And The Winners of The HLS 8th Annual Earth Day Beauty Awards Are …
~ The Award Winners Are ~
For Your Face
Kahina Giving Beauty
Kahina Giving Beauty Night Cream
Why We Love:
Morocco meets Napa Valley in a midnight rendezvous with this night cream. Argan oil and red wine grapes combine concentrations of resveratrol and polyphenols derived from red wine grapes to address signs of aging. ($105)
Josh Rosebrook
Why We Love:
This genius combination hydrator, toner and light moisturizer (a girl’s dream), with vitamin-infused aloe water, naturally fills cells to plump and hydrate. Rich antioxidants and fatty acids rejuvenate, build and protect. ($32)
Siam Seas
Why We Love:
24 precious active organic, wildcrafted and non-GMO ingredients from Southeast Asia work gently and magically on acne-prone skin. All extraction of the herbs are done carefully in-house and each batch is hand and homemade.
Kerstin Florian
Why We Love:
This versatile facial oil can also condition cuticles and dry spots and smooth dry or flyaway hair. A nourishing blend of meadowfoam and organic sea buckthorn, argan, and jojoba oils mix with the essences of geranium, melissa and lavender.
Eminence
Apricot Calendula Nourishing Cream
Why We Love:
Made with Biodynamic® ingredients from Demeter International Certified Biodynamic® farms. Apricots, calendula, echinacea and aloe are the hero ingredients in this cream which heals and sooths dehydrated skin.
Qet
Why We Love:
This moisturizing eye serum is enriched with rosehip, avocado, cranberry and olive fruit oils, as well as vitamins A and E, offering a soothing treatment that is light enough to use day and night. ($60)
Mountain Rose Herbs
Why We Love:
This set is a day at the spa for a DIYer, featuring an herbal facial steam, exfoliating cleanse, green clay mask and finished with a wild rose toner. We love the herbal scents in this kit and the all-in-one revival your face feels afterward. ($32)
Bella Aura
Why We Love:
This emulsion is a cross between a serum and a moisturizer. It is rich in vitamins, minerals and omegas to support the delicate eye area. Argan, jojoba, cactus flower extract and more provide for an instant lifting feeling. ($125)
Saison
Why We Love:
This light weight formulation combines aloe, basil, calendula and chamomile for a healing nourishment for your skin. The bonus is the hyaluronic acid for that anti-aging kick. ($75)
Blissoma
Solutions Lavish Loving Recovery Beta-Glucan Mask
Why We Love:
Hydration at it’s finest with this mask from Blissoma. Perfect for mature, dry and inflammed skin this beta-glucan beauty is packed with the powers of oatmilk, reishi and maitake mushrooms. ($42)
Viva Organics
Why We Love:
A gentle, highly effective plant based formula, that treats rosacea, acne and many other skin conditions. Ginseng and aloe are top active ingredients. ($49)
Aromatherapy Associates
Why We Love:
This collection synergistcally works together to calm and balance your sensitve skin. Arnica is healing and repairing while camomile soothes and comforts. This collection is best used together in combination for best results.
Dr. Hauschka
Why We Love:
The 100% pure medicinal herb juices from calendula and echinacea are freshly pressed and supplemented with sage to prevent cold sores and treat chapped lips. A light, soft vapor emits and leaves lips velvety soft.
Silk Therapeutics
Why We Love:
Non-GMO silk combines with glycolic and lactic acid with a touch of lemongrass oil to literally polish your skin. An extremely gentle peel which feels like silky velvet going on yet effectively exfoliates and fights fine lines and wrinkles.
Blissoma
Glow- Good Earth Exfoliant Powder
Why We Love:
This botanical recipe of 13 active ingredients do their magic on hyperpigmentation, lackluster, congested and sluggish skin. Coconut water, oats, papaya enzymes and Vitamin C are the hero ingreeds here. ($40)
Astara
Blue Flame Purifying Treatment
Why We Love:
Bacteria fighting Totara Tree essence and Tea Tree extract go to work on clogged, oily areas and reducing excess sebum. Mushroom and Yeast extracts help tighten tissue and stimulate natural oxygenation. ($52)
Wedderspoon
Why We Love:
8 organic ingredients are whipped into this one essential go-to lippy. Organic Manuka honey works in harmony with rich, moisturizing shea butter, Manuka beeswax, and organic cocoa butter. Add a dab of peppermint and perfection! ($4.50)
Mad Hippie
Why We Love:
The coolest, most refreshing hydrating spray out there! Once applied, it gently fizzes on your skin where you can feel its powerful ingredients doing their deep nutrient delivery and hydrating action deep within your pores. ($19.99)
Pevonia
Why We Love:
Marine Collagen and Elastin mix together with powerful organic ingredients to treat a man’s aging skin with perfection. The balm is light and smooth with refreshing hints of lavender oil extract and vitamin C. ($74)
For Make Up
Jane Iredale
Why We Love:
With a smooth, creamy texture, this product is easy to blend, whether on your cheeks, eyes or lips, helping create a natural and radiant look. Made with beeswax and macadamia, this vegan blend feels hydrating and leaves your skin dewy soft. ($27)
Lily Lolo
Why We Love:
We searched far and wide for a natural BB cream that didn’t feel like chalk. Lily Lolo’s blend offers moisture and antioxidant protection with light color. While we wouldn’t use this for a foundation, it’s ideal for to even out skintone. ($22)
Jane Iredale
Why We Love:
If you’re looking for a polished look, always turn to your eyebrows. PureBrow Gel helps your brows look groomed and the tinted shades help fill in sparse areas. Its easy to use and leaves your brows soft and in place. ($21)
Marie Natie
Why We Love:
This vegan, gluten-free blend is made with castor oil, coconut oil, cocoa butter and carrot powder, as well as grapeseed to help hydrate, nourish, and reduce signs of aging to boot. Available in five shades, we love the Flair blend. ($18 CAD)
100% Pure
Why We Love:
This set featuring a luminizer, blush and 3 eye shadows is colored from the pigments of fruits, vegetables, flowers and seeds. A vegan blend, the palette allows you to create a natural look as well as a more dramatic, evening face. ($45)
Clare Blanc
Why We Love:
The Tiffany’s of mineral make-up this line from Europe had us swooning over the vast array of colors! The loose minerals are easy to work with and the pigment has serious staying power. ($22)
RMS Beauty
Why We Love:
It’s a polish that doubles as an eye cream to nourish and moisturize the sensitive eye area, The sheer metallic hues give a light-reflective finish with a subtle, glossy quality. Raw mineral pigments are effective for dry or aging eyes. ($28)
Vapour Organic Beauty
Why We Love:
This is our magic Summer stick. Get your glow on with this creamy, easily blendable bronzer containing organic ingredients of sunflower, beeswax, pomegranate oil, acai berry. ($36)
Hynt Beauty
Why We Love:
Now this is luxe lippy! Formulated with moisture rich organic castor seed oil,organic jojoba oil and sunflower the color choices are abundant and there is something for everyone. ($29)
Gabriel Cosmetics
Why We Love:
The innovative rollerball applicator provides a celestial, illuminating highlight to the skin with the texture of a super light, wet powder. Perfect for dabbing a bit of glam on the flirty areas of your face for a fresh, perky glow! (12.50)
Rejuva
Pressed powder face – acai berry
Why We Love:
This one’s vegan! Blended with antioxidants from certified organic fruits and berries and colored with minerals only – Mica is added to acai berry for a sheer satin finish. You can see tiny specks of fruit right in your powder! ($10.95)
Crunchi
Why We Love:
This is the most velvety, hydrating foundation around! Vitamins C & E brightens with antioxidant-rich coverage while soothing Aloe Leaf gives a lightweight moisturizing effect. Comes tightly sealed in an eco-friendly glass bottle to ‘top’ it off. ($48)
W3ll People
Why We Love:
Natural minerals and organic botanicals are moisturizing and nourishing to the eye area minus harsh chemicals. The hero ingredient, jojoba oil, offers sleek moisturizing color with a glide on smoothness that’s hard to find in most eye pencils. ($17.99)
Kjaer Weis
Why We Love:
This little magic wand is packaged for 3 months of use to avoid bacteria build up. 99.8% of all agriculturally derived ingredients in this Mascara are organic. Glides on evenly, is long-lasting and doesn’t clump or skimp where you need volume. ($38)
100% Pure
Why We Love:
This vegan, silicone free primer infused with skin plumping seaweed collagen makes cosmetic application flawless and last longer; fills in lines for smoothness while keeping excess shine away. ($45)
RMS Beauty
Why We Love:
This keeper doubles as a foundation or a light concealer as it moisturizes and heals. It never has that dreaded cakey appearance or causes dryness thanks to the addition of healthy oils like organic coconut, castor and jojoba oils. ($36)
For Your Body
Osmia
Why We Love:
The star ingredient here is, no question, rosemary. The scent oozes calming rosemary essence whipped into a white, fluffy mousse that literally feeds dry skin. Application time is a relaxing treatment and should be coveted. ($42)
The Wonder Seed
Why We Love:
This nourishing body wash came as a surprise, considering the price. Made with hemp seed oil, this creamy blend is ultra-nourishing for dry skin and rich in EFAs. The gentle jasmine scent is uplifting, and your skin will feel rejuvenated afterward. ($15.95)
Art de Parfum
Why We Love:
This is an exquisite, floral woody scent. Rich red fruits blended with flowers and dry fruity, tea-like notes complement the dark woody base of patchouli guaiac bringing sensuality and depth. Truly, it was love at first scent. ($138)
Sahajan Ritual Body Oil
Why We Love:
Made with organic almond, sesame and coconut oils—Ayurvedic ingredients to heal the body—as well as floral oils including rose, geranium and ylang-ylang, you’ll find the scent of this blend divine and your skin richly nourished. ($55)
Sumbody
Why We Love:
These tiny bon-bon sized scrubs are perfect for hard-to-scrub areas like dry feet and elbows, allowing you to exfoliate, massage and soften all at once. The scrubs care made with sea salt, cocoa butter, honey, and smell awesome! ($5.50)
QET
Why We Love:
These roll-on nectars offer ease of application and a quick pick-me-up (or calm-me-down), depending upon the scent and time of day. The lavender blend is made with only five ingredients, including sunflower seed oil, organic Tahitian vanilla oil and organic lavender. ($30-$110)
ilike organic skincare
Phytolift Neck & Decollete Cream
Why We Love:
This rich, decadent cream, inspired by Hungarian healing, is a delightful support to the neck and decollete areas. Flaxseed, grapeseed oil and calendula work their nourishing magic in this area that often gets neglected.
Fieldworks Supply Company
Feet of Endurance Protective Foot Balm
Why We Love:
This product is a pedicure in a shiny little tin. Rose and ginger stimulate and heal. Olive oil, coconut oil, bentonite clay, arnica and more will have your feet marching on with utmost gratitude. ($15.99)
Aromatherapy Associates
Why We Love:
This readily absorbed body oil is liquid gold at it’s finest. Coconut, Jojoba and peach kernel oil condition the skin while grapefruit, rosemary and juniper tone the skin and uplift your mood. (42gbp)
Clean Kiss Organics
Why We Love:
Keep germs at bay with this handy little santizing mist of witch hazel and coconut oil. Thyme, lemon and orange essential oils disinfect and uplift. ($8cdn)
Clean Kiss Organics
Why We Love:
Coconut oil and tea tree are known antibacterials and with essential oils of lemongrass, bergamot and rosemary this deodorant has a light citrusy scent to take you through the day smelling fresh! ($12cdn)
Sola Skincare
Why We Love:
The Chinese Medicine Doctor is in! This soothing balm is for minor skin irritations and contains the healing properties of chinese herbs as well as cedarwood, lavender and frankinsense essential oils. ($22 cdn)
Odylique
Why We Love:
This gentle polish has just a hint of coconut to transport your mind somewhere tropical. Organic ingredients of poppy seeds, fair trade sugar cane,virgin coconut and cocoa bean butter renew and nourish the skin. (25 gbp)
Thesis
Why We Love:
A little goes a long way and saves you money with this delightful cream. The perfect formulation of nourishing shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba and palmarosa hydrate your skin with a light scent of rose and vanilla. ($22.95)
Kerstin Florian
Neroli Blossom Bath & Body Oil
Why We Love:
This intoxicating oil creates a ‘bathing experience’ like no other. Neroli essential oil and Rosemary extract unite in a silken, nutrient-rich blend of certified organic Coconut, Jojoba, Meadowfoam and Sunflower oil. ($58)
Wholistic
Why We Love:
Mind, body and spirit must all be in balance in order to achieve optimal health. These 7 truly unique blends of essential oils and crystal infusions help balance chakras for an overall wholeness of health and beauty. ($175)
Nubian Heritage
Why We Love:
African Black Soap, made with Palm Ash, Tamarind Extract and Plantain Peel combines with Shea Butter and lots of other amazing ingredients to bomb your bath with soothing and blemish treating nutrients. ($14.99)
Alaskan Glacial Mud Co
Why We Love:
These special, handcrafted soap bars are supercharged with Alaska glacial mineral mud to remove dirt, exfoliate dead skin cells, detoxify pores, cleanse and help battle acne. The hero ingredients here are glacial clay and silt + goat’s milk and the scent options are divine! ($12.50)
Eco Tan
Why We Love:
This is the SAFE tan that keeps on giving. Whether you want a light, coffee complexion or a luxurious, deep bronze, you can create your preferred depth of color based on how long you leave Cacao Mousse on. Coolest part? The ingreeds: Aloe vera, cacao, coffee, blood orange, grapefruit, ginger, mandarin. ($39.95)
Dr. Hauschka
Why We Love:
Infused with healing Ice Plant nutrients from South Africa, this superpower cream from Hauschka’s Med line, excels in treating super sensitive, dry, itchy skin conditions. Tip we love: use cool, damp compresses with the intensive cream to help quickly alleviate itching.
For Hair
Olivia garden
Eco-Ceramic Thermal Collection
Why We Love:
Special anti-slip grip, ergonomic design, durable & biodegradable, exclusive Nylgard™ bristles that are heat resistant, soft bristles that distribute hair’s natural oils for a smooth & shiny finish. Need we day more? Each brush has it’s own function which is what a girl needs! ($ vary)
Acure
Why We Love:
Removes oil and grime without water, this dry shampoo helps your locks last a little longer between shampoos. Cornstarch, arrowroot and kaolin clay help do the dirty work while peppermint and rosemary refresh.
Innersense
Why We Love:
This collection is reaching cult status and delivers all that it promises! Coconut, shea, avocado and tamanu oil pack a royal punch as you give your hair a royal hydrating hairbath. ($60)
Neuma
Why We Love:
There’s something about this mask that makes you never want to live without it again. It touts a special blend of plant extracts and essential oils and a Phyto Colour Complex™ which maximizes color hue, vibrancy and longevity. . ($35)
Innersense
Why We Love:
Shea Butter, Flower Oil and Honey are the inner peace givers in this masterful mix, working together to control frizz and fly-aways. Certified Organic Shea Butter and Fruit Oils are whipped with Wheat Protein to condition and strengthen. ($20)
Shea moisture
Tahitian Noni & Monoi Smooth & Repair Blow Out Cream
Why We Love:
You can feel the nutrients at work in this nourishing styling cream which protects hair against damage from heat styling. Certified organic Shea Butter, revitalizing Tahitian Noni and Monoi Oil combine to moisturize, condition and enhance shine. ($10.99)
John Masters
Why We Love:
This lightweight, leave-in spray conditioner features green tea along with 9 other certified-organic oils and extracts, Guar gum plays a guest starring role which naturally builds volume while soy proteins lock in moisture. And the smell is simply DIVINE. ($24)
Neuma
Why We Love:
Aroma provided by pure essential oils of Lavandin and Clary Sage – true aromatherapy! This versatile non-aerosol hairspray is super fast drying, non-crunchy, and humidity resistant. Unlike most sprays, you can use this one on slightly damp hair to add shape. ($24)
Josh Rosebrook
Why We Love:
This genuinely almost perfect hair product seemlessly creates weightless texture and volume. But the best part is the scalp-love: active herbal infusions create a healthy scalp and strong hair growth while Organic Yucca plant soothes and protects the scalp. ($22)