A La Glow is everything beauty brands should be: efficacious, presented in Earth-friendly packaging, wonderful-smelling, and chock full of ingredients that we can recognize as beneficial from nature. The brand’s products are 95% plastic-free, waterless, and positioned as “ruthlessly effective formulas for barrier-first, skinimalist routines.” This is absolutely true. This eco-luxury skincare lineup works for acne-prone, dry, and sensitive skin types, too.
All A La Glow products are 100% natural, toxin-free, and offer ethically sourced, natural ingredients. Here are some of the brand’s holistic, clean, skin-saving favorites for all seasons:
The Happy Lotion Stick – Woodsy
This contains beeswax, cocoa butter, castor oil, calendula-infused avocado oil, essential oils, capaiba, elemi, tangerine, frankincense, geranium and rose – and it smells like a sunny walk through a forest. Mmmm. Ideal for ultra-dry skin and for enjoying an enduring clean fragrance. Pick this up for warm weather aromatics and super hydration.
Nourish Lotion Stick – Sandalwood & Rose
Sandalwood and rose are staples of so many iconic perfumes, and when combined with beeswax, cocoa butter, shea butter, castor oil, and calendula-infused avocado oil, you have a heavenly aromatic skincare lotion in hand in the form of this stick that lasts throughout the day and deeply hydrates parched skin and dry skin patches.
Facial Everything Oils: Calm or Defy
These two Everything Oils both cleanse and hydrate. Defy is crafted to smooth skin, and contains Meadowfoam oil, passionfruit oil, castor oil, evening primrose oil, calendula-infused avocado oil, borage oil. baobab oil, marula oil, and carrot oil. Calm is meant to soothe skin with hemp oil, cucumber oil, castor oil, kiwi oil, oat oil, calendula-infused avocado oil, walnut oil, pumpkin oil, karanja oil, rosehip oil, marula oil. To clean with both Defy and Calm, simply add 5-10 drops and massage into your face for 1 – 2 minutes, then pat off with a damp lukewarm cloth. Your skin will feel so velvety and soft that cleansing your face will be a pleasure. To use as a moisturizer, blend 2-5 drops into skin, then follow with the Serum Bar (below).
Serum Bars – Defy and Calm
The Defy Serum Bar as Step 2 for moisturizing is super rich and rife with beeswax, cocao butter, shea butter, calendula-infused avocado oil, evening primrose oil, oat oil, marula oil, and carrot oil. It smells so refreshing! The Calm Serum Bar smells equally wonderful with beeswax, shea butter, marula oil, cucumber oil, pumpkin seed oil, calendula-infused avocado oil, ucuuba butter, turmeric & lemon myrtle essential oil.
Glow Body Butter in Lemongrass & Lemon Myrtle
Lemongrass and Lemon Myrtle render this creamy body body butter as a fragrant treat that moisturizes all over. Light and summery in scent, it quenches and sates dry skin and repairs it too while sealing in moisture and protecting from environmental damage. Antioxidant-rich, it rejuvenates and bolsters skin elasticity. Use this to softens rough patches.
Luscious Makeup Remover & Moisture Mask
This thick, rich, chunky, super-hydrating moisture mask doubles as a velvety makeup remover. It smells like beach because it’s so full of cocao butter; it also contains coconut oil, avocado oil, beeswax, and castor oil. This will soothe skin all throughout summer, and you’ll adore its beachy scent.
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