Get Your Green Face On: Best Eco-Moisturizers for Winter

by Katherine Butler on March 1, 2009 in Sex

If you live in a place where water likes to go icy, your skin is probably suffering. Trust me, I know your pain. You feel like you’re going to fall into a snow drift, freeze for the next thousand years, and wake up to alien scientists commenting on just how dry your face is. But worry no more! Whether your winter involves wind chill or lows in the 50s, we have the moisturizer for you. So treat your face to our review of these great, green moisturizers.

Mandarin Maximum Moisture by John Masters Organics

This fragrant, concentrated moisturizer is, in a word, outstanding. (Did I say outstanding? I meant amazing.) It absorbs quickly and doesn’t leave you with the greased-out feeling that you could cook bacon on your forehead. It also contains glycoproteins which “stimulate cell growth for long-term reversal of damage.” (Take that, sunspots!) And you can rest easy with John Masters Organics exacting standards. It contains strictly organic botanical ingredients. And no artificial products are ever used.

Nutrient Moisturizer by Juice Beauty

This product from Juice Beauty is excellent if you want deep, rich moisturizing results. It has a sort of neutral scent – the kind of smell that makes you think there’s something powerful and vitamin-y in the mixture. For dry, sensitive, or mature skin, this moisture contains replenishing organic grape juice, vitamin-rich carrot juice and essential fatty-acids.

Infuse Nourishing Multi-Vitamin Moisturizer by Pure and True

This was the most intense of the moisturizers that I sampled. In fact, if you’re suffering from razor cheeks (a loving term for when you get those winter dry patches), this is the moisturizer for you. I just traveled back east to 20-degree weather and got razor cheeks in what felt like a matter of minutes. (It was more like two days.) One application of this intense moisturizer cleared it right up. This product is free of artificial color, fragrances, parabens, petroleum products and toxic synthetics.

Green Apple Antioxidant Moisturizer by Juice Beauty

This moisturizer lives up to its green apple moniker by being amazingly fruity and sweet-smelling. If you are into natural fragrances, then this is the product for you. It is very creamy – use it sparingly, because a little goes a long way. It contains antioxidant-rich organic apple and grape juices. And it combines these organic nutrients with enzymes to even your complexion.

Sarah I
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 AM

I also have to put a vote in for Angel Face Botanicals “Chamomile Exquisite Creme.” It has been keeping my face soft, silky and luscious all through a very dry Arizona winter. http://www.angelfacebotanicals.com
Kari
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:07 PM

Juice Beauty moisturizers are amazing. The Green Apple Antioxidant Moisturizer just sinks into my skin and it has all those amazing powerful age defying ingredients like Q10 and alpha lipoic and DMAE. Love the light organic green apple scent. I’ve really reversed some of my sun damage with this moisturizer!
naomi m
July 1st, 2009 at 1:41 PM

I’m a huge beauty products-user and normally use Mac (cosmetics) and Chanel. I’m very picky and particular about what I use on my face. It has to be outstanding, or I just won’t use it. I have tubs of unused cosmetics and creams all which I have not liked for one reason or another.

I received this “Made from Earth” VITAMIN ENHANCED MOISTURIZER as a gift. I was expecting another product that I would be adding to my “˜don’t like’ pile. Boy was I wrong! From the second I opened the jar with the beautiful jar – it made that wonderful ‘swisshhhing’ sound when it opened.

When I put the cream on my face I was expecting it to be greasy and it wasn’t at all! There is an amazing skin-tightening and smoothing effect this cream has. As soon as I put it on, it sank in my skin, and my skin felt dewy and like a babies skin.

I think the combination of vitamins and anti-oxidants & skin firming really are a miracle in a bottle.

My husband told me the next day my skin looked incredible. When I looked at my reflection in the mirror close-up, it has a look now of smooth-glass. My big pores are diminished and it looks almost airbrushed.

I LOVE THIS CREAM from the Made from Earth skincare line! I will buy this forever. I’m 34 and plan on using this to keep the wrinkles and lines at bay.
miss k
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 PM

I used the Made from Earth “Vitamin Enhanced Face Firming Serum” for more than 3 weeks before I decided I liked it.

Initially I thought it was too light – but i liked the light scent. It reminds me off lemons. But I decided to stick with it and see what I thought after a month.

Now I love it. It’s light and has that whipped texture. It absorbs quickly and my skin is super soft. My makeup is going on smoothly and I even have rosey cheeks which I have never had. I haven’t changed anything but my moisturizer so I will attribute the positive results to this product. I like that I can use a moisturizer over it without it clinging to the moisture.

I would recommend the Face Firming Serum. Like any other I think you need to use the entire product to really see results.
Marciella
March 4th, 2010 at 9:19 PM

If you haven’t discovered ‘Made from Earth’ yet, their “Vitamin Enhanced Moisturizer” cream is marvelous. It’s worth every penny – a jar will last you forever since there’s no water in it, it’s a very concentrated and rich emulsion of natural ingredients. it heals uncomfortable dry patches anywhere on your body, it softens cuticles, it makes a great eye cream when my eyes are irritated by allergies.

It is a little rich and heavy for a regular face moisturizer for me (my skin is normal although it’s a little dry in the winter), although from time to time if my face is feeling tight I will dab on a little at night.
kristi
August 7th, 2010 at 11:52 AM

Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll look into the John Masters and the Pure and True. I would consider taking the Green Apple Antioxidant Juice Beauty Moisturizer off your list. It contains benzyl alcohol which can be very drying and is listed as a moderate hazard on the Environment Working Group page, (linked to toxicity and cancer). I stopped using products containing this ingredient and when I tried to use a face wash with the ingredient my skin broke out in bumpy hives. You should also look into emminence and Dr. Haushka, those are more natural. They are pricey so I haven’t tried them, yet.
kristi
August 7th, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Do you have a link of information on the Pure and True ingredients? It wasn’t on their website. I’m trying to shop for a new moisturizer but I need to know the ingredients first.