Ingredient Spotlight: Buriti Oil

Buriti Oil is a palm oil that we use in Elemental Herbs' sunsticks and, which will soon be in our ... View Details

News from Around the Web: Plastic Soup

Living in California, we spend a decent amount of time staring out into the Pacific, pondering its beauty. But this ... View Details

News from Around the Web: Fracking – Friend or Foe?

While most people concerned with the environment agree that that we should wean ourselves off our dependence on fossil fuels ... View Details

The Full Circle Project

Athlete Taylor Felton recently shared three videos on the Elemental Herbs Facebook page. We, in turn, wanted to share them ... View Details

News from Around the Web: Letters to the Editor

We love to see people taking a stand for the environment. Whether you are creating an eco-friendly product, spearheading a ... View Details

News from Around the Web: An Ode to Mud

This recent piece in the New York Times is strike a chord with all you gardening- and farming-types out there. ... View Details

Spring Plant Sale & Farm Festival is Tomorrow!

Don't forget: tomorrow, April 28th, is the 2nd Annual Four Elements Farm Spring Plant Sale & Farm Festival. From 11 ... View Details

Happy Earth Day from Elemental Herbs

Thank you for your loyalty to our brand and for doing your part to keep our delicious planet healthy. Party on, ... View Details

Spring Plant Sale & Farm Festival

Elemental Herbs is counting down the days until the 2nd Annual Four Elements Farm Spring Plant Sale & Farm Festival. ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News from the Web

This is an interesting piece that appeared in the New York Time recently about Wal-Mart's allegiance with a a major ... View Details

EH Earth Day Contest: We Have a Winner! Plus More Prizes!

Congratulations to Lorrin Salchli for winning last week's Elemental Herbs Earth Day Contest! A healthy product will be shipped to ... View Details

April Earth Day Contest: We Have Winners!!

We have not one but two winners of our Earth Day Contest this week! Denise and Stephanie, please email your ... View Details

Ingredient Spotlight: Arnica

Elemental Herbs’ products are full of great stuff picked fresh on organic farms all over the Bay Area. In this ... View Details

Enter Our April Earth Day Contest… No Foolin’!

April is a month of rebirth: the beginning of spring, longer periods of sunlight and a pervasive feeling of gratitude ... View Details

Treehugger’s Best of Green 2011

Have your voice heard in Treehuggers' annual Best of Green Awards. Vote for your favorite Earth-friendly car, green cookbook, eco ... View Details

News from the Web: The pH and the Sea

  Poor, poor ocean. How we abuse thee. New research suggests that we are changing the pH of seawater — a measurement ... View Details

Ingredient Spotlight: Plantago

Elemental Herbs’ products are full of great stuff picked fresh on organic farms all over the Bay Area. In this ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

After a year of debate, the Iowa legislature has passed a bill that makes taking undercover footage and photography at ... View Details

Get Your Garden Going!

Spring is coming, though depending on where you live that may be hard to believe. Here in the Bay Area ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

This weekend, the New York Times posted an interesting op-ed piece written by Thomas L. Friedman. Something in his email ... View Details

San Francisco Green Film Festival: March 1-7

Next week, March 1-7, the San Francisco Green Film Festival kicks off its second season with a new crop of ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some 7.5 million inhabitants, with many paying an exorbitant price for real ... View Details

Activist Athletes: Where the Colorado Runs Dry

Elemental Herbs Activist Athlete Jon Waterman, author of Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River, this ... View Details

Should Green Non-Profits Accept Corporate Donations?

“Runners shouldn’t smoke, priests shouldn’t touch the kids, and environmentalists should never take money from polluters,” John Passacantando, a former ... View Details

Pondering Plastic Bags… Again

The plastic bag debate has been going on for a long time. At first, the big decision was paper versus ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

In this interesting article, Jean-François Mouhot, visiting researcher at Georgetown University, makes a correlation between slavery and the overuse of ... View Details

Fall in Love With Community Gardening

Gardening is a sure fire way to get your organic fruits and veggies and plenty of 'em. Not only will ... View Details

Trash-tastic!

You know the adage... one man's trash is another man's treasure? Looking like something straight out of a fairytale, this ... View Details

Is There Something Fishy About Your Fish?

There is more to improving the health of the planet than just using Elemental Herbs lip balm. When you get ... View Details

FarmPlate: Ethical Foods at Your Fingertips

Imagine being able to tailor Google to search specifically for sustainable food suppliers or restaurants and socially-minded companies in your ... View Details

This Message Brought to You by MLK Jr.

Happy Martin Luther King Day from Elemental Herbs. Let's celebrate the birth of one of this country's greatest thinkers and ... View Details

Activist Athlete: Alison Gannett

It has already been a great year in the press for Elemental Herbs' Activist Athletes. First, Jordan Romero appeared on ... View Details

Lessons from the Dalai Lama

It's hard to argue with the Dalai Lama so when we stumbled across his list of 20 Instructions for Life, ... View Details

Elemental Herbs Summits

Remember our recent post on our awesome Activist Athlete Jordan Romero? Well, he's done it again. Jordan, 15, made an appearance ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News From Around the Web

Solar power is a great idea but what happens at night? Or on a very cloudy day? Since solar power ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: 20-40% Off Select Products!

  Hey Elemental Herb fans! Great news! Our sale has been extended until December 21st! We are offering 20-40% off select products. ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

What do you think of these stats? According to an article on Treehugger.com: The House of Representatives averaged more than one ... View Details

Donating 1% for the Planet

The idea that businesses can have a major effect on the health of the planet is very important to us ... View Details

Elemental Herbs Holiday Sale

  Looking for something healthy and green to stuff into those stockings this Christmas? Wondering how to fufill your gift-giving for ... View Details

Elemental Herbs: News of the Week

What do you think? In a study released by the International Journal of Biological Sciences, analyzing the effects of genetically modified ... View Details

Elemental Herbs Crowned ‘Champion’ by Campaign for Safe Cosmetics

“We are the champions! We are the champions!” Well, really, we are just one of 321 champions but we still ... View Details

Making Fair Trade Fair Game

For those of us who care about the well-being of farm workers, it is a scary time in the world ... View Details

Conceiving With Herbs? Oh Baby!

If you've been struggling with infertility, you may feel like nothing can help you achieve a pregnancy other than medications ... View Details

Welcome to the New Elemental Herbs Blog!

Caroline was humbled by the response to this magical healing balm from friends and family who raved about All Good ... View Details

Zinc Leads the Way for Natural Sunscreens This Summer

Sun worshippers take caution: your sunscreen may not be providing you with the best possible protection. Most active sunscreen ingredients ... View Details

Elemental Herbs® Keeps You Covered With Organic, Herbal-Based Zinc Sunscreens

MORRO BAY , CA (January 13, 2010) – Considering that our skin is our largest organ, what we slather on ... View Details

Elemental Herbs “All Good Lips” Lip Balms Feature All Good Ingredients for 2010

Company eliminates oxybenzone from SPF formulas MORRO BAY , CA (December 10, 2009) – Elemental Herbs’ commitment to beneficial ingredients in ... View Details

World Champ Skier Alison Gannett Treks 250 miles Through Ice and Snow to Attend Climate Summit

World Champ Skier Alison Gannett Trekked 250 Miles Through Three Countries to Attend Climate Summit to Raise Awareness of ... View Details