by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Green Beauty, My Organic Life, Product Reviews, Skincare
Moisturizer keeps your skin looking and feeling soft and supple. If your skin gets dehydrated, dry, it looks dull and wrinkles appear, you may be lacking in this crucial skin care step. You may see flakiness, and your makeup will not go on evenly.
You should use moisturizer no matter what your skin type is, be it dry, oily, combo or normal.
It’s best to get a moisturizer with SPF to help protect from the external environment, but some moisturizers, like those with cocoa and shea butter, have natural sun protection. Here are my 6 current favorite organic and all natural moisturizers:
1. Naturopathica Lavender Protective Moisturizer SPF 17
If it’s lavender, I’ve gotta have it! This Protective Moisturizer from Naturopathica (see my last review on this great brand here!) is absolutely amazing. The active ingredient of this wonderful formula, Micronized Zinc Oxide, contains tiny reflective particles to protect the skin from the sun’s damaging rays without leaving a “chalky” appearance. I tried this for my birthday weekend, since I spent a lot of time hiking and doing outdoorsy things, and it smells amazing, lasts all day and really works! No burn at all, and the perfect amount of freckles showed up a few days later! 🙂 I recommend this to anyone looking for a great skin saver!
2. Aquarian Bath Raw Unrefined Shea Butter
As a mixed girl, I especially love my Raw Shea Butter, as it’s great for kinky flyaways, stretch marks, sunburns, cuts, scrapes, bruises and sun protection! It also makes a wonderful moisturizer! It’s rich, creamy, smells wonderful, works for absolutely everything and is great for a long, dry day at the beach to get yourself all lathered up and back to life! My hair and lips also love this as a moisturizer! I apply some before bed and wake up with luscious lips and strands! 🙂
3. Delizioso Skincare Crisp Vanilla Body Cream
Vanilla is one of my favorite scents, and this luxurious, 100% natural body cream is made with aloe juice and rose hydrosol instead of water. It’s totally free of synthetic preservatives, additives, and components, and perfect for skin hydration. It absorbs quickly, smells great and I’m impressed with how long it lasts. I use this on my hands, wrists and arms a lot when I get dry skin, and it works wonders!
4. Busy Bee Lavender Vanilla Body Lotion
This all natural, home made lotion is made with healthy oils and butters, and is great for daily use on the body and face! I use after bathing or any time my skin needs a boost of moisture. It leaves my skin soft and silky. They’ve combined my two favorite scents – Lavender and Vanilla – which makes it difficult not to shove this bottle under the nose of everyone in the room! I adore this lotion for my legs, which are especially dry, elbows, hands and belly!
( Check out my last review on Busy Bee’s Jojoba Oil Here )
5. Sheaterra White Chocolate Moisturizing Body Cream
Speaking of products I can’t stop shoving under people’s noses, this Sheaterra Organics White Chocolate Moisturizer (99.7% natural, if that’s high enough for you) smells good enough to eat! This moisturizer is very rich, super creamy and kinda thick, so it’s definitely one for your body, hands, feet, and super dry areas. But seriously… I don’t think I’ve ever opened and smelled a product this much ever before in my life. It lasts a long time and I seriously adore it. I’ll probably have to stock up on this for winter!
6. Busy Bee All Natural Grapefruit Body Butter
Wanna feel like you’re rubbing a delicious grapefruit all over your less-than-hydrated body? Here’s your answer! A thicker, richer body moisturizer, it’s made with Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter, Jojoba Oil, Grapefruit Essential Oil, Natural Vitamin E Oil, and free of preservatives with no colors added. It smells absolutely divine, it’s rich, “bubbly” and it truly does the trick for dry patches and problem areas!
Happy Moisturizing!
Thank you very much.
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by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Give Back, Green Beauty, My Organic Life
A lot of women I speak to who want to switch to all natural makeup or beauty products have one added concern: they want to give back while they do it! Whenever this comes up, I point them in the direction of a few different brands that I love who donate their proceeds to worthy causes… the newest being Rooted Beauty!
These pure, gluten free (check out the importance of going gluten free in this post!), eco-friendly affordable Lip Butters from Rooted Beauty are perfect for the eco-conscious chapstick addict! They come in 3 different flavors – one more lovely and addicting than the next!
The best part is, each flavor corresponds to a different Project that Rooted Beauty does through Woman2Woman! The Woman2Woman project is a generosity movement funded by Rooted Beauty that provides partnering organizations with the financial resources to deliver women from the bondage of extreme poverty, abuse and sex trafficking. A portion of profits generated from the sale of each product is redistributed to specific projects that will help real women become self-sustainable apart from oppression.
When you purchase one of their products, you are directly enabling real women to break free from the bondage of extreme poverty and sex trafficking. At only $4.99 each, it doesn’t get any easier to make a real difference!
They also use an adorable eco-tube that is 100% Compostable when you’re done with it!
This could literally feed you some day!
How fantastic is that? 🙂
The Orange Vanilla Lip Butter Goes to Bela’s Cause.
Passionfruit Lip Butter Goes to Project Gami.
Ingredients
Cera Alba (Beeswax), Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower Oil), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Theobroma Cocoa (Cocoa Butter), Natural Passionfruit Flavor, Tocopherol (Vitamin E).
Razz Lime (my absolute favorite) goes to Project Ari.
Ingredients
Butyrosperum Parkii Butter (Shea Butter), Cera Alba (Beeswax), Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Elaeis Guineensis (Palm) Butter, Honey, Natural Flavor, Citrus Medica Limonum (Lemon) Oil, Citrus Aurantifolia (Lime) Oil.
I find these lip butter’s totally delightful, nourishing and moisturizing! They’re perfect for travel since they come in a solid form. Despite being solid, they have the added benefit of going on really smooth and lasting (my biggest issue with lip… anything!). I put them on every night before bed to keep my lips from drying out, and it’s worked wonders!
For $4.99 giving back to a good cause has never been easier!
Check out the different projects here and nourish your lips this summer with Rooted Beauty! You can be 100% natural AND earn some awesome Karma points!
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by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Giveaway, Green Beauty, Health, My Organic Life, My Photography, Product Reviews, Skincare
I’ll be kicking off the end of July in a big way: a week of a different eco-friendly, natural, organic beauty product that I’m In Love With daily, followed by a BIG Giveaway for one lucky winner! Stay tuned to learn what natural, organic products you should be using for your skin care, makeup and overall beauty routine!
I’d like to start my Favorites off with a brand that I honestly can’t get enough of… Aquarian Bath! They’ve really changed the game for me: everything from their essential oils to their vegan soap to their shampoo bar has left me awestruck at how beautiful hand crafted, natural beauty goods can be when done right!
Pink Kaolin Clay (also known as the main ingredient in this amazing face mask/cleanser) is a gentle clay, making it suitable for sensitive skin. It helps stimulate circulation to the skin while gently exfoliating and cleansing it. Pink Kaolin Clay does not draw oils from the skin and can therefore be used on dry skin types.
I use this Rose Clay Mask about once a week, on days where my skin is feeling especially stressed and oily. It’s definitely gentle enough to use more than that, but I like to switch off with my products and this is extremely detoxifying for me personally! I put it on my face, let it dry, and run a bath to sit in and read while it goes to work on my pores!
My skin has definitely responded well, and is left really soft and fresh and clean! It dries (quickly!) to it’s light pink rose color, so you know just when it’s time to take it off! (If you don’t, it will certainly remind you anytime you try to move your face! ^^)
You can purchase your Aquarian Bath’s Kaolin Mask here for only $4.99 if you’re interested in being on your way to naturally clear skin for (MUCH!) less!
Thank you very much!
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by Tara Mackey | Beauty, Blogroll, Green Beauty, My Organic Life, My Photography, Product Reviews, Skincare
Okay, okay… I admit it: I’m a little bit of a workaholic (and not in the relevant Comedy Central way.) This came in the form of self-neglect for a number of years. But it has now, in recent months, made me a huge fan of taking care of myself, and I’m always looking for new, wonderful and down to earth ways to do it!
This is a relatively new concept for me, but one I really enjoy indulging in when it comes to my bath and beauty routine, as well as my diet and fitness.
When I travel back to the East Coast, it’s important for me to bring, try and promote local brands that really combat the dry, windy cities of lore! The amazing Laurel – founder, Skin Guru & overall wonderful woman, who grows some of Sequoia’s herbs in her own garden– of Sequoia Beauty gave me the opportunity to do just that when she sent over a lovely little care package of facial treatment! They are based in the Bay area of California, and the wonderful thing about Sequoia is that there is absolutely NO water added to dilute their ingredients. In the world of beauty products, this is absolutely and almost impossible to find! I got the opportunity to use her products for my nightly bath routine, and what a difference!
I have 5 friendly steps to using Sequoia products to aid your nightly skincare routine!
Treat yourself with the Almond Exfoliant & Honey Berry Enzyme Mask! Your skin will thank you!
These ingredients are certified organic, raw, local to the bay area, and non-gmo!
Apply some ultra moisturizing Lavender Lip Healer while your mask sets! Lavender is one of my favorite scents! So calming & lovely!
Hop in a bath, relax in bed, in a sunny spot, read your favorite book, and breathe deeply!
Use Sequoia’s Hydrating Cleanser to cleanse your face of the Mask or Exfoliant. I use the Transform Moisturizer on my lips and eyelids as I relax & unwind!
Lastly, use the Tighten Toner & Nourishing Serum on your face to promote all natural anti-aging, skin healing & organic rejuvenation!
A big hug, love, shout out & thank you to Sequoia Beauty for making my skin routine easy, flexible, transportable and 100% Organic! I’m more than happy to share about their commitment to health & wellness!
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