Vegetarian Star

“It’s kind of shocking to think that the FDA would allow over 1,500 cancer-causing carcinogens in our beauty and body care products. So I stay with a ‘keep it simple’ rule of thumb. I use a pure cacao (raw chocolate) oil on my body and hair, and [a] olive-oil-based salve on my face. Vegan biodegradable soap by Dr. Bronner.”

—Darryl Hannah,on putting products that are just as healthy on her body and she puts in. The Environmental Working Group’s Cosmetics Database allows you to search for products by brand or type and take a closer look at the ingredients. Warnings on some potentially problematic ingredients (like irritants, carcinogens) are given, as well as background information and scientific literature supporting the risks.

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Angela Lindvall is the face behind Donna Karan‘s new fragrance, Pure DKNY, which sources vanilla through a fair traded cooperative in Uganda. By obtaining vanilla continuously for the fragrance, Pure DKNY seeks to improve farming and processing conditions in Uganda where the bean is indigenous while providing economic opportunity to the farmers, 60% of which are women.

Combine this humanitarian initiative with an eco-friendly recycled glass bottle and carton packaging made using 100% renewable energy in a carbon neutral facility, the only thing standing between this fragrance and perfection is whether or not Pure DKNY is free from animal products.

Donna Karan fragrances are not tested on animals. But Lindvall wasn’t exactly sure if any animal parts went into a bottle.

“I would hope there are no cat hormones in there,” the model who tries to be more eco-friendly told EcoStiletto.

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When vegetarian celebrities partner with not so vegetarian companies, it’s one of those C & C Music Factory moments: Things That Make You Go Hmmm.

Carrie Underwood is the new face of Olay skin products and according to USA Today, is the first “celebrity ambassador” for the brand.

Olay is owned by Proctor & Gamble, a company, that continues to test a small percentage of its products on animals.

PETA’s Caring Consumer Database lists Olay as a product tested on animals and the UK Times Online says a preservative found in some Olay products, butylparaben, was tested on pregnant rats in the U.S. in 2004.

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New Yorkers and people from all over the globe will be headed out to their city’s destination for celebrations designed to rev up the fashion industry by encouraging consumers to get out and buy during the annual Fashion’s Night Out on September 10, 2010.

New York city’s Fashion’s Night Out will feature some green events, like it did last year when the Stella McCartney store offered vegetarian food.

Vegan cosmetic creator and model Josie Maran will be at the Sephoria’s Fifth Avenue Boutique giving mini makeovers and meet and greets to visitors.

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Vegetarian model Christie Brinkley has been honored with the 2nd Annual HBA Positively Beautiful Award from HBA Global Expo for her support of Smile Train. Smile Train restores smiles on children’s faces around the world by repairing cleft lips and cleft palates, oral deformity conditions that occur early in development in the uterus.

Clefts are common in developing countries and often interfere with speaking and eating abilities, thus causing stress in both public and private lives of the children affected. Treatments for clefts from surgery to speech experts help give these individuals a beautiful smile on the outside and confidence  inside.

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Carol Alt recently premiered her vegan skincare line, RAW Essentials, on Shopnbc, where customers can shop and interact via various electronic media including online, mobile devices and cable and satelite TV. Alt’s line, including cleansers, hand and foot care, anti-aging products and more are free of synthetic chemicals, parabens, vegan and not tested on animals.

It’s unknown if Alt demanded the products be cruelty-free or if the company that wanted her name behind them insisted. It’s not as if Alt is cruelty-free in other areas of her life. Earlier this year, she attended the Dennis Basso fur show with attire fit for the event’s theme.

Still, with a matching hand and foot cream for roughly $25, RAW Essentials offer another alternative to synthetic cosmetics that, unlike Alt, don’t contain any fur.

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Rachel Zoe dispensed some good advice on nail polish when she recommended Ginger + Liz’s “Got My Groove Back,” metallic gold tone as one of her favorites.

“I like to paint this on before a big night out. I mean, it is just too good not to. Plus, bonus points to this eco-friendly beauty brand for creating polishes that are all organic, vegan-friendly and toxin-free.”

Ginger + Liz Colour Collection

“Got My Groove Back” is just one of several cute and clever named polishes, along with “Can You Keep A Secret?” and “High Maintenance.”

You may one day ask your “Half Naked,” “Boy Toy” to “Tuck Me In” if you get “Hot and Bothered” but definitely “Not On The First Date.”

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Josie Maran Mascara

Josie Maran is using the power of her cosmetics products that are never tested on animals to fight cancer.

Maran has partnered with City of Hope, an organization that provides research, treatment and education for cancer patients to launch the GOGO Instant Volume Argan Mascara Campaign which will run from now until August 2012.

This is not only a campaign which raises money for cancer research, but helps women with cancer look great, as it donates makeup to patients.

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