by Julie Kailus

Green is beautiful! Give your favorite beauty a gift that does good and makes her feel gorgeous. Five pampering, polishing and prettying finds that leave darned tiny footprints on the planet. From our Green Gift Guide.

Bamboo Bath Towel Ladder

Useful, beautiful and eco-responsible. Sustainably grown bamboo crafted and sold under fair trade standards. Make her home spa complete.

Price: $48

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PlantLove Botanical Lipstick

Kiss with a conscience! Green has never been more beautiful than this satiny lip tint created without mineral oils or petroleum—just meadow foam seed, jojoba, shea butter and some fabulously intriguing stuff called Orchid Complex™. The green goes on: The tube she’ll twist this lipstick up from is corn-based and petroleum free, and comes in a clever flower-paper outer carton made with real seeds. Plant it and it’ll bestow pretty flowers on your lucky beauty.

Price: $20

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Wellness Shower Filter

What goes in doesn’t have to come out. Protect her body and nourish her skin and hair—with this healthy universal showerhead, featuring a high-powered filter designed to remove bacteria, heavy metals, chlorine and other impurities. The revolutionary unit also increases dissolved oxygen, re-ionizing it for enhanced antioxidants.

Price: $249

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Origins Skin Care Set

Spread the eco-love with this ginger-yummy skin care set from Origins, known for eco-friendly practices in everything from store design to organic ingredients to recycled packaging. Ginger Moments includes ginger-infused body cream, smoother, wash, oil and a bath mitt. $57.50.

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Natural Nail Polish & Remover

Such a shiny, happy treat to pull out of a stocking, and earth friendly, too. Water-based, fume-free, nontoxic nail polishes in 16 shades to match Honeybee Gardens’ lipsticks. Add Odorless Polish Remover to complete this pretty green gift. $6.99 each.

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