Eluxe Magazine

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.

CEW Beauty Insider

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.

Betakit

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.

Telegraph

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.

Green Cleaning

Is Your Makeup Safe? 2 New Apps Help You Find Out

Making an informed decision about cosmetics and personal care products just became a whole lot easier—thanks to the development of two new apps that will deliver specific product ratings and ingredient information right to your fingertips