Natural Beauty
Is Clean Beauty Sustainable? 3 Brands on How They Avoid Overharvesting & Other Issues
“Clean beauty” is a booming industry with a noble cause. The idea is simple: for too long, the cosmetics and beauty industries have used synthetic fragrances, harsh chemicals, and other ingredients that may be harmful to people who use them. The solution? Forgo the lab-made ingredients altogether and use ingredients sourced primarily from nature. Brands ...
Best Sustainable Beauty Brands and Products
Clear skin ahead! That’s your sustainable beauty forecast thanks to the newest crop of eco-friendly brands that have quickly become must-have additions to your daily routine. Thrive Market’s Senior Category Manager, Kristin Ratcliffe, has the pulse on all the latest innovations and says in recent years, consumers have become a lot more invested in understanding ...
Can You Get Collagen from Plants? A Plant-Based Collagen Explainer
Collagen is a popular supplement for everything from joint health to anti-aging skincare, offering an extra dose of the naturally occurring protein that makes up the bulk of your skin, bones, and muscles. While collagen is only found in animals, brands like PlantFusion are making it possible to enjoy collagen’s potential benefits while sticking to ...
You’ve Got SPF Questions, We’ve Got Answers (From a Dermatologist)
Remember the days when sunscreen was a product you’d only use before a day at the pool or a particularly hot beach vacation? You’d slip a bottle of something coconut-scented out of your beach bag, absentmindedly smear it across your nose and over your shoulders, and think you were covered for a whole day of ...
Thrive Market Employees Curate the Best Mother’s Day Gift Box
Mothers are a lot of different things to different people: they can be caretakers, advice-givers, best friends, heroes, and often, they’re the glue that holds a family together. Mothers also come in many forms, so whether that person in your life is biological or chosen, grandparent or neighbor, Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate ...
What is an Ayurvedic Beauty Routine?
What if you could achieve total wellness, both internally and externally, through one practice? Ayurveda might just be the answer. While Ayurveda is traditionally understood as an ancient form of holistic medicine, you can also incorporate clean, organic Ayurvedic beauty products into your daily routine. That’s where Banyan Botanicals can help.
11 Nontoxic Hair Products for Your Beauty Routine
Cleaning up your beauty routine means swapping out old favorites for new products that’ll get the job done—naturally. To make the transition to nontoxic and chemical-free hair care brands even easier (like choosing the best sulfate-free hair care products), we’ve done the research for you and curated top industry picks at the best prices. Have ...
Shea Butter vs. Cocoa Butter: What’s the Difference
As you begin filling your bathroom cabinet with clean skin care products, you might notice a few standout ingredients taking center stage. To moisturize and nourish dry skin, nothing beats creamy shea butter and cocoa butter. Both are derived from trees—cocoa butter is extracted from the fruits of a cacao tree, and shea butter comes ...
Go From the Office to Cocktails With Clean Makeup From WELL People
When you’re dashing from the office to dinner with friends, you need makeup that can keep up with your plans. Watch our video to see a simple, fresh-faced routine from Well People featuring a day-to-night look that’s easy to pull off. We’ll give you some of our favorite product picks, too.
A Clean Beauty Routine for Hydrated Skin in 5 Steps
If glowing skin is your goal, hydrate. Both the eight-glasses-a-day way and the skincare way with a clean beauty routine that’s full of moisture-boosting products. Enter ACURE and its Radically Rejuvenating skincare, made with different hydrating oils—like jojoba, evening primrose, and sage oils—plus other natural ingredients that make skin appear youthful and feel refreshed. Grab ...
Best Clean Beauty Products & Makeup Brands for 2019
The term “clean beauty” gets thrown around quite a bit, especially because the cosmetics industry is not strictly regulated when it comes to labeling claims and ingredients. This can open the door for a lot of confusion (not to mention a market saturated with questionable products).
Organic Skin Care Brands
So long, toxins! If you’re looking to clean up your act when it comes to organic skin care, Thrive Market is the place to be. Since what you put on your skin is equally important as what you put in it, we’ve done the leg work to ensure the organic skin care brands we offer ...
From Cleansers to Creams, This Natural Beauty Brand Puts the Planet First
Seed Phytonutrients is a newcomer in the natural beauty industry—it launched in 2017 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania—but this brand is already challenging the status quo of what’s possible when it comes to bringing better-for-you (and the planet) hair cleansers, creams, oils, and balms to the marketplace. Built around four pillars—the team calls them obsessions—Seed Phytonutrients focuses ...
Best Ways to Get Rid of Dry, Itchy Skin in Winter
Winter skin can be rough (literally). Just when you’re warming up to the onset of the colder months by donning cozy sweaters and enjoying comforting home-cooked meals, your skin seems decidedly not on board with the sudden change in temperature. Whether you’re dealing with flakiness or itchiness, red patches or tightness (or maybe all of ...
Lather Up With Thrive Market’s Body Care Line
At Thrive Market we care just as much about what you put on your body as what you put in it, so when we set out to create our body care line, it wasn’t enough to offer basic body wash and shampoo. We wanted high-quality products free from phthalates, sulfates, and gluten that really work—all ...
How WELL PEOPLE Is Pioneering Innovative, Plant-Based Cosmetics
If you think “plant-based beauty” means sacrificing the staying power of traditional cosmetics in exchange for good-for-you ingredients, WeLL PEOPLE is about to change your mind. This green beauty brand is blazing a trail in the industry thanks to three founders—an entrepreneur, a makeup artist, and a dermatologist—who are committed to using nontoxic, renewable, and ...
Well People Has Your Ticket to Glamorous Holiday Makeup
Between decorating, shopping, gift wrapping, and all the parties, the holiday season can sometimes feel like a marathon! That’s why we asked the team at green beauty brand Well People for an easy, festive look that’ll last from day to night. Stock up on these eight must-have products for everything you need to put your ...
Restorative Skincare While You Sleep—Alaffia Has the Natural Products You Need
If you’re looking for a youthful glow (while keeping things simple), Alaffia has an easy routine to help replenish your skin while you catch some zzz’s. It’s just three steps—a cleanser, a serum, and night cream—so it’s easy to repeat every night with minimal fuss. And you can sleep easy knowing this beauty brand is ...
Acure’s 5 Steps for Bright Winter Skin
ACURE is one of those natural skincare brands that has it all—plant- and food-derived ingredients, packaging made from recycled materials, plus a charitable program to boot. Now that cooler temperatures are here, we’re betting your skin can benefit from a little extra TLC. Here’s an evening routine featuring five brightening products to help you get ...
Best Makeup and Brushes for That Natural Look
Though makeup trends may come and go, there’s one trend we’re sticking to for good: ditching chemicals in favor of natural ingredients that are just as high-performing as they are good for our skin. After all, if we’re picky about our food and household items, shouldn’t these strict standards extend to beauty essentials? And here’s ...
What Is Argan Oil?
In the world of beauty and wellness, oils tend to be superstars. From DIY hair and skincare treatments to holistic healing remedies, these naturally derived serums can support a variety of self-care rituals. But while some may be considered “essential,” not all oils are created equal. Enter argan oil. This ancient beauty secret has finally ...
Treat Your Skin to Pure Botanicals, Backed By Science
When Annemarie Lindner couldn’t find a solution to her skin woes, she took matters into her own hands—literally. After World War II, she launched her career as a beautician and developed her own topical herbal formula. She formally founded her company, Annemarie Börlind, in 1959.
21 Best Summer Beauty Tips & Products
From bronzed skin to beachy waves, summer is all about effortless, natural beauty. Since there’s no better time to incorporate nature-based products and good-for-you formulas into your hair, skin, and makeup routine, we’ve rounded up the best of summer beauty. Get ready to turn up the heat with these 21 sizzling summer essentials.
Get the Buzz On One Beauty Company That’s Helping the Planet, One Bee at a Time
If you snack on avocados, apples, or hundreds of other fruits and veggies, you probably have a honeybee to thank. Unfortunately, the buzz about this insect population is it’s on the decline—the New York Times reports a mysterious plague called “colony collapse” has killed billions of bees every year for the past decade.