3 Favorite Healthful Skin-Care Products

Reader Contribution by Jessica Kellner
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Here at Mother Earth Living, we’re no stranger to amazing natural skin-care products. We’re in the very lucky position to have many wonderful companies regularly send samples our way—so much that it’s hard to ever share all of our favorites in the magazine.

Here are three products currently on my bathroom shelves (or at my office desk) that have become must-haves for my skin.

Iwilla Remedy My Skin Glows Nourishing Cream

This rich, healing cream is light enough for me to use on my face daily, yet also powerful enough to combat skin problems such as eczema, psoriasis and rashes. It’s good for cuts and scrapes, too. This smooth and supple cream is made with a blend of health oils (sweet almond, aloe vera, neem seed and vitamin E) in a shea butter and beeswax base. It also includes skin-healing herbs and soothing essential oils: calendula, bergamot, Roman chamomile and frankincense/myrrh. Every Iwilla products is handmade in Brooklyn. The company is owned by two women dedicated to helping educate people about the power of pure herbal products. They offer private consultations, as well as answering any and all product questions within 24 hours. Learn more.

Everclen Eye Cream

As the parent of a high energy 2-year-old, sometimes I don’t get enough sleep. This means waking up with dark circles under my eyes (they say dark circles aren’t caused by lack of sleep, but it certainly seems that way to me!). Our friends at Everclen sent over a sample of their eye cream a few weeks ago, and it’s a morning lifesaver. It’s amazing what a great job it does of alleviating the look of dark circles—a few tiny dabs and a few minutes, and they’re gone! With aloe juice, lavender, green tea extract, and grapeseed and jojoba oils, it’s soothing and firming. After seeing what an amazing job it did, I looked up the ingredients on the EWG’s Skin Deep database—most eye creams that work well are filled with potentially hazardous ingredients such as parabens and petroleum byproducts. This eye cream contains none of the typical skin-care nasties such as parabens, phthalates, petroleum, dyes, SLS and fragrance—not a claim most undereye creams can make. Only a couple of the ingredients looked questionable: dimethicone and phenoxyethanol. Both of these ingredients rank on the low side of the moderate concern level for the EWG (a 3 and a 4 on the 10-point scale), and I asked Everclen about it. Both are used in miniscule amounts to help prevent the product from getting moldy on the shelf. What’s more, all of Everclen’s skin-care products have been tested in both clinical trials and by focus groups of women with sensitive skin–in both settings, the products proved safe and non-irritating for sensitive skin. Learn more.

Wild Carrot Herbals Soulshine Rosehip & Raspberry Seed Ambrosial Serum


 

If you are looking for luxurious natural skin care, this is it. Over the past few years, Wild Carrot Herbals has become one of my absolute favorite personal-care companies. This incredibly rich facial oil is made to maintain plumpness in the skin and to protect and encourage cell regeneration. With rosehip seed oil, organic olive oil infused with elder blossom flowers, vitamin E oil and the essential oils of Turkish rose otto, blood orange and Australian sandalwood, this serum is designed to protect skin from the elements and help it actually regenerate and look younger. It is an absolutely lovely, indulgent product, and it only requires a few tiny drops with each use. I love it. Learn more.

  • Published on Oct 23, 2014
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