Author: Lily Mazzarella
Shopping for organic, whole plant skincare.
Here’s a quick guide to whole plant ingredients and how they impact your skin, brought to us by Laurel Whole Plant Organics:
Acai Berry: High in antioxidants, nutritive, improves skin tone, protects collagen and elasticity, stimulates collagen production
Almond Oil: Anti-cancer, anti-tumor, high in B-vitamins, anti-inflammatory
Astragalus: Stimulates surface immunity, anti-inflammatory, promotes healthy toxin elimination from skin cells, healing to skin tissue
Borage Oil: High in EFAs, anti-inflammatory, maintains healthy skin function, prevents wrinkles, scarring, and damage, energetically brings happiness
Burdock: Detoxing, promotes cellular and tissue detox release, historic medical use in treatment of acne
Calendula: Wound healing, reduces appearance of scars, regenerative to cells, astringent, firming, cleansing, softening, antibacterial, specific to breakouts as well as mature skin, promotes movement in lymph and stagnant tissue
Chamomile: Anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, ideal for sensitive & irritated skin, breakouts, and allergies, softens and protects skin
Chickweed: Nourishing, healing, anti-inflammatory, ideal for mature skin
Coconut Oil: Used as an emulsifier and lathering agent in cleansers, skin softener
Comfrey: Stimulates rapid cell reproduction and cellular repair, tones and heals, draws out toxins, astringent
Dandelion: Promotes cellular detox and cleansing
Echinacea: Stimulates surface immunity, antibacterial, antiviral
Elder Flower: Stimulates surface immunity, antiviral, healing to dry irritated skin, ideal for water retention and stagnation in lymph
Evening Primrose Oil: Anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, wound healing, hormone balancing, anti-aging, high in EFAs, high in antioxidants
Fennel: Helps with water retention, specific for eye health, high in vitamins B & C, regenerative to damaged skin cells
Gotu Kola: High in flavonoids – which stimulate collagen production, repairs connective tissue, heals scars and damaged cells
Grape seed Oil: Unrefined – it is almost black in color due to high vitamin and mineral content, specific to under eye tissue, regenerative to cells, high in vitamins C, D, and E, and beta-carotene
Helichrysum: Anti-inflammatory, heals wounds and damaged tissue, cleansing, antiseptic, ideal for sensitive, mature, or congested skin
Honey (always RAW): Filled with raw live enzymes that naturally exfoliate the skin, detoxifying, humectant, ideal for normal to dry skin types, antibacterial
Horsetail: Strengthens connective tissues, helps keep skin firm and tight
Jojoba Oil: Penetrates into deeper layers of the skin, stabilizes formulas, balances skin’s own oil production, antibacterial, would healing, reduces superficial facial lines within hours of application, offers some sun protection
Lavender: Anti-inflammatory, regenerative, ideal for sensitive or problem skin, antiviral, nutritive
Lemon Balm: High in antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, ideal for sensitive or problem skin, antiviral, nutritive
Licorice: Very powerful anti-inflammatory and immune stimulant, ideal for sensitive, problem, and mature skin, proven to break up melanin clusters over time and prevent them from growing
Marshmallow: Soothing and healing anti-inflammatory, ideal for all skin types, skin softener
Nettle: Powerhouse of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, nutritive, essential to healthy skin
Noni Fruit: Anti-cancer, anti-tumor, anti-inflammatory, high in antioxidants, healing and regenerative to cells, antibacterial
Olive Oil: Extremely healing and nutritive, astringent, antiseptic
Passionflower: Soothing anti-inflammatory, specific to breakouts, healing to burns and skin irritations
Red Clover: Cleansing, nourishing, stimulates lymphatic flow, soothing, contains vitamins B & C, and is high in antioxidants
Red Raspberry Seed Oil: SPF ranging from 28-50, high in EFA content, anti-inflammatory
Rose: Hormone balancing for all ages, ideal for normal, dry, mature, or sensitive skin, astringent, regenerative to cells
Rose Geranium: Balancing for all skin types from oily to dry, cleansing, humectant, healing to sun and wind damage, healing to broken capillaries and rosacea, promotes rapid cellular healing, hormone balancing
Rosehip Fruit: High in vitamin A and C, repairs and regenerates cells, heals sun damage
Rosehip Seed: High in vitamin A, exfoliant
Safflower Oil: Very light and nutritive oil, softens skin, high in EFAs and oleic acid content
Sea Buckthorn Oil: EFA content up to 95%, stimulates collagen and prevents its breakdown, rejuvenating, restorative, high in vitamins A, B, C, E and beta carotenes, repairs and prevents UV damage
Sesame Oil: A powerhouse of antioxidants, super high in vitamins A, B, E and calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus, regenerating to skin cells, ideal for broken capillaries, offers some sun protection, softens skin
Shea Butter: Aids in cell regeneration and capillary circulation, humectant, repairs scarring and stretch marks, good for dry skin or irritated skin, anti-inflammatory
Sunflower Seed Oil: High in oleic acid content, light and absorbent, specific to cleansing and breakouts, high in vitamin A, D, E, calcium, zinc, potassium, iron, and phosphorus, skin softener
Tamanu Oil: The ultimate in anti-inflammatories, wound healing, antibacterial, anti-fungal, stimulates surface immunity, ideal for broken capillaries and sun damage, high in lipids essential for health functioning of skin, specific for breakouts, delays onset of freckles and hyperpigmentation
Witch Hazel: Loaded with antioxidants, anti-aging, firming, antiseptic, reduces redness and irritation, astringent, healing
Yarrow: Wound healing, helps repair broken capillaries, idea for sensitive skin and problem skin, antibacterial, cleansing
You can find all of these ingredients in the Laurel Whole Plant Organics line, newly available at Farmacopia!
The line includes a Facial Cleanser, Facial Elixirs, Anti-Inflammatory Facial Serum, Sun Damage Repair Facial Serum, Antioxidant Facial Serum, Transform Daily Facial Balm, Restore Nightly Facial Balm, Eye Balm, and Honey Berry Enzyme Mask (so delicious…literally!)
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