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If you’re already eating organically, recycling regularly, and using eco-friendly sprays to clean your home, then you’re more than ready to take the plunge into natural beauty. Whether you’re looking for organic skin care or paraben-free makeup, there are plenty of choices that do as much good for your face as the Earth. We gathered up our favorite brands that use either all-organic ingredients or a mix of natural and organic ingredients. Honestly, though, it’s what they don’t use that really counts: no unnecessary chemicals, fillers, parabens, or additives. Click through to channel your inner Gwyneth.
Herbivore Botanicals
Everything in these products—right down to the packaging—is good for you. They’re created without pore-clogging mineral oils and aren’t tested on animals. Plus, founders Julia Wills and Alexander Kummerow believe the routine of applying it should be just as enjoyable as the results—which is why they put emphasis on the cute packaging, which you’ve no doubt seen all over your Instagram feed.
Herbivore Pink Clay Exfoliating Mask, $22
Goop by Juice Beauty
Gwyneth Paltrow has introduced a line of six curated skin care products that are up to 99 percent organic (made with Juice Beauty, with whom she also creative-directed a makeup line). If her face isn’t the ultimate advertisement for an anti-aging line, we don’t really know what is.
Goop by Juice Beauty Revitalizing Day Moisturizer, $100
100% Pure
This line of carefully formulated skin care and fruit-pigmented cosmetics aims to create products using only pure, organic, and safe ingredients. We’re pretty sure you’ll love everything, but try the face and body scrubs if you don’t know where to start.
100% Pure Cherry Honey Cleansing Scrub, $39
Antonym Cosmetics
This natural makeup line is fully certified organic by Ecocert, ensuring the highest quality and level of safety. The products make use of mineral pigments, and you won’t find any animal-derived ingredients or synthetic components on the label. Even the eyeliner is enriched with maruba and jojoba oils, making this a great line for sensitive skin.
Antonym Cosmetics Eye Pencil Noir, $19
Beautycounter
Founded with the intention of making organic skin care that looked as good on your nightstand as it worked for your face, this California-based line expanded to include makeup, hair care, and kid-friendly products. The brand’s site even has an extensive ingredient glossary to help you decode what’s good for you…and what’s not.
Beautycounter Lip Sheer, $30
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Burt’s Bees
This might be the easiest natural line to grab at the drugstore, but it doesn’t mean that it’s not effective and serious about its ingredients. The brand never uses propylene glycol, butylene glycol, polyisobutene, parabens, phthalates, petrolatum, DMDM hydantoin, sodium lauryl, sulfate, sodium laureth sulfate, mineral oil, paraffin, or synthetic sunscreens—a.k.a. all the icky stuff you don’t want in something that’s hanging out on your lips all day. It’s so safe, you can actually eat it.
Burt’s Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Rose, $5
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ESPA
This high-end brand operates luxury spas all over the world (think Mandarin Oriental) and also produces its own eponymous product line. The company is dedicated to removing chemical “extras” from its skin care products and using natural ingredients as much as possible. Its Optimal Skin ProSerum relies on nourishing omega 3, 6, and 9 oils, vitamins, and natural extracts like seaweed and turmeric to hydrate and even skin tone.
ESPA Optimal Skin ProSerum, $85
Josie Maran
The basis for all of model-turned-entrepreneur Josie Maran’s products is 100 percent organic argan oil, which infuses everything from tinted moisturizer to nail polish removing wipes. Or just grab a bottle of the oil itself, packaged in eco-friendly glass. The Whipped Argan Oil Intensive Hand Cream goes on lightly with a sweet but not overpowering scent and offers hours of moisture.
Josie Maran Whipped Argan Oil Intensive Hand Cream, $22
J.R. Watkins
This old-school (established in 1868) brand is known for its all-natural apothecary remedies and cooking extracts (bourbon vanilla, anyone?). So launching a bath-and-body line, was only, er, natural for the brand. The latest must-have? Its Lemon Cream Sugar and Shea Body Scrub, plus a full line of anti-aging body products.
J.R. Watkins Naturals Sugar & Shea Body Scrub, Lemon Cream, $10
Kora Organics
Supermodel Miranda Kerr created Kora in order to complement her organic, healthy lifestyle with an equally healthy beauty regimen. The brand sticks to certified-organic ingredients and avoids any toxic or synthetic ones. Kerr has said she is partial to the Hydrating Mask, and the Luxurious Rosehip Oil is a great way to add a supple texture and dewy glow back to dehydrated skin.
Kora Organics Luxurious Rosehip Face Oil, $54
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Juara
Using natural Indonesian ingredients (inspired by the founder’s roots in Bali), this skin and body brand is known for bringing candlenut oil to the United States. Before the launch of Juara, candlenut oil was relatively unknown here, which might be why the brand’s deliciously scented and moisturizing Candlenut Body Crème is so popular.
Juara Candlenut Body Crème, $35
Lano
The cult-favorite, natural Australian skin care brand Lano recently launched in the U.S. Not only is the packaging so adorable it’ll make you want to hoard every tube, its hydrating and healing effects truly make it a must-have product. The brand’s chosen ingredient, lanolin, has been dubbed “nature’s wonder moisturizer” by founder Kirsten Carriol due to the fact that the natural oil found in sheep’s wool is extremely emollient.
Lano Lanolips 101 Ointment Multipurpose Superbalm, $17
Little Barn Apothecary
Founders and self-taught herbalists (!) Joshua Morgan and Brad Scoggins created Little Barn Apothecary (and handcraft every product) in their Atlanta studio. Cool fact: All ingredients are sourced in the U.S. and some of them are even grown in Morgan and Scoggins’s garden, bringing a whole new meaning to the word, “homemade.” Even cooler fact: the brand’s labels are completely biodegradable, using tree-free, water-free, and non-toxic materials.
Little Barn Apothecary Body Scrub, $38
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RMS Beauty
Makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift regularly gives models their girl-next-door glow. Her natural products (like her popular Living Luminizer, which uses mica to impart a gentle sheen to skin) contain the absolute bare-minimum ingredients, and earth-minded models like Gisele and Miranda Kerr have given them their approval.
RMS Beauty Cream Eye Shadow Lunar, $28
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Suki
This cult beauty brand’s award-winning Exfoliating Foaming Cleanser is a huge hit among beauty editors and you’ll find familiar ingredients like sugar, lemongrass, and coconut oil throughout its roster of products.
Suki Exfoliate Foaming Cleanser, $33
Tata Harper
Harper is committed to chemical-free products that make use of natural, bio-active ingredients in her skin care line. The award-winning Resurfacing Mask has a unique gel-like texture that refines skin with pore-minimizing witch hazel, detoxifying pink clay, and hydrating beet extract.
Tata Harper Resurfacing Mask, $58
Tatcha
Inspired by geisha beauty rituals, Tatcha was created by Victoria Tsai with a less-is-more approach to skin care in mind. After battling eczema, she realized the importance of healthy ingredients and wanted to create products as safe as they were effective. The best part: Tsai splits her time between the U.S. and Japan (so ahead-of-the skin care curve), where she discovers and creates the formulations for all her products—so you know they’re good.
Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist, $48
Tracie Martyn
All of Martyn’s products are free of dyes, petrochemicals, artificial fragrances, and extra fillers, leaving only super-strength skin care behind. Tory Burch is a fan of Martyn’s firming serum, and we’re partial to her volcanic mineral and alpha hydroxy acid enzyme exfoliant.
Tracie Martyn Enzyme Exfoliant, $90
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Votre Vu
Francophiles will love this brand’s Paris roots, but nature buffs are the real target audience. Those looking for simple, effective formulas will appreciate the small-batch, botanically driven products. The Attentive Crème de Nuit Sensitive Skin soothes skin overnight with borage and tamanu oils in addition to shea butter and algae extracts.
Votre Vu Attentive Crème de Nuit Sensitive Skin, $49
Weleda
This may be the granddaddy of organic lines, with almost 100 years to its name. With no synthetic anything added into its formulas along with no animal testing, the brand is committed to keeping it all-natural. No wonder its multipurpose Skin Food is legendary among beauty editors.
Weleda Skin Food, $10
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