Natural and clean beauty products are having a wonderful spotlight shone on them, with celebrities and fashion models helping to set a greener and cleaner trend. Established and new brands are offering a huge range of fashion forward products, formulated with your health in mind. These are free from toxins, cruelty and pollutants, resulting in both our skin and the environment being happier. It is now so much easier to get your hands on natural and clean beauty products, and with the internet and magazines full of reviews and recommendations you can read up before you buy, which is exactly what I am going to offer you now!

What Are Natural + Clean Beauty Products?

Let’s start with natural beauty products. These are products that refer to skincare and cosmetics that are made with natural ingredients, all of which will be fully transparent when you look at that ingredients list. Natural products don’t contain any synthetic ingredients or preservatives, so shelf life may be shorter with some products (living in the fridge will help!)

Clean Beauty refers to skincare and cosmetics that are safe, non-toxic and conscious of the environment. They contain safe synthetic ingredients and preservatives, again you will find transparent labelling of ingredients.

Both Natural and Clean beauty products are non toxic, providing you shop from legitimate brands. You may find naughty brands who greenwash, implying false or misleading information.

Why Switch to Natural + Clean Beauty Products?

Because you can! It’s a little like asking ‘would you like this fresh, juicy orange to eat, or a fake one I made from goodness knows what ingredients? What we put on our bodies is as important as what we put in our bodies, so nurturing the outside as well as the inside sounds like a grand old idea right?

A lot of natural and clean beauty products are made with ethically sourced ingredients and use environmentally friendly packaging. Most conscious brands are sensitive to their environmental impact and actively work towards keeping the planet healthy and safe for us and other beings.

Non-natural/clean beauty products contain toxins, including parabens which are chemicals that are absorbed into the bloodstream and can affect the body’s natural function. These dangerous ingredients are used because they can be cheap and easy to get hold of. The toxic chemicals then get into our water systems when we wash, building up in our eco system through rivers and waterways, harming the environment. Double trouble if you ask me. We wouldn’t want to eat these chemicals so why do we put them on our skin?

Both your health and our precious planet will benefit from switching to natural and clean ingredients.

What Are The Benefits?

There are so many benefits! Natural products can keep our skin smiling, feeding it with vitamins, enzymes, nutrients, minerals, antioxidants and healing properties. So looking after our skin whilst wearing makeup is surely a win win?

Many ingredients that are included in natural skin care and makeup have been used for centuries, developed from ancient natural remedies that have been known for their incredible benefits for the skin. How amazing that their findings in nature have benefited us, we thank them for all their hard work!

The Best Natural + Clean Beauty Products

I have been a hair and makeup artist for 15 years now and for the last 7 years my kit has been filled with natural and clean beauty alternatives. I am so happy with the range and quality of the products I use (as are all my clients!) I now offer my knowledge and findings in 1:1 makeup lessons, teaching natural makeup application with a lovely selection of natural and clean beauty products.