After editing a story about adopting green practices last year, we decided to purge our bathroom shelves of products containing ingredients ending in -paraben and -phthalate — man-made additives that have been linked with disrupting hormone function, neurologic and reproductive damage, and cancer. That’s scary, considering the number of beauty products that contain one or both chemicals. In fact, the project gave our bathroom a very minimalist look, complete with naked shelves. These days, we do our best to stock our cabinets with all-natural creams, lotions, balms, sprays and makeup. Our latest addition? Deep Steep Bubble Bath.

The bath gel ($19.50 for a 17-ounce bottle) comes in lavender/chamomile, honeydew/spearmint, grapefruit/bergamot, rosemary/mint and tangerine/melon, and is formulated sans chemical preservatives or sodium lauryl sulfate, a foaming agent that can act as an irritant. So while our soak may look nothing like Julia Roberts’ famous bathtub scene in Pretty Woman, we can relax knowing that the ingredient list for this aromatic bath reads like one for Breyers Ice Cream — all natural, without anything that’s unrecognizable or hard to pronounce.

To keep the Earth Day celebration going, HolisticBeauty.Net is giving 10 lucky VIV Says readers a free 2-ounce bottle of Deep Steep Bubble Bath in tangerine/melon (our personal favorite). The offer is good until May 31 with promotion code VIV0409EARTH. Click here to score yours!

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