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Sunscreen 101: a Guide to Protecting Your Skin

Sunscreen 101: a Guide to Protecting Your Skin

Sunscreen science can get pretty confusing. Mineral or chemical sunscreen? FDA regulation? Broad-spectrum? What about reef-safe sunscreens? We’re here to help break it down for you so you don’t get...

Sunscreen 101: a Guide to Protecting Your Skin

Sunscreen science can get pretty confusing. Mineral or chemical sunscreen? FDA regulation? Broad-spectrum? What about reef-safe sunscreens? We’re here to help break it down for you so you don’t get...

What Does Natural Actually Mean

What Does Natural Actually Mean

Being one of the most fundamental aspects of Tierra & Lava, “natural” should come, well, pretty naturally to us, right? However, it is becoming an increasingly more controversial marketing term...

What Does Natural Actually Mean

Being one of the most fundamental aspects of Tierra & Lava, “natural” should come, well, pretty naturally to us, right? However, it is becoming an increasingly more controversial marketing term...

What is an Eco Brick? The Zero-Waste Building Material Anyone Can Make

What is an Eco Brick? The Zero-Waste Building M...

Eco Bricks are your run-of-the-mill water bottles packed full with other clean, dry, non-recyclable plastics such as candy wrappers or styrofoam. Once they’re packed full, they can be stacked on...

What is an Eco Brick? The Zero-Waste Building M...

Eco Bricks are your run-of-the-mill water bottles packed full with other clean, dry, non-recyclable plastics such as candy wrappers or styrofoam. Once they’re packed full, they can be stacked on...

Show Mom (and the Planet) Some Love

Show Mom (and the Planet) Some Love

Mother’s Day is a special time reserved for showing your gratitude to the woman who made you. Even though gratitude is not just reserved to this one calendar day, it...

Show Mom (and the Planet) Some Love

Mother’s Day is a special time reserved for showing your gratitude to the woman who made you. Even though gratitude is not just reserved to this one calendar day, it...

Honor the Planet Like the Mayans: How to Celebrate Earth Day This Year

Honor the Planet Like the Mayans: How to Celebr...

The ancient Mayans lived off the land, and therefore had a great respect for it.

Honor the Planet Like the Mayans: How to Celebr...

The ancient Mayans lived off the land, and therefore had a great respect for it.

Semana Santa in Guatemala: a Vibrant Tradition & Celebration of the Senses

Semana Santa in Guatemala: a Vibrant Tradition ...

Semana Santa, a religious celebration experienced just as much through the senses as the soul.

Semana Santa in Guatemala: a Vibrant Tradition ...

Semana Santa, a religious celebration experienced just as much through the senses as the soul.