The best organic produce around and don’t even get started on the bakery….Now, Whole Foods is adding to the beauty department with its own line of hair care. Should you try it? Most likely, yes.

Do you shop the beauty aisle much in WFM? Maybe it is time you do.

Whole Foods Market has come out with a line of plant-based hair care products. The line includes a selection of shampoos and conditioners, plus four styling products.

Wondering what exactly is showing up on the ingredient listing? While I couldn’t find a complete listing of the ingredients, and the products aren’t up on its website yet, we can view Whole Foods list of Premium Body Care Unacceptable Ingredients.

As you know, there is no better way to prove a product’s safety than by reading those labels. But the brand’s list of unacceptable ingredients is pretty extensive, and the ingredient listing for Whole Foods Market Dry Hand Cream is clean. Plus, the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has named Whole Foods Market the leader in safety amongst the country’s largest retailers of personal care products.

You may be wondering what the sticker shock on these products looks like. Okay, the chain isn’t called “whole paycheck” for nothing. It is pretty dang easy to drop some serious dough up in that place. But here’s another cool thing about the brand’s new hair care line. Each product is under $10.

Say what?!

Yep, safe hair care, said to work like the conventional stuff, without a hefty price tag? Sounds like a run to WFM is in our near future. Get ready to temporarily abandon your second-day hair. Just to get you pumped up and ready to shop, here is a complete list of the new product line up.

Moisturizing Shampoo or Conditioner— Keep locks weightlessly moisturized with botanically based, salon-quality formulations featuring chestnut extract, argan oil, and shea butter. Lightly scented with a custom bergamot blend.

Volumizing Shampoo or Conditioner— Give tresses a boost with Tilia tomentosa, and quinoa protein in botanically based, salon-quality formulations to pump up the volume and nourish the scalp. Lightly scented with rosemary.

Color Preserve Shampoo or Conditioner— Protect color treatments with plant extracts and pea and quinoa proteins in botanically based, salon-quality formulations to reduce color fading and maintain color retention. Lightly scented with a custom bergamot blend.

Perfect Shine Spray— Argan oil provides a healthy shine and frizz control, without the use of silicones.

Moisture Balance Volumizing Hairspray— Quinoa protein and chestnut extract provide exceptional strength and volume.

Medium Hold Styling Gel— Baobab seed protein reinforces strands to give hair added strength, protection and nourishment.

Weightless Hold Styling Mousse— Baobab protein nourishes with amino acids and gives hair shine, strength and protection.

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No time for shampooing? No problem. Here are some cute and easy styles (plus the products to get you there) that look even better on second day hair.

Woke up late, winter is drying out your hair, simply don’t feel like doing the whole blow dry thing…we get it! Sometimes (okay, lots of times) we just need a break from fixing our hair.

Enter, sweet second day hair looks for every length and style. These beauties are fast, simple, and look way hotter on slightly dirty hair.

Added bonus to second day hair? You don’t need as much product to get that been there look. Still, a few essentials will help propel you toward that Kate Moss feel.

7 Looks + Products for Perfect Second Day Hair

1. Dry shampoo: Whether you are feeling greasy or not, a touch of dry shampoo gives just enough texture to hold hair in place. Revive your blowout for a second day (or even third) with Lulu Organics Jasmine Hair Powder.

2. Shine cream: A pony always looks classic and professional. Try leaving a small amount of hair out of underside of pony, then secure around elastic. Glide a small amount of Rahua Finishing Treatment over hair to keep the look sleek.

3. Mousse: A topknot is cute on everyone. To get that oomph going, apply a dollop of Yarok Feed Your Roots Volume Enhancing Mousse to roots. A quick hit of the blowdryer or even air drying for a few minutes will add volume.

4. Gel: Tend to get frizzy? A bit of gel calms fuzz and brings hair back under control. Try Intelligent Nutrients Certified Organic Styling Gel.

5. Styling cream: A side knot can double as a day or night time style. Run a dab of styling cream through strands to wrangle strays first. Josh Rosebrook Styling Cream works like a charm.

6. Texturizing spray: Braids are the perfect way to deal with second day hair. Josh Rosebrook Lift Hair Texture & Volume will give strands holding power without being stiff or sticky.

7. Salt spray: Twice as nice on day two, use Herbivore Botanicals Sea Mist Hair and Body Spray to enhance natural waves or curls. Almost as good as a day at the beach.

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Summer may have provided a zen experience for your psyche. Your hair? Not so much. Could hair gloss be the answer to your tress distress?

You know how summer feels good for the soul? All warm and relaxing and fun-filled. Well, it’s not quite as great for hair. Rather than rejuvenated, tresses can be dry, straggly, and straw-like post summer vacation.

We all love a little gloss for lips. What’s good for your pucker could be good for locks too. Sort of. Hair gloss is gaining popularity as a way to instantly improve the look of hair in need of a boost.

What the heck is hair gloss? Remember hair glaze? Think of gloss as its longer lasting, more intense cousin. It still offers hair all the gleamy goodness, only with staying power more akin to a hair color.

While hair gloss is thought of as clear, it is actually a semi-permanent color, either clear or tinted, that penetrates strands, sealing in color and creating a sheen. Gloss can be used between colorings to extend and bolster your color, or on its own. Effects generally last 3-4 weeks.

If your locks are looking stressed, sapped, or otherwise less than lustrous you would likely benefit from a gloss. Whether you opt for a salon or in-home gloss is up to you. If you get your hair colored at the salon, chances are you’d rather go the same route with gloss. A DIY colorist? You may be happy with an at home version.

Now for the big question…are there natural hair glosses that work like the chemical stuff? If you are at all familiar with natural hair colorants you probably already have guessed the answer. Natural hair dyes do not behave like their chemical counterparts and the same is true for gloss. To get the best results you will have to stick with a conventional product here.

That is not to say there aren’t natural products that create incredibly shiny, gleaming, gorgeous hair. Healthy plant oils reduce frizz, repair dried out strands, make hair look more vibrant, and increase body. Give these nontoxic hair treatments a try:

Olie Biogolique 100% Organic 23K Gold Argan Oil

Rare El’Ements Marula Cocktail Leave-In Hair Mist

Yarok Feed Your Shine Serum

Rahua Elixir

Rahua Finishing Treatment

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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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Horst Rechelbacher, Austrian-born founder of Aveda Corps., one of the first mainstream companies to eliminate toxic chemicals in products, and enthusiastic-pioneer of mass market plant based beauty, sadly passed away last month at the age of 72. But he left behind a legacy of healthier communities.

Throughout his work and career Horst Rechelbacher shed light on the dangers of toxic chemicals in cosmetics long before the conversation was mainstream. Most importantly, not only was he an outspoken advocate on the issue, he offered solid solutions.

Founder of beauty care companies Aveda and Intelligent Nutrients, author, ayurvedic scholar and organic farmer, Rechelbacher grew revolutionary companies supplying high performing products and a keen awareness to the vital importance of natural beauty.

He would famously drink hair spray and other products made by his company to prove they weren’t simply giving lip service. “Everything we put in and on our bodies must be nutritious and safe,” was Rechelbacher’s signature motto.

Our skin, like a sponge, absorbs mostly anything we put on it; yet cosmetic ingredients are not regulated the same way food is. In the last decade, studies linking cosmetic ingredients to cancer have uncovered the importance of Rechelbacher’s pioneering work. But long before the conversation was mainstream, he was formalizing the best, toxic-free products through Aveda, and later Intelligent Nutrients; safe alternatives in form that didn’t sacrifice function.

Through his companies and tireless advocacy work, Mr. Rachelbacher revolutionized the beauty industry forever.

Mr. Rechelbacher’s plant-based approached stemmed from his mother, an herbablist. At the age of 14, he apprenticed at a nearby hair salon; only three years later to find himself working in Rome. He went on to found Aveda in 1978, fusing plant science and beauty against the modern ideas of efficiency through chemicals.

Thanks to Rechelbacher’s dedication Aveda is the first beauty company to produce with one hundred percent wind power, and the first beauty company to use one hundred percent post-consumer recycled PET packaging.

After selling Aveda in 1997, Rechelbacher founded Intelligent Nutrients, a beauty company using only certified organic ingredients. Most of the ingredients used are grown on his 570-acre organic farm in Osceola, Wisconsin.

Horst left us with fundamental ideas of the power of nature. Below are three revolutionary shifts he brought into the beauty industry forever.

1. The Relationship between Plants and Beauty is Luxury

Horst launched his career at a time when laboratory science was the shining horizon of global industries; food, beauty and others were looking for leaps in efficiency via chemicals as the answer to limits of nature. But Horst held on to the intrinsic benefits plants have to offer, and believed in beauty from the inside and out. His luxurious products free of toxic chemicals offer an alternative to the mainstream, proving you didn’t have to sacrifice form for function.

2. Companies are Greater Than Their Final Product

Rechelbacher’s work went far beyond his products. As an outspoken advocate for eliminating toxic chemicals in beauty, Horst helped finance the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Today, the organization stands as one of the largest and most influential groups working towards regulating the cosmetic industry and increasing consumer awareness. Their most recent work persuaded Johnson & Johnson to remove two ingredients from their baby shampoo that are linked to cancer.

He also conducted his business as a holistic vision of health: He led Aveda to be the first beauty company to produce with one hundred percent wind power, and the first beauty company to use one hundred percent post-consumer recycled PET packaging. Intelligent Nutrients offers an ingestible product called Intellimune, made of five powerful seed oils: black cumin, pumpkin, red grape, raspberry and cranberry. His companies didn’t just make healthier products, but healthier and more holistic consumer world.

3. Natural is Not Only Good for Our Health, It’s Good For Business

In 1997, Aveda Corps. was sold to Estee Lauder for a reported $300 million, and is still carried in over 25,000 stores and salons worldwide. Now that’s good business.

To leave something behind, greater than ourselves, is a life well lived. Horst Rechelbacher founded and matured healthy companies that have touched millions of people. As the father of safer cosmetics, his legacy will live on; inside and out.

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