feature photo credit: Ronald Manningham
Keeping up your beauty is just as important to do in the winter months as it is to do in summer and spring. Three essentials is to stay hydrated, moisturized, and warm! The lips are usually the first thing to feel the winter blues, so be sure to keep your favorite moisturizing and conditioning balm in your tote. Also, our hair, especially natural hair, can become more brittle and dry, so be sure to treat your kinks and curls to a nice little hot olive oil treatment throughout the season and stay warm with some fashionable fingerless gloves, and arm and leg warmers. These little knitted and crocheted cozys are super comfy and will add lots of personality to any style! Enjoy this winter, and try to stay warm, hydrated, and beautiful! Here are a few of our favorite products to get you started:
Vanilla Granola Body Buff by Fresh Body: $13: Vanilla Granola Body Buff is a chunky, all-natural exfoliator formulated with granola, ground almonds, and walnut shell powder to exfoliate and smooth skin.
Arm Warmers from Urban Outfitters: $18-24.
Sugar Lip Balm by fresh: $22. Sugar Lip Treatment SPF 15 blends reparative oils and waxes together with real sugar for delectable and dependable moisture with maximum sun protection. Sweet and tart blackcurrant oil cushions the lips with essential plumping fatty acids, while antioxidant grapeseed polyphenols and vitamins A, C, and E provide extra protection.
Olive Hand Cream by Botani: $29.95. Olive hand cream is enriched with plant squalene (derived from organic olives) & vitamin E to protect, treat and moisturize.
Eucalyptus Essential Oil: $12. Fresh, woody, and earthy essential oil is perfect for balancing the spirit, mind, and body.
Squalane Skin Snack: Yum Yum Face Food by body moose: $9.99. Pure vegan! An odorless, greaseless, fast absorbing oil that will leave your skin looking dewy and moisturized without a hint of unnatural feel. For people with oily skin, it's a godsend.
Lemon Aid Lip Balm by Mama Coco's: $6. Cold sores won’t last long with our beautiful blend of healing plant extracts and essential oils.
Bergamot Body Lotion: $15. Uplift your spirit as you soften your skin with Community Trade bergamot essential oil from Italy and babassu oil from Brazil plus moisturizing grape seed oil.
Fingerless Convertible Gloves from Urban Outfitters: $16.
Shizen Lip Glos Conditioner: $14.95. The blend of essential oils is immediately absorbed with the shea butter, cocoa butter and honey wax providing a smooth silky barrier.
