As I already found out, organic and natural cosmetic seems great and I don't use any other at all. It's friendly to my skin, efficient and enjoyable, and regarding ingredients, healthy. After I've explored the cosmetic (I'm still exploring it, also in the direction of buying high quality and pure ingredients for home made cosmetic) I continue with hygiene products, household cleaning, dishwashing and laundry, the next step would be personal hygiene textile (underwear, towels ...), baby products ... and so on. And food of course (this will be a special topic some other time, including home production ...) Since I've discovered some great products I will put here some references for cosmetic and cleaning.
Organic and natural cosmetic:
Akamuti. So far, definitely the best. I've been using the first set of products I ordered and I couldn't be more impressed. So far, I haven't found any better and more quality cosmetic in terms of pure (and efficient) ingredients. NO chemical compounds at all! Their body care products are perfect (body butters, foot and hand balms, soap bars) but I haven't tried other products yet. I'm also hardly waiting to try their raw ingredients for home made cosmetic. I also like their business model with fair trade elements and their packaging style (all products in glass pots with printed labels on non-glossy paper). Shopping: nice online shop, fast delivery to Slovenia, affordable delivery costs (from UK).
Dr. Hauschka. It's highly efficient, one of the purest (minimal content of chemical compounds). I especially appreciate it for encouraging self-cleaning and self-balancing processes of the skin. I especially love their face care and body oils. And I like their business policy, production process and quality assurance. Shopping: good prices - very affordable, good value for money. Good availability on Slovene market and very competitive regarding the original prices.
The Organic Pharmacy. A bit high class, I disapprove their luxurious packages (probably too manufactured and dissipated) designed very attractive of course. Great to combine with Dr.Hauschka, I prefer some of the "Organic" products to "Hauschka". Great intensive face care products (anti-aging, eye care) and hair shampoo. Some of the products contain too much of chemical compounds although it's still high % natural and organic and thus one of the purest cosmetic. Shopping: fast order processing and fast delivery to Slovenia, quite high delivery costs but still quite lower prices than in Slovene shops.
Living Nature. Quality comparable to "Hauschka" and "Organic". Product range suits me a little less than that of the first two. Shopping: great customer service in their online shop and free delivery to Slovenia for orders over 100 $ (which is no problem with their prices). But they're New Zealand manufacturer and despite great online customer service they have very uncompetitive prices on European market so they are hardly affordable.
I know and I've tried also other natural cosmetic brands. But these that I refer to have fascinated me with their specific concepts which other brands lack. Encouraging self-processes of the skin, sticking to the purest ingredients, fair trade, taking care of the transport, community business model, limited production, good customer service are some of these concepts that are unique to either of these brands and for which I like them besides their great products and prefer them to others.
Not to stick just to cosmetic, here are the two referrals to organic and natural cleaning products - I am very satisfied with products of both brands:
- Sodasan
- AlmaWin
All cosmetic and cleaning products I refer to are available on Slovene market (in online and/or traditional shops). But I usually (well, always if possible/available) buy them directly from the producers (in their online shops) since the prices are much lower (despite of the delivery costs!). Taking into account of course that producers are European since I also try to stick to them due to transport pollution of the global trading.
I will also collect references for other products (hygiene, baby, ...) and post them later after I have at least as much experience as with cosmetic and cleaning.
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Monday, 10 November 2008
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Hi there
Lovely informative post.
I do like Organic Pharmacy but found their products to be a tad expensive. Akamuti is good but there are others.
Have you tried either Anita Grant http://anitagrant.com OR Sheabutter Cottage?
They both have GREAT customer service and shipping costs aren't that bad. However, it's the products that are spectacular! Anita Grant's oils are the best and if you have naturally curly hair (I have blonde ringlets) then try her hair products too. As for Sheabutter Cottage's Shea Butter well it is fantastic plus she sells Organic Argan oil as well great for fair dry skin like mine. (sheabuttercottage.co.uk) Both are UK based.
Worth a try.
Best regards
Jackie Gressi
Thank you, Jackie! I appreciate your feedback and will definitely check your recommendations.
Great entry - thanks a lot for all of this info.
So what do you think of Lush?
I think they are good and for me, they are very convinient since they have a shop in Ljubljana.
As for household cleaning and laundry washing I use Frosch, however they're not organic, just bio-degreadable. I guess until something better shows up (or I become aware of) it'll have to do. Also, I believe that less is more, so I guess by using only two different types of detergens for household cleaning I am not a big chemical polluter.
@ draganatt
I was a fan of Lush before I discovered the organic cosmetic. Lush is not as pure since they use some ingredients from the "black lists" (check it in my older post http://virtualeditionofme.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-all-cosmetic-natural-or-is-there-no.html) although they state these ingredients as acceptable (of course they are not banned by international health authorities).
Frosch - I heard from friends it is much better than other well-known brands but I didn't check it.
I agree, using only basic types of household cleaners is better than having all range of these products for different purposes. I recently discovered and successfully tried the most universal cleaner - soap nuts powder (known also as Aritha nuts). You can buy it in Ljubljana as well (BTC Marketplace) and in Akamuti online shop. It is useful as all purpose cleaner, laundry powder (very gentle and efficient), dishwashing powder, ingredient for home made shampoo ... it's great.
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