green lipstick!
i was not implying you wear green lipstick. don't worry.
in the book i'm currently reading, green chic: saving the earth in style, the author, christine matheson, says that over the course of our lifetime we may eat 4 - 9 pounds of lipstick. thats frightening- and imagine the one your kissing.she says "they are often petroleum-based and contain formaldehyde in the form of preservatives such as DMDM, hydantoin, diazolidinyl urea... "etc. formaldehyde?...
in order to avoid these nasty things she suggests lavera, ecco bella (omg, not only is the birth of venus their poster child... they do chocolate, too!!), aveda (pretty well known brand), dr hauschka, plant love by cargo is sold at sephora. i want to recommend burt's bees... but since they sold out to clorox (of all places), i don't know how i feel about them anymore.
suki is another brand. it was mentioned in gorgeously green.
here's an article called questions on organic mineral makeup at treehugger.
when it comes to packaging matheson says that MAC will take their packaging back in a program called 'back to MAC"- "bring back six containers, get a free lipstick"(p.103). so thats nice, but i am not sure if they are actually a healthy beauty line. i do know that gwen stefani uses this line on tour. god, hopefully she's doing the back to MAC thing and getting some free lipstick in return. i can't imagine how much makeup they'd go through on one tour.
when you buy online you should always try to stock up in order to save on shipping material. bulk shopping is not only really fun, its green. i swear!