carefree organics: handmade skincare with lots of organic ingredients & a chance for you to win my favorites!

I just love handmade skincare.  There's just something so cool about knowing that someone made something with their own hands just for you.  In my opinion, it's art, it's old school and that makes it incredibly cool.

Mother of two, Rebecca Pastore of Carefree Organics makes all of her own products (her hubby makes the soap bases).  With stellar ingredients and handmade great skincare products, it's pretty incredible that Carefree Organics is so affordable.  Purchasing over-priced products that are mass produced and filled with chemicals vs. handmade, organic products made with love? No contest.  Oh, but actually,  there is a contest, but we'll get to that.

My favorite natural products are ones that have great ingredients and serve multiple uses.  A quick favorite was Carefree Organics' awesome 3-in-1 Eco Acai Scrub.  Not only does it exfoliate your skin in thee most gentlest way, but it leaves your skin so hydrated from the many oils that there's really no need to moisturize after using it.  I like to apply it in the shower and leave it on whilst I do all my scrubbing up.  Using this is like a big treat because it feels wonderful to apply and I love the feeling it leaves on the skin.  It comes in both Lavender and Eucalyptus and, at $15.00, it's super affordable.  Can also be used as a shaving cream on my legs, but my face wouldn't allow it. 

Bonus?  The ingredients are all organic and pretty much perfect:  Euterpe oleracea fruit (acai) extract, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, butyrospermum parkii fruit (shea butter), laminaria digitata (sea kelp) powder, lavandula officinalis (lavender) oil or eucalyptus globulus leaf (eucalyptus) oil.

I love myself a good cream eye cream...and an all-organic one? Disco!  Lately I've been on the eye serum train and although I love it, sometimes it's nice to put on a hydrating cream with a thicker consistency.  I liked Carefree Organics' Essential eye cream immediately.  Not greasy, this cream/balm has a the feeling of a drier shea butter (so it's not sliding down your face).  
I think this is going to be great for the upcoming colder weather. It's so smooth to the touch and with these ingredients, I'm totally recommending this.  I also have been wearing it under my eye makeup and it's perfect.  Oh, and if you can imagine, it's only $9.99 in a jar (BPA-free) that will last you.  

Contest is closed.  Thanks for playing!

Yep! The super generous Rebecca of Carefree Organics wants one of you to win her full-sized 3-in-1 Eco Acai and a full-sized Essential Eye Cream.  

To Enter:

1.  You must like Carefree Organics on their FB page here...who doesn't want to be popular?

2.  Name the three cheesiest songs that you just love to sing along with and keep 'em funny please!  :)

Type your entries here or on my FB page!

Have at it & I hope you win!

ANGIE IS THE WINNER!

A New Vegan Skincare Line To Adore: KYI - Hydrating, Effective and...Affordable!

KYI - Know Your Ingredients

I'm very excited about all of these new and natural brands that I'm being introduced to lately, but even more excited to read about their founders and their quest for good.   

The latest brand is KYI (short for Know Your Ingredients).  KYI was founded by one woman, Samantha Addonizio, an attorney and mom (strong woman here...love it!)  who wished to create a "Whole Food" vegan skincare line because, like many of us, she was disappointed after reading the ingredients on her skincare labels.   With only three products, currently, she's clearly taken her time creating them.  All three are effective, pure, fun to use, smell divine, are available in unscented and are incredibly affordable for such quality products.

WHIPPED SHEA BUTTER MASK

(A Super Hydrating Cream)

Don't let the name of this fool you.   This isn't a "wash off" mask, but rather is a super moisturizer, the big guns of hydrating, if you will.  You can apply this at night and sleep with it on.  My skin was so incredibly soft the next morning that I kept touching it.  You can also use it as a spot moisturizer on feet, hands, elbows or even to condition dry hair and add shine. I would liken the consistency to that of a thick balm-like cream.   

I love multi-functional products.  It is a sure sign that you're using something ultra-pure. Three simple ingredients: Refined shea butter, jojoba oil and essential oil (if scented), in the Whipped Shea Butter Mask.  It also comes in a pretty big jar for  $20 4 oz! 

This, after a shower...perfection.

SWEET ALMOND SOFTENING OIL

The Sweet Almond Softening Oil was, by far, my favorite product.  I have a lot of body oils by natural companies, but the scent of this (I tested the Litsea Cubeba, a citrus scent) was amazing, the smooth application and the gorgeous dewy look it left on my skin was unmatched. This is now sitting on my bathtub and I apply it post-shower.  I also love the packaging, as it's so smart to put this in a pump.  The ingredients are simple: Sweet Almond Oil (and essential oil if you get one of the scented ones).  I would definitely re-purchase this!  At $20 for 8 oz, it's super affordable!

ARGAN OIL SERUM + VITAMIN C

KYI's Argan Oil has the added benefit of Vitamin C.  It left my skin soft and hydrated and I loved the scent (I tested the Orange Grapefruit).  It also comes in Unscented, but if you love citrus, you'll want the Orange Grapefruit oil.  

Again, minimal ingredients: Argan oil, Vitamin C and essential oils if scented.    This, too is a multi-functional product.  You can use it as a moisturizer, to smooth hair and to tame frizzies.  Anyone who is going in the sun during the day needs to be using this at night as it really will hydrate.  The texture is very light and it absorbs fast.  The Argan Oil Serum comes in Orange Grapefruit and Unscented.   And a great value at: $45 2 oz.