Get your herbs in bulk at Rainbow. This is a vegetarian co-op grocery store that you will feel good about supporting. Don’t skip the vegan baked goods and the 20% off coupon days on Wednesdays and Thursdays. They even have everything you need to make soap from scratch!

Buy melt and pour soap blocks at bulk grocers like Rainbow. Coconut, goat’s milk, olive oil and shea butter are excellent picks. Then just melt in a double boiler, mix with dyes and herbs (which you can also find at Rainbow), and pour into cans, tins, or whatever you can find to hold their shape. Even toilet paper rolls would work. NOTE: Great Rainbow coupons in the back of your Yellowpages.

A cooperatively owned, democratically run grocery store which could single-handily delay our planet’s environmental destruction by two years. There’s a bike-rider’s discount; a BYO bag discount; no meat whatsoever; and a plethora of organic and gluten-free foods, often sold in bulk. It’s expensive, but with every purchase you get a complimentary unwarranted sense of superiority.

HUGE vegetarian co-op. I like this place because they sell things in bulk, they’re slightly less expensive than the other health food/co-ops in the area, and because I can get all my hippie dippie organic beauty products here like Jason facewash and Home Health astringent. It’s always really packed with good-looking young people who believe in local food and saving the earth, which is a plus.