Reduce, Reuse, and Revivify – Eco-Friendly Beauty Products for Spring
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Shopping sustainably can be tough, especially when it comes to beauty products. But sustainable beauty brands and products are flooding the market all the time. So let’s hype them up!
These are the best eco-friendly beauty products and brands that are breaking down industry barriers in the name of saving the planet. From glass packaging to refillable containers to all-natural formulas, these products help you make your self-care routine more sustainable so the earth can stay as beautiful as you are.
Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics
We’ve been obsessed with Lush bath bombs for years; how could you not love those colorful, sparkly, and bubbly explosions? Ever since the Lush brand launched in 1996, it’s been committed to producing all-natural products. It uses minimal packaging, and for some products, zero packaging! You can trust Lush’s organic, all-natural ingredients. On top of it all, Lush makes enchanting products that are hard to resist, from the adorable Shaun the Sheep Bath Bomb to the enchanting Rose Jam Bubbleroom Bubble Bar.
Kjaer Weis Cream Blush
Kjaer Weis Cream Blush features certified-organic skincare ingredients like sweet almond oil and jojoba seed oil that nourishes skin and gives a flawless appearance. This luxurious blush won the Byrdie Eco Beauty Award for Best Cream Blush, making it the centerpiece of our list of eco-friendly beauty products.
A little rich pigmentation goes a long way! It comes in fabulous shades, like the bright Above and Beyond coral pink or the rosy Happy pink. Just a dab of this blush and your face will look bright and fresh.
No Tox Life™ Zero Waste Detoxifying Facial Bar
No Tox Life™ uses powerful but gentle ingredients that work for all skin types. This Detoxifying Facial Bar is vegan, cleansing away impurities without the nasty chemicals.
The not-so-secret ingredient, charcoal, naturally draws out oils and toxins leaves you looking pure — as pure as this formula. Oatmeal, mango, shea, and coconut derivatives moisturize and soothe organically. So, the Zero Waste Detoxifying Facial Bar is a no-brainer for beauty fanatics who love the earth.
Refillable Makeup From Alima Pure
A fantastic, recent sustainable trend in the makeup world is refillables! Alima Pure is a terrific brand for refillable makeup, so you can keep buying the blushes and eyeshadows you love without dumping more plastic waste on the global landfill.
You can find refillable pressed foundations, cream concealers, pressed eyeshadows, cream blushes, cream highlighters, facial primers, and eye pencils. Alima’s products have natural ingredients – like finely milled rice and mica powders – that deliver stunning results without harsh chemicals.
Youth to the People Polypeptide-121 Future Cream
Youth to the People’s Polypeptide-121 Future Cream nourishes your skin and the planet. It’s made with peptides, plant proteins, and ceramides to deliver supreme hydration that don’t harm the environment.
Named “Future Cream” because it’s the future of the skincare industry, it firms skin and reduces wrinkles with ease. Flax, pea, and rice proteins enrich your skin, giving you healthy and young-looking skin.
Kobee’s Lip Balm
As seen on Shark Tank, Kobee’s Lip Balm is an all-natural, handmade, and sustainable brand making exceptional lip balms. These lip treatments are made with beeswax, sunflower seed oil, mango butter, and coconut oil. And that’s it! It’s a simple but strong formula that outperforms other brands.
Find yummy flavors like pina colada, mai tai punch, coconut vanilla, and peppermint. Kobee recently expanded its product line to give us even more eco-friendly products, like a lip scrub, neck butter, cuticle butter, lip mask, and hand salve.
Biossance Squalane + Marine Algae Eye Cream
Biossance makes skincare simple and effective, powered by its hero ingredient, squalane—a weightless, hydrating oil that replenishes and protects.
Their bestselling Squalane + Marine Algae Eye Cream will make you a believer in the mystical ingredients. The cream uplifts your eyes to make you look more well-rested than Sleeping Beauty. The whipped, buttery texture absorbs quickly for rich hydration and rejuvenates the skin for that glowing look we alllll love.
The Earthling Co. Shampoo Bar for Volume and Strength
The average American goes through 11 shampoo bottles each year. If you buy big bottles, like most of us do, that’s a ton of plastic just to keep your hair clean. That’s why we’re making the switch to The Earthling Co. Shampoo Bars.
These ingenious shampoo bars eliminate plastic waste while strengthening and volumizing your hair for more luxurious, healthy locks. We know, we know. It’s tough to say goodbye to a lifetime habit of using shampoo bottles. But The Earthling Co.’s Shampoo Bars lather fast and are oh-so luxe. So, after just one shower, you’ll forget all about those pesky plastic bottles.
Herbivore Botanicals
Herbivore Botanicals is at the forefront of sustainable innovation The company makes clinically effective, plant-powered products, with only natural formulas. It promises to give you gentle products without sacrificing results, proving that the beauty industry can be kind to the environment.
Herbivore Botanicals’ product line features gorgeous glass bottles that are designed for reuse, aligning with their commitment to sustainability. The glass can be recycled many times over, unlike plastic. They also use wooden tops, ensuring the packaging is as sustainable as their formulas.
RMS Beauty Sustainable Products
Founded by master makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift, RMS Beauty is revolutionizing the beauty industry with its commitment to clean, high-performance cosmetics.
With a health-first mindset and sustainable vision ahead, this company creates quality products you can use with confidence. Our favorite products include Liplights Cream Lip Gloss-Chameleon and the SunCoverup Super Tint Broad Spectrum SPF 50 Sunscreen, both of which hydrate and protect.
True Botanicals
True Botanicals transforms familiar ingredients into powerful, results-driven skincare. Blending nutrient-rich botanicals with soothing aromatherapy, they will help you give your skin – and soul – some much-needed TLC.
Now, your skincare routine will be the most soothing part of your day. Check out their wonderful products like Ginger Turmeric Cleansing Balm or the SuperSEA Firming & Lifting Treatment. Like Herbivore Botanicals, all the products come in glass containers, elevating your skincare routine while doing the planet a solid.
Drunk Elephant Refills
Drunk Elephant is redefining skincare with their strong focus on sustainability and skin health. Their cruelty-free, often vegan products are free from the ‘Suspicious Six’—essential oils, drying alcohols, silicones, chemical sunscreens, fragrances/dyes, and SLS—for pure, effective results.
Drunk Elephant uses recyclable plastic packaging, but the line of refillable products is the real treat for eco-warriors. You can get refills for polypeptide creams, whipped skin creams, and repair creams, keeping your skin luminous without all the plastic packaging.
Tata Harper Skincare
This posh brand looks like what you find in upscale hotel rooms, but delivers 100x the quality. Tata Harper believes “More Ingredients. More Results” so it loads up each product with oodles of enriching ingredients. The product line includes over 300 raw ingredients, such as fermented giant bamboo, edelweiss stem cells, and African wild grapes.
Instead of 10% premium ingredients and 90% fillers, Tata Harper’s formulas feature 100% effective ingredients. Try Tata Harper’s Resurfacing Serum, Regenerating Cleanser, or Calming Creme to experience the difference.
