Orange Is the New Black's Taylor Schilling: Using Hashtags to Save the Earth

The actress announces a new green partnership with Origins

By Marc Malkin Apr 20, 2016 12:00 PMTags
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Green is the new black for Taylor Schilling.

The Orange Is the New Black star has teamed up with Origins for its new #KissThePlanet campaign.

For every Instagram pic captioned with #KissThe Planet and #DoGoodCampaign and tagged @OriginsUSA, the beauty company will plant one tree through Global ReLeaf up to 25,000 trees.

Schilling announced her participation yesterday with an Instagram post to her 1.4 million followers that shows her holding a bright pink flower. "This is really good stuff," she wrote. "Here I am canoodling with a beautiful blossom #ambassador."

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Within a few hours, the photo received almost 46,000 likes.

"This is a partnership I'm really excited about because Origins also values natural ingredients and natural products and things that are equally as beneficial for your skin as they are for the planet," the actress tells me. "It's a small way that I try to take care of the earth as well as myself."

Schilling's work doesn't stop with Origins: "I make a concerted effort to recycle and to try not to use products from companies that are hurting our planet."

She added, "I spend a lot of time in nature. I spend a lot of time appreciating it. It's something that I value in my personal life when I have time off—to be outdoors as much as a I can."