it's also what we eat and wear and buy.
New award for landscape architecture honors Cornelia Oberlander
The Cultural Landscape Foundation introduces a prize that rivals architecture's Pritzker or Stirling.
Boosting Buffalo as a climate change haven
The hot real estate plays of the next decade will be in the rust belt along the Great Lakes.
Toronto: A lesson in how not to do Vision Zero
I used to say that Vision Zero here was a joke, but now it is, in fact a tragedy.
The future of transportation is the bus, the bike and the elevator
Henry Grabar writes a really wonderful article that shows how "a better world is possible."
If we are going to have good indoor air quality, we have to start outdoors
Particulate pollution is killing us, and we can't pretend we can just open a window.