Coming Clean by Susan Griffin-Black

Coming Clean by Susan Griffin-Black is a section highlighting information about our products, ingredients, and a healthier way of life. You can find Susan's articles in OnFitness Magazine every other month.

Coming Clean

By Susan Griffin-Black, January 2008

Here I am, 51, and in good health. I feel lucky and blessed by what my life has held for me. And though I have always been a seeker, I also feel a deep sense of what it is like to turn the corner to life’s second half and contribute in a way that has heart and meaning.

I have been swimming in a saltwater pool for the past 3 days - no clothes, no make up, no shower. AlI I have with me are my daughter Lucy, my three nieces, two little bottles of body oil and sun block, and a conversation about beauty and responsibility in my head.

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Living Green – Get these Ingredients out of your life.

By Susan Griffin-Black, March 2008

As the co-founder of a natural personal care products company, my job for the last 15 years has been to figure out a way to make products that are clean, simple, safe and luxurious so that they meet all the expectations of experience and performance that we’ve become accustomed to.

The idea was to make a lotion like a beautiful vinaigrette– as few high quality ingredients as possible ( noting the difference of course, between a vinaigrette from a fast food restaurant and one lovingly made by Anne Somerville at Green’s Restaurant.) So we set out in 1995 with our product charter of NO’s: NO artificial color (only colors from botanicals, NO synthetic fragrance (only essential oils), NO sodium laurel/laureth sulfates or cocamide DEA (only greener surfactant alternatives), NO Propylene Glycol, NO Diazolidinyl Urea, NO Talc. If we couldn’t find a safer alternative, we wouldn’t make the product.

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