Facial cleansers
Choose a natural face wash
Aubrey Organics facial cleansers
From the good green folks at Aubrey Organics comes this line of power-packed, petrochemical- and paraben-free facial cleansers. Choose from Seaware, Sea Buckthorn, Green Tea, Blue Green Algae, Natural Herbal, and Vegecol.Dr. Hauschka Cleansing Cream
From the good doctor (Dr. Hauschka, that is) comes this gentle daily cleansing and clarifying cream suitable for all skin types. Key ingredients include exfoliating almond meal, calming anthyllis and calendula, and chamomile and St. John's wort to ward away redness and puffiness.JASON Apricot Scrubble Wash & Scrub
Wash time becomes a thrilling, guilt-free affair when you use this gently exfoliating scrub from JASON, a vanguard in the natural personal care scene since 1959. The scrub contains natural apricot kernels, aloe vera gel, and jojoba, and can also be used as a mask and a pre-shave conditioner.Kiehl's Yerba Maté Tea Cleanser
One of the newer members in coveted skin and body care line Kiehl's arsenal of botanical-enriched facial cleansers, the gentle, foaming Yerba Maté Tea Cleanser is ideal for all skin types. The cruelty-free formula contains lemon extract, kombutchka tea, and yerba maté to remove excess oil and residue and leave skin aglow.Kimberly Sayer Gentle Face Cleanser
Kimberly Sayer—British entrepreneur, aesthetician, and daughter of organic farmers—offers a line of natural skin and body care products ranging from a Slimming Contouring Gel to an Aromatic Night Repair Cream. Her Gentle Face Cleanser contains Lavender oil, soy, and seaweed.Kiss My Face Citrus Cleansing Crème
Render your face totally kissable with this cleanser suitable for most skin types. Ingredients include a heady brew of aloe vera, olive oil, lemon and lime oils, and various herbs, vitamins, and flowers. Like other KMF goodies, this cleanser is free of animal products, artificial colors, and harmful chems.Korres White Tea Fluid Gel
This shaving cream from coveted Greek natural beauty line Korres is free of mineral oil, silicone, propylene glycol, and ethanolamine. So what does it contain? Wash away grit and grime with oat proteins and white tea extract.LUSH facial cleansers
This UK-based purveyor of natural handmade goodies for body and bath offers a line of solid facial cleansers made from natural herbs, oils, and clays—choose from Angels on Bare Skin, Herbalism, Fresh Farmacy, Coalface, and others—containing various organic and/or natural and safe synthetic ingredients.Mario Badescu Botanical Facial Gel
The Mario Badescu skincare line—a favorite of celebs, magazine editors, and savvy skincare enthusiasts—is filled with simple yet effective potions and lotions for the face and body made with natural botanical extracts. The Botanical Facial Gel is a non-foaming, alpha hydroxy- powered weapon to fight greasy skin.Pangea Organics Facial Cleanser
From Pangea Organics—purveyor of "Ecocentric Bodycare"—comes this supercharged, hand-crafted facial cleanser that combines anti-inflammatory, antiseptic Egyptian calendula, and cleansing blood orange.Sevi face cleansers
From Sevi comes four botanical face washes and cream cleansers that are free of sulfites, parabens, animal products, artificial fragrances and colors, SLS, SLES, DEA, and TEA. What's that leave? A lot of gentle, yet effective, organic and wildcrafted botanicals, hydrosols, and cold-pressed base oils.Terressentials facial cleansers
Treat clogged pores to these two deep-cleansing face washes—the Fragrance-free Organic Facial Cleanser and the Flower Therapy Detoxifying Facial Cleanser—from Terreseentials. Both are crafted from certified organic herbs and essential oils and are free of detergents and other synthetic nasties.
Use an eco-friendly acne treatment
Burt's Bees Herbal Blemish Stick
This potent, 99 percent natural zit zapper from Burt's Bees is ideal for folks looking to control breakouts with simple, easy applications two to three times daily. The stick's active ingredient is exfoliating willow bark, Mother Nature's version of synthetic salicylic acid.derma e Clear Skin 2 Spot Blemish Treatment
This blemish banisher contains tea tree, willow bark, rosewood, and lavender and boasts the three A's ideal for natural acne treatment: anti-inflammatory, antifungal, and antibacterial properties.
JASCO Organics Balance Acne-Fighting Kit
The products in this five-step kit—cleanser, toner, moisturizer, spot treatment, and a special skin-improving tea—are based on herbs and plant extracts that banish blemishes, not harsh chemicals that can make oily ordeals even worse.Kiehl's Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion
Get your green face on with the Blue Astringent Herbal Lotion from coveted skin and body care line Kiehl's. A longtime staple in the GY Blog's medicine cabinet, (well, blogs can't have medicine cabinets but you get the drift) this cruelty-free toner sports witch hazel, camphor, and menthol, and is ideal for oily skin and post-shave healing.Laid In Montana Therapeutic Acne Clear Cleansing Bar
This handmade soap targeted toward problematic, pimply skin contains saponfied coconut, palm, and vegetable oils along with tea tree and eucalyptus essentials oils. The secret ingredient? Healing, anti-inflammatory emu oil from an emu ranch in Montana.LUSH Mask of Magnaminty
This sweet-smelling UK-based purveyor of natural handmade goodies for body and bath offers Mask of Magnaminty, a vanilla-mint scented remedy for pimple-prone skin that contains various organic and/or natural and safe synthetic ingredients, such as honey, evening primrose seeds, and peppermint oil.Nurture My Body Acne Serum
Pimples? History. Blackheads? Banished. Whiteheads? Yesterday's news. Acne? Annihilated. This gentle formulation deep cleans with the aid of various organic and wildcrafted essential oils and herbal infusions.Oeco Acne Treatment System
The Oeco (a combination of "organic" and "eco-friendly") Acne Treatment System is comprised of three products—a treatment, a cleanser, and an oil control lotion—that use the patented OrganiClear formula (certified organic extracts and essentials oils) to clear up skin without irritation or redness.Thursday Plantation Tea Tree Daily Face Wash for Acne
From this Australia-based purveyor of everything tea tree comes this powerful blemish buster. Tea tree oil's natural antibacterial properties kill acne without the aid of benzyol peroxide while chamomile sooths inflamed skin.
Visit an eco-friendly day spa
ESSpa Kozmetika (Pittsburgh)
This award-winning Day Spa in the 'Burgh melds old-world Hungarian skin care techniques with the finest in modern holistic European product lines, Eminence.Moss Wellness Spa (Scottsdale, AZ)
"Centered on you and your environment" is the motto of this eco-centric destination spa in Scottsdale's fashionable Waterfront district. The spa offers a range of services, from body treatments to custom facials to hair and nail pampering, in a space designed to achieve LEED certification.Natural Body Spa and Shoppe (various cities)
Cici Coffee's mini-chain of green-minded day spas—stop by locations in Florida, Georgia, Washington DC, Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, and Tennessee—offer the usual spa indulgences with a natural twist.Nusta Spa (Washington, DC)
Elizabeth Snowdon's eco-chic DC spa boasts a full range of services for body and skin, a progressive environmental commitment, and status as the first spa in the world to be accepted into the LEED Pilot Program for Commercial Interiors.Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary (Freestone, CA)
In addition to its stunning Sonoma Valley locale, Osmosis has bragging rights to two notable features: an impressive green mission and status as a founding member of the Green Spa Network and the only stateside Cedar Enzyme Bath, a heat treatment originating in Japan. The spa also offers various facial and massage treatments.
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