Krista Zanderson, owner and visionary of Salon Jia Rae in Santa Barbara, CA, is so totally LPP! As a cutting edge business woman, she understands that going green is the way to save more green. Here are a few of the salon’s eco elements that you can easily incorporate into your salon or home: installing a tank-less water heater (you’ll love the fact that you’ll never run out of hot water since it heats on demand unlike old school tanks), water based paint, recycling bins, eco-friendly air conditioning system (alternate idea: make sure to change your filters often and bump up the thermostat, even 2 degrees can save major energy consumption) and use green products (LPP haircare of course, cleaning agents, paper goods, lighting).



On her own accord, she also held a cut-a-thon donating all clippings to Matter of Trust, a non-profit organization that converts hair clippings into hair mats which are then used to clean up oil spills. In addition, they slashed their prices on cuts from $60 to $25 (without blowout) and donated all monies to the Surfrider Foundation. Now that is what Give Love, Get Peace is all about!


“I believe that business owners have an obligation to give back to the community in direct proportion to their success,” says Zanderson, a 14 year professional and TIGI Colour educator. Zanderson is joined by three accomplished stylists; Terri Hudson, Lety Pantoja and Brianna Kenney. All of whom make their own efforts at lessoning their carbon footprint by walking to work and utilizing the public transit system.