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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The Zkin prescription for sensitive skin
A really tall order when searching for organic skin care is finding products that are suited to sensitive skin and sensitive noses. Why? A lot of the products used to preserve the formulas are essential oils. This can -
NEW: Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses for sensitive skin
New to our store this week is the 1000 Roses collection from USA based natural skin & body care company Andalou Naturals. The 1000 Roses range is formulated specifically for sensitive skin and contains powerful fruit stem cell -
NEW: Dr Organic Natural Deodorant
The weather is starting to heat up and now is the time to ensure that if you're using a natural deodorant, that you have one that really works on those stinking hot days. We already have an extensive -
La Mav Organic Makeup & Body Christmas Packs
This week we have launched THREE new Christmas Packs from one of our favourite organic skin care brands, La Mav. While originally just a skin care brand, they branched out in to organic makeup last year, and in -
Stock updates
We left a couple of vital pieces of information out of our newsletter this week, so we're filling in the gaps with some extra pieces of information in this blog post. LIFEFACTORY STRAW LIDS NOW AVAILABLE Click the -
I LOVE MY LIFE organic perfumes
Perfume is one of those things that I have had a love / hate relationship for over 20 years now. As a young woman in my 20's, I was in love with Dune and Giorgio. I would wear -
Natural Insect Protection without topical application
Gone are the days where it's necessary to douse your family in Aeroguard from an aerosol can to keep the mozzies at bay in an Aussie summer. At Shop Naturally we already have an extensive natural insect repellent -
Natural Skin Care for men – moisturisers
This is our second post in our series of articles about natural skin care for men. To recap from the first post about facial cleansers for men, we became aware recently that it looked like our store had -
Zkin Line Smoothing Serum
At Shop Naturally, we're not interested in trying to make people look 5 years younger, instead, we're committed to providing quality organic skin care brands that will allow you to age gracefully and to slow down the aging -
Deodorised coconut oil vs virgin coconut oil
We have recently added our first coconut oil in to the store that's not virgin organic oil. The Honest To Goodness Purified & Deodorised Organic Coconut Oil is designed for those who don't like the traditionally strong smell -
La Mav Jojoba Oil as eye makeup remover
It has been quite some time since we've have a specially formulated organic eye makeup remover in our store and we have no plans to go hunting for another one. Why? It's really not necessary when there are -
Zkin multi-tasking toner / after shave / acne treatment
Today we're doing an in depth feature on one of the new products in our organic skin care range. It's a great multi-tasker to have in the family bathroom and can be used by men, women and teenagers
