organic makeup + skincare + lifestyle
A perfume oil to love I have to admit right off the bat – I’m not a fan of most perfumes. I can’t stand synthetic fragrances. And I think most floral scents are cloyingly sweet. But I opened my mind and my nose to try the new Malie Organics Perfume Oil in Pikake and was pleasantly surprised to like it, a [...]
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The perfect winter skin cure if you love elephants but don’t want to be one During these dry winter months (yes, even if you live in a humid climate with lots of snow your skin is drier than in other months) we need all the help we can get if we don’t want to develop elephant skin. Sometimes that [...]
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We’ve heard the story before, a lonely little anti-scar cream makes it big as an anti-aging cream; this is how the Strivectin empire was born. So, there’s nothing groundbreaking in our primary plot line. It’s no mystery how the same ingredients responsible for healthy new tissue growth in wound healing are also helpful in assisting our skin to age gracefully. [...]
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A beautiful natural lipgloss With baited breath I waited for my set of Organic Hydra Glosses to arrive in the mail. Are they going to be everything I want in a natural lip gloss, or am I going to be disappointed like I have been with so many of the others? I open the package greedily and just about split [...]
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Mmmm, a creamy gel cleanser! Pangea Organics has really done it with their new facial cleanser for combination to oily and problem skin. It took them long enough to design a cleanser for this range of skin types, but the wait was well worth it. A gel formula that’s creamy to the touch but lathers like a [...]
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You may or may not know that it’s the blend of base oils that provides the cornerstone to any moisturizer, be it for face or body. Single oils just don’t penetrate the intercellular matrix of the skin nearly as well as good blends. That’s why there exist ancient recipes for moisturizers that blend multiple oils together for maximum moisturization; [...]
Read more . . .Every summer I am haunted by the same question, “Do I actively kill those who might harm me, or do I harmlessly repel those who are attracted to me?” You might think that any morally upstanding person would automatically choose the latter. But when you learn that the objects of my query are mosquitoes you may hesitate just as I [...]
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