5 Greenwashed Myths of the Beauty Industry

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With environmental awareness on the ascent—thank you Goracle and friends—natural and organic beauty products have exploded onto the scene with such force that even drugstore shelves are groaning under their collective weight.

The proverbial fly in the undereye ointment? Greenwashing, which has also seen a corresponding uptick, making it an increasingly difficult task to tease the real McCoys from the bandwagon-hopping pretenders.

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