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HAVE YOU EVER USED A FACIAL CLEANSING BAR? WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THEM? Comment below! _______________________________________________________ I started my Ethique plastic-free journey with this facial cleansing bar. It seemed like the easiest to understand. Like many people, my first-ever cleansing bar was that classic Clinique Facial Soap. I had no idea how stripping it was. In fact, I loved that it made my skin squeak! Fast forward about 100 years and here I am using a facial cleansing bar that’s virtually the opposite of that one — it’s vegan, non-toxic, pH-balanced and literally soap-free. The only thing it strips is the plastic that cleansers usually come in. You wet your palms and massage the Ethique In Your Face bar between them to create a super light cleansing lather. It’s the perfect first cleanse in the morning, or after I come back up from the gym. But where I like using it most is as part 2 in my PM double cleanse. It was made for that! In Your Face seems like a simple formula, with just 12 ingredients: Coconut Oil, Cacao Butter, and Castor Oil, a vegetable oil rich in fatty acids that’s even more of a classic than that Clinique soap — and that I remember having around the house as a kid. The more intriguing ingredient to me, at no. 2 in the INCI, is Sodium Chloride — which the brand qualifies as sea salt. It serves to thicken the cleansing lather a bit and can have a mild exfoliating effect. Ethique included it here, too, for its apparent benefits for oily or problematic skin. Four cleansing bars cost $17. Be sure to catch my blog articles on my two clean beauty brand discoveries Ethique and Codex Beauty at skincarma.com! ✅@ethiqueworld | In Your Face Face Cleansing Bar _______________________________________________________ Check the Skincarma blog for smart product reviews and ingredient knowledge. I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Links in bio 👆🏼 🖤 SKINCARMA _______________________________________________________ . . . . . . . . . . #skincarma #menwhomask #ethiqueworld #giveupthebottle (at Fort Greene, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4FGiVInbjG/?igshid=eyoielhznjyb

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF A SOLID FACE CREAM? COOL? WEIRD? HELL NO?! Comment below! _______________________________________________________ This was always going to be the product I was most dying to try from plastic-free Ethique. A solid face cream is nothing I’ve ever seen before! But I had imagined something like this was possible and that someone, somewhere was going to make it. Ethique made it. It’s literally unlike any moisturizer I’ve ever experienced. The only thing that even comes close is the original Dr. Jart Ceramidin Oil Balm. Ethique’s clean, non-toxic Perfector isn’t as thick and occlusive as the Dr. Jart formula, but it’s just enough. You can adjust how much you apply the second time you use it. The first time is a shot in the dark. I wasn’t sure how thick it would be, how much my skin needed, and how well it would apply. But I figured it out and have grown to appreciate how it works. A little goes a long way. You can massage the bar over your cleansed, damp skin. Then, warm and press it into skin with your palms. Personally, I prefer using it another way — by warming it up in palms first, then pressing the product into my skin. The Perfector is made with 18 ingredients, notably Kokum Butter, Babassu Seed Oil, Sunflower Seed Wax, Lecithin and Jojoba Esters — a mix of esters from jojoba oil and hydrogenated jojoba oil that has a wax-like texture and an occlusive quality. This is going to be a terrific moisturizer for me in the upcoming winter months. Three bars cost $30. Read more about The Perfector Solid Face Cream on the Skincarma Blog. And be sure to catch my full blog article on Ethique at skincarma.com! ✅@ethiqueworld | The Perfector Solid Face Cream _______________________________________________________ Check the Skincarma blog for smart product reviews and ingredient knowledge. I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Links in bio 👆🏼 🖤 SKINCARMA _______________________________________________________ . . . . . . . . . . #skincarma #menwhomask #ethiqueworld #giveupthebottle (at Fort Greene, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3rLfMBnhTm/?igshid=1cvun5skz4m0x

WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO PREVENT MORE PLASTIC FROM FILLING UP OUR OCEANS? Comment below! _______________________________________________________ About a year ago, I caught a 60 Minutes program on the impact our over-use of plastics is having on our world. By now we’re all aware that the ridiculous amount of plastic we’re using is destroying our oceans, making its way into our bodies — and even poisoning the food we eat. To curtail my own role in the plastic problem, I subscribed to a household cleaning brand called Blueland. For $29.99 you get a complete cleaning kit — everything you need to clean your home, responsibly, economically and sustainably. You receive 3 “forever bottles” made of 100% BPA-free recyclable plastic and 3 cleaning tablets to mix with water — one for glass, one for the bathroom and a multi-purpose tablet for everything else. So, you can imagine how excited I was to discover a skincare brand that uses no plastic at all — no plastic jars, no plastic bottles and no plastic tubes! (There’s no glass either.) New Zealand-based Ethique makes moisturizers, serums, cleansers, deodorants and even shampoo & conditioner in cool miniature solid bars. They’re wrapped in paper and packaged in cardboard boxes. Nary a bit of plastic in sight! On this week’s Skincarma Blog, I’m taking a deep dive into the Ethique brand and reviewing 3 of their clean, non-toxic, vegan, sustainable, cruelty-free and, yes, plastic-free skincare products. Be sure to catch my full blog article on skincarma.com! ✅@ethiqueworld | In Your Face Face Cleansing Bar ✅@ethiqueworld | The Perfector Solid Face Cream ✅@ethiqueworld | Saving Face Serum Bar ✅@blueland | Forever Bottle glass cleaner _______________________________________________________ Check the Skincarma blog for smart product reviews and ingredient knowledge. I invite you to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Links in bio 👆🏼 🖤 SKINCARMA _______________________________________________________ . . . . . . . . . . #skincarma #menwhomask #ethiqueworld #giveupthebottle #blueland (at Fort Greene, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3oq5WJHRW7/?igshid=1xwnobri0u4o5