Any natural beauty enthusiast has dreamed of walking into a department store and seeing a whole counter dedicated to natural beauty. This wish has come true with Nordstrom Natural Beauty Outposts opening in select stores.

Once upon a time we were left with a selection of the most basic natural items or, worse, pseudo naturals when shopping larger retailers. Well, leave it to department store rockstar, Nordstrom, to be the first to offer not one or two, but a sexy, solid variety of natural beauty products in-store. Starting this year, Nordstrom Natural Beauty Outposts will be popping up in select California stores.

Demand for natural beauty has grown exponentially in the past few years. Organic skincare sales clocked in at more than $3 billion in 2015 and are predicted to reach $13 billion by 2018. While millennials make up the largest portion of women shopping for natural beauty, almost half of women say they are interested in purchasing organic beauty items.

To meet the increasing demand for safer products, Nordstrom shoppers can now shop natural beauty in-store. Wondering what you’ll find at the Nordstrom Natural Beauty Outposts? The likes of Tata Harper, Odacité, Kypris, and Herbivore Botanicals.

Our Favorite Picks From Nordstrom Natural Beauty Outposts

1. Herbivore Botanicals Brighten Pineapple Enzyme + Gemstone Instant Glow Mask

Fruit enzymes are the gentlest way to go about getting your glow on. Brazilian white tourmaline gemstone brightens skin, rice powder softens, and rose water tones and calms. Use weekly for a healthy, gorgeous complexion.

2. Herbivore Botanicals Lapis Facial Oil

Searching for your new favorite facial oil? Look no further, this is it! Blue tansy and squalene moisturize, while toning down redness and inflammation. Jasmine sambac oil improves elasticity and tone.

3. Kypris Pot of Shade Heliotropic Treatment Primer SPF 30

Skin primer and mineral sun protection in one. Sweet iris stem cells plump up skin, tamanu and sunflower oils hydrate, and algae softens and soothes. A daily must have.

4. Kypris Cleanser Concentrate

Everyone needs an oil cleanser in their beauty kit. It is simply the best at removing makeup and gives a gentle clean, perfect for all skin types. This beauty contains baobab oil, great for keeping pores clear and giving skin a youthful look.

5. Odacité Pf + O Passion Fruit-Orange Dull Skin Facial Serum Concentrate

We could all use a bit of dullness relief right about now. Use this concentrated serum, either on its own or added to your daily moisturizer, to restore radiance and support skin. Passionfruit boosts glow, while orange oil firms and tones.

6. Tata Harper Revitalizing Body Oil

Keep skin soft and supple with this fast absorbing oil blend. Improves skin’s elasticity while it moisturizes.

7. Tata Harper Aromatic Irritability Treatment

Get your nerves under control with this little rollerball aromatherapy. Small but mighty, this baby packs a powerful punch with potent essential oils. Carry one with you to relieve stress on the go.

Topanga, Del Amo Fashion Center, Santa Anita, The Grove, and Santa Monica Place locations will include the outposts as of January 12, 2017. Not in CA? No problem! You can shop Nordstrom’s natural beauty online.

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You wouldn’t use the wrong color foundation or concealer, right? Of course not! Choosing the best eyeshadow shade is just as important. Good thing there are pretty picks for every complexion.

The wrong color shadow can make any makeup look go wrong. You want your beautiful peepers to pop, not blend into the background. Or worse, make you look sick or hay feverish.

Staying with eyeshadow colors that match your skin tone is always flattering and gives a natural look. But sometimes you want your eyes to wow. Knowing which are the best eyeshadow shades for your skin tone will help you create a statement eye that rocks.

Best Eyeshadow Shades for 6 Different Skin Tones

1. Dark Skin

Alima Pure Luminous Shimmer Eyeshadow in Chai

Rose gold hues look fabulous on dark skin, adding subtle shimmer. For more intensity, create a metallic look by applying with a damp brush.

2. Medium Dark Skin

RMS Beauty Swift Shadows Collection in EM-64 Enchanted Moonlight

Berries on medium dark skin helps to brighten eyes. Don’t be afraid of deep hues. Pale or ashy shades tend to make this skin tone look dull.

3. Olive Skin

Alima Pure Luminous Shimmer Eyeshadow in Smoke

Greens and teal bring out the best in olive skin tones. This almost grey blue-green adds a smoky look that can also be worn as a neutral.

4. Tan Skin

Alima Pure Pressed Eyeshadow in Instinct

Bronzy golds and copper are perfect on tan skin, and work well with either warm or cool undertones. Try this bronze hue for creamy texture and depth.

5. Fair Skin with Warm Undertones

HAN Eyeshadow in Charming

Café au lait shades work well on this skin tone. A silky warm tone keeps the look natural while emphasizing all eye colors.

6. Fair Skin with Cool Undertones

Kjaer Weis Eye Shadow in Charmed

Pink shadows on fair skin tend to bring out the redness is eyes and purples can cause a bruised-looking effect. Not the look you are going for. Stick with light and warm hues, like taupe, greige, and champagne, to steer clear of looking tired or ill.

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Great business ideas often start small and simple, with a vision to make the world a better place. For Poéthique founder, Gayatri Pradhan, that vision was to deliver safe plant-based ingredients that could replicate the sensory experience of high-end skincare products, but without the toxic ingredients still all-too-common in our skincare industry.

As a former marketing executive for global skincare brands, Pradhan knew there were opportunities to create a better product. Not just an opportunity—a dire need to do it. And it helped that she was a trained pharmaceutical chemist who understood that making a natural, green product that was not only effective, but also felt great to use, involved a whole lot more than simply blending together ingredients–there’s an art and a science to the natural stuff as much as the conventional.

“We’ve come such a long way with our knowledge of natural ingredients,” says Pradhan.

“People think of cultural beauty wisdom as this old, ancient thing, almost like a static body that hasn’t grown or evolved in years. But every passing generation adds something new,” she says. “This body of knowledge is a living, growing thing. And so I knew there had to be a way to get to a product that was green but also felt great.”

Pradhan’s Indian heritage, passion for travel, and thirst for learning converged into a singular goal of trying to bring the best and most effective natural ingredients into products that actually work. With her keen eye for design, she has been able to bring to life a brand that stands out from the earthy and minimalist brands that abound in natural skincare and addresses the growing concerns of consumers from all walks of life, but in particular, millennials and their quest for clean, green beauty that performs as well as or better than the conventional products beloved by their mothers and grandmothers.

“Our generation is interested in all natural lifestyles in such a paradigm-shifting way. There had to be other green chemistry experts out there that recognized this and wanted to add to this body of knowledge.”

One such expert is Patricia Mirabito, a cosmetic chemist with more than twenty years of formulation experience under her belt, and the key formulator for Poéthique’s unique products. As director of her own chemistry laboratory in Buenos Aires, her reputation has been built through her sought-after work for the region’s most respected dermatologists.

Patricia had always been interested in active natural ingredients and botanical extracts and used them extensively in her practice. However, prior to Poéthique, she typically blended these botanical ingredients with standard cosmetic industry chemicals, thinking of them as necessities to get to a stable product that worked and felt great to use.

“There are some synthetic ingredients that have become such an industry standard that I wasn’t sure it could be done without them,” says Mirabito.

The problem is that the indulgent experience of luxury conventional skincare brands typically comes from silicones and other polymers that are often composed of the same materials that go into making plastic goods like tires, bags, etc. They may offer temporary results, but don’t deliver the long-term benefits of natural plant-based ingredients. And several of these non-natural ingredients are being exposed as harmful toxins, impacting human endocrine systems through both acute and cumulative exposure.

With Poéthique, Mirabito’s natural instincts for problem solving were tuned to formulating a 100 percent plant-based product without sacrificing the indulgent experience of high-end skincare brands.

“I have so many friends that would love to make the switch from green beauty products but try them and turn back to their default non-natural brands, because the experience is just not enjoyable,” says Pradhan. “It feels like they have to take a medicine–but beauty and skincare is not a medicine! It is as much about the experience as it is about the results.”

So the duo set out to reinvent the beauty care industry relying on nature’s inherent beauty wisdom. While this is certainly not the first green beauty brand on the scene–they did have a specific task in mind. The twosome wanted to create products that could work across multiple skin types, across multiple climates, and that would layer well with other skincare routines. Consistently, they had found that many existing green beauty brands felt heavy and greasy to use, making them not suitable to all skin types, nor could they be used in all manner of season or climate. They knew their work was cut out for them – making something that is effective was a given, but having people go WOW! when they tried the product would be the hurdle to cross. Passionate about helping more people make the switch to clean, green beauty, they wanted their products to make it easy for people looking to make a switch.

It didn’t disappoint. From Pradhan’s early vision, the journey took close to two years as they approached various suppliers, consulted with other experts in green cosmetic chemistry, pushed for better results, and built prototype after prototype testing treasured natural ingredients from cultures all across the globe. Their search for unique ingredients took them all over the world – from the mountainous regions of Peru to the sub-tropical rainforests of Australia; from the heart of India and sweeping Mediterranean groves to California’s lush valleys. There they found such exotic and powerful ingredients as the caviar lime, chock full of fruit acids, vitamins, and trace minerals, and wild plums abundant in vitamins and antioxidants. They also recognized the utility of well-known ingredients such as oats, olive, and jojoba oils.

 Armed with these ingredients, they formulated their first line of products, meant to balance skin health – a cleanser, serum, and moisturizer. As a new brand, they decided to launch the products in phases, using each product to introduce green, toxin-free beauty lovers to unique ingredients. The launch product, Poéthique’s Radiance Boosting Serum, is loaded with caviar lime and wild plum extracts and acts as a treatment to gently accelerate skin’s renewal process to reveal softer, brighter skin. In releasing the serum first, Pradhan wanted to showcase the uniqueness of ingredient, the high quality of the product that could layer easily with a person’s existing beauty regimen.

When product testers begged for more of the sixth round of prototypes, the two knew they had a hit on their hands. Their work has been validated over and over by the green beauty community. Users consistently rate it highly for effectiveness and experience, while bloggers love it and have called it their “new green beauty obsession!” Well on its way to becoming a cult favorite, Poéthique’s journey has only just begun. 

 “Entrepreneurship is such a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping ride,” says Pradhan. “We put so much passion and hard work and expertise into developing Poéthique, and we got feedback along the way to make sure we were going in the right direction,” she says.

“Once we went live, I was a nervous wreck! What if no one bought this? What if no one loved it? And then to hear the reviews come in, it’s such sweet relief and a validation of all the work we have put in–it powers us for the hard work ahead as we nurture Poéthique and the customers who believe in green beauty products that work.”

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What woman hasn’t wished for a peek inside a natural beauty lab? Better still, take home a to-go bag of the leftovers. Good news! This dream has come true, thanks to moss skincare.

Do you ever wonder what goes on in an organic beauty lab? And what the heck do they do with the bits they don’t use? I picture creators whipping up creams and combining oils. Studying lines on beakers and pouring gloriously gloppy mixtures into little glass pots. And oh, the scents would be divine.

Of course, this day dream also comes with me sampling the wares. A dab of this, a pinch of that, a few little items making their way home with me.

Lucky for us green beauty lovers, moss skincare has decided to share. THE L4B is an online exhibit of sorts, featuring the remnants of the brand’s “experiments, prototypes, and play” in limited quantities, never to be seen again. And yes, you can buy them!

moss founder, Celestyna Brozek, was kind enough to take us on a virtual tour and share a behind the scenes peek of THE L4B.

A Look Into THE L4B of moss skincare with Celestyna Brozek

Liz Thompson: How often do you create new experiments in THE L4B?

Celestyna Brozek: I wish I could do it all the time! The most fun part of my work at moss is creating and experimenting. Recently, my mother was in town and we made a ton of perfumes. These are currently aging right now and will be ready soon! THE L4B is veeeeerrry organic, and it is a simple way to share my passion with other people interested in the same thing. With that being said, the last thing I want is for it to become stressful, so I am very careful about putting any parameters or promises in place. I make new things when I have the time, energy and inclination. It is not very consistent and tends to occur in bursts of creation. Much like Nature itself. I am reading a book about oxygen now and it says that evolution happened in bursts, not consistently or evenly at all. So, THE L4B is very active, but in a very organic way. Periods of stillness perhaps..but something is brewing!

LT: What size are the samples?

CB: They are small – just a few uses. The novelty of the first use, the recalibration and rediscovery with the second use, the burgeoning familiarity with the third, some wistfulness perhaps creeping in with the fourth use. I emphasize that these are not “products” but little tastes or experiences. They are quite ephemeral. I sometimes wish skincare was like fashion (I come from a fashion design background) where there were collections every year and the brand/line was constantly evolving. Spring 2016 was passé as soon as Fall 2016 launched…. A hectic pace, but so much movement and ideas. Of course, then you have the opposite problem – instead of boredom, you have burnout! In skincare, people do not like it if a beloved formula is discontinued or altered. It is a lot more static, which I get, but THE L4B is my own little way of saying that I am a creator – I always have been and I am not ashamed to admit that I adore a little bit of chaos in lieu of commitment.

LT: So these are one-offs. Any chance they will eventually come to full sized life?

CB: A lot of times THE L4B has protos for the moss collection and I use it to get feedback as I tweak a product. So the final product will be in the moss lineup. If enough people let me know they love something, I always consider doing a limited edition run. Often, THE L4B products contain very expensive, or difficult, or rare ingredients that would not make sense to put into production.

LT: If I truly love one of the samples purchased from THE L4B, what are my chances of scoring one again?

CB: Since the test batches are small, the chances are pretty low. Anywhere from 50 on the very high end to five samples. It’s not meant to be commercial at all and perhaps isn’t very fair to the consumer. But we are so used to having everything we need and want at our fingertips immediately, and is that really okay? Sometimes, I feel quite guilty about how much I consume and how demanding I am–of perfection, of customer service, of everything! It doesn’t feel right. Maybe the experience of scarcity is meaningful.

LT: What types of products are available in the lab?

CB: Skincare, perfume, body care, maybe some makeup soon!

LT: What is the best way to keep up with the latest lab offerings?

CB: Sign up for moss emails and follow @mosskincare on Instagram. I may start a separate IG just for THE L4B and a separate email as well, but you would get notified through the moss media channels in that event.

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Think bar soaps are an old school skincare item your grandma used? (She totally did). But–a big but!–Bar soaps are a very valuable addition to any proper skincare routine for all organic beauty types. Inexpensive, effective, and look pretty dang cool in the bath too.

We are all about the multi-step beauty regimen these days. And this includes cleansers.There are cleansing gels, milks, creams, and oils. Micellar water and a wide selection of toners. Even special cloths meant to get face and body super clean. But most of us have forgotten about the good ol’ bar soap. And that’s a shame, especially since it’s more environmentally-friendly than liquids in plastic or even glass.

Pared down beauty is what it’s all about right now and bar soaps fit right in. They are made of few ingredients and offer a straightforward cleanse. Feel they may be too strong or leave a film on skin? Not when they are made with the best natural ingredients.

Here’s a selection of bar soaps that nourish and cleanse he skin, and look good while doing it.

Best Bar Soaps for Good Looking Skin (that look good too!)

Kahina Giving Beauty Goat Milk & Honey Soap. One perk of bar soap? They are often suited to both face and body. A multi-use shower staple. For dry skin, try this argan oil-infused bar.

Soapwalla Activated Charcoal & Petitgrain Soap Bar. We’ve talked before about the benefits of activated charcoal on acne-prone skin. Use this guy to balance oil and clear pores.

Osmia Organics Rose Clay Facial Soap. Bar soap too harsh for sensitive skin? This chunk o’ soap is designed specifically to treat easily irritated complexions. Creamy and gentle, it cleans and nourishes.

Osmia Organics bar soaps. Talk about bathroom eye candy. Bar soaps don’t get much prettier than the whipped up beauties of Osmia Organics. Choose from the selection to treat every skin type. My fave for a sink-side perch? Has to be Milky Rose.

Meow Meow Tweet Bar Soap. Love, love, love the whimsical design of these sweet bar soaps. The ingredient combos don’t hurt anything either. Can’t choose? Get yourself a Bar Soap Party Pack.

Pearl Plus Moisturizing Soap. Remember soap-on-a-rope? Yeah, this is like that only ultra-mod. Moisturizing with crushed pearl to add luminescence to skin. Looks like a hunk of marble in your shower.

Wary Meyers bar soaps. So gorgeous you may never want to use them. Yes, they are little works of art. But these bars are also free from nasties and cruelty-free. That Pink Champagne bar, though. Use or display, it’s up to you.

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Unless you are fortunate enough to have the likes of NYC green beauty shops nearby, you likely shop online. Confused over color choices? Mystified by skin care options? Perplexed with pricing? Here’s how to shop green beauty online like a pro.

You are committed to nontoxic beauty. Still, sometimes you yearn for the convenience of popping into a department or drugstore, picking up your must haves and perusing the goods. Green beauty is a vast market, with loads of beautiful brands and high performance products to choose from. And the best way to go about scoring those items is shopping online.

Shop Green Beauty Online Like a Pro

Go to the green. First things first, know where to shop. Yes, you can hit up a big online beauty shop that carries a mix of natural and not. But this method works best if you know exactly which products you are buying and that these spots have the best deal. For a truly natural experience, go to the all green shops.

Find your favorites. Shopping the store(s) that has all (or most) of the brands you use usually saves you money in the long run on shipping. So rather than going to the brand site for each product, scout out which online stores carry your beauty posse and stock up.

Choosing shades 101. Makeup can be difficult to purchase online. As if matching foundation and concealer shades isn’t difficult enough, colors can look off on a website. Here is a trick I use all the time. If an online store doesn’t have detailed descriptions of cosmetic colors, go to the brand site. Brands often do a better job of describing their products, so you can get a good idea of what the color will look life once you get it. Now that you know, go back to the online shop and add the product of choice to your basket.

Choosing skincare 101. This can be super tricky. It’s not like you can look at a product and know how it will work on your skin. In department stores we talk to the person working behind the counter. They are knowledgeable on the products they sell and can tell you which products are right for your skin. Guess what? Many online beauty stores have aestheticians at your service. The Detox Market, BeauTeaBar, CAP Beauty, and Eco Diva Beauty all have on-call advisors.

Ask an expert. If there is no aesthetician service, send an email with your questions. Most shops are good about getting back to customers. Better yet. Ask a green beauty expert. People who write about green beauty have usually sampled lots of products and are in the business of sharing their knowledge and opinions. Scout out an organic beauty expert on IG that you can relate to and pick their brain.

Try it out. Think samples are out when shopping online? No way! Samples are included on most green beauty sites at checkout. The Detox Market offers 5 samples of your choice for under $9.99 and Spirit Beauty Lounge has a $25 custom sample kit, a great way to try before you buy.

Check out the goods. Thankfully for the ol’ wallet, impulse buying is cut way down when shopping online. But it’s still fun to check out items that you may like while picking up your staples. I love the targeted pages on green beauty shops, like This Just In on CAP Beauty, What’s New on Eco Diva Beauty, Best Sellers on BeauTeaBar, and Staff Picks on Spirit Beauty Lounge.

Have questions on online green beauty shopping? Shoot me a comment, I’m happy to help out!

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Taking a trip to NYC this summer? Lucky enough to live there? One great thing, amongst many, about being in the Big Apple? You get to shop green beauty IRL!

Sure, the Internet has a heaping helping of natural beauty offerings for sale. All at the convenience of your sweet little fingertips.

But there is something about a brick and mortar filled to the brim with organic beauty goodies. I mean what teenage girl (okay, adult girls too) doesn’t love a spin through the local Sephora to peruse the makeup and skincare? And how much better would it be if you knew every product was safe and healthy?

Of course, it is always best to read ingredient listings to make sure a product you plan to buy is free from harmful ingredients. Stores you can trust not only take out the guess work, you get to touch and smell any item you want.

So, while you plan your daily NYC excursions, make time to pick up some green beauty beauties.

6 Best Places to Shop Green Beauty in NYC

1. Credo Beauty: A welcoming urban farmhouse vibe invites you into this Soho shop and spa. Credo carries all the good greens, from Acure Organics to Mun to W3LL People. Find the store at 9 Prince Street. Hours are Mon – Wed 11 am – 7 pm, Thur – Sat 11 am – 8 pm, and Sunday 12 pm – 6 pm.

2. CAP Beauty: This super girly pink shop and spa offers up the natural beauty treats you find on the CAP Beauty website. Pretty displays of big name organic beauty brands, like Tata Harper and May Lindstrom line these shelves. Indulge in bespoke spa treatments with products chosen from the store line up. Found at 238 W 10th Street in the West Village. Hours are Mon – Wed 12 pm – 7 pm, Thur 9 am – 9 pm, Fri – Sat 10 am – 7 pm, and Sun 10 am – 6 pm.

3. OM Aroma & Co.: Located in the West Village, Savor Spa offers skin care, massage, and makeup services with the brand’s signature OM Aroma products. Select your services of choice from a French café style chalkboard menu, then shop for skincare, body care, and soy candles. Located at 327 W 11th Street. Hours are Mon – Fri 12 pm – 9 pm, Sat 10 – 8 pm, and Sun 11 am – 7 pm.

4. Anthropologie: Yes, this clothing and home wares mecca carries a few green beauty options too. Check out Votary, Sunday Riley oils, Artis makeup brushes, Babo, and Cocovit. Shop several locations throughout the city.

5. Urban Outfitters: While you are getting your boho chic on, take a stroll through the beauty department. UO carries Dr. Bronners, Fig + Yarrow, Lotus Wei, S.W. Basics, Schmidt’s, and URSA Major. Shop several locations throughout the city.

6. Birchbox SoHo: Yep, the cult beauty box has a flagship store. Crisp, clean, and inviting, you can pick up such natural brands as Acure Organics, Vapour Organic Beauty, Plant Apothecary, Lulu Organics, One Love Organics, and 100% Pure here. Found at 433 W Broadway. Hours are Mon – Sat 11 am – 8 pm, and Sun 11 am – 6 pm.

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Beauty product marketing usually focuses on outward beauty. The appearance of skin, hair, body. But if beauty truly comes from within, shouldn’t beauty brands be putting more energy behind positive messaging on their product labels?

In the era of anti-aging everything, it is refreshing to see beauty brands jumping on the positive image bandwagon. And we are talking major fashion and beauty brands, here. Dove has been doing the whole positive messaging thing for a while now with its Campaign for Real Beauty. The campaign has included soaps imprinted with words like LOVE, KIND, and REAL, and ads of women of every shape, size, and appearance. Cellulite and all.

Another big name to on the feel-good message is makeup artist, Sonia Kashuk, who has created a line of empowering beauty products for Target. The boxing glove motif items are aimed at bringing awareness to bullying and social-media-driven ideals. Check out the campaign on Instagram.

Ok, so what about green beauty brands with positive messaging? Read your mind. Of course, there are natch beauty brands behind the positive labeling trend.

6 Natural Beauty Brands With Positive Messaging

1. Plant Apothecary: This line of straightforward skincare and body products help you regain your focus in a completely no sh*t manner. Look pretty cool sitting in your shower too. Just sayin’

2. Neom Organics London: A beautiful range with a feel good vibe. Catch phrases like GREAT DAY and BURST OF ENERGY prompt you toward a head full of good thoughts.

3. Lotus Wei: This floral essence line gets to the root of all your stressors. But the products smell so divine you forget it is anything but pure indulgence. Choose from products labeled JOY JUICE, INFINITE LOVE, and INNER PEACE to instill a particular state of mind.

4. Living Libations: An upbeat jam simply oozes from this cool brand. Brightly colored labels spell out sunny day product names. Who wouldn’t want to use something called EPIPHANY ELIXIR, LOVE WINE, or ZIPPITY DEW DAB?

5. One Love Organics: The sweet, baby pink label says “pampered” straight off. But with a scrub called BRAND NEW DAY, a cleanser named EASY DOES IT, and caffeinated serum with the moniker MORNING GLORY, you know you are in good hands.

6. Tata Harper Lip Treatments: Yes, they are super softening. Yep, they reduce signs of aging. But did you know they give you a little confidence booster too? Try BE ADORED or BE TRUE.

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Ever wonder how some women look daisy fresh under the sun, while you seem to wilt? These simple summer beach essentials will keep you looking hot while playing in the surf and sand.

You put effort into getting ready for the beach. The key to getting your look to last is some smart planning and using summer worthy products.

Prep items, melt resistant makeup, skin fresheners, and sun protection are musts. They’ll make your day at the beach seem like, well you know…

7 Beach Essentials for Your Beauty Kit

All Good Sunscreen Butter

1. Best SPF: Let’s start at the top. Safe and effective sunscreen is an absolute must when spending time in the sun. And when at the beach, make sure it is reef safe. Remember to reapply every two hours, or if you’ve been sweating or swimming, whichever comes first.

inVitamin Cleansing Micellar Water

2. Skin refresher: Hydrate and revitalize overheated and dry skin with micellar water. Tiny beads of oil make sure skin isn’t parched once you return from fun in the sun.

Earth Tu Face Dead Sea Salt Scrub

3. Smooth Operator: Before heading out into the sun, give skin a thorough sloughing. Also key to a smooth application of self tanner.

URSA Major Fortifying Face Balm

4. Ingrown hair treatment: Sleek, hair-free skin is a no-brainer for beach season. If you are still experiencing ingrown hairs on bikini line even with the best shaving technique, try applying a dab of soothing balm post shave to ward off those little buggers before they become a problem.

ILIA Tinted Lip Conditioner SPF 15

5. Lip color with protection: Lips get sunburned too. Choose a safe lip sunscreen to protect your pucker. Want color with your UV protection? Ilia Beauty has two delicious hues.

Little Barn Apothecary Coconut + Mint Cooling Mist

6. Body refresher: Natural deodorants are good for keeping odor at bay. But no deodorant can last through a full day of 90-degree temps, swimming, and sweating. Refresh your bod with a spritz of this body mist made with aloe, dead sea salt, jasmine, and peppermint.

NCLA Bikinis & Martinis

7. Perfect polish: What do you need to complete your look other than a pretty hat and maybe a new pair of shades? Perfectly polished tootsies. This shade ought to do nicely.

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Seems everyone wants full lips. But if you are committed to no toxins in your beauty regimen, how are you supposed to get a plumped-up pout? The good news: there are natural lip plumpers that are both toxin-free and give deflated kissers a boost.

You don’t have to go full Kylie, but a perky pucker looks good on everyone. What better way to show off your favorite summertime gloss?

Certain natural ingredients are effective in stimulating a plumped effect. Pure essential oils of cinnamon, peppermint, and cayenne pepper (ground spices work too) all work like a charm to pump up the volume. It is important to use essentials oils carefully, as they are super concentrated and potent. This is especially important when dealing with the delicate lip area.

You can go the DIY route and make your own lip plumper with coconut oil and ground ingredients. If you’d rather play it safe and leave this to the pros, choose from the following list of all natural, totally worth it lip plumpers. You may experience a mild tingling sensation after application, but it should be nothing too drastic.

5 Best Natural Lip Plumpers

1. Vapour Organic Beauty Elixir Plumping Lip Gloss   People Style Watch’s #1 Lip Gloss is ultra-hydrating to give a naturally voluptuous look to lips. Comes in a wide assortment of colors too.

2. Tata Harper Lip Treatment   A volumizing formula that not only adds a cushioning effect to lips, but includes Spanish lavender, said to inhibit muscle contractions and decrease the look of expression lines.

3. Suntegrity Lip C.P.R. SPF 30   Made by natural sunscreen superhero brand, Suntegrity, this lip color contains mineral UV protection, plus konjac root to reduce fine lines and lend a voluminous look to lips. Choose from a selection of hues.

4. W3LL People Bio-Extreme Lipgloss   Peptide technology and volumizing liquid crystals are what create an ample pout in this range of gorgeously hued glosses. Coconut and aloe keep things good and mild.

5. Baiser Lip Balm A nourishing balm with ginger and cinnamon essential oils to give a fuller look to lips. May be used on its own or as a base for your favorite lip color.

One way you don’t want to go about getting fuller lips? Sunburn! It’s important to protect delicate lips from UV rays too. To do that, choose from the best lip sunscreens of the season.

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