The New Black: Organic Beauty Brands
Glance through your collection of holy grail beauty products and you're bound to come across words on the ingredient list you can barely pronounce, let alone understand.
With organic skincare rightfully earning its place in the spotlight these days, there's no better time to take the plunge into natural beauty. Whether you're looking for paraben-free products or all-natural skincare, here are our top five picks of organic beauty brands that'll take your beauty game to the next level.
Luxe Botanics
Inspired by founder Jené Roestorf’s roots in Africa, the creation of Luxe Botanics was spurred on further by her training in science and her passion for innovation. The brand’s skincare ranges revolve around three high-performing and organically grown key botanical ingredients with their own proven therapeutic and cosmetics perks:
- Marula nut oil from Kenya which hydrates and nourishes the skin
- Camu camu berry from Brazil that firms and brightens the skin
- Kigelia Africana to clarify, repair and protect the skin
Manufactured in the USA under stringent international standards, Luxe Botanics only uses eco-friendly, certified organic ingredients. In addition, Luxe Botanics also gives back – with every purchase made, Luxe Botanics supports communities in Africa and South America through various literacy and hunger relief programs.
Burt's Bees
Burt’s Bee is popularly known for using beeswax as their primary ingredient in their best-selling lip balms, which has proved to be an effective natural moisturiser. Burt’s Bee also excludes harmful and unnecessary synthetic ingredients like parabens, petrolatum and chemical sunscreens (oxybenzone). Apart than their iconic lip balms, the brand’s skincare line ranges from cleansers to toners, moisturisers, and lip scrubs infused with all-natural, nourishing ingredients such as sunflower oil, willow bark extract, shea butter, royal jelly, cocoa butter, and lemon.
Our top picks from Burt’s Bees? We can never do without the Tinted Lip Balm in Red Dahlia, which adds a tinge of colour to the pale lips. The Peach and Willow Bark Deep Pore Scrub has finely milled peach stone grains to exfoliate the skin and willow bark extract to unclog pores.
Josie Maran Cosmetics
Given its multitude of uses as a miracle oil for your face, body, and hair, it's no surprise why argan oil is the hero product of model-turned-entrepreneur Josie Maran's cosmetics line. Her passion for natural, eco-friendly skincare spans far beyond her beauty regimen – apart from using environmentally-friendly and recyclable production materials, the argan oil used in Josie Maran line of skincare products is also sustainably harvested and pressed by women’s co-ops in Morocco.
There's no need to explain why the 100% Pure Argan Oil – a personal favourite of Josie's – is at the top of our list. To top off the entire argan oil experience, seal in your body’s moisture and hydration with the light-as-air Whipped Argan Oil Body Butter.
Herbivore Botanicals
Founded by a husband and wife team in Seattle, Herbivore Botanicals is all about truly natural, sensorial beauty with an emphasis on organic, high-quality, food-grade ingredients and the finest raw natural materials ranging from French pink clay to Brazilian gemstones. The result? Natural, pure yet highly-concentrated formulas with intoxicating scents and luxurious textures that will bring personal rejuvenation and indulgence to your beauty routine.
One must-have is the highly-raved Phoenix Oil, made from rosehip oil that intensely hydrates and enhances the skin’s regeneration at a cellular level. Another winning product by Herbivore Botanicals is Blue Tansy AHA + BHA Resurfacing Clarity Mask ($69), infused with blue tansy oil, fruit enzymes and white willow bark to exfoliate, resurface and clarify the skin.
Tata Harper
Developed by chemists, biologists, and botanists using the most advanced natural skincare technology available in the world, Tata Harper skincare products are undoubtedly powerful and effective. Every bottle is packed with up to 29 active ingredients to effectively combines the potency of multiple products into one. In addition, Tata Harper also prides themselves in manufacturing their own products in small batches to ensure the freshest and best ingredients in each bottle.
Our favourites from the Tata Harper’s skincare lines include the Reparative Moisturiser, a rich, hydrating moisturiser ideal for dehydrated skin, and the Moisturising Mask, perfect as an overnight moisture mask to treat stressed, acne-riddled skin.
FrankSkincare
Founded by owners who are organic beauty fanatics themselves, FrankSkincare emphasises on using top-grade natural active ingredients to help everyone achieve healthy skin. To maintain the quality, potency and freshness of the ingredients in the skincare, the brand's products are produced in small batches.
FrankSkincare can be safely regarded to be one of the most inclusive brand, with products specifically produced for individuals with different needs, such as pregnant women, men and babies. Doing their part to save the earth, the brand also uses environmentally-friendly and recylable packaging - always a plus in our books.
Our holy grail products from FrankSkincare include the Dirty Pink Work Like A Sponge Treatment Mask to aid with blood circulation and act as a gentle exfoliator to the skin, as well as the Goodnight Homies Luxury Body Oil to help nourish and saturate the skin with antioxidants as well as aid sleep with its scent of therapeutic floral ingredients.