Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ingredients to avoid, organic beauty products, safe beauty products, toxic ingredients in beauty products, www.futurenatural.com
It recently came to my attention that there are still a huge number of us who are not sure what ingredients are particularly toxic in our personal care products. Given that there is very little oversight or regulation within the industry, we owe it to ourselves to get armed with how to make well-informed buying decisions. Learn this checklist and eliminate these 25 toxic chemicals from your beauty arsenal, and you’ll be off to a flying start with making safer, healthier choices. Oh, and if you have any you want to add, by all means share! (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: organic beauty products, natural makeup, Josie Maran, sephora, organic cosmetics, josie maran cosmetics, www.futurenatural.com, fashion's night out
The fashion industry is in hyper drive with the lead up to Fashion’s Night Out (September 10th) and the whole industry is buzzing with excitement and anticipation, but let’s not forget… it’s Beauty’s Night Out too! (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: organic beauty products, futurenatural, fall beauty, Alima, josie maran cosmetics, rms beauty, tarte cosmetics, fall 2010 beauty trends, organic & natural cosmetics, vapour organic beauty
The new Fall face seen all over the runways this year makes a return to fuss-free and low maintenance with neutrals, earth tones, and a light-handed approach to application dominating. Creating a no makeup look using organic & natural cosmetics, without looking like you’re wearing nothing, isn’t quite as simple as it sounds, so here’s what you’ll need… (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ali hewson, bono, louis vuitton, edun, ethical fashion, fair trade fashion
This is a beauty blog, yes, but every once in a while comes along a piece of news that’s too huge not to bring it to your attention. Direct from WWD Eye Scoop and written by Miles Socha: Bono and his wife Ali Hewson are starring in a new ad campaign for Louis Vuitton, the first time a label other than Vuitton is getting a fashion credit.
Instead of Vuitton, the two wear Edun, the ethical clothing label they founded in 2005 to encourage trade with Africa, and in which LVMH took a 49 percent stake last year. What’s more, Hewson totes a handbag co-designed by Edun and Vuitton that comes dangling with a special charm that is the French firm’s first made-in-Africa product. (It’s also sold separately.) (more…)
Filed under: BATH+BODY | Tags: alexandra balahoutis, botanical perfume, botanical perfumery, organic beauty products, organic fragrance, organic perfume, si perfumes, Strange Invisible Perfumes, www.futurenatural.com
“The art of perfumery begins with the art of distilling essences. The perfumer then arranges these distillates into gorgeous, olfactory narratives. Making perfume without real essences is like writing a book without real words”: so says Alexandra Balahoutis, visionary scent provocateur and founder of Strange Invisible Perfumes. Get ready to ditch your old notions about organic perfumes and prepare to be stunned. The original vanguard of luxury fragrance houses that sought to distinguish real perfumes from simple aromatheraphy, Balahoutis has ushered in a new era of botanical perfumery (more…)
Filed under: SKINCARE | Tags: organic skincare, organic beauty products, this works, shea terra organics, josie maran cosmetics, www.futurenatural.com, sun damage, dr alkaitis, clarks botanicals, organic oils
A small dose of Vitamin D on a daily basis is actually good for us with studies pointing to a myriad of health benefits, but how many of us over-do the good thing and end up with skin at the end of summer that feels as parched as the cracked surface of a dried up lake bed. Sound familiar? No amount of hindsight will reverse the damage unfortunately but there is that handy little exercise called damage control, and now’s your chance to become an expert in it. If your cuticles are cracking, your hands feel like leather, your pout is anything but pretty and your skin shows lines where it never used to, these products will help restore you to plump, smooth and radiant in the same time it takes you to get dressed in the morning: (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: zoya, natural nail polish, natural nails, www.futurenatural.com, fall nail trends 2010, fall nail trends, butter london, sparitual, priti
If the heat is killing you, you’ve consumed enough iced tea to fill a swimming pool, and the sight of too many romper suits and roman sandals has you almost swearing off both for life… take comfort in knowing that Fall is just around the corner. It’s early days yet but no time like the present to check out the Fall nail trends and line yourself up a cheap, fun and easy way to help update your wardrobe over the coming months. Zoya Carrie Ann (a bright, fire engine red shimmer), was declared by Rachel Zoe one of the must-have shades for Fall and I concur, but to that I’d add Zoya Shawn (a grass-green hue that is a dead-ringer for a wheatgrass shot), and Zoya Kelly (an uber chic, mid-warm gray/lilac that’s an instant classic). (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: organic skincare, organic beauty products, organic beauty, organic ingredients, www.futurenatural.com, kombucha, scientific organics, emerginC
Kombucha became a health phenomenon about 5yrs ago with converts swearing by its many health benefits. A fermented tea that yields a culture of body enhancing acids (amino, malic, usnic and more…), as well as vitamins B, C, probiotics and enzymes in spades, it’s definitely an acquired taste. Considered disgusting to some (I personally love it), there’s nothing unpalatable about this new line of organic skincare from emerginC called Scientific Organics. A fusion of the latest breakthroughs in skincare as well as potent, proven botanicals and marine extracts, the products contain powerhouse ingredients such as grape stem cells, spirulina, goji berry, white & green teas, seaweed, aloe vera and pine bark extract, as well as Kombucha. (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: carter smith, caudalie premier cru, elle magazine, euoko, julia roberts, julia roberts on botox, kahina giving beauty serum, organic beauty products, suki bio c 10% serum, sunday riley bionic, the botox trend, www.futurenatural.com
It’s one thing to take pride in your appearance but another entirely to erase all signs of aging. While there’s a healthy dose of women who celebrate how they look and are happy to age gracefully, wearing all the guises of their emotions and experiences as a canvas of their lives for all to see, there are also a huge contingent for whom a jab here and a nip/tuck there is as common place as brushing their teeth. How refreshing then to hear Julia Roberts comment in Elle Magazine on the botox/plastic surgery trend in Hollywood: (more…)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: natural skincare, organic beauty products, www.futurenatural.com, sunday riley, sunday riley skincare, native american botanicals, NV-5 Ageless Complex
With names like Bionic, Cashmere SPF30, Ceramic Slip and Gray Expose, the beautifully conceived and scientifically composed line from Sunday Riley is clearly no ordinary, natural skincare collection. A hot favorite among savvy, natural beauty consumers and buzzed about recently by beauty editors from Harpers, Vogue, W et al, each product contains a patent pending blend of NV-5 Ageless Complex, a rare mix of Native American botanicals known for their ability to promote cellular detoxification, rejuvenation, and healing through a unique combination of uncommon bioactives. Add to that anti-aging lipids, natural retinol, Omega 3, 6 & 9, wheatgrass, peptides, resveratrol, and utilization of the best technologies available to identify the most potent, effective ingredients known today, and this collection reads like a celeb A-list of the beauty world. The products are mostly oil-based but for those who immediately think ‘oil slick’, think again…. Suspended in a rare, dry oil absolute, once applied, there’s no oil in sight – just incandescent, smooth, plump, obsession-worthy skin. Writer :: Emma Pezzack – www.futurenatural.com: the best organic beauty products in the world.
