Healthy Living Guide - Natural Beauty Articles
Our natural beauty articles cover everything you need to know about the products you’ll find in our hair care, skin care, makeup and body ranges. While we prefer to only stock products that are 100% naturally derived, there are lab derived ingredients that are safe to use in small quantities and there are plenty of natural ingredients that can cause harm. This is why each product and formula is judged on its individual merit. The EWG’s Skin Deep database is just one of several valuable tools that helps us decide what to stock.
We disclose all ingredients and make mention of anything we feel someone looking for natural products should know. The biggest one for us is nail polish. It’s impossible to formulate a nail polish that actually works that’s 100% natural. Brands like Hanami have successfully produced a quality product by removing the 10 worst offenders, a 10-Free polish, and have even formulated a polish remover that doesn’t take your breath away.
As soon as you introduce water into a formula, it’s a breeding ground for bacteria and the products need to be preserved. Natural preservatives are really expensive. Some budget friendly brands will use phenoxyethanol. Unless you have a specific sensitivity to the ingredient, allowing this ingredient gives us budget friendly options for customers who may not be able to afford the luxe products that use the expensive stuff. Our motto is simple, to provide balanced information and products and trust that our customers are capable of deciding what is best for them. We are always here to answer questions if you would like some clarity on anything.
Latest Articles
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Simple As That - a revolution in natural sunscreen
If you're new to our website, my blog and our online store, I will give you a brief bio of my life so you can understand why I think the new Simple As That Sunscreen is a revolution -
Benecos Foundation Colour Swatches
If you haven't heard yet, we now have the full range of Benecos make up in store. It is, by far, the most affordable natural makeup brand on the market in Australia and our customers have fallen in -
New Sensitive natural deodorant range from Schmidt's
When choosing a natural deodorant, there's only a handful of ingredients that are used as a core ingredient for odour reduction. For the past year or two now, the buzz ingredient has been bi-carb soda (or sometimes called -
No Nasties Kids Play Makeup arrives
We are excited to have launched the full range of kids makeup from No Nasties in to our store this week. We first met the ladies from No Nasties at an organic expo earlier this year. Out of -
Dr Bronner Castile Soap now available in all scents
We've had Dr Bronner in our store for years now. In the castile soap range, we have only ever had a couple of the fragrances on our shelves. This week, we have decided to expand the range, and -
Are you missing these 5 steps from your natural beauty regime?
We interviewed a group of customers, friends and beauty experts to learn what the typical daily beauty routine is for the average woman, and then asked the pro's which steps they think are missing from the average daily -
Premium anti-aging from Mukti Organics
At Shop Naturally, our beauty philosophy is simple, we specialise in well priced products that just work. We don't stock a lot of high-end brands in our store, mainly because we know our customers want value for money -
What's coming from Weleda?
We have set ourselves a mammoth task this year, to double our range. We're making good progress so far, and next cab off the rank is to expand the range of natural skin care products available from Weleda -
My Magic Mud Teeth Whitening Powder now available in samples
A few weeks ago, we gave a tub of My Magic Mud to one of our product testers who found the whole idea to be rather weird. We know the concept of charcoal teeth whitening turning your teeth -
Acure Dry Oil Body Spray
When we first saw the new Dry Oil Body Spray from Acure Organics, we were wondering what on earth it was and what you were supposed to do with it. It's a really interesting concept, and quite a -
New Lavera Front Row Curl Mascara
There are a few natural products where customers feel like they can't or don't want to make the change for fear of inferior performance. The main one we always get questions about is the switch to a natural -
The best natural deodorant for men
Are you helping the man in your life switch over to a few natural products? If you are, like most men (and women), making the switch to a natural deodorant is one that's met with a lot of
