Plant Love - Colours for your lips

Take a peek into a woman’s handbag and chances are, 9 out of 10 times you are going to find a tube of lipstick amongst some many other colouring tools. And as important as cosmetics has become in the lives of the fairer sex today, lipstick has made its’ mark as a basic foundational need in the cosmetics family. Women generally own some ‘colour’ with the most common being lipstick.

And often enough these luscious lip colours come packaged in the most amazing tubes – plastic tubes that is – the ones that hardly qualify as ‘gentle or kind’ on nature. I mean over here on GirlSustainable we’ve been recycling for quite some time now and I can’t say I’ve ever really seen any empty lipstick tubes in the recycling bins. So where do you think they go? Yup...the landfill...and if you think that something so small shouldn’t cause too much problems then you are gravely mistaken because in volume (think about how many women uses lipsticks!) those tiny tubes end up forming a mountain of non-biodegradable waste.

But it’s company’s like Cargo Cosmetics that give the world hope for beauty with a green conscience because not only is their lipstick range – a cleverly named one called Plant Love that is distinctive for being:

• Eco-Processed
• Eco-Packaged
• Eco-Product

As certified by ECOCERT.

Plant Love comes in a an array of colours with a special colour collection designed by your favourite celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan, Evangeline Lily, Courtney Cox, Mariska Hargitay, Denise Richards and Angie Harmon; as well as another colour collection inspired by real places (natural ecological beauty) such as

• Nahinni (Canada)
• Yakushima (Japan)
• Killarney (Ireland)
• Majella (Mediterranean region)

All the lipsticks are free from petro-chemicals, parabens, phathalates, sythentic dyes and fragrances so there’s no worries about the health effects.
But it’s not really the purity of the shades and it’s clever origin of idea that’s impressive, it’s really the packaging. The tubes are made of bio-degradable corn plastic and the box is comes packaged in is a completely biodegradable paper, embedded with wildflower seeds (so you can grow flowers from your paper waste).

Cargo Cosmetics also demonstrates their social responsibility by ensuring Plant Love is animal friendly (not tested or made with animals) and donating  two dollars from every lipstick sale to a charity of their choice - St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®, the world's premier pediatric cancer research center.