Top 5 Natural Ingredients To Add To Your Skincare Routine
Boasting a host of skin-loving properties, natural skincare is a great choice if you’re looking to maximise the amount of natural ingredients you use on your face, hair, and body. Often gentle on your skin, rich in skin-boosting nutrients, and often more sustainable too, natural ingredients can sometimes be safer and more effective.
Always excited to stumble across the latest natural skincare, we’ve rounded up some of our favourite skincare essentials, sharing products infused with aloe vera, coconut oil, shea butter, squalane, and honey to nourish your skin, soothing any problem areas without synthetic ingredients and fragrances.
Our Favourite Natural Ingredients
Aloe Vera
Looking for natural skincare for dry skin? Aloe vera is a popular choice. Moisturising, anti-inflammatory, healing and soothing, this antioxidant ingredient is rich in vitamins C and E, and mucopolysaccharides, helping your skin retain moisture and protecting it from damage.
Often used to treat redness, swelling and skin irritation, aloe vera is soothing and calming, promoting wound healing to minimise cuts, burns, abrasions, and sun damage.
Cooling and soothing, aloe vera is a great choice for sensitive skin, calming redness and irritation to instantly relieve and restore your skin.
Oxygenetix Blemish Control
An aloe-vera-enriched breathable foundation, this Oxygenetix Blemish Control boosts your skin health as you wear it, minimising blemishes while concealing your complexion. Infused with salicylic acid, aloe vera, and vitamin E, it soothes skin irritation, redness and inflammation and also protects your skin from UV radiation with the addition of SPF30.
Image Skincare Ormedic balancing Facial Cleanser
Soothing sensitive skin, this aloe vera and botanical extract-infused cleanser removes dirt, makeup and impurities with its gentle and lightweight formula.
Exfoliating and toning, this aloe vera-enriched cleanser balances your skin’s pH, protects your skin barrier and nourishes your complexion, calming delicate skin while cleansing.
Christophe Robin Hydrating Cream Scrub With Aloe Vera
Not solely a skin saviour, aloe vera is also great for soothing your scalp. Gently exfoliating, this Christophe Robin Hydrating Cream Scrub With Aloe Vera nourishes, hydrates and moisturises dry and dehydrated scalps, resurfacing and lifting away dead skin cells to leave it calm, clean and deeply conditioned.
Coconut Oil
Rich in fatty acids, coconut oil is a skincare saviour. Moisturising, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anti-ageing, it’s perfect for a range of skin concerns, deeply nourishing to protect your skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and treat acne and other skin infections and irritations.
Infused with lauric acid, essential vitamins and minerals, and antioxidants, coconut oil is a soothing natural ingredient that calms and relieves eczema, acne, dermatitis, stretch marks and sunburn, leaving your skin soft and hydrated with boosted elasticity.
Eminence Organic Coconut Age Corrective Moisturiser
Providing deep hydration, this Eminence Age Corrective Moisturiser boosts collagen levels by 25% in just six days, rejuvenating your skin to leave it lifted and firm. Enriched with chicory root, green apple plant stem cells, and coconut, this intensive moisturiser hydrates and plumps your skin and improves cell regeneration, reducing the visible signs of ageing.
Coco & Eve Like A Virgin Super Nourishing Coconut & Fig Hair Masque
Repairing your hair from the inside out, this coconut-enriched Coco & Eve hair masque revives dry and damaged hair, deeply nourishing and conditioning with its natural formula to leave your hair soft, smooth, and shiny.
Frank Body Coconut Coffee Scrub
Craving glowing skin? This coconut oil and ground robusta coffee bean-infused scrub exfoliates your skin, polishing away dead skin to tackle stretch marks, scars, and dry skin, boosting collagen production to leave your skin soft, shiny, and rejuvenated.
Shea Butter
A natural butter derived from the nut of the shea tree, shea butter is brimming with skin, hair, and body benefits. Rich in fatty acids, minerals and vitamins, shea butter is renowned for its ability to soothe eczema, psoriasis, and stretch marks, soothing dry and itchy skin and minimising the appearance of wrinkles and scars to leave your skin calm smooth and nourished.
A popular ingredient in body lotion, face cream, sunscreen and anti-ageing creams, this nourishing natural ingredient is often used to treat inflamed and irritated skin, penetrating deeply into the surface of your skin to calm, soothe, and intensely hydrate.
SBTRCT Moisturising Facial Balm
Sustainable and skin-soothing, this solid facial balm from SBTRCT is enriched with shea butter, squalane and glycerin nourishes and hydrates your skin, boosting skin firmness and elasticity to leave your complexion glowing and radiant.
Nursem Ultra Caring Body Balm
Suitable for soothing arms, legs, backs and stomachs, this intensive body balm gives immediate relief when your skin is inflamed, irritated, dry, and dehydrated, soothing sensitive and eczema-prone skin to leave it calm and nurtured.
Enriched with shea butter, colloidal oatmeal, and niacinamide, it nourishes and rejuvenates your skin, creating a natural barrier to leave your complexion healthy, balanced, and radiant.
O&M Style Guru
This shea butter-enriched lightweight styling cream adds volume and texture to your hair while nourishing and hydrating. Infused with coconut oil and vitamin E, it softens and detangles all hair types, conditioning to leave your hair smooth and immaculately styled.
Derived from olives and sugarcane, squalane is a non-greasy emollient that is teeming with skin benefits. Suitable for all skin types, this non-comedogenic natural ingredient enhances the absorption of other skincare ingredients, boosting their effectiveness to speed up moisturisation.
A great choice for dry or dehydrated skin, squalane delivers deep hydration, soothing and nourishing dry and irritated skin and minimising the visible appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Enriched with antioxidant properties, squalane protects your skin from free radical damage, to leave it healthy, radiant, and rejuvenated.
Minimalist Squalane 100%
A 100% squalane serum, this minimalist face oil intensely moisturises your skin, boosting skin hydration and skin elasticity to minimise fine lines and wrinkles.
Pestle & Mortar Hydrate Moisturiser
Boosting skin firmness and elasticity, this squalane, jojoba, vitamin E, green tea and pomegranate-enriched Pestle & Mortar Hydrate Moisturiser rejuvenates your skin, protecting against free radicals to minimise fine lines and wrinkles, leaving your skin youthful and radiant.
Q+A Squalane SPF50 Hydrating Facial Sunscreen
Rejuvenating and deeply hydrating, this Q+A squalane-enriched sunscreen protects your skin from UVA and UVB radiation, nourishing your skin to leave your complexion glowing.
Honey
A natural humectant, honey draws moisture into your skin, nourishing and hydrating to leave it soft and supple. As well as this, honey in skincare has a range of other benefits. Gentle on your skin, this antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, brightening, and healing, natural ingredient is perfect for all skin types, treating acne, soothing inflammation, gently exfoliating dry skin, and healing scars and blemishes to leave your skin soft and nurtured.
Often found in cleansers, masks, and moisturisers, honey can also help to protect your skin from free radical-induced damage, minimising the visible appearance of fine lines and wrinkles to leave your skin rejuvenated and youthful.
NUXE Rêve de Miel Honey Lip Oil
Enriched with lavender honey and organic camelina oil, this Nuxe lip oil is smooth, non-sticky, and nourishing, moisturising your lips to leave them soft and supple.
PSA RESET Acai & Manuka Honey Nourishing Cleanser
Enriched with skin-boosting manuka honey and acai berry, this nourishing cleanser brightens and moisturises your skin. Brimming with antioxidants, the PSA RESET Cleanser rejuvenates your skin, minimising fine lines and dark spots while soothing and protecting your skin.
Innersense Clarity Conditioner
Looking to soothe your scalp? This manuka honey and organic apricot kernel oil-enriched Innersense Clarity Conditioner is hypoallergenic and fragrance-free. Deeply moisturising, it leaves your hair soft and shiny, calming sensitive skin without irritation.
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Formulated with organic aloe vera and botanical extracts, this hydrating and refreshing cleanser soothes and cleanses delicate skin with a lightweight and gentle foam to remove dirt, makeup and impurities.
For dry, dehydrated, and sensitive scalps, Christophe Robin Hydrating Cream Scrub With Aloe Vera is a gentle exfoliant and pre-wash that nourishes, hydrates, and moisturises.
Eminence Organic Coconut Age Corrective Moisturiser available from Face the Future. Eminence Organic Skincare products are free of parabens, animal by-products, propylene glycol, sodium lauryl sulfates, harmful colourants and fragrances, mineral oils, petroleum and other...
Restore firmness and elasticity with a mixture of patented peptides in a lightweight moisturiser.
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