The Best Natural + Eco-Friendly Skincare Brands

by | Jan 1, 2015 | Default

These natural skincare brands are dedicated to caring for our skin while also caring for our environment. Natural and organic skincare products combine essential vitamins, botanicals, and minerals that heal and restore our skin, without leaving a negative impact on our planet.

Image courtesy of Alpyn Beauty.

Alpyn Beauty is a sustainably sourced skin care line formulated with a proprietary complex of wildcrafed and hand-cultivated alpine botanicals grown in the mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Alpyn is vegan and certified cruelty-free by Leaping Bunny. The packaging is recyclable and FSC-certified

The key ingredient Bakuchoil, a retinal alternative, has powerful anti-agining benefits without the harsh side effects. It boosts collagen production, which strengthens and supports skin’s structure, adding cushion, elasticity and firmness, and helping to fill in fine lines and wrinkles.

Image courtesy of Code of Harmony.

Code of Harmony is a plant-based skincare company, with a CBD Skin Lab in Long Beach, CA where they create all of their products in small batches. The products are made with efficacious botanical / cosmeceutical ingredients that encourage optimum skin health and balance.

COH’s star ingredient is CBD. Their original blends are made with a therapeutic dose of CBD, antioxidants, vitamins, and nutrients that have been scientifically proven effective and safe.

The CBD and all of their other plant extracts are sustainably and organically farmed. COH uses glass as their primary packaging and keeps shipping materials as eco-friendly and basic as possible.

Image courtesy of Daughter of the Land.

Daughter of the Land represents a way of living which extends beyond the goods they offer. They create highly effective, multi-functional organic skincare products with the lowest possible impact on the environment. 

All products are strictly made with organic and fair trade certified (where applicable) ingredients. They are thoughtfully packaged in biodegradable and fully recyclable materials.

Daughter of the land is proud to be a woman-owned and women-operated business. 1% of their sales are donated to nonprofit organizations focused on women’s rights and the protecting our planet. 

Image courtesy of Good Medecine.

Good Medicine is a gift from the desert. Their line of artisanal beauty formulas is based on a powerful infusion of wild desert plants, untouched by chemical fertilizers, uncultivated or cross-bred, nourished by rain and brilliant sunshine.

All ingredients are harvested with respect, taking only what they need, and leaving no trace. Good Medecine sources ingredients locally first. The products are naturally gluten-free, cruelty-free and non-toxic.

The beauty lab is a collaboration of 3 women who have come together, inspired by the place they love most – the Southwest desert.

Image courtesy of Meow Meow Tweet.

Meow Meow Tweet develops all of their goods as if they were modern culinary dishes.

All products are made with organic, unrefined plant oils and butters, steam-distilled and cold-pressed essential oils and organic and wild-crafted botanicals. They pride themsselves on being a vegan brand, and use no animal-derived ingredients. Meow Meow Tweet is Leaping Bunny cruelty-free certified.

Image courtesy of Mūn Skincare.

MŪN is an innovative range of extraordinarily pure and effective vegan products that rely on healing botanicals, grown under pristine conditions that protect the soil’s complex ecosystem to retain the highest concentration of rich nutrients and potent bioactives.

MŪN is proud of their partnership with a union of women’s co-operatives in Morocco. It is made up of primarily Berber women, ages 18 to 50, they produce the Argan, Prickly Pear Seed and Olive oils used in MŪN products.

Image courtesy of Osea Malibu.

OSEA embodies the core elements of wellness: Ocean. Sun. Earth. Atmosphere.

Osea’s innovative formulations of certified organic seaweed, infused with pure steam-distilled and cold pressed essential oils create powerful anti-aging solutions and reduce the appearance of blemishes–eliminating the need for toxic synthetic ingredients entirely.

Osea is a vegan skincare company. All of their plant-derived ingredients are sustainably grown and their bioavailable seaweed is responsibly hand-harvested from the pristine waters of Patagonia.

Image courtesy of Osmia Organics.

Osmia means “sense of smell” (it’s derived from the medical word “anosmia”, which is the inability to smell). Every Osmia product is made with utmost attention to the scent and its aromatherapeutic benefits.

All ingredients are consciously-sourced plant materials. Products are packaged in the most environmentally aware packaging suitable for each product, and shipped in recycled cardboard boxes with paper tape.

Osmia is proud to be a partner with One Tree Planted, a Vermont-based non-profit organization.

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