If you want your empty cleanser bottle grow flowers instead of poisoning the land, choose plantable packaging. This amazing type of cosmetic packaging is made of 100 percent recycled post-consumer fiberboard infused with flower or herb seeds. The fiberboard begins to decompose within a few days of being placed in wet dirt. Seeds that sprout after just a few weeks.

"If to percent of American companies switched to post-consumer fiberboard, we'd save go million trees a year in the U.S. alone," says Joshua Onysko, founder and CEO of Boulder, Colo.-based Pangea Organics, an innovator in plantable packaging, "The seeds bring us in touch with the world that supports us." (as interviewed by Olessa Pindak).

Sweet basil and amaranth grow from Pangea's packaging (www.pangeaorganics.com), while Cargo's Plantlove (www.cargocosmetics.com) lipstick boxes grow very pretty flowers – I managed to grow a daisy!