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Green Beauty Loves & Medicine Cabinet Favs
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items Remember when we had beautiful, antique wood medicine cabinets that would swing open to the heady smell of wood? Bring back those days! Bring back actually useful, green products instead of poison. Some of the genuinely best, most fragrant beauty fin...
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Beauty & Medicine Cabinet Favs
Body Care Loves ✨
Hair Care Loves
Skin Loves 💖
Tooth Care ✨🦷
Wound, Trauma, & Shock Healing
Beauty & Medicine Cabinet Favs
We smell gooood. My favorite hack besides these: olive oil, raw organic sugar, a sprinkle of essential oil. SCRUB. Cheap & good. Also look into making your own deodorant with loose arrowroot powder in bulk from the store.
Smelling like a delicate beautiful rose with the most gorgeous, aromatic perfume AND plastic-free is the dream. Now if only we could smear it over our whole body.
Plastic-Free Moroccan Rose Deodorant (Aluminum Free)
Soft lavender and sage with the added bonus of aluminum-free. Happy pits.
Lavender & Sage Vegan Aluminum-Free Deodorant
Blue tansy for anti-redness and inflammatory (blue tansy is being studied for anti-cancer benefits) as a fun way to have organic cuticle care without the $70 fume-huffing manicure (I love them as much as anyone but can we PLEAse develop a better way ...
Organic Blue Tansy (Anti-Redness) Nail & Cuticle Oil
This is your long eyelash fix. Smooth on at night, toss that damn, lying “lengthening” mascara out. So many castor oils are full of sh--, and this small-farm grown, hexane-free, cold-pressed castor oil is the real, thick, luscious deal. For extra wel...
Find food-grade castor oil and ingest a tablespoon for added digestion and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Find food-grade castor oil and ingest a tablespoon for added digestion and anti-inflammatory benefits.
Small Farm Organic Cold Pressed Castor Oil
Scrub yourself like a newborn babe for lymphatic drainage & exfoliation. This is delicious to do every day or when you get the scritchy-scratches.
Life hack: want a (slightly) cheaper version? Marshalls usually has sales on these around $4-6.
Life hack: want a (slightly) cheaper version? Marshalls usually has sales on these around $4-6.
Acacia Wood Boar Bristle Bath Brush
Remove the hard bits with this pumice stone! I feel like people don't use these any more? But they're really the best for feet exfoliation (literally relief) and better than most paid spa feet exfoliations. Make your own sugar scrub with olive oil an...
Ethically Sourced Pumice Stone for Tough Bits & Exfoliation
Body Care Loves ✨
Elevate to princess goddess levels activated ✨
Is this the best shea butter you'll ever try? YES. This brand started in Chicago with the owners making small batches and singing while mixing. That GOOD ENERGY (and AMAZING lovingly sourced shea butter and scents) is still there! The only question i... ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Black owned, ethical, paying more than the norm small-business? YAY!
Organic Lavender Vanilla Shea Body Butter
The best, most sensuous, most delicious shea butter you'll ever smooth on in your life. Float in like a cloud.
Organic Rich Amber Vanilla Shea Body Butter
Honestly, a sickness cure. Waft - that's what you smell the second you open this gorgeous tub and smell the amazing eucalyptus smell. This moisturizer is practically medicinal to cure and rub on the chest any time you start getting sick.
A Black woman owned, ethical, paying more than the norm small-business? Yay!
A Black woman owned, ethical, paying more than the norm small-business? Yay!
Cure Sickness Eucalyptus Shea Body Butter ✨🌿
Lavender & prickly pear small-farm grown and copper distilled rich oil. This is a once in a while treat, but when you try it, man is it nice to have in the bathroom cabinet.
Organic Lavender & Prickly Pear Small Farm Grown Skin Care Oil
For when you want a GOOD ethical shea butter at a lower price point. Ethical shea butter with unscented, GORGEOUS lavender or yummy kiwi or vanilla, small-business, Black owned (we love! 💖), and cut with coconut oil and SUNFLOWER OIL for an easy smooth-on.
CHEAP GOOD Shea Butter ✨ 💖
Imagine the most fragrant soft vanilla— perfect for mixing or layering with other scents or wearing on its own! Also supporting a family-owned, cruelty free brand, which we love!
Nemat Soft Vanilla Fragrance Oil
Dr. Teal's is THE soak for sore muscles and a great way to relax after a long day, heal from injuries, swirl in bathwater. Plus the detox benefits! Honestly, buy in bulk at Costco.
Lavender Epsom Salt Soaking Solution
Shepard Moon has some really lovely, more complex bath soaks (though smaller) with notes like rosewood, sandlewood, and frankencinse alongside lavender. Big fan of using for a special bath soak!
Lavender, Rosewood & Frankincense Bath Salt
Yum, best meditation ever. Sandlewood, frankincense, & vetiver make this a delicious and soothing soak at the end of the day. Plus the detox benefits! Check out their other sweet scents like “Love” or “Vitality.”
Frankincense, Sandalwood & Vetiver Bath Salt
Hair Care Loves
Bring back elegance and earth-grown ingredients adding richness to our lives. Good hair care is super simple: boar brush, a great shampoo, less washing, more oil and scalp massage.
With organic lavender essential oil extracted from old-fashioned copper distilleries, grown on a small, family-owned farm and boutique in the arid valley systems of New Mexico, this beautiful shampoo gives voluminous life to curls and wafts of some o...
Organic Small-Farm Grown New Mexican Lavender Shampoo
Cloak your hair in silk instead of pulling at with an elastic! Hair care is style and wear as much as wash. This washable mulberry silk scrunchie will lead you to float like a princess.
Washable Silk Classic Scrunchie
Skin Loves 💖
Eschew the $80 serum slapped full of chemicals. Slather beeswax sunscreen ($14 skincare hack), rich oils, & INSIDE OUT beauty. Step AWAY from the retinol if you're under 40.
Actually a skincare hack— beeswax. Seabuckthorn deeply moisturizes with vitamins C and E, and rare Omega-7 fatty acid, chamomile calms, and beeswax locks in your skin like a 16th century furniture shellac. Moisturized. Reef-friendly sunscreen with mi...
Seabuckthorn & Chamomile Beeswax Sunscreen
Vitamin C to clear & brighten your skin, beeswax to shellac it down for the next seven decades, and zinc oxide for mineral sunscreen to say no to being wrinkly at 98 and be reef-safe (most sunscreens are NOT).
Orange Vitamin C Beeswax Zinc Oxide Sunscreen
Beauty starts inside! Transform what you drink with a countertop water filter solution removing fluoride, PFAs, and forever chemicals. This is one of the only counter-top solution filters specializing in these removals.
Forever Chemical Water Filter
The only makeup remover you'll ever need. Makeup is fat-soluble, which means any oil will dissolve most better than buying a separate harsh, acidic, expensive, add-another-bill-break-my-skin-barrier makeup remover. I'm only using Kirkland Signature t...
The Only Makeup Remover: Organic Olive Oil
If you're not enjoying life, your skincare won't be good :) Make sure to snack and eat really good, yummy snacks with all this “clean” beauty hoo-hah. when you're happy, everything's better. Now, I cannot have a jar in my house without eating the who...
Nutella
I love gua sha as much as the next gal and am such a fan of this ethically sourced brand uplifting Traditional Chinese Medicine rituals. Thank Jade is a truly ethically sourced jadite brand certified by the Gemological Institute of America, free from artificial substances or any resins in cheaper Jadite. There’s such a beautiful luxury in knowing your stones are ethically harvested and founders James Foo and Rashmi Yeole went to great l...
For better effects, put in the freezer (I know this is anti TCM, but this is my ancestral beauty tricks). A mini-microfacial! If spending more on these tools isn't for you now, love getting a discounted gua sha set at Marshalls. Or shape with an ice cube!
For more information on Thank Jade and their journey, see:
Sustainability: https://www.vogue.in/promotion/jadeites-quiet-revolution-how-thank-jade-is-making-beauty-sustainable
Mining & Testing Journey: https://thankjade.com/pages/our-journey?srsltid=AfmBOoqP7V797sPVsRHE--Qn935C7Uc77elparflawCAG7FVvUegmJ7h
For better effects, put in the freezer (I know this is anti TCM, but this is my ancestral beauty tricks). A mini-microfacial! If spending more on these tools isn't for you now, love getting a discounted gua sha set at Marshalls. Or shape with an ice cube!
For more information on Thank Jade and their journey, see:
Sustainability: https://www.vogue.in/promotion/jadeites-quiet-revolution-how-thank-jade-is-making-beauty-sustainable
Mining & Testing Journey: https://thankjade.com/pages/our-journey?srsltid=AfmBOoqP7V797sPVsRHE--Qn935C7Uc77elparflawCAG7FVvUegmJ7h
Truly Ethically Sourced Gua Sha Facial Sculptor
Honestly, my Jade roller is my favorite toy in the world. They see me rolling. Pop in the freezer for an extra lift (I know this is anti-TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine), but hey, these are my ancestral beauty hacks)..Use this brand with truly ethi...
Founders James Foo and Rashmi Yeole went to great lengths to ensure every part of their mining and supply chain was ethical, sourcing from Kazahkstan rather than the often blood mines of Myanmar where 90% of jadite originates.
For more information on Thank Jade and their journey, see:
Sustainability Story: vogue.in/promotion/jadeites-quiet-revolution-how-thank-jade-is-making-beauty-sustainable Mining & Testing
Journey: thankjade.com/pages/our-journey?srsltid=AfmBOoqP7V797sPVsRHE--Qn935C7Uc77elparflawCAG7FVvUegmJ7h
Founders James Foo and Rashmi Yeole went to great lengths to ensure every part of their mining and supply chain was ethical, sourcing from Kazahkstan rather than the often blood mines of Myanmar where 90% of jadite originates.
For more information on Thank Jade and their journey, see:
Sustainability Story: vogue.in/promotion/jadeites-quiet-revolution-how-thank-jade-is-making-beauty-sustainable Mining & Testing
Journey: thankjade.com/pages/our-journey?srsltid=AfmBOoqP7V797sPVsRHE--Qn935C7Uc77elparflawCAG7FVvUegmJ7h
Ethically Mined Facial Roller
Huge fan of this sunscreen with mango & cocoa butter as a base. With a reusable tin (plastic-free, infinite recyling) and skin benefits like green tea. Beautiful!
Mango Butter Sunscreen Organic Mineral SPF 30
Tooth Care ✨🦷
Sparkly Besides this, I stand that the best tooth care is STRETCHING. Tension on head = tension on teeth = cavities. Prevent this by perfecting your seated forward fold. Always use ab-work first such as Pilates curls to become more flexible.
Bring on your inner Chinese emperor and floss silk. Makes so much sense, right? Biodegradable, cruelty-free for harvesting, and a nifty reuseable container sans plastic.
Biodegradable Natural Silk Dental Floss
Why are you brushing your teeth with microplastics? Yes, I know the answer is we're being corporately abused by every angle. Let me introduce boar bristle, bamboo toothbrushes, which when in a pack, aren't too much more expensive than a store-bought ...
Boar Bristle & Bamboo Toothbrush - Compostable
Nano-hydropaxatite is a scientifically studied good fluoride substitute (literally what composes our teeth), without the alleged harm of excess fluoride (between our water system and brushing). Personally, I find my teeth are no longer as cold or hea...
This does have xylitol, which finding a natural toothpaste without is really difficult, and studies show xylitol can reduce brain cognition over eight year periods. However, this seems to be the best toothpaste alternative for now besides some other ...
This does have xylitol, which finding a natural toothpaste without is really difficult, and studies show xylitol can reduce brain cognition over eight year periods. However, this seems to be the best toothpaste alternative for now besides some other ...
Fluoride Free Nano Hydroxyapatite Toothpaste Mint
Oh wow, this is a diva toothpaste. PEARL powder, which is shown to have good whitening benefits alongside other good ingredients like fluoride substitute nano-hydropaxatite (what composes our teeth).
Made by a small brand in small batches. This does have xylitol, which finding a natural toothpaste without is really difficult, and studies show xylitol can reduce brain cognition over eight year periods. However, this seems to be the best toothpaste...
Made by a small brand in small batches. This does have xylitol, which finding a natural toothpaste without is really difficult, and studies show xylitol can reduce brain cognition over eight year periods. However, this seems to be the best toothpaste...
Pearl POWDER Toothpaste Scrub (Plastic-Free) 🦪⚪
For natural tooth care, blue skate oil is a cavity fixer (and will give the most vivd, odd dreams you've experienced). Tooth care starts with the pineal gland, and communities with high-fat diets tend to have better teeth. If you're struggling with t...
TOOTH PAIN FIX - Fermented Skate Liver Oil
Wound, Trauma, & Shock Healing
Heal naturally or with full support.
If you have a wound, bruise, muscle swelling, stiffness, or even mental injury such as shock or deeper injuries such as bone breaks or surgery, arnica is your friend. Gentle on the repair, this herb in a sugar pellet softens your healing and melts st...
Take in a lower dosage like here (30C) or look into higher dosage (200C) for more intense trauma or injury.
As with any homeopathic medicine, be sure to check with your doctor or a naturopath for any drug interactions and specific recommendation length. Arnica is generally pretty safe.
Take in a lower dosage like here (30C) or look into higher dosage (200C) for more intense trauma or injury.
As with any homeopathic medicine, be sure to check with your doctor or a naturopath for any drug interactions and specific recommendation length. Arnica is generally pretty safe.
Boiron Arnica Montana Sugar Tablets
Get arnica in a cream form for soothing on sore muscles, bruises, or external injuries (not open wounds). Recovery cream for bruising, swelling, and discoloration from Injury. Ingesting may be most effective, but this can help with really sore spots.
Boiron Arnicare Bruise Cream for Pain Relief
If you have any scars, this (along with microneedling) will get rid of them. Many a time my face has been saved.
Scar Fix Serum Mederma with Vitamin E & Niacinamide