We are widely considered leaders in clean beauty, and, when it comes to curating natural and organic beauty, we are well-known for our integrity—we vet every ingredient on every ingredient label for you.
Now, for the first time ever, we have decided to award top products with our new Organic Spa Media Beauty Awards. Our criteria was simple: We judged each product on ingredient purity, efficacy, innovation and sustainability. Here is part two of our 2020 award-winners!
Top Facial Suncare
Kimberly Sayer of London Ultra Light Facial Moisturizer SPF 30
An amazingly lightweight protective day cream absorbs easily and won't clog pores, in fact, it calms breakouts and offers broad-spectrum protection. kimberlysayer.com
Josh Rosebrook Nutrient Day Cream SPF 30
With herbal actives and plant oils, this cream not only protects, it soothes and nourishes, with fatty acids, phytonutrients and anti-inflammatory ingredients that leave skin looking radiant and protect from UV. joshrosebrook.com
Mychelle Sun Shield Liquid SPF 50
Offers dependable broad-spectrum protection, with soothing bentonite clay and safflower oil, to protect from UV and reduce photoaging. mychelle.com
Top Eye Creams
Naturopathica Vitamin K Brightening Eye Serum
Vitamin K helps eliminate dark circles, while light-refracting mica and silica help improve the appearance of dark circles, too. naturopathica.com
Kora Organics Noni Radiant Eye Oil
With an easy rose quartz roll-on applicator and an Aussie ingredient, certified organic noni, along with other botanicals, to keep the eye area looking fresh and bright.
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Trilogy Very Gentle Eye Cream
Maqui berry and other potent antioxidant botanicals make this a superior product, especially for extremely sensitive skin. trilogyproducts.com
Ilike PhytoLift Eye Contour Cream
With fenugreek, vitamins C and A, botanical oils and more, this favorite product tightens, smoothes and lifts the undereye area—a natural eye lift in a jar! szepelet.com
Marie Veronique Eye Repair Serum
With a host of powerhouse plant-based ingredients, this serum helps lighten dark circles and plump up lines and wrinkles. marieveronique.com
Top Moisturizers
Kypris Beauty Puff of Love
Our new favorite moisturizer, this recent launch is a featherlight, highly absorbent, beautiful blend of botanicals that leaves skin luscious and lovely to look at and touch. kyprisbeauty.com
Jurlique Moisture Plus Rare Rose Lotion
A super-lightweight, highly absorbent lotion with a heady scent of rose from Jurlique’s own breed of roses. Botanical hyaluronic acid and prickly pear seed oil leave skin luscious and glowing. jurlique.com/us
Eminence Organics Coconut Age Corrective Moisturizer
Boosts collagen with a natural retinol alternative, containing chicory root and tara tree gum to smooth and firm skin plus green apple stem cells to keep skin soft and supple. eminenceorganics.com
Dr. Hauschka Rose Day Cream
A cult classic and favorite of many beauty editors, this little tube goes the extra mile to give your skin a plump and juicy look and feel with everything rose: rose petals, rose wax, rose hips. drhauschka.com
Reviva Labs Antioxidant Skin Smoothing Advanced Day Créme
A supremely moisturizing cream with alpha lipoic acid, CoQ10, vitamins C & E, green tea extract, resveratrol and plant oils to plump, soften and nourish tired skin. revivalabs.com
Top Holistic Healers
Yum Gourmet Skincare Marine Algae Calming Gel
Seaweed-based, and rich in a shiitake and mannetake mushroom biocomplex, this gel provides cooling and relief for even the most sensitive and irritated skin. yumskincare.com
Tammy Fender Spontaneous Recovery Crème
After a day on the slopes or out in the sun, this little miracle worker will restore luster and glow to the skin. With a blend of beautiful botanical oils, the skin will feel like it’s been reborn. tammyfender.com
Pure Remedy Vegan Original Healing Homeopathic Salve
For healing just about everything skin-related, from itching and dryness, to bug bites and irritation. puremedy.com
Top Acne Treatments
La Bella Figura Purifying Manuka Mask
Manuka honey is a powerful antibacterial, gotu kola keeps skin from drying out and activated bamboo charcoal draws out impurities. A potent treatment for fighting breakouts and calming congested skin. labellafigurabeauty.com
Herbivore Bamboo Charcoal Cleansing Bar Soap
Sometimes simple is best, and this simple bar soap, with tea tree oil to kill bacteria and bamboo charcoal to absorb oil, is a detoxifying, deep cleansing treatment for acneic skin. herbivorebotanicals.com
Ursa Major 4-in-1 Essential Face Tonic
Splash on face and neck to cleanse, exfoliate, remove excess oil and clear blemished skin, with white willow bark extract, rosemary leaf, green tea and olive leaf extracts. ursamajorvt.com
Top Deodorants
Ambre Blends
Our editorial director swears by this product and has depended upon it for years, for its lovely scent, perfect texture and reliable protection.
ambreblends.com
Soapwalla Original Deodorant Cream
This now iconic unisex product started in the founder’s kitchen as a cream, and is still one of the best! Made from clay, and essential oils, to attack bacteria and odor. soapwalla.com
Violets are Blue Magnesium
It took a long time to formulate, but it’s well worth the wait, with an unscented, magnesium base, which is more easily absorbed through the skin than taken orally. violetsareblueskincare.com
LoveFresh Grapefruit
Featuring a blend of soft and yummy plant butters and a divine scent, this product is addictive. lovefresh.com
Taos Aer Lavender Myrrh
Super concentrated, a little goes a long way, and you will always be protected, and never waste a drop! taosaer.com
Top CBD Skincare
Color Up Relieve Pure CBD Salve
Organic hemp seed oil, beeswax and organic CBD oil not only hydrates the skin, it calms it down. colorupco.com
Cannuka Moisturizing Skin Balm
Luscious and one of the most soothing skin products we’ve seen, with CBD oil and manuka honey to calm and moisturize extremely dry skin. cannuka.com
Cause + Medic Hemp Pain Cream
Water-soluble CBD along with other botanicals, make this one of the most effective pain relievers in the CBD market. causemedicated.com
Papa & Barkley Releaf Balm
A concentrated whole plant cannabis-infused salve that eases skin irritation and helps relieve with inflammation and chronic pain. papaandbarkley.com
Hempfield Botanicals Soothe Face Oil
With a rich palette of skin-soothing oils like borage, hemp, patchouli and CBD, this product is not only effective, it’s a pleasure! hempfieldbotanicals.com
Top Hand and Nail Care
Spa Ritual Citrus Cardamom Hand Salve
This rich, protective cream with marula, shea butter and honeybush extracts has a beautiful, uplifting scent and not only keeps the hands hydrated, it makes you feel good. sparitual.com
Kahina Giving Beauty Hand Cream
Finally, a gorgeous hand cream that is not greasy, but highly absorbent. When there is so much hand-washing going on, this needs to be a staple in everyone’s beauty cabinet. kahina-givingbeauty.com
Sukin Hand & Nail Cream
With a blend of aloe vera, shea butter, borage seed oil and an out-of-this-world scent, this is a light, uber-hydrating hand cream. sukinnaturals.com
Most Philanthropic
Shankara
This beautiful Ayurvedic skincare brand donates no less than 100 percent of its net profits to doing good around the globe. shankara.com
Most Innovative
Birkenstock Natural Skincare
For decades, the iconic Birkenstock sandals have featured cork bottoms. Recently, someone figured out that cork—one of the most sustainable materials in the world, also has skincare benefits. Et voila! birkenstock.com/us/
Most Sustainable Packaging
Ethique
This company not only saves water, with its water-free shampoo bars, and concentrated face, hair and body products—the first—which last two to five times longer than the standard, the sleeves they come in are 100 percent compostable, meaning zero consumer waste. ethique.com