By Jessica Rubino | Photos by Erin Manning
beauty & bodyAWARDS Y
Delicious Living’s 2012
ou use them before bed and again at dawn. They’re in your bathroom and office, even rationed into 3-ounce containers in carry-ons. American women use an average of 12 beauty products daily. For the increasingly label-savvy shopper (that’s you), these products represent more than an everyday
INDUSTRY
INFLUENCER Dr. Bronner’s
Magic Soaps After 60 years, household name
Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps is among the most vocal organic– personal care advocates. In
addition to organic, fair-trade soap, shampoo, and shaving gel, the company recently launched a culinary coconut oil (great for skin, too) that uses the same sustainably sourced ingredient as in its beauty products. Brilliant.
BEST ECO-PACKAGING Pangea Organics
Pangea planted its seed-embedded packaging in the heart of sustainable innovations years ago and continues growing its efforts, using recycled paperboard, eliminating glue, and decreasing package size.
BEST NEW PRODUCT
BREAKTHROUGH COMPANY Andalou Naturals
What does natural beauty look like in the future? Get a glimpse with this sophisticated, surprisingly affordable personal care line featuring plant stem cells and other science-backed bioactives like probiotics, enzymes, and superfruits.
BEST VALUE
Sibu Beauty Sea Buckthorn Face and Body Bar. This detoxifying bar soap’s main ingredient is ultramoisturizing coconut oil. Blend in sea buckthorn at a price of, drumroll, $6.95, and it’s a steal.
The Seaweed Bath Co. Wildly Natural Seaweed Body Cream. This company formulated its fi rst products to soothe eczema or psoriasis, but its new lotions show the line is ideal for all skin types. They’re made with a handful of pure remedies, including QAI-certifi ed organic wild seaweed and Hawaiian kukui nut oil.
BEST SPLURGE
MyChelle Dermaceuticals Supreme Polypeptide Cream. MyChelle again raises
the bar for natural skin care, revamping one of our all-time fave products. Armed with a new antiwrinkle peptide, this even more reparative formula applies with the same smooth consistency.
BEST CLASSIC PRODUCT
Weleda Skin Food. Natural beauty devotees still crave Skin Food for severely dry skin. Its longevity secret? Maybe the lineage—skin care veteran Weleda celebrated its 90th birthday last year—and six plant-based oils and extracts, including calendula.
habit. Effective, research-backed products now support your ethos as well as your skin, hair, and nails. That’s why we’ve chosen these 18 picks—industry veterans and new launches—that show true beauty, from clean ingredients and innovation to business leadership and quality certifications.
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