Skincare Industry Snags Abroad: Bringing Home Lessons From A Global Pandemic
When global conflicts or challenges occur, costs and shortages skyrocket hitting brands with impossible dilemmas forcing many to cut corners that reflect poorly on their values and ability to thrive. The domino effect can be crippling. Aside from problems with depending on outsourced supply and workforce stability, raw material brands tend to use, more often […]
Summertime Skincare Hero: Avocado
Summer’s just around the corner and we’re already out there soaking up Vitamin D, happy to get a break from volatile weather and layered clothing. Each season brings its own unique beauty as well as challenges for our bodies, starting, and ending for our biggest organ – the skin. As we expose skin to warmer […]
Travel Skincare Made Easy | Best Practices
Air travel and all travel, for that matter, can take a physical toll on us, with artificially recirculated air, dehydrating airplane cabins, low humidity, and hard water. In addition, travel can be stressful, whether you’re attending an event you’re anxious about, or a daunting work function, or you’ve just hit some snags along the path […]
Earth Day: Refocusing the Skincare Industry & Consumer Choice
The skincare industry has been rife with overt and opaque practices that harm the environment with pollutants for quite some time. Glittering, attractive packaging, hiding microbeads, micro plastics, and toxic ingredients stock store shelves, blissfully purchased by eager consumers. Companies’ energy use is also contributes to environmental harm by way of fossil fuels. In honor of this Earth Day, we are refocusing the lens on consumer and brand priorities for health on all levels.
Food & Skin: The Mind & Body Effect
We’ve all heard that we are what we eat, been in discussions about which food lifestyle is the best, what to eat, what not to eat, dizzied about in stores searching through labels and unfamiliar ingredients, and let’s just say it’s a gauntlet out there. When it comes to feeling and looking good while doing […]
Cruelty-Free Skincare | Investment in Health on All Levels
Spring’s bloom is in full swing, bringing to mind growth, replenishment, and rejuvenation. Scenes of foraging animals, the scent of damp, green grass and droplets on rustling tree leaves float to the surface after a good rain. These associations remind us about the true interconnectedness of our experience with nature and nurtures a respect only […]
Beyond Skincare | The Power of Touch
The skin is our largest organ, working magically to protect us and decipher the various environmental inputs that it comes in contact with. We put it through the wringer with exposure to all that is good and bad out there. Sometimes our skincare routine can be our only time with ourselves and our intentional time […]
Aromatherapy: A History of Love & Wellness
A Brief History of Aromatherapy The term Aromatherapy was coined by French chemist Rene-Maurice Gattefosee in 1928, modernizing and expanding on the deeply rooted venerated practice dating back to 3500 BC. An integral part of ancient sensual and health routines, aromas of essential oils have long been used as powerful triggers of physical response and […]
Nature’s Skincare Elixir | Mango & Olive Healing Through the Ages
Since the resurgence of interest in natural, clean skin care products, curiosity has grown with educated consumers seeking the best and purest options available. Favorites like shea butter, coconut oil, and cocoa butter are common ingredients sought after for their nutrient-rich properties. There are a few lesser known but thoroughly time-tested hero ingredients ripe with […]
Bathing Ritual: Re-learning Ancient Self-care
Amid the flurry of the holidays, work deadlines, sick season, and all the other ever-running to-do list items keeping us hyper productive day in and day out, not to mention the constant tech saturation, and pressures on small and large scales, it’s no wonder stress is written all over our faces (and bodies). We know […]
