Here we will share our favorite organic cosmetic brands, including skincare, makeup, and hair care. These are brands we love and trust – they are dedicated to creating high-quality, non-toxic skincare. Check back often, as we will continually add to this list.
Our favorite natural and organic skin care brands meet the following criteria:
- They are transparent about their ingredients and environmental practices.
- They aim to be sustainable in other areas of business, including shipping, packaging, and paperwork.
- They are all natural or certified organic.
- They source their ingredients from farms and co-ops.
- They give back to the communities they source ingredients from.
- They are committed to high-quality and luxurious skin and hair care.
- They love what they do.
- They are small, independent businesses.
- They do not use questionable ingredients and strive to make the safest cosmetics possible.
Please check out these brands, you will be delighted by their commitment to quality, customer satisfaction, and the use of natural ingredients.
100 Percent Pure
A brand with a commitment to producing the purest, healthiest products. They strive to be environmentally sustainable, to educate people on the need for pure ingredients and to give back to charity and the global community.
100% Pure defines natural ingredients as those that originate from nature and ONLY undergo chemical changes due to biological processes such as fermentation, distillation, and cold processing.
Learn More on the 100 Percent Pure website.
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Alima Pure
High-performance and luxurious cosmetics made from natural ingredients. Alima Pure seeks to redefine makeup as an empowering tool of self-expression. They believe that makeup should be able to do many things at once, just like you.
Alima Pure has been carbon neutral for 10 years!
All products are formulated with minimal ingredients for maximum impact. Only the highest quality and purest ingredients are used and they never test on animals.
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CV Skinlabs
CV Skinlabs offers products that are unparalleled in their thoroughness of testing and their safety of ingredients. CV Skinlabs’ products can be used with full confidence by men and women with chemical sensitivities, sensitive skin, and skin conditions such as eczema, dermatitis and chronic dryness.
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De Mamiel
De Mamiel utilizes ancient principles of Chinese medicine along with modern scientific research into how ingredients interact with our bodies. They hand-craft their products with pure, natural ingredients sourced for their unique potency.
De Mamiel is a professional grade skincare collection that is pure in its sourcing, potent in its ingredients and precise in its action. Products are designed so you can see and feel the benefits from first use.
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Dr. Alkaitis
Dr. Alkaitis does not develop products for fixed skin types, but rather he works with raw whole plants to develop signature complexes that act as adaptogens. The result is skincare products that regulate your skin and guide it to its own unique balanced state as well as help maintain that balance.
Dr. Alkaitis only formulates with organic, biodynamic or wildcrafted herbs, plants, seeds, sea vegetables and oils in their raw state.
“if you can’t eat it, don’t put it on your skin”
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Eminence Organics
Eminence Organics is a brand with a large selection of products for various skin types and concerns. They are a brand committed to being a green company in all sectors, from organic and biodynamic farming to ingredients and sourcing, all the way to green workspaces and eco-friendly packaging and distribution.
Click here to see the many ways that Eminence Organics is a green company. Also, click here to see their list of certifications and memberships.
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- Amy's Organic Skincare (be wary of where you buy your Eminence online. Learn why here.)
- Eminence Online
Drunk Elephant
Drunk Elephant is committed to using ingredients that are biocompatible with the skin, they avoid the use of controversial and potentially toxic ingredients. All of their products are free of what they call the “Suspicious 6”: Essential Oils, Drying Alcohols, Silicones, Chemical Screens, Fragrance/Dyes, and SLS. Products are fragrance-free and smell only of the natural ingredients they are made of.
Formulations are focused on pH levels and safety, as well as ensuring active ingredients are at efficacious amounts.
All of Drunk Elephants products are designed, tested and made in the United States.
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Ere Perez
An Australian company that prides itself in producing healthy, natural makeup. Carefully selected, premium-quality ingredients are blended with antioxidants to create gentle, highly effective makeup. Ingredients are selected with the greatest respect for mankind and the environment.
Ere Perez makeup is:
- Nourishing make-up with active ingredients
- Natural colour pigments to suit all skin types
- Assists with sun protection
- Does not contain perfumes or chemical colourants
- Loaded with vitamins and organic oils
- Premium packaging at a reasonable price
- Not tested on animals, just family and friends
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Fitglow Beauty
Fitglow Beauty uses plant-based ingredients and evidence-based formulas that work synergistically with the skin. They believe in using what mother nature created while also utilizing science and newly discovered research.
Fitglow focuses on stable and effective formulas that protect precious plant ingredients in liposome plant stem cells to rebuild skin health.
“EVIDENCE BASED NATURAL BEAUTY IS EVERYTHING TO FITGLOW”
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Graydon Skincare
Graydon curates natural ingredients that have transformative, nutrient dense qualities that are easily absorbed by the skin.
This Canadian skin care company sources organic plant-based ingredients from Canadian growers such as broccoli and berry seed oils. They source their rosewater through fair trade farmers in India and their manuka honey from New Zealand.
Graydon uses simple, beautiful, high-quality packaging to keep their products fresh and they will look great adorning your bathroom sink.
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Gressa Skin
Gressa is a fusion of science, love, and art all bottled up in a beautiful violet glass bottle. Gressa’s concept is to transcend green beauty, to create products that are efficacious and luxurious without sacrificing purity.
Divine textures and luscious scents are a staple of Gressa products, the Gressa brand is a brand that celebrates glamour and sex appeal and still remains free of silicones, preservatives, and anything that is harmful to your health.
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Herbivore Botanicals
Every ingredient in Herbivore Botanical products is there for a specific therapeutic reason, no fillers are used so every formula is highly concentrated and effective. Products are never tested on animals and are made from scratch. An emphasis is placed on organic, high-quality, and food-grade ingredients.
In addition to creating products that give noticeable results, Herbivore Botanicals offers intoxicating scents and luxurious textures to give you a little indulgence in your bathing and skincare routines.
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Hynt Beauty
Hynt Beauty is a line of luxurious color and skincare cosmetics. Hynt Beauty holds itself to the highest standards of ingredient quality and efficiency, providing impurity-free makeup.
They aim to uphold the best environmental and ethical practices so that you can feel proud of your purchase decision as you apply your makeup in the morning.
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Ilia Beauty
A beauty line that is transparent about all of its ingredients. Products must have roots in natural and organic ingredients, be safe to use, look good, and most importantly, to perform.
Each product is formulated from scratch with a mix of natural and organic botanicals as a base and at times, safe synthetics to ensure the product goes above and beyond the expectations of natural.
ILIA strives to ensure their packaging is beautiful and sustainable wherever possible. They use recycled aluminum and glass, as well as post-consumer recycled paper printed with vegetable-based dyes.
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Indie Lee
Indie Lee formulates with chemists and employs rigorous testing to ensure clean, high-performance products. Indie Lee blends science and nature to bring efficacious skincare to the market without sacrificing safety.
The brand is grounded in nature, supported through science, and inspired by life.
Indie Lee believes in ingredients that come from nature and in using science to amplify their benefits, without harming animals in the process. They believe it’s time to embrace conscious consumerism by offering safer, cleaner and more ethical choices.
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Josh Rosebrook
Josh Rosebrook goes to great lengths to ensure absolute purity and safety in their products. They make their own organic herbal infusions and extracts in-house to ensure potency and purity.
All of Josh Rosebrook’s ingredients are sourced through strong, long-term relationships with organic suppliers. Ingredients are certified organic whenever possible, otherwise, they are always organic or wild-crafted. Ingredients are always fair trade and Josh Rosebrook is always looking for opportunities to give back to the communities they harvest from.
The brand has carefully considered their preservation system. Through extensive testing and development, they have found that a small amount of food grade potassium sorbate is an effective and non-toxic preservation system for water and aloe-based products. They also use an in-house proprietary structured water formula that has been infused with organic plant vitamins and antioxidants to create a powerful concentrate that inhibits spoilage and extends shelf life.
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Kahina Giving Beauty
The highest quality argan oil you can source is the core ingredient of Kahina Giving Beauty products. Native Morraccan ingredients are combined with high-quality natural ingredients sourced from around the world and formulated in a state-of-the-art facility in the US.
Raw materials are ethically and sustainably sourced and provide economic independence to the people that harvest them.
Formulas are effective and utilize the latest science. The outer packaging is made of 100% recycled paper and bottles are made from high-quality recyclable violet glass.
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Kjaer Weis
Kjaer Weis produces high performance, luxury makeup that is organic and sustainable. Not only are all of their ingredients certified natural or certified organic, but they always reach the standards of luxury beauty.
Kjaer Weis products use sustainable packaging, their exclusively designed metal compacts are easily refilled with your favorite Kjaer Weis product.
Kjaer Weis makeup is created from the highest quality materials sourced from around the world. All of the ingredients used are carefully considered for their ability to work with the skin, not against it.
Kjaer Wies products are made in Italy and almost all of their products have been Certified Natural or Certified Organic by the stringent standards of the country’s certification body, the Controllo e Certificazione Prodotti Biologici.
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Kypris Beauty
KYPRIS is a luxurious, high-performing line of plant-based skincare that boasts organic, wild-crafted, and sustainably grown ingredients. All of their products are 100% natural and nature-derived,scented with essential oils and plant extracts, packaged in glass, and never tested on animals.
KYPRIS blends science and nature to create their products. Efficiency and safety are top priorities.
ECOCERT, Non GMO, RSPo Certified, Members of the Rainforest Alliance,
Fair Trade, Fair for Life, 1% for the Planet, Certified Therapeutic Grade.
KYPRIS is GOLD certified by the US Green Business Association, California Prop 65 Compliant, a member of LOHASIA, and a member of The Green Spa Network of which KYPRIS founder, Chase Polan, sits on their Personal Care committee.
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Laurel Whole Plant Organics
A ritualistic line of flower and herb-based skincare. Laurel Whole Plant Organics sources vibrant whole plants picked at their peak for unmatched transparency, purity, and results.
Laurel’s principles are rooted in Slow Beauty, their first and foremost relationship is with the land. Each ingredient is followed from seed to harvest.
Exclusive partnerships with artisan farmers ensure the highest quality and the most stringent transparency. They are committed to 100% organic, raw, unrefined plant material for unparalleled freshness and efficiency.
Laurel’s products are free from water, alcohol, and fillers. Products were created with spas and estheticians in mind, offering the complexity to support customized, results-driven facials, yet intuitive enough for home use.
Every plant they work with is certified organic or certified biodynamic, and they make no exceptions. Oils are certified organic or biodynamic, raw, cold pressed, unrefined, and pressed freshly. Laurel uses only certified organic and biodynamic essential oils that have not been contaminated with pesticides or herbicides. Formulas never contain water, aloe or alcohol, instead, they work with hydrosols; raw living bioactive plant waters that benefit the skin.
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Lily Lolo
Lily Lolo is a natural makeup brand made in England. Lily Lolo is an award-winning mineral cosmetics range that harmonizes natural, chemical free ingredients with the ultimate in mineral-based technology.
Every product is free from harsh chemicals, parabens, nanoparticles, dyes, and fillers and even has antibacterial properties to help improve the skin.
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Lina Hanson
Lina Hanson’s mission is to challenge the way we view beauty by creating skincare products that celebrate the authentic beauty in us all.
Lina believes in high quality, easy-to-use skincare. She draws on beauty traditions from around the world and uses only the purest ingredients. Products are formulated to be multi-purpose and versatile, they save space on your counter or in your luggage.
Lina Hanson teams up with women’s cooperatives and farmers globally to source their ethically harvested ingredients.
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Living Libations
All Libations’ botanicals are authentic and pure and distilled only from the named plant matter. They call their essential oils Hi-Fi oils due to their distillers’ faithful and accurate adherence to the master plant. All of their Hi-Fi oils are extracted from either wild crafted or organically grown plants.
Living Libations avoids offering botanicals from rare or threatened species of plants growing in the wild to discourage their disruption and disappearance. The plant oils they use originate from plants cultivated without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, or herbicides.
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Maya Chia
Maya Chia uses a patented process to extract their chia oil, called supercritical extraction. The gentle oxygen-free, solvent-free process results in an oil with a total absence of chemical residues and impurities, and one that most closely mirrors the chemical profile of the plant.
From Maya Chia, you get the best, purest, most stable, effective, and potent chia oil on the market with up to a 2-year shelf life. Maya Chia donates a portion of the net profits to charitable organizations that help build schools and farms for the Maya people.
Maya Chia skin care products use the highest quality natural, organic and wildcrafted ingredients from conscious growers across the world. Thier products are never formulated with parabens, pthalates, synthetic fragrances, PEGs, and SLSs.
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Mahalo
MAHALO Skin Care is a botanical-based facial care line, offering high-performance, luxurious skin treatments that target skin inflammations, environmental damage, prematurely aging concerns and offer nutrient-dense support for healthy, glowing complexions.
They utilize the ancient knowledge of Polynesia, Western and Eastern healing, with modern scientific advancements in natural beauty technology to deliver an experience inspired by Hawaiian approach to slow, mindful beauty rituals, and luxurious self-care.
Mahalo uses the finest natural ingredients combined with clinically tested actives to bring your skin experience to a whole new level. They work with organic and raw botanicals sourced directly from co-ops and bio-dynamic farms.
Each of Mahalos products are handcrafted in their private studio on Kauai, Hawaii, USA.
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May Lindstrom
Each ingredient used for May Lindstrom Skin is procured with the highest sustainable, ethical, and qualitative standards in mind. Their handcrafted skincare utilizes only the finest exotic and nutrient-rich ingredients that are: organic, bio-dynamic, wild-crafted, cruelty free, sustainable, and/or harvested with social consciousness in mind.
There is no animal testing done by May Lindstrom and they do not sell to countries that require animal testing. Their boxes and glassware are recyclable, their lids are made from recycled paper pulp, and a glue derived from fruits and vegetables.
All of May Lindstrom’s products are vegan, with the exception of The Honey Mud, which contains raw wildflower honey from unsprayed local fields. Products are guaranteed to be free of parabens, propylene or butylene glycols, petroleum, sulfates, PEGs, TEA, DEA, phthalates, GMO, silicones, pesticides, artificial dyes, fragrances, or carcinogens, and the entire collection is soy, wheat, and gluten free.
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Mun Skin
MUN creates extraordinarily pure and effective products that rely on healing botanicals, grown under pristine conditions that protect the soil’s complex ecosystem to retain the highest concentration of rich nutrients and potent bioactives.
They have partnered with a union of women’s co-operatives in Morocco. Here they source the Argan, Prickly Pear Seed and Olive oils used in MUN products. Profits from the co-ops support a social fund that provides tutors to teach the women how to read and write, as well as scholarships for their children to attend college; and a health fund that covers healthcare costs.
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Odacite Skincare
Odacite aims to produce effective skincare without toxins. They source only the highest quality ingredients, precious plant extracts, magical oils and potent cosmeceuticals.
Their criteria are ultimate potency, absolute freshness and complete purity, with the aim for each formula to instantly improve the way your skin looks and feels.
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One Love Organics
Award-winning skincare made in the Golden Isles of Georgia. One Love Organics owns the only ECOCERT® licensed manufacturing facility for natural and organic cosmetics in the state of Georgia and is one of a select few in the United States.
Attention to detail, quality and efficacy have garnered One Love Organics products a devout fan base, multiple industry awards, press attention from around the globe, and distribution in fine retailers, holistic centers and spas throughout the United States and Canada.
One Love Organics uses only the finest, most effective ingredients that directly benefit the skin.
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Osmia Organics
Osmia Organics is a line of skincare formulated with exceptional, natural ingredients that are combined for maximum efficacy; with strict, quality control. They begin with beautiful, consciously-source plant materials they can find, even if they are more expensive. They are not a certified organic company at this time, but if they can find an ingredient in certified organic form, that is how they will use it.
Osmia takes their environmental responsibility seriously by using shipping boxes made of 100% recycled cardboard, gift boxes made from partially recycled paper, and printed materials from 100% post-consumer, recycled paper stock. That’s just a start! They also only use biodegradable shipping tape, 100% recycled crinkle paper, and repurpose the packing materials received from their suppliers.
Osmia does use sodium benzoate as part of their preservative system, but never in combination with Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid: that combination can result in benzoic acid turning into benzene.
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Pai Skincare
Pai Skincare focuses on natural and healthy skincare products made with sensitive skin in mind. Pai products are free from Parabens, Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Petrochemicals, Detergents (SLS/SLES) and artificial fragrance. They also avoid anything that has the potential to upset or imbalance sensitive skin.
Pai never tests on animals, uses only sustainable plant ingredients and chooses recyclable or biodegradable packaging wherever possible. They offer a 90 day money back guarantee on all full size products and they write their ingredients in plain English, so you know exactly what you’re putting on your skin.
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Rahua
Rahua is Rainforest Grown Beauty. Named for the oil that has beautified the hair of Amazonian women for centuries, Rahua uses powerful rainforest ingredients to craft products for hair and skin that heal and transform.
Each Rahua product relies on plants to provide a superior level of performance. They are highly concentrated, and a little goes a long way. Rahua creates products to nourish and restore your hair, scalp, and skin health.
All of Rahua’s products are made with plant-derived and organic ingredients, are vegan and cruelty-free and contain no parabens, sulfates, or gluten.
Scented with the exotic fragrance of organic Palo Santo oil and featuring the potent reparative and restorative Rahua, Morete, and Sacha Inchi oils, Rahua products offer a luxurious experience and lasting results that have created a cult following on five continents.
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Rare El’ements
The Rare El’ements Collection is adored by top celebrity stylists and includes five luxury spa products. Each product is formulated with the the most exotic ingredients to create near-perfect results.
It took years working with top chemists to find the exotic ingredients that would produce products so rare and so pure that they would be able to treat the untreatable hair and scalp problems, ultimately bridging the gap between the professional and natural world of hair care.
Rare Elements is featured in countless magazines and is referred to in the beauty industry as the “Best-kept Secret” used on TV and film productions for repairing the damaging effects of everyday styling and color services.
Color Safe, No silicones, No sulfates, No parabens, No synthetic fragrances.
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