When it comes to choosing beauty products, what’s most important to you? How does it look, what it does or, what its ingredients are? Sometimes, beauty industry jargon can be confusing, masking a product’s true ingredients and effectiveness.
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Tech entrepreneur Lily Tse wants you to Think Dirty (but shop clean)
“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy,” says Lily Tse (BA 2001 UTSC), quoting fashion designer Yves St. Laurent. Tse is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Think Dirty, a mobile app that helps consumers understand the ingredients in their personal care products.
The 8 Best Apps to Increase Sustainability in All Areas of Life
There are quite a few apps out there that help the environment by reducing your carbon footprint through planting trees, using alternative modes of transportation, and more. But did you know there’s more you can do to help the environment than biking to work and planting trees? Living more sustainably doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing feat.
11 Best Skin Care Ingredient Checkers
When it comes to choosing the products you use on your skin every day, how much do you pay attention to the ingredients inside those products? The industry jargon and product claims can make finding the right products a confusing and challenging task.
How to purge risky chemicals from your beauty products
Eliminating endocrine disruptors is harder than you might think.
4 Apps That Will Transform Your Skincare Routine In 2022
If you want to transform your skin, then try out these four apps to help your skin glow as well as keep you informed about skincare ingredients.
Treehugger Picks Think Dirty: 2 Apps Help You Identify Toxic Ingredients in Skin Care and Personal Care Products
Did you know that more than half of the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada contain toxic chemicals linked to serious health effects?
Hidden Gems: Meet Lily Tse of Think Dirty
Hidden Gems: Meet Lily Tse of Think Dirty
6 Apps That’ll Help You Find Cleaner Beauty Products
G.I. Joe said it best — knowing is half the battle. You owe it to yourself, your health, your body, your skin, and your loved ones to make informed choices by knowing the ingredients in the beauty products and cosmetics you use.
4 Technologies That Will Improve Your Life
Technology is the double-edged sword of the modern world. On one hand it brings us great convenience. And on the other hand technologies can greatly decrease our quality of life. One way we can deal with the negative effects of technology is to use technology itself – but we need to be discerning about what we use, and how.