NUORI – Uniquely Formulated Skincare

We came across Danish skincare brand, NUORI, only quite recently. The brand not only offers a range of remarkable face, hand and body care products but has an impressively uncompromising approach to freshness and purity. 

Freshness is at the core of the brand. And to ensure this, NUORI products are freshly blended every 12 weeks. More than that, their products are labelled with two dates, indicating a ‘start-using-by date’ and an ‘expiry date’ to allow sufficient time to fully benefit from the formula. This approach stems from the notion that freshness ensures 100% efficacy, as natural active ingredients are not weakened by time-related breakdown. This understanding is linked to the findings of numerous scientific studies that have proven that essential active agents such as vitamins A, C and E are unstable in cosmetic formulations, loosing their beneficial properties in just a few months.

100% free from: synthetic preservatives, and other additives normally used to push the expiry date of beauty products. 

NUORI’s lightweight Vital Facial Cream, for instance, brings back your skin’s vitality and helps prevent and reduce first signs of aging. Formulated with hyaluronic acid – known for its extremely hydrating action – this cream restores the skin’s natural moisture levels. While botanical squalane, jojoba oil and sweet almond oil nourish the your skin, a complex of shea butter, vitamin C and E offers antioxidant protection.

TANGENT GC – Honest Garment Care

With the celebration of high quality craftsmanship and a passion for fabrics and pattern-making, one could presume a meticulous and honest interest for proper care. According to Tangent GC co-founder, David Samuelsson, we stopped caring somewhere along the way when mass produced, cheap, and oftentimes deficient clothing was introduced. For this reason, Tangent GC set out with the aim to provide a range of superior clothing and shoe care products – not emanating from the chemical industry or flung off conveyor belts – but non-mass-produced, chemical-free products that naturally and effectively give your garments a long life.

SUSANNE KAUFMANN – Natural Body Care

We came across Susanne Kaufmann’s wonderful products not so long ago. Susanne Kaufmann – renowned for their organic, natural and effective body treatments – comes from the Bregenzer Forest, Austria; a beautiful valley in the Austrian Alps where the knowledge of nature’s healing powers are passed down from generation to generation. This said, it is not surprising that Susanne Kaufmann’s skin-specific formulas are based and inspired by the intensive effects of the Alpine flora. 

Beauty, health and comfort are values that strongly drive the brand’s vision to develop powerful results-oriented treatments from precious natural ingredients. The company’s collection of products includes facial, anti-aging and body treatments and baths manufactured and hand-packaged in their own facility amidst the Bregenzer Forest. 

OILS

The Susanne Kaufmann ‘Oil Bath for the Senses’ and ‘Witch Hazel Bath’ are a relaxing experience after a strenuous day. While the former consists of the oils of the ylang-ylang tree, patchouli plant and lavender, the latter is based on active ingredients derived from the medicinal witch-hazel plant that helps the skin regain its balance and regulates its oil content.

FACIAL CARE

Susanne Kaufmann products are created from valuable natural essences, oils and single substances. Here, the level of active plant ingredients is particularly high. While the mild Susanne Kaufmann cleansing milk contains a herbal compound of chamomile, sage and St. John’s wort flowers, the cleansing gel Line M for men contains active ingredient compounds derived from witch-hazel and ribwort. Both products include skin nourishing components that clean and protect your skin.

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AESOP - Parsley Seed for Your Skin

After reviewing Aesop’s Post-Poo Drops earlier this year, we now took a closer at the brand’s Parsley Seed skincare range. With the aim to create a range of superior-quality products, this range is arguably the result of extensive research and development into the most effective way to deliver vitamins and anti-oxidants to the skin. As the name suggests, each product contains Parsley Seed extract – an anti-oxidant ingredient that has significant protective benefits for your skin. 

The range comprises some exceptionally light and quickly absorbing creams, serums and treatments that moisturise, hydrate, protect and nourish your skin. Starting from £25.

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FARMERS’ - Hand-made Care Products

Nourishing ingredients, rich in texture but not too oily and greasy. Inspired by the labours of Welsh hill farmers, FARMERS’ produces handmade creams and balms that are based on unique product formulations including their essential ingredient, lavender oil, which comes from flowers just outside their windows. Created by creams designer, Helen Lowe, the FARMERS’ line focuses on ingredients that are beneficial – the products don’t contain any artificial colours or perfumes. 

The FARMERS’ Hand Cream (100ml, £12) nourishes hard working hands with an earthy scent along refreshing peppermint and rosemary notes; their scrub (75ml, £14) is an exceptionally mild and exotic blend of oils of lavender, geranium, frankincense and bamboo powder effectively removing deep set impurities; and the nourishing lip balm (15g, £5) combines their essential lavender oil with lime oil and honey.

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ODACITÉ - Pure Skin Boosters

Odacité’s Pure Elements Collection comprises 18 ultra-targeted skin boosters. The individual serums diversify across six categories, formulated for perfect compatibility and absorption whether your skin is mature, sensitive or devitalised. Singularly strong, a serum’s single drop is a concentrated dose loaded with vitamins, antioxidants and anti-inflammatories, which are all essential in skin regeneration, hydration and detoxification.

A few drops added to your daily moisturiser are all it takes to supercharge your skin.

In 2004, Odacité set out to link absolute purity with ultra efficacy. Each ingredient is meticulously hand-selected and serves a purpose in all formulations ensuring the ultimate in antioxidant activity, effectiveness, freshness and potency. All ingredients are chemical-free botanicals that are either organic or wild-crafted in remote natural areas. Odacité is committed to only use fresh, pure and organic bio-active nutrients.

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HONEST SKINCARE – Part Two

Following Part One of our two-part series ‘Introducing Honest Skincare’, we now took a closer look at its honestMAN range. The brand’s meticulously handcrafted products not only use 100% pure and natural ingredients, but they are carefully tailored to individual skin types, combining the right blend of vitamins and organic oils.

Honest’s black pepper and lemongrass beard oil not only cleans and conditions your beard, but simultaneously promotes a healthy hair growth. The beard oil fuses nourishing oils of Jojoba and Avocado with more masculine scents of Cedar Wood, Lemongrass and Black Pepper. Price £24.

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HONEST SKINCARE – Part One

UK based brand Honest is true to the spirit of ‘less is more’. Each of the brand’s products is lovingly crafted by hand, and uses only carefully chosen, 100% pure and natural ingredients. In line with the brand’s philosophy, also its beautifully simple packaging is both biodegradable and reusable. According to founder Katie Fisher, Honest’s values reflect a holistic approach: organic food for the skin, natural with no chemicals, ethical packaging, simple ingredients and true to all.

'It’s taken me 5 years of experimenting and creating formulations to perfect the range I have today. Everything is handmade in small batches and I will continue with this ethos, lovingly crafting in this way so I know exactly what goes into each and every product.'

Ancient Neroli and Smokey Oak are both part of Honest’s series of naturally scented candles with added notes of Orange Blossom + Clary Sage and Ebony + Galbanum respectively. Price £20.

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LIBERTY – Premium Grooming for Bearded Men

Selected among the best grooming products currently on the market, Liberty Premium Grooming Co. handcrafts their products in the United States using only the finest natural ingredients. “That means no chemicals, nothing harmful, just good old fashioned Mother Nature.” The company takes pride in being the best in their field, providing bearded men with a product that pays meticulous attention to detail.

Virtu Beard Balm and Virtu Beard Oil – the essentials for your beard grooming routine

The Virtu Beard Balm is the brand’s flagship beard care product. It “encapsulates everything it means to be a man with a beard. Prepared, deliberate, ready to achieve great things.” Handcrafted in the USA it contains only all-natural ingredients, including: babassu oil, argan oil, coconut oil, beeswax, shea butter, eucalyptus and additional essential oils. Inspired by the company’s beard balm and drawing upon the same principles, the Virtu Beard Oil is used for the maintenance of good beard health. The all-natural ingredients include: almond oil, hemp seed oil, jojoba oil, grapeseed oil, eucalyptus, vitamin E, and a minty fragrance. The ingredients help soften the beard and provide it with essential oils that repair and condition beards. Images by Lorenzo Cisi.