Skin Care

If you pick up any beauty product you’re currently using, you’ll see a list of chemicals used to make them. While most of them are used by us daily, a lot of us suffer from breakouts and have sensitive skin. Instead of running from pillar to post and using more chemicals to fix them up, you could just opt for a more natural, organic route for blemish-free, happy, healthy skin. Here are seven brands you can check out today.

This beauty and wellness brand, set up by a mother-daughter duo, sells products made from plant-based ingredients and is cruelty-free and free of synthetic fragrances and parabens. The brand uses cold-pressed virgin oils and organic essential oils for their therapeutic skincare range. The wellness brand offers face oils, face mists, body oils, body polishes, pure essential oils, pure plant oils, and miniatures, among others.

Price Range: Face Elixir (INR 2,350 – INR 2,850), Face & Body Mist (INR 890), Pure Plant Oil (INR 1,450 – INR 2,450), Pure Essential Oil (INR 400 – INR 1,100), Body Polish (INR 1,100 – INR 1,250), Miniatures (INR 1,100 – INR 2,200)

This brand, started by Zahara Nedou, makes skincare products based on age-old, tried and tested Kashmiri and Arab family beauty regimes. The brand sells products that contain no chemicals and are natural {organically grown and harvested}. Zahara’s raw materials are either grown in family farms or are procured from certified organic farmers in Kashmir and the Middle East. Take a look at their Facebook page, where you can place your order.

Focus: Skincare and wellness products sourced organically from Kashmir and the Middle East

Price Range: Oils (INR 650 – INR 750), Shine Bright Like A Diamond (INR 1,650), Organic Mulberry Cocoons (INR 3,200), Scrub (INR 600), Java Juice (INR 1,800), After Glow (INR 2,200), Soul Mate Face Pack (INR 1,650)

When Colette Austin, patissier extraordinaire, decided to eliminate chemicals from her life, she started The Skin Pantry {she did not have too many choices that were chemical-free and so, decided to experiment in her kitchen}. She whipped up a marvelous spread of ‘skin food’ mousses, oils, butters, face packs and more held in glass jars with wooden spatulas for application. The brand’s philosophy is based on the belief that ‘you shouldn’t put on your skin what you wouldn’t put in your mouth’. What intrigued us was that a lot of care and love has gone into crafting her products, it’s chemical-free, made for the Indian skin and yes, they sound gobsmackingly delicious! You can check them out on Facebook.

Price Range: Face Moisturisers (INR 1,600 – INR 1,792), Clay Masks (INR 1,152), Non-Soap Face Washes (INR 1,280 – INR 1,536), Men’s Range of After Shave & Moisturiser (INR 1,408)