Clean Beauty

Danny Seo is one of the creators behind the magazine, Naturally, Danny Seo. It’s all about clean and sustainability. Danny joins us with is picks for the best clean beauty products.

HOTTEST TRENDS:

1. PLASTIC FREE SHAMPOO. Did you know 550 million plastic bottles are thrown away every year from shampoo and conditioner? And just a tiny percentage of that is actually recycled. New innovations in plastic-free shampoo bars are hitting the market from brands like Minneapolis base HI BAR and mainstream brands like Garnier. The bars are different than bars of soap; it’s the solid form of traditional hair cleansers, but without the extra water and chemicals that makes it a liquid form. Just rub in your hair, lather, and rinse.
2. SELF HEATING MASKS. Traditional sheet masks come out of the package cold and slippery, which causes the pores on your face to tighten and the active ingredients in the mask to simply sit on the surface. Immunicologie’s self heating mask uses lava rock and minerals to “heat” up when you add warm water to the mask.
3. CBD FOR BETTER SLEEP. Unlike supplements that are designed to make you feel tired or sleepy (like sleep aids or melatonin), CBD is now being used to help aid in giving users a deeper, more restful sleep. Sleep Creme has 3000 mg of American sourced CBD oil that is designed to do two things when you rub the crème into your feet 30 minutes before you go to sleep: it eases any pain and tension in sore feet and the active ingredient absorbs into the skin to help calm your mind. Turns out anxiety is what keeps people up at night or prevents a deep, restful sleep.
4. CLEAN BEAUTY FOR PETS. Our furry friends deserve clean beauty, too. Probiotic rich products help the good bacteria flourish so you need less product over time for your dogs and cats. Probiotic formulations, in brands like Skout’s Honor, help your pets defend their own skin and fur from shedding, itching, dryness, infection and odor.
5. ANTIOXIDANT DEFENSE PRODUCTS. New from Korea is a brand called SCHWANEN GARTEN that is designed to be your best defense against aging free radicals. Like when you cut an apple in half and it turns brown, it’s oxidizing and being attacked by free radicals in the air. This happens to our skin all day long. Two Korean scientists spent 20 years studying antioxidants and this skin careline is a result of their research. The products bounce off free radicals from the skin, acting as a barrier and truly help stop the aging process. Also from Korea is SERUMKIND which uses actives in serums (the highest concentrate skin care comes in serum forms) with antioxidant rich ingredients like Chaga mushroom and sea buckthorn oil.