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Sustainable Cosmetic Summit Is May 15-17 in New York City

Lily Tse, CEO and founder of Think Dirty, will demonstrate the pervasive influence mobile apps can have on consumers. The Think Dirty mobile application rates over 55,000 beauty products according to the health and safety risks of their ingredients. Consumers are using the mobile app to assess the safety of cosmetic products.

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Green issues at the agenda of the next Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in New York.

A second session will be devoted to digital marketing and will look at the impact of mobile devices and digital marketing on consumer behaviour towards personal care products. Lily Tse, CEO and founder of Think Dirty – a mobile application that rates over 55,000 beauty products according to the health and safety risks of their ingredients – will demonstrate the pervasive influence mobile apps can have on consumers.

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Top 5 Eco Apps to Make Your Life Greener

Making time to consider the environment in your daily schedule isn’t always easy. Sometimes it’s just simpler and less time consuming to ignore your better judgment and throw that tuna can in the garbage or pick-up that cheap, drugstore lip gloss.

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Beauty Apps Reveal Harmful Ingredients

New smart phone app Think Dirty is aiming to change the way consumers shop for beauty products. The apps allow shoppers to scan products on the spot to find out a product’s ingredient list. Some apps rank a product based on their ingredients, which can encourage or deter a sale.

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CFC Announces New ideaBOOST Cohort of Startups

Toronto’s ideaBOOST media and technology startup accelerator announced its latest cohort of six companies yesterday. The program takes place at the Canadian Film Centre’s Media Lab (CFC Media Lab). The swanky ceremony was hosted by CBC’s.

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The Green Edit: the organic beauty Christmas gift shopping guide

Think Dirty, Shop Clean: free A handy iphone app which is available free from the itunes store. Using barcode scanning technology to identify products and rate them on a scale of 0-10 based on product ingredient listings (0 being you can almost eat it, to 10 meaning that no green girl worth her kale would touch it) . Hailing from Canada, the app indicates if a product has any potentially harmful ingredients and allergens using The National Library of Medicine’s Hazardous Substances Data Bank , the Environmental Working Group and other not for profit organizations. With a clever design it makes shopping for your green friends and family more like a game than a puzzle.