This month’s Art of Organics box is all about travelling and going places. Don’t mind if I do! I say box but this month the featured products come in this neat little pouch filled with multi-purpose and small or travel sized products that are more than perfect for trips.
Meet Clean Beauty Essentials. The May Art of Organics Clean Beauty Box* comes in a Piece & Co Organic Cotton Travel Pouch and inside are Kahina Giving Beauty Prickly Pear Seed Oil Under Eye Rollerball (full size), BYBI Multi-Purpose Beauty Balm (full size) and Odacite Synergie [4] Immediate Skin Perfecting Beauty Masque. Check it out here.
Piece & Co Organic Cotton Travel Pouch is the cutest little travel bag! Created exclusively for AO by Piece & Co this pouch was handcrafted by skilled artisans in India using a traditional hand-tasseling technique. Organic Cotton is grown using methods and materials that have a low impact on the environment without the use of toxic and persistent pesticides. Have you watched the documentary The True Cost? There you can see what pesticides and fast fashion are doing to the environment. It’s so sad and heartbreaking. So I’m extremely glad to see the use of Organic Cotton (I didn’t expect anything less from Art of Organics), which actually uses 71% less water and 62% less energy to grow. If I look closely I can see that the pouch is made really well, the fabric is of high quality and it just look so darn pretty. That little tassle is the cutest and the colour is just perfect. I love that AO mixed things up a bit and packaged their goodies in this beautiful pouch.
Kahina Giving Beauty Prickly Pear Seed Oil Under Eye Rollerball is the perfect remedy for tired eyes that need a pick-me-up. Kahina is a brand that I simply adore and have been for years. All of the products I’ve used worked so amazingly well on my skin and I really can’t fault them. The brand actually started on their journey with Argan Oil and the founder Katharine L’Heureux has built a holistic regimen around this multipurpose ingredient. Then came another stunning ingredient, Prickly Pear Seed Oil. As far as I know the oil is costly but very sustainable. It’s rich in Vitamin E and K, essential fatty acids and antioxidants. This Under Eye Rollerball contains only this ingredient and I love the simplicity of it. Supposedly it helps to reduce dark under-eye circles, moisturize and fight free radical damage. I’m so pleased with the MUN Aknari serum (review here) which also contains Prickly Pear Seed Oil so I’m pretty sure I will love this one as well.
BYBI Multi-Purpose Beauty Balm aka Babe Balm is an incredible multi-tasker that can do it all. Formulated to be the squeaky clean version of the cult classic ‘8 Hour Cream’ this universal beauty balm nourishes from head to toe. I’ve never tried Elizabeth Arden’s cream but I do enjoy this product very much. I’ve actually tried it before thanks to the lovely Emi from Eminessences but that one came in a glass jar. This tube is made from a renewable plastic made from Sugarcane and is completely biodegradable. Yas! BYBI is a UK brand created by Elsi and Dominika, two beauty bloggers and formulators. They create skincare that is 100% natural, vegan and cruelty free. Babe Balm contains Shea Butter, Olive & Coconut Oils, Calendula, Hibiscus and a few more, including Sweet Potato. It’s completely free of essential oils and supposedly it has a scent of Pequi Oil. I have no idea how to describe it, it’s pleasant and not overpowering. It has more of a waxy consistency and it’s not like your typical oily balm. I really like that. It can be used for everything! From dry skin and lips, to unruly brows and frizzy hair, as a highlighter, moisturizer or primer (if your skin doesn’t tolerate coconut oil or shea butter then don’t apply it on your face). I love to use it as a hand cream, especially as my nighttime hand cream. It makes my skin soft and nourished.
Odacite Synergie [4] Immediate Skin Perfecting Beauty Masque is a 4 in 1 treatment, formulated with effective cofactor ingredients that work synergistically with one another to deliver results after the very first application. As you can see this mask comes in a sachet and I think you can get two or three uses out of it. I was fortunate enough that Odacite kindly gifted me the full size jar of this mask so I thoroughly tested it out. It’s a powdered mask with Kaolin and Bentonite Clays, Papaya Enyzmes, Activated Charcoal and more. The mix of ingredients is so beautiful and makes this mask to be purifying, brightening, calming and exfoliating. It also boosts collagen and I’m not mad about that. You can read my full review of the mask here.
The May Art of Organics box is valued at $105 and you can get it for $39. Get it here.
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Much love to you all,
Jana xx
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