Even if you’ve decked the halls and checked the lists twice you probably skimmed over our top three giftable kits below. These buys are like a beauty buffet for your face: you get to feast on a snack-sized portion of a whole array of potent potions. And the frosting on the gingerbread cake? Enjoy 15 percent off storewide and free shipping on orders over $30. So go ahead and gorge yourself gorgeous on this great beauty booty:
The Real Squeeze
Airport security always tries to hawk your too-big skincare. This year, just toss Juice Beauty Organics to Go Kit ($29) in your kit. You’ll find all the complexion cure-alls you need ( a soothing cleansing milk, lightweight serum, super yummy apple scented peel, plus moisturizer and mist).
Tin Fan
Does the person on your list with everything REALLY have everything? If not, this all-in-one vegan kit for face and body comes to the rescue. Saaf Face and Body Kit ($39.95) is a one stop shop for aesthetic emergencies. From lip balm to enriching hair oil, for head to toe pampering, just pop the tin.
Here Comes The Sun
Suki’s Complete Care for Youthful Skin ($29.95) kicks bad skin to the curb and busts seasonal affective disorder (just look at that cheerful yellow packaging) to boot. Inside, you’ll find all you need to get glowing: a moisture-packed cleanser, toner, moisturizer and face masque.
I have a hard time taking makeup products for face value (pun intended) and always try to reinvent them as something else: I blend blushes into serums for a natural glow, dot my cuticles with my heavy duty winter moisturizer, and smear bronzer into my body lotion.
Eye cream is no exception. Yes, I religiously pat three perfect circles on the delicate undereye area morning, noon, and night in hopes for prevention and to fake eternal perkiness. But I don’t stop there. This week, score a FREE regular sized Trilogy Eye Contour Cream ($44) with any Trilogy purchase (see my suggestion below). Make this product your beauty BFF with these alternate uses:
* Create a super sexy glossy eye lid. Looking like someone could shovel your eye make-up off with a snow plow because it’s so matte and caked on is not attractive. Avoid the frosted sugar cookie syndrome by mixing a teeny bit of eye cream with your favorite shadow. You can even coat a finger and blend over your lid post-application. Voila! Instant, gorgeous, natural eye makeup.
* Create your own anti-aging concealer. Do NOT become that woman with a thick half moon of heavy nude colored makeup smudged under her eyes. Vampire-intense dark circles are more seductive than this makeup mishap. Concealer is notoriously thick — combine a bit with this cream to get bright, glowing, wrinkle free undereyes.
Now that you can’t wait to play Picasso with your Eye Cream, I’m suggesting a purchase. Scoop up Trilogy’s Certifed Organic Rosehip Oil ($44), another aesthetic all-star. This is a beauty no-brainer and a total indulgence. At night, massage a few drops into your skin and go about your nightly businesss. You know that relaxed, excited feeling you get when you go to sleep expecting a visit from some holiday heavyweight ( Santa, the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, whatever)? This delivers that and more for your face. Look in the mirror and prepared to be amazed. It does it all (wrinkles, correct sun damage, provides a moisture jolt) – and is all natural to boot. Trust.
After committing mass carbocyde at your fam’s tofurky feast, put down the fork and try exercising your green thumbs with a bit of online shopping. To ease the overwhelmed, we’ve put together a couple splurge suggestions below. And as extra incentive, take 20% off purchases:
You’re the Balm
Order up this natural problem salve-r and get ready to bare all in your holiday party dresses. Trilogy’s Everything Balm ($21), packed with Omega 3s and vitamins, is like superfood for your skin. Baste your bod with a nourishing blend of power oils (jojoba, rosehip, and coconut) and rid yourself of winter roughness. The use-everywhere balm also works wonders on dry cuticles, parched pouts, or delicate baby skin.
Babies Right to Shoes
We were totally disappointed to hear that Disney’ll no longer be making princess movies. Let the legacy live on for your little one by gifting them with Bamboo Terry Baby Shoes ($20). The sustainable slippers are crafted from all natural bamboo fiber and cotton and come in three adorable shades (pink, blue, and white).
Sweet Surrender
You’re too stuffed from sweet potato pie to consider anything edible, but hear us out: popping one of these Fleur de Sel ($25) chocolate caramels will benefit more than just your tastebuds. Each bite sized treat is handmade from a single origin cocoa bean derived from a hybrid purchased on a sustainable fam-run farm in eastern Columbia and the too-pretty-to-unwrap box is crafted from recycled materials. How’s that for alievating some of that gourmet guilt?
Fight back in the cold war by reaching for some winter salve-ation. From a sea scented candle to rejuvenating massage oil, we’ve rounded up the necessary beauty booty for turning your hibernation station into a spa-like sanctuary this winter.
Below, our organic pampering clues for escaping the winter blues:
Get lit
When the weather outside is frightful, it makes perfect scents to reach for red flower’s ocean petal topped candle ($34). Getting wick-y with it will inject your home and lungs with a sweet, coastal aroma completely free of dyes and parabens.
Smooth operator
Skin shouldn’t mirror the Gingerbread house in texture. Remedy roughness with ample amounts of suki Delicate Hydrating Oil ($24.95). This vegan power product works to instantly moisturize parched patches without leaving a greasy feel. All skin types (including sensitive) can benefit from the earthy botanical blend of rose and apricot kernel oil – plus, it’s the perfect stocking stuffer size.
Shining star
Salvage your strands this season with an all natural boost of shine and moisturize. We love this leave-in treatment from John Masters Organic ($30) for glossing up locks without weighing down. Liberally coat locks with this treatment (made with organic kelp) to pump up the volume, encourage impromptu braid sessions, and keep locks lovely all winter long.
The Great New Color Care Range
Your favorite organic skincare brand now has makeup!! Juice Beauty, creators of the innovative, patent pending, organic juice-based skin care is the organic solution. Juice Beauty has done it again…paving the way in organic beauty with their high efficacy and authentically organic products.
Introducing Juice Beauty’s NEW makeup collection; ColorCare! Achieve the healthiest complexion on earth with every drop feeding the skin, leaving it craving more! This line is loaded with antioxidant benefits from the blend of Organic Grape, Blueberry, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Strawberry, Kiwi, and Cranberry.
This new Color Collection is filled with luscious Complexion, Lip, Cheek and Eye Color Products. Refining and perfecting. The ColorCare collection was developed with the highest level of organic ingredients, and meets the most rigorous international organic standards.
Try it right now and you can get a free 30ml Green Apple Cleansing Gel when you spend $50 – while stocks last!
With a range of Soil Association-approved, 100% organic skincare products, Naturaleve’s line is completely free of parabens, petrochemicals, and artificial preservatives.
Behind the Brand: Specifically created with a super-concentrated blend of natural and organic oils, the products in this line “melt” into your skin—which makes them ultra effective.
The Products: You’ll find a bunch of good-for-your-skin ingredients like Rose Geranium, Evening Primrose Oil, Pomegranate Seed Oil, Red Mandarin, Ginger, and Chamomile in Naturaleve products. We especially love the Multi-Task Rescue Balm with Mandarin Oil (it’s great for dry skin, stretch marks, sunburns, and anywhere you might need a little extra moisture), and the Rejuvenating Balm with Rose Geranium Oil, packed with ingredients known for their anti-aging and skin rejuvenating properties.
Bonus: We’re offering a free Sweet Lips Lip Balm to Beautorium shoppers who spend $30!
Evidence of spring is all around—but all of those newly-blooming flowers are so much more powerful than just eye candy. They’re also plucked and distilled into the perfect ingredients for your skin, so they can help keep you as pretty as they are.
- Honeysuckle. Widely used for its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties, honeysuckle heals blemishes and soothes skin, but it also smells great and works as a natural preservative.
Find it in: Suki Velvet Moisturizing Cream, Marina Cosmetics Sea Perfected Lipstick and almost all of the John Masters Organics products.
Marigold. Also known as calendula, marigold has healing, soothing properties, and it’s a great addition to a gentle cleanser.
Find it in: Dr. Hauschka Cleansing Cream, John Masters Calendula Hydrating Mask.
Geranium. With its invigorating freshness, geranium helps boost circulation and improve skin’s elasticity.
Find it in: Pangea Egyptian Geranium and Adzuki Bean Facial Scrub, Juice Beauty Organic Facial Wash.
Evening Primrose. Calming and moisturizing, evening primrose is a favorite for its fatty acids, which encourage cell renewal and help prevent aging.
Find it in: Cattier Smoothing & Revitalizing Serum, Red Flower French Lavender Moisturizing Body Lotion.
Hibiscus. The huge flowers of the hibiscus are gorgeous (and a true sign of warmer weather), but their essential oils also make a great moisturizer and help maintain a healthy scalp.
Find it in: John Masters Honey and Hibiscus Hair Reconstructing Shampoo.
Linden Blossom. The linden flower’s delicate blooms are great skin soothers and make for soft, touchable skin.
Find it in: John Masters Linden Blossom Face Crème Cleanser and Pangea Organics Ylang Ylang and Linden Flower Facial Cream.
The next time you admire your neighbor’s award-winning garden, you’ll know you’ve got your own prize-winning beauties in your cosmetics bag!
New to Beautorium is Trilogy’s CoQ10 Booster Serum, a radiance-boosting, natural elixir with Co-enzyme Q10, Tamanu, and essential oils for an antioxidant treatment that combats dull, tired skin—you’ll notice a difference right away. The special ingredient, Co-enzyme Q10, is a naturally-occurring substance in the body that is depleted with age. A relative newcomer to the beauty scene, it helps neutralize harmful (and age-revealing) free radicals, and since it’s a small molecule, it’s easily absorbed into the skin.
The new serum is a great addition to Trilogy’s other Age Proof products: the Age Proof Nutrient Plus Firming Serum, which includes green tea, licorice, and mulberry extracts to help even skin tone, and Age Proof Replenishing Night Cream, which works to assist the skin’s natural process of regeneration while smoothing fine lines and wrinkles.
It’s never too early to start preventing wrinkles…
A marriage between safe science and nature, Saaf blends organic, cold-pressed botanicals with steam distilled organic essential oils to care for the earth as well as your skin. With products that are 100% natural, vegetarian, alcohol-free, non-irradiated, and free from GMOs, Saaf, which means “pure” in Persian, is the world’s first certified organic, vegetarian and halal skincare line.
Behind the brand: Saaf Founder Dr. Mah Hussain-Gables is a homeopath and pharmacologist, with an in-depth knowledge of healing plants—which she puts to work in her skincare products.
The products: Saaf products are all about naturally improving the look and feel of your skin, from the Complexion Boosting Serum, which combines purifying and sebum-regulating botanicals lemongrass and juniper berry to heal and clear skin while improving skin tone and texture, to the Eraser Body Oil, which includes rosehip seed oil and safflower oil to tone, smooth, and moisturize your skin.
Bonus: Beautorium is the exclusive online retailer for Saaf Pure Skincare in North America.
In honor of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, this week we’re putting the spotlight on our own gold medal winners—three products that should make your must-have list.
Trilogy Certified Organic Rosehip Oil: Loved by all types of skin, this stuff is like gold in a bottle. Clinically proven to improve skin moisture, reduce the appearance of wrinkles, and improve skin smoothness, it’s definitely worthy of a gold medal for multi-tasking. (We’ve written about Trilogy’s founders, too—click here to read more about what makes Trilogy products so great.)
Suki Exfoliating Foaming Cleanser: There’s magic in all of Suki’s products, and we love this cleanser for its gentle exfoliation (great for freshening the look of dull winter skin), and ability to improve skin tone, diminish fine lines and wrinkles, while eliminating excess oils and removing makeup.
Dr. Hauschka Cleansing Cream: Packed with natural skin-soothing ingredients like sweet almond meal, calendula, St. John’s Wort, and chamomile, this cleansing cream stimulates the skin’s ability to cleanse itself.
What are your gold medal products?
