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It’s well known how excited I get when I come across super cool design combined with products that work, and messaging that’s not just hype. Enter my latest obsession!

Face Boutique was created by some savvy, hip London girls who went searching for skincare specifically for young skin with issues, and surprise surprise … they couldn’t find any. At least none that met their mandate for a great aesthetic, divine smell, formulations that worked better than anything else out there, and most importantly contained nothing harmful. Three years in the making with a group of highly qualified experts and voila! Face Boutique was born.

In April, Macy’s launched their Turning Over A New Leaf campaign and this Fall they plan to expand their natural/organic beauty departments starting on the East Coast.  One line they are adding is Pangea Organics, known for their pure formulations, sustainability efforts and cool (biodegradable/compostable) packaging.  It’s such great news that the demand for organic beauty products is becoming so great that large retailers cannot ignore it, in turn making it more accessible to everyday consumers.  Macy’s is currently accepting applications for Organic Cosmetics Beauty Advisors & Organic Cosmetics Shop Managers positions in the following areas: Herald Square (NY), Philadelphia Center City (PA), Downtown Boston (MA), Roosevelt Field (NY) and Paramus Garden State Plaza (NJ). 

Celebs such as Selma Hayek, Rosanna Arquette and even Paris Hilton, gathered en masse for a relaxed afternoon soiree in Beverly Hills over the weekend. Hosted by filmaker and legendary party-thrower Brett Ratner, whose house was turned into a day spa for the event, the purpose was to highlight the growing in popularity and newly repackaged biodynamic skincare line from Jurlique. No stranger to the organic and natural beauty industry the pioneering Australian brand has been in existence for over twenty years, but with a new look (understated and gorgeous) and a celebrity contingent who love it, we hope it’s poised to take the skincare world by storm.

I consider biodynamic beauty brands to represent the pinnacle of purity in the beauty industry. LA celebs are typically some of the first to embrace what’s at the forefront of healthy living and Californians in particular as we all know have that rep -

The ‘Goodbye Girl’ says a hearty hello to biodyamic herb farming and creates some wonderful, healing organic skincare and wellness products.

Marsha Mason’s publicist reached out to us last year and we rated an excellent sampling of some of the products made on her New Mexico herb farm, Resting in the River Organic Farm.

I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was truly impressed with the quality of all the products we got to play with, which included:

Healing Body Butter
Healing Body Lotion
Intens-Salve
The Family Herbal Wellness Kit- which includes a variety of wonderful herbal sprays that were surprisingly useful
Healing Hydration Mist

I had the opportunity to meet with Ms. Mason in her Manhattan apartment last year, and was fascinated to learn about her ’spiritual agriculture’ practices and how she got from being an award-winning actress to her farm in New Mexico.

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Unless you were born in the last ten years and never listen to music, you’ve no doubt heard of legendary Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie Wood - but how many of you know of his wife Jo Wood, organic maven and legend in her own right?

Used to traveling to far-flung, global locales while touring with the band and long a fan of an organic lifestyle, Wood created this line to offer a [...]

It’s a well-known fact that I’m an organic & natural beauty junkie, not to mention lip balm addict, scented candle guru, and total body polish freak. So how do you get glowing and gorgeous in one easy step? Body Polish, body scrubs, body exofliants! In my opinion body polish is underrated and under-appreciated as one of the great beauty products of all time.

Body polish or scrubs are usually comprised of sugar [...]

If you’re the kind of person that likes their skincare straight up with no whizz, bangs, whistles or frills, you’ll love this collection of skincare from Farmaesthetics. Combining the best of organic flowers & herbs from local farms and packaged in chic apothecary style, there’s nothing impure in this line - just the freshest of ingredients.

The Farmaesthetics Cool Aloe Mist in particular is a brilliant multi-tasker [...]

With Organic Ginkgo, Gotu Kola and B3, this amazing Fresh Start Serum from Stem Organics reads more like a new energy drink than an elixir of life for stressed skins! We know that the biggest cause of aging is sun exposure,  followed closely behind by free radical damage caused by factors such as smoking and polluted [...]

I’ve been hailing the genius Natralox cream for months as a new skincare superstar - as it turns out, Victoria Beckham agrees with me.

As reported on the 2nd of April in the Lancashire Post, Sydney Morning Herald and via several other sources, the 33-year-old star has been attempting to fight the aging process using Natralox after she was sent some while in the UK. Daniel Maung, the UK distributor of Natralox, said: “The cream was sent to Victoria some months ago and we received a message from her people saying she loved it, so we sent more!” This incredible, natural cream contains four key ingredients that are proven to reduce signs of aging by up to 50% in 4wks.