We all know that sitting back with a nice, hot cup of tea can be good for the soul. But made with the right ingredients, your ‘cuppa’ can also look after your health, providing an incredible array of benefits that will help protect your immune system and your general health.

Let’s deal with the bad news first.  Unless we fancy moving our home to a cave on the top of a high and distant mountain, we can’t avoid exposure to toxic substances that threaten our immune systems.  Quite simply, they’re part of the fabric of our lives, not only in our food and drink, but in the very air that we breathe.

At The Organic Skin Co., we believe that true beauty is about more than the way you look and feel (although these things are important, of course they are!), it’s also about the way you interact with the world around you. It’s our aim to play a part in this; to offer you products which help you in your desire to do good: not only by yourself, but by the people around you, by the creatures who share our world, and by the planet too.

Let’s cut to the chase. At a time when our personal wellbeing has never been more important, the chemicals found in many cosmetics are simply no good for our skin and our general health.

Did you know that nearly 11,000 different chemicals can be found in our personal care and beauty products, and only 11% of them have ever been evaluated for safety by independent bodies?¹

Our cream eyeshadow is highly pigmented and filled with moisturizing and revitalizing organic ingredients to care for the delicate skin around your eyes. It can wear differently on some skin types when compared with more conventional (non-organic) eyeshadows however…

When it comes to caring for our skin, organic Aloe Vera is the bomb! That’s why it’s a hero ingredient in so many of our products. To find out what it can do for your skin, click on the link here.

If we asked you to name the top 10 natural ingredients that are good for your skin, it’s a safe bet most of you wouldn’t have the ancient grain, amaranth, on your list. But that’s not because it doesn’t deserve to be there, it’s more the fact you won’t have heard of it, given most skincare companies don’t include it in their products, thanks to its exotic origins and its expense.

Organic castor oil has been making some noise in beauty circles recently, and with good reason. Whilst its many medicinal and beauty properties have been known for thousands of years (the ancient Egyptians couldn’t get enough of it), in recent times it’s been used mainly as a laxative. And very effective it is at that too, but as much as we love our products, and as much as they are potent multi-taskers, we can’t help but think that ascribing them with laxative properties may be a step too far…

Unless we’re having a really bad spelling day, there’s no ‘i’ in beauty. But there’s certainly a lot of beauty in the eye. Studies show that our eyes are the first thing someone looks at when measuring how attractive we are, whether they can trust us, or want us as a mate.

In Part 1 of our series on eye health and beauty, we looked at how we can exercise our eyes, to give them the best chance of functioning like they should. In Part 2, we examine the importance of diet.

In our short series on the art of eye maintenance, we’ve looked at how we can exercise our eyes to keep them working like they should and discussed how diet plays a role in keeping them healthy.

Now, we get to the really good part. How, exactly, can we keep our eyes looking beautiful?

Breathing. It’s one of the few things that all of us who are interested in the business of living must do. And we do it a lot.
16 breaths per minute, on average. That 960 breaths an hour, 23,040 a day, 8,409,600 a year and 672,768,000 breaths over the course of an average lifetime.
You’d think, with all that practice, that we’d be good at it. But we’re not. When it comes to breathing, most of us are hopeless and it’s making us sick.

In Part 1 of our article on breathing, we discussed why most of us suck at this oh-so-vital part of our lives and the negative consequences it’s likely having on our health. Now, we look at what we can do about it.

We all want to be happy and successful, right? Well, yeah… obviously. Trouble is, ‘stuff’ gets in the way. All too often, it’s the little things that take up our time and attention. They pile up, distract us, and before you know it we’re up to our necks in ‘overwhelm’, with no clue how to dig ourselves out.

We all want to be happy and successful, right? Well, yeah… obviously. Trouble is, ‘stuff’ gets in the way. All too often, it’s the little things that take up our time and attention. They pile up, distract us, and before you know it we’re up to our necks in ‘overwhelm’, with no clue how to dig ourselves out.