We all know how hard it is to find all natural or organic hair salons.

Strip malls and plazas are littered with the typical, run of the mill chemical infested hair salons. “Oh great, I’d love to dye my hair a shade of Crayola blonde or get some cancer-curls while I’m here, totally!” SAID NO ONE EVER. Lucky for you, here’s a round-up of five fabulous organic hair salons throughout the nation!

1. Los Angeles, CA- Primrose Organics Salon and Boutique

This cute little place is full service, all organic, and odorless (no stinky chemical stench!)–from the products used to the actual structure of the space. Founded in April 2009 by celebrity hair stylist, Felicia Howe, Primrose Organics Salon and Boutique set the standards high with sustainable integrity ever present from the moment you walk through the doors. With her honorable and eco-friendly skills and expertise, Howe’s dream was to make each and every client not only feel beautiful, but to also assist in educating and guiding them in a more health conscious direction. Aside from the toxin-free, all organic product lines used and carried here, Primrose Organics uses recycled foil for treatments and is also equipped with energy-saving blow dryers! The furniture inside is all second-hand and was sourced from Craigslist while the drywall has been stabilized with formaldehyde-free compound and VOC-free paint was used to color the walls. Doesn’t get more sustainable than that, does it?

2. East Village, NY- Salon Eco Chic

Located in the East Village of the ever so chaotic NYC, is Salon Eco Chic. Welcoming clients in from the fast-paced streets of the city, Salon Eco Chic’s goal is to provide the most serene atmosphere accompanied by the best quality hair care. You can expect to come in and receive on-trend European inspired styling while being pampered with certified organic products. Everything used is plant-based and sulphate, ammonia, and chemical-free! Salon Eco Chic believes in sustainable beauty without sacrificing ones wellness. This is the place to go when you really want to take care of yourself and get away from the city madness.

3. Seattle, WA- Hazel Salon and Organics

A salon that not only is an advocate for organic hair care, but also gives back to its community?! That’s a double doozy of pure goodness right there. Seattle-based hair salon, Hazel Salon and Organics, specializes in outstanding style and highly reputable, cruelty-free products that are also free from ammonia, sulphates, parabens, petrochemicals, and formaldehyde. This salon bears an extensive line of organic products such as Organic Color Systems, LOMA, and Osea, to name a few. The other very respectable aspect to this salon that sets it apart from a lot of other organic hair salons is that it believes in supporting its community by participating in different charities. Doesn’t that just give you the warm fuzzies all over? Hair care is not their only forte either. Feel free to go there to get your lashes done up, get some hair removed (by means of sugaring or threading- no waxy gunk), or some rejuvenating organic skin treatments.

4. Chicago, IL- Splendor Salon and Spa

“Find a better way to beauty” is the motto of Chicago-based organic salon, Splendor Salon and Spa. This fume-free no-ammonia salon doesn’t play games. Aside from the plethora of organic, cruelty-free, and biodegradable products used, their packaging is also majorly eco-friendly! “Synthetic,” “toxic,” and “non-renewable” are not in this salon’s vocabulary. All product packaging is completely sustainable by utilizing recycled and plant-based materials. They even use soy ink on the labels! Splendor Salon and Spa offers a multitude of beauty related services without punishing the earth in the process. Why go anywhere else?!

5. Fort Lauderdale, FL- John Bruno Hair Salon

This is one salon you actually do want to tangle with. (See what I did there?) John Bruno Hair Salon located in Fort Lauderdale is an environmentally friendly force to be reckoned with. Recognized for outstanding customer service and eco-friendly products, they actually received a huge shout out in The New Times for being the Best Hair Salon in Fort Lauderdale/Broward County! Their popularity is understandable. All of their products are organic, vegan, and cruelty-free. Have no fear, you can trust your tresses to this remarkably health conscious salon.

So there you have it! If you live in or near any of these areas, stop wasting your time, money, and health in toxic hair salons and treat your body (and the earth) to a little guilt-free TLC!

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High-performance, organic, food-grade, cruelty-free, natural hair care raising the bar for beauty.

Award-winning hair-stylist, organic farmer, and socially- and environmentally-conscious beauty entrepreneur, Horst Rechelbacher has dedicated a lifetime to raising the beauty bar into a new paradigm.

“You’re beautiful, healthy, and alive. Let’s keep it that way.”

Rechelbacher, the original founder of Aveda, pioneered plant-based beauty at a time when the concept was completely revolutionary. Aveda not only used plant-based ingredients in its products but was the first beauty company to package products in one hundred percent post-consumer recycled PET, as well as the first beauty company to produce with one hundred percent wind power. In 1997, Rechelbacher sold Aveda to Estee Lauder for $360 million, and has since moved on to even greener pastures.

The culmination of a lifetimes work in beauty, a passion for organic farming, and a curiosity in plant-based medicines, has led Rechelbacher to create the chicest and most ethically sound beauty company on the market, Intelligent Nutrients.

Intelligent Nutrients is an organic, one hundred percent food-based beauty company with an ethos that stands behind the philosophy that beauty is natural and natural is beautiful. Certified by a plethora of 3rd party certifiers, the brand is USDA Certified Organic, The Institute for Ethical and Environmental Certification, Harmonically Made, Soil Association Organic Standard, Cosmos Organic and Leaping Bunny certified.

Rechelbacher ensure the ingredients he sources are up to his standards by producing them himself on his off-the-grid organic farm in Osceola, Wisconsin which runs on wind, solar, and geothermal power. Moreover, the products are packaged in one hundred percent recyclable materials.

Nearly every product for the line contains Intellimune, Intelligent Nutrient’s own blend of five powerful seed oils: black cumin, pumpkin, red grape, raspberry and cranberry. The super-antioxidant, cold-pressed seed blend fights off free radicals and encourages healthy cell growth within the body. The company not only adds the blend to almost every product but also sells the blend in oil form.

“Intelligent Nutrients practices true, scientific technology to create products that are truly sustainable, effective and a pleasure to use. What is the chemistry, energy, toxicity, nutritional value, medical integration—these considerations go into every product we make.”

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