Clean Up Your Spring Beauty Routine
By Rio Arias
Image: Ilia
We like to take a 360 approach to Spring cleaning and refreshing our beauty routines is no exception. Whether you’re making the switch to more clean, sustainable products or continuing the hunt for the perfect natural makeup products, we’ve highlighted SISTAIN approved brands to help you achieve vibrant, glowing skin as we head into the warmer months.
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KJAER WEIS
Luxury, Refillable Makeup
Kirsten Kjaer Weis set out to make high quality makeup with clean ingredients, so women could have luxury products that weren’t filled with skin irritants. As a makeup artist herself, she knew that the best ingredients should be organic and the packaging eco-friendly. This brand carries specific instructions on how to recycle every product when you’re finished and how to refill when you’re ready for more.
Sustainability Efforts:
The Intelligent Refill System: The Kjaer Weis compacts were created to be used again and again, so when it’s time to purchase more of your favorite product, you simply purchase a refill of the product. You place the new product inside of the refillable packaging and the new product’s carton can be recycled.
The Red Edition: Red packaging designed to have a leather look but is made of high gloss textured red paper. This packaging is 100% recyclable, compostable, and refillable.
All Kjaer Weis makeup is free of parabens, silicones, petrochemical emulsifiers and synthetic fragrance.
Certified Natural or Certified Organic
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ILIA
Beauty Rooted in Skincare
Believing that the best beauty comes from healthy skin, Ilia has a range of serum-based foundation as well as facial care containing SPF. Rather than using an expensive set of products to hydrate and prime the skin, use their one-step Super Serum Skin Tint to get your Hyaluronic Acids, Niacinamide and SPF in one go. Their Limitless Lash Mascara was included in Allure’s 2019 Best of Beauty picks, and their illuminator will help you achieve a simple, glowing look with a sustainable touch.
Sustainability Efforts:
Packaging made from recycled aluminum, glass components, and responsibly sourced paper.
TerraCycle Zero Waste Box: All customers can mail up to 5 beauty products per month (Ilia products or ANY other brand) and TerraCycle will break the containers down responsibly so they don’t end up in a landfill.
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LINNE BOTANICALS
Clean, Good-For-The-Earth Formulas
Linne Botanicals takes clean beauty to a new level with their easy-to-use layering system. Labeled steps one through five (I-V), every product on the website has a clear indication of when it should be used and how often. The lightweight formulas are great for even the most sensitive skin types. Each product is produced in small batches with a best by date to ensure freshness.
Sustainability Efforts:
Linne’s packaging boxes use a mix of post-consumer waste paper and Forest Stewardship Council certified paper printed with soy-based inks.
Uses clear glass packaging because it can be recycled and is more accepted by recycling plants than colored glass.
Shower friendly packaging made from BPA-free PET plastic. PET plastic is the most widely accepted form of recyclable plastic and also has a smaller footprint than recycling glass.
Price: $$
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JOSH ROSEBROOK
A Holistic Approach to Skin Health
Josh Rosebrook believes in addressing beauty through a body and mind approach, emphasizing diet, exercise and sleep along with a beauty routine
Sustainability Efforts:
All of the ingredients in every product they produce are 100% entirely earth-friendly and completely biodegradable.
Uses shipping boxes and packing paper made of 100% recycled materials. They reuse those same shipping boxes and packing paper that they receive from their production facility to pack all outgoing wholesale orders. They never use EVA or styrofoam materials in packaging, instead they opt for 100% biodegradable packing peanuts.
Uses recyclable glass containers
All of their plastic packaging is made from Polyethylene Terephthalate. “PET” is one of the most easily recycled plastics
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rio Arias is SISTAIN’s intern with a B.A. in economics and background in marketing. A former college newspaper editor, she loves all things writing, editing, and of course print books. She began her sustainability journey after learning about minimalism and reducing consumption. Currently, she enjoys thrifting, indoor plants and handwritten mail.
