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Meet Manuka Oil: Our Favorite Clean Ingredient of the Month
Welcome to Ingredient of the Month, where we explore a great, fresh, natural ingredient produced by Mother Earth herself. This month, we are exploring Manuka Oil. What Is Manuka Oil? Manuka oil is a soft oil that is harvested from the manuka leaves and flowers via distillation. The shrub is indigenous to New…
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DIY Sunday: Hair-Removing Sugar Wax
Happy end of the week, everyone! We know how much of a hassle shaving is, and with many spas and salons still closed, it’s not easy to get a professional wax. Today, we’ll be telling you how to make your own sugar wax, a method used by women for centuries (Queen Cleopatra herself!).…
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July Clean Beauty Roundup: News + Trends
With all that’s going on in the world right now, you may think that beauty has been put on the back burner for a while. However, many brands are still rolling out great news for clean beauty enthusiasts, from new environmentally and socially-conscious initiatives, to exciting new products. Here is what’s happening in…
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Reduce Your Plastic Use Through Rethinking Your Beauty Routine
This month is “Plastic Free July,” an event hosted annually that encourages consumers to cut their single use plastic in every way possible. Beauty products unfortunately can involve a lot of single use plastics, which can leak toxins into the environment, fail to break down even after hundreds of years, and may harm…
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I’m Soooooo in Love: Palermo’s Detox Tea Tree + Grapefruit Body Scrub
This month, we’ve got one of my personal favorites: the Detox Body Scrub with Tea Tree and Grapefruit by Palermo. Summertime is a weird time for most of us. Some of us get oily, some of us are drier, but most of us get clogged pores from sweat… and I don’t mean on…
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DIY Sunday: Lemon Facial Steam for Deep Cleansing
Welcome to DIY Sunday, where we give you the best of the best of natural beauty! This week, we’re going to be giving you a roundup of the best way to pull toxins out of your skin that you get from day-to-day life, like smoking, use of excessive skincare products, consumption of dairy,…
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DIY Sunday: Exfoliating Sugar Scrub
Sugar has been on the receiving end of some negative press for quite a while now. It’s the most recent demonized ingredient of our daily diet…but, no matter how you feel about sugar in your coffee or sugar on your plate, there is one place that sugar should definitely still be: on your…
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