Just in time for the holiday shopping and gifting season: The Box is back!

Our exclusive EcoSalon shopping must-have, the curated eco product assortment known as The Box, is back. We’re offering $500 worth of holiday eco-goodies for just $99 and these won’t last. That’s a guarantee.

The Fashion Box is chock full of organic jewelry and perfume, warm mittens, scarves and much more – a perfect gift or gifts for the sustainable fashion lovers in your life. These items can also just be for you to revel in without a lick of remorse. Featuring full-size gorgeous green goods, hop on this now or miss out!

(If you do miss out this time around, our friends at SheFinds are hosting a giveaway for the last remaining Fashion Box standing. Head on over to their site and register to win!)

Just look at what we have in store for you this time around:

Gaiam Cable Knit Capped Mittens

Gaiam’s Cable Knit Capped Mittens are made from eco-friendly organic cotton that is ultra warm yet breathable. Wear them as mittens or turn down the flap for fingerless gloves. Couldn’t be cuter.

(Retail value of $42.00)

Leotie Natural Eau De Parfum by Tallulah Jane

Tallulah Jane’s Leotie is like a beautiful deep bouquet of meadow flowers. Blended from botanical essences, resins and balsams, Tallulah Jane scents are an ever-evolving olfactory experience. Organic and wild crafted oils are mixed together in certified organic grape alcohol or jojoba, then hand-poured in small batches. No two vintages are exactly alike, so your Tallulah Jane scent is categorically unique, as if designed by nature – especially for you.

(Retail value of $48.00)

Lara Miller’s Thome Necklace in Rust

Lara Miller’s eponymous line is manufactured in Chicago and strongly influenced by the city’s architectural and cultural landscape while being fashioned from eco-friendly fibers such as organic cotton, hand-loomed bamboo, hemp and vegan silk. Lara says her designs are created with a playful geometry that connects to the personalities of the women who wear them. Her tiered Thome Necklace in Rust ( image above) is made from 100% recycled cotton.

(retail value $70.00)

MATT & NAT Naos Change Purse

The MATT & NAT line is cruelty-free, using no animal products. As an example of the spirit and commitment of MATT & NAT, all linings of their bags and wallets are made of 100% recycled plastic bottles – in fact, on average they recycle 21 water bottles to make the lining of each bag. This cream pebble coin holder with tone-on-tone stitching and brown recycled lining is the perfect accessory to hold all those coins jangling around in the bottom of your bag.

(Retail value of $21.00)

Kyler Grass Minimal Hammered Hoops in Gold

Kyler’s famous handmade, hammered hoops are frequently caught on film gracing the ears of Hollywood starlets. These designer hoop earrings are made of recycled gold fill in the abstract shape of a blade of grass. Modern and minimalist, lightweight but rich in texture, with strength and shine where the hammer left its marks. They’re so comfortable you might forget you’re wearing them. But no one else will.

(Retail value of $58.00)

Yala Bamboo Scarf

There are so many ways to wear Yala’s super soft bamboo PashBu, you’ll want them in multiple colors. Knot it or wrap it around your neck for some hip, urban style or drape it elegantly over the shoulders of your little black dress as a holiday shawl. This particular scarf is a rich black that fades down to grey – the ombre effect giving it so much more depth than a solid scarf. We are in love.

(retail value of $32.00)

Scotch Non-Toxic Nail Polish and an On The Rocks Top Coat set

Scotch Naturals are an eco-friendly alternative to conventional solvent-based nail polishes. Their revolutionary water-based polishes condition your nails and provide a high-polished shine, and long-lasting salon quality finish. All polishes contain none of the chemicals found in standard nail polishes; they are “3 Free” as well free of ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, nitrocellulose, acetone, and heavy metals.

(Each polish comes with a top coat as well.)

(Retail value of $30.00)

Love Mert Wood Rings

Love Mert is a lifestyle brand created from the innate desire to make. The Love Mert collection of handbags, hats, scarves and jewelry is a culmination of life long loves starting with collecting glass marbles at flea markets as a child, building elaborate forts in the forests of Vermont, and dabbling in painting, pottery and weaving. All leather is either mill-end from various U.S. factories or recycled from vintage leather clothing. Hemp linen and organic cotton is hand printed with non-toxic, water based inks. Rivets are hand sculpted and cast in brass. All wood jewelry, as in the case of these geometric eye candy rings, is created from remnants from designer Melissa Michelsen’s father’s woodshop.

(retail value of $38.00)

How to Avoid Being Sad t-shirt

New York City-based writer Rachel Leigh Smith is doing her very best to avoid being sad everyday. In addi­tion to the How To Avoid Being Sad book and website, Rachel just completed work on Strange and Wonderful Crea­tures – a children’s book about artists and the art world. Her inspiring “Sadness Avoiding Tip” is printed on an organic cotton t-shirt with soy based inks. One size fits most.

(Retail value of $28.99)

$50 Gift Certificate

Dream. Compassion. Freedom. Instinct. Voice. These are the missions of Mission Savvy, an online eco boutique founded by green entrepreneur, fashionista and animal advocate Jennifer Miller. After years of heartache at the prevalence of animal abuse in our world, Miller put her savvy into action and founded Mission Savvy. Featuring vegan, ethical fashions curated for stylish everyday wear, Mission Savvy donates 5% of all profits to causes that support animal conservation, health, emergency aid, and awareness.

Zkano Thigh High Socks

Zkano makes all their socks sweat-shop free in the U.S. from the highest quality certified organic cotton grown without the use of pesticides and fertilizers. They do this so that the socks are more comfortable, more durable and better all around – for the environment, growers, knitters, and for you. A return to better philosophies, better processes and better results, Zkano’s Thigh High Socks come to you with an ultimate promise to always feel soft, cushy, and like absolute heaven on your feet. Plus, they’re totally sexy.

(Retail value of $16.00)

Imperial Knits Dangling Dreams Belt Kit

Jeanne Carver, Imperial Ranch co-owner, who runs the family’s 140 year old farm with husband Dan on 30,000 acres of Oregon’s desert high country says basic crochet stitches are all you need to know to create this fun-to-wear belt from one of their knit kits. Post stitches create the belt loops and a simple twisted cord serves as the tie. The belt is easily customized to your size. Make your belt unique by sourcing your own beads. Made with Columbia Yarn.

(Retail value of $44.00)

To buy:

Please note that all editions of The Box are sold out except for Shelter and Fashion. Please be sure to select Fashion from the menu below.

Supplies are extremely limited – first come, first serve. Remember to include your shipping address! The Box is priced at $99 per box, with an additional $30 shipping and handling surcharge. Orders are shipped via UPS anywhere in the United States. Sorry, we can’t ship to P.O. Boxes and we cannot process international orders. If you have questions, drop us a line at contact@ecosalon.com.

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Can’t we just be soft and cuddly this Friday?

What’s more cute and loved than our favorite animals? We walk them, we talk to them, we gaze upon their beauty in the stillness of nature and still, there are never enough words to explain how much we appreciate them..until this week. Anyone with the least shred of animal decency in them clicked on All Creatures Great & Small: 30 Best Quotes About Animals so they could wax poetic with their furry and feathered friends while at home, on the beach or deep in the woods.

Abigail Wick is our resident sex columnist who, in addition to being a great writer, has a voice that will make you melt. It’s like buttah. Any of her columns could fit here in the warm and fuzzy edition but Flirting As Art? Acting coy yet direct to get what you want is a pretty soft and sexy way to go, especially if you just embrace being a flirt and work it to your advantage.

Just above your fireplace is a small shelf that many call a mantle but you, the budding artist, the home decor maven, you call that a blank canvas. In 25 Wicked Halloween Mantles, Shelter Editor K. Emily Bond pulls from all over the internet to bring you 25 creative ways to light up your hearth for the spookiest night of the year. Note to budding artist/home decor maven: make sure when lighting the fire in the hearth, your creative touches haven’t drooped too low to make your wicked mantle, wicked messed up.

Who doesn’t love a warm knit sweater when the weather turns cold? We caught up with knitwear designer Anna Cohen and Imperial Stock Ranch co-owner, Jeanne Carver recently to talk DIY. What we love most about the collaboration of sheep rancher and designer is that the product that comes from them can be so high fashion and environmentally sustainable. Read more about the designing duo in Anna Cohen and Imperial Knits Partner Up For Some DIY and the kits they’re now producing from the Imperial Stock Ranch in the high desert of Shaniko, Oregon.

Don’t deny it, when fall comes, something inside you screams for comfort food. Hot casseroles, hearty soups and soup bowl sized lattes can’t come fast enough to quell your cravings for inner warmth. One thing all that good cooking and drinking doesn’t always fix is the reduced amount of sunlight we have to endure and the dopamine and serotonin deficiencies our bodies endure. Not to fear snuggle bunnies, writer Luanne Bradley’s 12 Top Foods To Beat The Blues will have you smiling in no time, decorating your mantle, flirting with your partner while wearing a warm sweater and calling Fido over for a quote that just happened to come to you.

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Post Portland Fashion Week, Anna Cohen and Imperial Knits sit down with EcoSalon to talk DIY.

Portland Fashion Week can mark another first for their past runway season with the launch of the first ever knit-it-yourself kits come to life on the runway. With a bold turn away from traditional ready-to-wear runway designs usually featured at fashion week, the designs were created from the collaboration of heralded designer Anna Cohen, and guest designers Chrissy Gardiner and Edie Eckman along with Imperial Yarn – a branch of the Imperial Stock Ranch.

Designs varied from chunky knitted sweater dresses to knitted belts and knee high socks and illuminated the growing popularity for DIY and as Cohen says, “a very clear desire for people to go back to the roots, to the land, to simple processes that feel like home.”

“This focus on creating beautiful product and the responsibility that comes with it very much aligns with my history and commitment to helping bring high fashion and sustainability together. We are in other words, very well matched. How exciting for this relationship to bring me closer to the roots of fiber than I have ever been,” says Cohen.

DIY kits are fairly new to the scene with designers like Wool and the Gang and Alabama Chanin at the forefront, but both Cohen and Imperial Knits are ready to join the growing ranks who see using their hands as a way to become even more connected to their clothing.

Jeanne Carver, Imperial Ranch co-owner, who runs the family’s 140 year old farm with husband Dan on 30,000 acres of Oregon’s desert high country, says as far as the popularity of knitwear itself, she has seen a marked increase in the apparel and fashion world.

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