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Herbs & Heart - Morning greens: the breakfast skincare regime! - Elixir & Aloe Whip - review

7/10/2018

Herbs & heart are an Australian artisan organic skincare company. They create stunning natural eco luxe products. They are one of my top natural brands, if not at the top! Check out my review for their mud mask, which is my favourite mud mask by the way!

As soon as you hold the bottles of lotions and elixirs in your hand and apply them to your skin you’ll see why I rate their products so highly. The packaging is eco-friendly, made with glass and are recycable. I also love their presentation with their stylish black and rose gold labels. All ingredients are ethically Australian sourced and vegan.

There’s just a special touch of magic when using these products, it’s easy to tell that they have been created with the very best intentions for our health and beauty. I love the healthy ingredients and the uniqueness of some of the more exotic ingredients.

I would describe their products as ethically elegant with a touch of hippy.

Herbs & Heart realise the importance of green ingredients for our skin and have created a two-step skincare routine using naturally sourced green foods to nourish and protect our face.

Elixir - Anti-oxidant rich serum + make-up primer

This exotic elixir is absolutely stunning, the jasmine extract makes this magical elixir smell so divine and luxurious. Jasmine actually helps to even out skin tone and heal skin, it has so many amazing beauty properties, on top of smelling so heavenly. Another key ingredient is green coffee bean, a powerful antioxidant which helps to soothe puffy eyes and under eye dark circles, which is exactly what I have been looking for in a product. This particular type of coffee bean contains the wrinkle stopping amino acid GABA (gamma-Aminobutyric acid).

This elixir definintely does what it states, it manages to reduce puffiness and and I can use it close to my eyes without feeling any irritation. I have very sensitive eyes, so this is how I know a natural product is truly 100 percent pure, when my eyes don't sting!

It can be worn under make-up as a primer and I’ve noticed this really helps my foundation glide on more smoothly and look more natural, particularly my under eye concealer.

Also contains the rich natural fatty acids from avocados which give skin a naturally plumping and toned feeling and an overall feeling of regeneration. It even contains tiny gold mica to make skin look even more radiant, just dab it on all over your face, it sinks in nicely and you only need a tiny bit.

This elixir not only makes my skin feel so soft, but it makes me feel like I’m in an exotic beauty salon in the tropics, I feel like it is healing my skin every time I apply it and the beautiful soft incense scent lifts me away to another place.

Aloe whip - skin repairing moisturising cream

This ultimate moisturiser is the perfect creamy conisistancy I want in a moisturiser without the heaviness. It feel like a lightly whipped cream of silky lusciousness.

It contains camellia (tea seed oil), which has been a beauty secret of the Japanese, used for centuries in Japan by geishas, it is high in oleic acid and squalene, which help to keep skin feeling supple and young, softening fine lines and wrinkles. This is what I love about these products, the ingredients are so unique and different to other every day lotions.

Also contains oats which help to form a barrier on skin to seal in moisture allowing the other ingredients to do their magic! it's a very soothing and calming ingredient for skin and helps to undo UV damage.

The aloe is another powerhouse ingredient packed with vitamins and mineral to help your skin breathe and hydrate at the same time. Aloe vera contains Giberellin which stimulates the growth of new cells. Aloe is just one of of my favourite ingredients of all time, it's so soothing and healing.

The scent is light and natural with a hint of vanilla. It glides on effortlessly and doesn't leave any residue. Using this with the elixir is a perfect combination to helping keep my skin look naturally smooth and moisturised.

As you can tell, I am a huge fan of Herbs & Heart. Their products are ethical, cruelty free, completely natural and just make my skin feel amazing :)

Available at Herbs & Heart.

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Face Mud - Herbs & Heart - review

2/24/2018

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Premium skincare artisans, Herbs & Heart, have created a stunning line of natural skin care products, which are made purely from organic fruit and plant extracts and natural botanicals. I have been using their Face Mud, a nutrient rich cleansing mask, it smells sooooooo amazing, good enough to eat and the ingredients are so pure you probably could!

I love this mask!, it’s so different and unique to other masks I’ve tried. The Face Mud is blended with 3 main ingredients, which are manuka honey, orange peel and sandalwood. Manuka honey is a top ingredient of mine, it's derived from the Manuka bush found in New Zealand, it's soothing and healing and helps to promote the structural integrity of collagen in skin cells, healthy collagen is what we want more of as we start to age!

Orange peel is a natural astringent, high in vitamin C which prevents oxidative stress in skin cells, it helps to cleanse and renew skin. It detoxifies and exfoliates.

Sandalwood evens out skin tone and brings out a natural radiance, it actually has special properties to relieve skin of prickly heat, which is inflammation of the skin in hot weather. Sandalwood gently takes care of skin, leaving it feelings soft and smooth, it is one of my favourites, I actually wear sandalwood every day as a scented oil, I love it that much.

With this mask, you mix it up with a bit of water so it turns into a paste, apply all over face and wash off after a few minutes, it is a combination between a cleanser, scrub and a mask, so your getting 3 in the 1 product. Honestly, it feels amazing.

It has a cooling action to it and makes me feel very calm, maybe that’s the sandalwood coming through with it’s relaxation properties.

So far, I’d say this is my favourite mud mask, my face feels soft and radiant and I feel like I'm putting so much healthy goodness into my skin. I am heavily into herbal remedies and feel that this company have really tapped into using the right herbs to help with healing skin. The ingredients are full of B vitamins and vitamin C. It also contains walnut shell powder which helps with the exfolation.

Other ingredients include coconut oil, dead sea salt, aloe leaf, apricot kernel oil, rosemary oil, cinnamon bark extract, thyme, lavender extract, citrus lemon peel and mentha leaf extract. It's no wonder this smells so divine.

Herbs & Heart are proudly cruelty-free, vegan and use only ethically sourced ingredients in their fully recyclable range of products. Australian made and absolutely no nasty ingredients. I love the glass jar this comes in, I always prefer products in glass jars. I can't wait to try their other products.

Available at Herbs & Heart.

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