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"   Photo: Tata Harper  In honor of April, Earth Day, and to make up for the total lack of sunshine outside, we sat down with one of our favorite green goddesses and the latest natural beauty pioneer, Tata Harper. Harper&amp;#039;s namesake line of powerful plant-based skincare products has us, and eco it-girls like Lake Bell and Carolyn Murphy hooked (and smelling garden fresh!), but it&amp;#039;s her vintage-meets-modern style that has us convinced she&amp;#039;s as on point as she is green. Always sporting a vintage accessory, whether it&amp;#039;s her great-grandmother&amp;#039;s ring or a retro belt she scored for $30 on a trip to London, Harper&amp;#039;s approach to personal style reveals her sentimentality and respect for sustainability. &amp;quot;Nowadays we live in a society where everything is disposable... and I think that&amp;#039;s why I appreciate things that are just handed down from generation to generation. They are the only things that I have found to have character and to be really unique,&amp;quot; she says of her affinity for antique jewelry and decor. In search of pre-loved pieces, Harper hits estate sales, flea markets, and even garage sales outside of the Vermont farm where she grows the plants used in her line, houses a lab, and meshes her love of the past with hope for the future. &amp;quot;The packaging of my line, I made it to be as environmentally friendly as it could be... Like the glass bottles [are] infinitely recyclable and it&amp;#039;s a material that comes from the earth, so even if people don&amp;#039;t recycle it, it will degrade,&amp;quot; adding that the labels on her products are made from limestone, and that she uses no boxes. Harper muses that perhaps in this way her appreciation for vintage ties into her environmental consciousness: &amp;quot;Reuse, recycle, avoid waste.&amp;quot; What better a message as we welcome spring, go shopping, and freshen up our beauty routines! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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