Natural Beauty Basics
ChampagneYogiHello Beautiful,
Now more than ever, health and wellness is a hot topic. Health expands far beyond what you eat. You can drink all the green smoothies and eat kale salads everyday, but what you put onto your body immensely impacts the quality of your health.
Just think, everything you put onto your skin directly impacts your immune system. It can dramatically cause hormone imbalances and worse cause cancer!
I remember years ago when I still worked as a makeup artist reading how make up and the personal care products women use daily hugely impacts not only our health, but our environment too. Back then clean makeup, skin care and hair care was few and far between, and definitely not camera worthy! Once I knew how toxic some of the ingredients were in beauty products I made a promise to myself to transition to green and cruelty free beauty products, no matter how long it took me.
I don’t often wear a lot of makeup, and most days I don’t wear any. But, when I put on mascara, bronzer or lipstick I make sure it is as clean as possible!
I want this to be a helpful reference for anyone wanting to live a more consciously holistic lifestyle. More importantly, I want this to be easy for you to transition and still have great quality products.
“Clean Beauty is good for you and our environment”
The top 5 products I recommend you swap out first
- Perfume
- Deodorant
- Face and body moisturizer, serums, creams etc
- Toothpaste, mouthwash
- Lipstick, gloss, chapstick
Clean beauty swaps
Below you’ll find products that I have personally used, and approved!
Perfume:
Essential oils. You can customize your fragrance multiple times throughout the day depending on your mood, energy levels and what scent you are craving at that time. My personal favourites are: Whisper, Motivate, Rose, Magnolia, Passion and Jasmine.
Deodorant:
doTERRA gentle formula (add a drop of Ylang Ylang, Balance, or Lavender essential oil for holistic therapeutic benefits)
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Aer by Vapour Organic Beauty
Schmidts Free Natural (add a drop of your favourite essential oil as a natural scent), Ylang Ylang & Calendula, Bergamot & Lime,
Green Goo
Native Coconut & Vanilla, Lavender & Rose
Body Wash:
Dr. Bronners natural castile soup (add your favourite essential oil and a couple tbsp fractionated coconut oil and voila… customized body wash!
Facial Serum:
Evanhealy Blue Cactus or Pomegranate serum. I add a blend of Frankincense, Lavender and YarrowPom to my day time serum. For evening I use, Frankincense, Yarrow Pom, Myrrh, Helichrysum and Blue Tansy.
Facial Moisturizer:
Evanhealy Blue Cactus Beauty Balm or Blue Chamomile Day Moisturizer
Body Moisturizer:
Buddha Butter
Coconut Oil
Toothpaste:
David’s Natural Toothpaste
Under eye concealer:
Ere Perez Arnica concealer
Vapour illusionist concealer
Foundation:
Ere Perez foundation
Vapour Organic Beauty
RMS uncover up(can also be used as concealer)
W3LL People
Bronzer:
Mineral Fusion Bronzer Luster Bronzer Duo
RMS Beauty Luminizer X Quad, Luminizer X, Champagne Rose Luminizer,
Vapour Organic Beauty
W3LL People High Vibration Trio Powder
Mascara:
Ere Perez
Lily Lolo
Beauty Counter Volumizing or Lengthening Mascara
W3Ll People Expressionist Mascara
Crunchi Lases for Days mascara
Haircare:
doTERRA Shampoo and Conditioner
SkinOwl Matcha Beauty Bar
Grown Alchemist Nourishing Shampoo
Decoding Ingredients
FOAMING AGENTS – Sodium Lauryl/Laureth Sulfate
PETROCHEMICALS – Propylene Glycol, Parraffin, Mineral Oil, Butylene Glycol, Isopropyl Alcohol and Petrolatum
FRAGRANCE – Fragrance/Parfum
PARABENS – Butylparaben, Propylparaben, Methylparaben, and Ethylparaben
Be a conscious consumer
Refer to the EWG skin deep database, and don’t use any products with a rating higher than a level 3. (10 is the most toxic)
Shop ethically. Do you homework, who sells ethically sourced, “low tox”, eco friendly brands. In the UK I recommend Content Beauty. In the Us I recommned Credo. Don’t get fooled by “pure, natural and hypoallergenic” these words don’t necessarily mean the product is free from harmful chemicals. Remember, read the ingredients list and refer to the EWG database. You can read more about how to detoxify you personal care routine here.
If you have any favourite toxic free beauty products, let me know your favourites. I’d love you to share all about it on Facebook. Post your story on Instagram (tag me @amandavs and #amandavs, #healthyissexy) I’d love to hear all about your healthy must have makeup products.
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XO Amanda