Natural Organic Skin Care Product Reviews

Natural organic skin care is important to many people. Finding good products can be hard.

Here are some reviews of natural organic skin care products.

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It's a Greenfootsteps policy to only review products which are properly natural and organic. What do we mean by this? The aim is to help you, the reader, to find satisfactory products which meet high environmental and health standards.

We don't review lesser products because there are so many and we are only interested in the best and purest products, made with organic ingredients and following ethical and green principles in their manufacture.

Are there any such products?

If you look on the labels of many conventional skin care products you will often see the words "of natural origin". This does not mean that the ingredient is natural in any sense that most of us would understand. Cocamidopropyl betaine for example, is a derivative of coconut oil. It is used extensively in hair and skin conditioners and cleansers. However it is a chemically synthesised product which can cause allergic reactions in some people.

This page only considers natural organic skin care products which are (almost) 100% natural and which contain mainly organic ingredients.

It is virtually impossible to find products which do not contain some synthetic chemicals - usually preservatives, which is why we say almost 100% natural. It's not an easy ideal to achieve! (And there are some perfectly acceptable synthetic ingredients which should cause no-one any problems.)

But the aim of these pages is to seek out the very best products available today which are as near as possible to 100% natural and organic. Nevertheless, there may be people who find that some natural ingredients may also provoke allergic responses, so it's important to work out what works for you and your skin.

Here's a short list of ingredients you won't find contained in these natural organic skin care products:

Parabens, artificial fragrances or colourants, petrochemicals, ethyl alcohol, formaldehyde and urea

See Skin Deep for more information on why you might want to avoid those ingredients.

That's not to say that you won't find the odd criticism, but rather that you can be sure that all the skin care products discussed here are very high quality products which we've found to be pretty good or better!

Green People's Vita Min Fix

The scent is strongly of geranium, a sweet, heady scent which I'm sure most people will love. Perhaps some men might find it a little too feminine, though!

Most of the ingredients you could happily put on your dinner plate. There's olive oil, avocado and seaweed, hemp oil and sunflower oil to name but a few.

One of the really impressive things about the Green People range is that they include no fillers or bulking agents. Whereas many conventional skin care products are contain only around 6% active ingredients - or less, the Green People range products contain over 90% active ingredients. This makes them actually very good value for money. I've certainly noticed with my Vita Min Fix cream, a very little goes a long way.

I've never been a great fan of moisturisers and nourishing creams. Often they seem to dry the skin as you continue to use them - probably because your skin gives up on producing its own secretions and natural moisturisers as they are replaced by the product. I've not found that with Vita Min Fix. I've been using it for more than two weeks on a daily basis. My skin feels soft and hydrated and I've no criticisms to make of it at all as a skin product.

The packaging

One small criticism of the packaging is that I would like to see rather larger print on the pack of the ingredients. This wouldn't be especially easy to do as the pack is only 50ml. There is a full ingredient list on both the dispenser and the packaging. Slightly larger writing might help with readability for people with less than perfect vision.

There is a very small amount of synthetic preservative included. After all, organic substances are naturally subject to decomposition and deterioration. GreenPeople use the very minimum possible to achieve longevity of the product. The dispenser is an air-excluding pump which helps products to store safely without deteriorating.

Many of the ingredients are not only organic but also ethically sourced.

Vita Min Fix - (and the other GreenPeople products) have both Soil Association and Organic Food Federation certification. Their products are mostly also suitable for vegans and vegetarians and they've won a shelf full of awards.

One (possible) major drawback to this product from a green perspective is that it does contain some palm oil. Palm oil is that ubiquitous stuff grown on land often clear-felled from virgin rainforest. It is possible to source ethically produced palm oil (the Body Shop does this) so I will give GreenPeople the benefit of the doubt. (Although they supplied a sample they did not respond to queries about the origin of the palm oil, which is a shame.)

Much of the palm oil use in cosmetics is not so very ethical; orang utans and other forest species such as the Sumatran tiger are directly threatened by this pre-occupation we have with palm oil products. I received an email recently from a reader to say that Green People now use only ethically sourced palm oil - which is good news.

Overall, this is a very impressive product.

Update 2009

I put this review up over a year ago - and I still haven't found time to add more reviews - so I'm passing the task on to you, the reader! If you would like to submit a review of a product you have used, please use the form below. Reviews will appear on their own page. Please only review organic and natural skin care products. If you want to review a product made by you, please get a friend or acquaintance to do a review for you. This is quite acceptable provided that the review is truthful and not unduly "commercial".

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Organic skin care product reviews

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