A few other nice things about Alba Botanica is that it comes in a 32oz. bottle that fits nicely on the edge of the tub, comes in so many amazing scents, and the company as well as their suppliers never test on animals.

You can also go to the Alba Botanica website, and read all the product ingredients and order online, or decide which you like ahead of time and save some time shopping.

 www.albabotanica.com

About Juniper Ridge:
Fresh from the Mountains! We wild harvest things like cedar from the Cascades and sage from the Big Sur area to make our outdoorsy smelling soaps, sachets, incenses and wild herb teas. 10% of profits are donated to groups who defend wilderness!
Whenever you buy anything you are voting with your dollars, and we will win your loyalty with beautiful products, by treating you respectfully and genuinely, by creating an old-fashioned family style business that takes care of its people, by demonstrating that profits and being green are not mutually exclusive and by putting our money where our mouth is in defending Western wilderness. And while this is all well and good, you should never confuse any form of consumerism with the real thing, so get out there and hike and smell the earth. Do something fun outdoors today!
The mission of Juniper Ridge is to create unique wildcrafted products from the mountains and deserts of the West that connect you with the spiritually sustaining experience of the outdoors.

 www.juniperridge.com

I especially love this product as it gives the perfect amount of shimmer to the skin. Most conventional “shine lotions” deposit chunks of glitter that I find cheap looking and not beneficial to the skin. Burt’s Bees Radiance Lotion literally reflects light to reveal glowing, radiant skin. I always apply this lotion to my clients before they hit the red carpet or get in front of the camera, as it helps to even out skin tone and give the skin a natural sheen.

Tata Harper is an inspiration because of the time, care and attention that she has dedicated to this line. After nearly four years of research and working in the lab, Tata is revealing her expertise and her commitment to what safe, effective, all natural and organic skin care should be all about. Some of my absolute favorites from this line are the Rejuvenating Facial Serum, the Body Oil and every one of Tata’s glorious Aromatherapy Treatment Oils.

Tata Harper Rejuvineting Serum
This rejuvenating serum firms and tones the skin, dramatically improving its appearance. Menyanthes flower is a powerful skin tonic which helps maintain healthy skin cells, while Narcissus bulb extract increases skin cell durability, stimulating the skin to defend itself against environmental damage. Maintain a youthful appearance and minimize lines and wrinkles with anti-ageing Date extract, and restore a natural glow with nutrient and vitamin rich, antioxidant Alfalfa extract. Exfoliating and anti-inflammatory Meadowsweet extract helps keep your skin looking dewy and youthful. The essential oils of Jasmine, Chamomile, Lavender and Immortelle blend together creating a rich floral fragrance and add their unique skin hydrating, nourishing and balancing qualities to this wonder serum.

Tata Harper Revitalizing Body Oil
Tata Harper Revitalizing Body Oil helps revitalize the cell membranes of the skin, increasing elasticity. Gentle, anti-inflammatory Calendula oil regeneratesand heals dry, dehydrated skin while fine, silky Grapeseed oil provides all the essential moisturizing elements. Arnica relieves swollen and puffy skin and helps soothe muscle aches, reduce inflammation, and heal wounds. Soothing, sensual Sandalwood is perfect for all complexions, and especially nourishing for dry and mature skin. The fresh floral fragrance of Neroli, a gentle but powerful essential oil, produces noticeable rejuvenating results on all skin types and is an effective and valuable ingredient of this revitalizing body oil.

Tata Harper Aromatic Stress Treatment
This product has been formulated to stimulate the body’s natural ability to relieve symptoms of stress. Sweet, honeyed Linden blossom is deeply calming, and tonic, promoting relaxation. The queen of essential oils, delicious, tantalizing Rose otto gently alleviates symptoms anxiety and strengthens the inner spirit. Bittersweet fresh floral Neroli is uplifting, dispelling anxiety, calming and soothing the nerves; it is said to help long term, chronic anxiety and relieve symptoms of panic attacks, hysteria and shock. The powerful resinous aroma of Frankincense deepens the breathing and relaxes mind and body, helping allay simple nervous tension, restlessness, apprehension and stress.

Read – CLEAN by Alejandro Junger and/or
Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet by Gabriel Cousens.

Get Juicing – Here is my favorite Green Detox Juice Recipe:
Thoroughly wash and combine organically grown celery, kale, parsley, cucumber, lemon and spinach from your local farmers market and run them through your juicer. Not only is this juice refreshing and delicious, it is REALLy good for you.

Drink Detox Tea – I am obsessed with Kumsi Detox Tea

Get Working Out – I love Yoga or even Bikram Yoga to jump-start my mind and body.

Relax – Take an Epsom Salt Bath which helps pull impurities from the skin, and relax muscles.

Move That Lymph System – Use a body brush daily.

Invigorate Your Senses – Spray Eucalyptus or Grapefruit Essential Oil into the steam of a warm shower and breathe deeply.

Do:

Reduce or avoid red meat

Avoid Caffeine from coffee as it is especially dehydrating and has the ability to block the absorption of vital vitamins that are necessary for optimum health.

Don’t:

Eat processed foods – Avoid products that have been manufactured and packaged.

Drink Alcohol – We all know how much havoc alcohol can create within our bodies. Alcohol really dehydrates the body while it has the ability to throw our sugar levels completely out of balance.

I know that all of this can sound daunting to most, but as soon as you are able to formulate a regimen that is right for you…..you will be on your way to feeling refreshed and cleansed. Your skin will be much happier too!

Persephenie Nanu Lei Body Cream

A wonderfully abundant body cream, rich in therapeutic moisturizing butters, oils and extracts, each ingredients is known for it’s restorative skin repairing, healing, and soothing properties. This formula is completely botanical and 78% ORGANIC. Perfect to massage all over your body from the tips of toes to the nape of the neck, you will be enveloped with a gorgeous sense of well being pleasing each of your senses. This body cream also serves as a beautiful gift.

Water Bobble – Make Water Better

This water bottle make a GREAT gift as its replaceable filter removes organic contaminates from regular municipal tap water and meets or exceeds International Standard 42 for chlorine, taste and odor reduction. Each bottle is BPA Free, FDA Approved and Made in the USA. Its Refillable, reusable and can be recycled. Bobble filter is equivalent to 300 water bottles that won’t go to landfills and has a Charcoal Filter.

Honoré des Prés Perfumes

Honoré des Prés is the first line of french organic scents designed by the legendary Olivia Giacobetti, nose and one of the world’s foremost contemporary fragrance composers. Honoré des Prés fragrances are completely natural and certified organic by ECOCERT. They include no petrochemical products or synthetic perfumes, and are free of coloring agents and phthalates.

Christy Coleman Makeup Bag

Inspired by living a natural life filled with beauty, eco-makeup artist Christy Coleman has designed and created this one of a kind makeup bag for green beauties in need of a distinguished, stylish and eco-friendly way to carry their own green makeup. This is a great bag to fill up with green goodies for on the go beauties.

Kora Daily Hand Treatment by Miranda Kerr

A unique anti-aging blend of Noni Extract, Avocado and Olive Oil to create the perfect rich, healing and replenishing potion for hands and nails. Ideal for re-hydrating hands and cuticles leaving them soft, smooth and renewed. Who wouldn’t want hand cream like this in their stalking?

The Emperor Of Scent

Nobody knows for sure what makes our noses work the way they do, not even the $20-billion-a-year perfume industry’s legions of chemists, whose jobs depend on appealing to those noses. So what happens when Luca Turin, a likable scientist who happens to possess an unusually sensitive nose, proposes a new theory of smell that promises to unravel the mystery once and for all? That’s what readers find out in this often funny, picaresque expos‚ of the closed world of whiffs, aromas and odors-and the people who study them.

Persephenie Nanu Lei Bath – Fizzy Mineral Bath Powder

Surrender yourself in a relaxing Nanu (Hawaiian Gardenia) getaway. Nanu Lei Bath contains Certified Organic cocoa butter, a natural antioxidant that smooths and revitalizes the skin, mineral rich sea salt, known to detoxify and replenish, and coconut oil, a nourishing oil, high in essential fatty acids that protect the skin from free radicals. This is a gift that will be sure to keep on giving…

RODIN Olio Lusso Face Oil

RODIN olio lusso face oil is the perfect potion that I cannot stop talking about. Olio lusso is made from a blend of 11 essential oils derived from flowers and botanicals. Applied morning and night, olio lusso is perfect for anyone seeking hydrated skin, and a luminous complexion.

Kusmi Detox Tea

Created in France by the gourmet tea maker, Kousmichoff, this amazing tea is truly invigorating. Kusmi Detox Tea is a unique blend of mate, green tea and lemon grass – it will purify your body and your mind! These tea bags are as gorgeous and the tea…..incredible.

Lucky Crow Gift Bags

A fun, creative and sustainable way to use, reuse and reuse again. Regifting these Lucky Crow Organic fabric gift bags couldn’t be more encouraged.

Now get shopping and enjoy!

To the top of my list for those of you who are searching for an incredible body cream, It is hard to describe how much I LOVE Persephenie’s Nanu Lei Butter Body Cream.

A wonderfully abundant body cream, rich in therapeutic moisturizing butters, oils and extracts, each ingredients is known for it’s restorative skin repairing, healing, and soothing properties. This formula is completely botanical and 78% ORGANIC.

Perfect to massage all over your body from the tips of toes to the nape of the neck, you will be enveloped with a gorgeous sense of well being pleasing each of your senses. This body cream also serves as a beautiful gift.

Ingredients:
Certified Organic Aloe Vera (Aloe barbadensis), Coconut Oil (Cocus nucifera), Organic Cocoa Butter (Theobroma cocao), Certified Organic Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis), plant based emulsifying wax, Aspen Bark Extract (Populus tremuloides) Certified Organic Pomagranate Extract, Grapefruit Seed Extract, Vitamin E, and a combination of botanical essential oils and absolutes.

Learn about how major loopholes in U.S. federal law allow the $50 billion beauty industry to put unlimited amounts of chemicals into personal care products with no required testing, no monitoring of health effects and inadequate labeling requirements—making cosmetics among the least-regulated consumer products on the market. So take control of your health and that of your loved ones by becoming an educated consumer. Make a point to find out what kinds of ingredients you should avoid in your personal care.

Learn more at The Story Of Stuff.

Reading labels, researching brands and visiting nearly a dozen stores to find what you need or think you want is exhausting. The good news is that this world of beauty is getting smarter, and there is now a trusted resource that consumers can turn to in order to find out how safe a particular personal product truly is. The Environmental Working Group has carefully researched thousands of ingredients and products on the market to form one of the most revolutionary and comprehensive online beauty resources. Regularly visiting the EWG’s Skin Deep Cosmetic Safety Database is a great way to stay up to date on the kinds of ingredients and chemicals your should avoid in personal care by providing you with the formulation details and the research conducted on each ingredient. The Skin Deep Database provides an easy to follow health risk rating system for each individual product that starts with 0 (low hazard) and goes up to 10 (high hazard). Whether you are searching to find the best and safest sunscreens for your family or a listing of lipsticks that are formulated WITHOUT Lead, this type of information is just a fraction of what this incredible online database will do in order to help hold you responsible for making conscious decisions when purchasing any kind of personal care product for yourself or someone in your family. So go ahead and try it out by typing in some of the products you currently use in your beauty routine, and find out what kind of rating your products have received and why. Searching for safe natural and organic products can be easy with the Skin Deep Database, and will help to keep you informed on how to protect yourself and the health of your loved ones.

Bella Floria

Founded by Emelyn Rodriguez, a former print journalist and a practicing attorney, Bella Floria Organics is foremost a consumer service site, offering only approved brands and product lines that are truly organic and natural. With widespread consumer confusion about products claiming to be “organic” and “natural,” (and a recent lawsuit by the California Attorney General against retailers and manufacturers whose “organic and natural products” tested positive for carcinogenic 1,4-Dioxane), Emelyn created Bella Floria Organics to provide consumers with a resource that does the important research that an average consumer may find too difficult or time-consuming. Requiring a full ingredient listing from each manufacturer, Emelyn personally tests each product and reviews each ingredient with the cosmetics safety database, and when necessary, she consults independent medical and scientific experts about safety and purity. The site will also soon feature Bella Floria Pure Living Magazine, a source of truthful consumer information, news, and green living tips.

Future Natural

“We’ve become really vigilant about what we put in our bodies – now you can be equally vigilant about what you put on it.” A very powerful statement from Emma Pezzack, founder and owner of Futurenatural. As trained makeup artist who has worked as a part of nearly all facets of the fashion and beauty business, Emma’s experience has taken her through many exciting rolls from fashion editorial, TV commercials and print advertising to marketing and sales for beauty companies such as Max Factor, (now Smashbox), Schwarzkopf and Revlon. After experiencing and working with all that goes into putting a beauty product out into the market and understanding what kinds of ingredients are included in most conventional formulae, she decided it was time to make a difference in beauty. Futurenatural’s goal is to cut through the clutter with a very simple and compelling position that makes it easy for you to purchase organic and natural beauty products. Though not all of Futurenatural products are 100% organic or natural, and not all of them use eco packaging, at Futurenatural they believe that doing something is better than doing nothing, and they support companies that are making the effort to eliminate toxic ingredients and processes.

Organic Beauty Now

Everyone at Organic Beauty Now has always believed in using organic and all-natural beauty products. So, when they made the commitment to carry the best all-natural and organic beauty products at their online store, they also decided to test how they stacked up against conventional brands. It’s just another way to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for. Lastly, it is pretty obvious how hard it can be to choose things like makeup online. How do you really know if that foundation matches your skin tone or if that shade of lipstick will look right on you? So, whenever possible, Organic Beauty Now will send you samples, color sheets, and product brochures to help you decide. Plus, if you’re ever unsatisfied for any reason with anything you order from Organic Beauty Now, you can return it free, no questions asked.

Saffron Rouge

Founded in 2003 by Kirstin Binder, Saffron Rouge opened its doors in Ontario, Canada specifically for the organically-minded consumer. A true herbalist at heart, Kirstin has enjoyed her studies and background in Phytotherapy (herbal medicine), which she studied at the College of Phytotherapy (a private university in England). After the birth of her 2nd child, Saffron, her knowledge and passion for plants, organics, and the environment led to the creation of Saffron Rouge. With the help of her team of experts, she evaluates every ingredient in every product to make sure they are pure. Kirstin only support companies that promote fair-trade practices, certified organic farming, and biodynamic agriculture.

Spirit Beauty Lounge

Founded by Spirit Demerson, Spirit Beauty Lounge believes that “Beauty Is As Beauty Does”. An artist, activist and beauty school dropout, Spirit Demerson has spent many years testing, mixing, analyzing and searching for effective organic beauty products and ingredients. Frustrated by the less-than-luxurious organic beauty selection available at natural foods markets and misleading labels at drugstores, she became an expert, spending hours obsessively researching ingredients, often mixing up batches of lotions and potions in her kitchen. Reading labels and memorizing an ever growing list of ingredients to avoid can be overwhelming. Spiritbeautylounge.com is a place where you can shop safe, knowing the research has been done for you! All of their organic and sustainable products come from companies who have clearly defined humane, ethical, and environmental policies ensuring the care of our planet and its inhabitants!

The Nature Of Beauty

Terri Bly is the founder and president of The Nature of Beauty, LTD, a premier retailer of the top natural and organic beauty products from around the world. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and the mother of two gorgeous little girls. Currently, she resides with her family in Minnesota, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of ingredients and a knack for sourcing incredible products that actually work. The Nature of Beauty was created out of a desire to educate the consumer about the realities of the beauty and personal care products industry, and to provide the consumer with healthy, beautiful, high-performing alternatives. Terri is always sure to read every label, research every ingredient, and maintain regular contact with the manufacturers to ensure their business practices and values are fully aligned with The Nature of Beauty’s standards.