All in Beauty
We all made pandemic discoveries – like learning we didn’t miss eating out as much as we thought we would – and one of ours was finally ditching bottled shampoo and conditioner. Did you know 552 million plastic shampoo bottles end up in landfills every year in America? For perspective, that’s enough to fill 1,164 football fields.
Ever wondered how a brand came to be? Wondered about the person or people behind the brand? Us too. Welcome to Behind the Brand, a new series giving you the chance to get to know the people behind some of our favorite clean brands.
It’s been a week, hasn’t it? We’re feeling tired, worn out, and a bit emotional. So while in some ways self-care has become a bit cliché and a brand unto itself we recognize the virtue of regularly stopping and carving out some time to slow down, reconnect with ourselves, and take some time for renewal.
We’ve found baths to be the perfect, low-cost way to create a little ‘relaxation cave’ and slow the heck down. We don’t need any special equipment, and most of the ingredients we’ve found to create the most lux baths have actually come straight out of our pantry or bathroom closet.
So read on, and we hope you’re inspired to create a little me-time this week. (Oh who are we kidding… Do it today.)
Many of the founders, the reason why they came to clean beauty was because of an illness. They either had cancer or an autoimmune disease, and they treated their disease not only by cleaning up their food and cleaning products, but also their beauty products. Anything they’re exposing themselves to.
We’re free-to-be over here at Clean Made. If you choose to shave or wax or neither or both, you do you: your body, your choice. But if your preferred flavor is au naturel, this post probably won’t interest you. All good.
However, if you like to keep it smooth as silk (the soy milk or the fabric, whatever), you might be interested in giving sugar waxing a whirl.
Cūrata says, “sustainable luxury means choices you can live with, embodied in products you can’t live without.” Not only do we think that’s a cool slogan, we also totally agree with the sentiment.
Most natural deodorants are the pits.
To varying degrees, the consistency is off and sometimes you have to dig them out of little pots and the stuff gets under your fingernails and it’s gross. Some of the fragrances are a little weird; they stop working within minutes, hours, or weeks of use. Most leave a mightily unattractive, oily stain under the arms.
Every single one of Goddess Garden’s sunscreen lotions earns a score of 1 (the safest you can get), from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) — that means the sunscreens are ranked as the top choice for UVA protection, and they’ve been shown to provide a good balance of UVA protection in relation to SPF.
Speaker Sessions at our Clean Made LA 2018 events. Regenerative Agriculture and Our Planet. The Secret Life Of Bees And Their Role In Longevity. Women in Food Panel Hosted by The Chalkboard Mag. Healing Through Food with Sweet Laurel.
