40 winners of Delicious Living's 2013 Beauty & Body Awards
Personalized Ayurvedic herbal products like the Mild Mannered Gentle Cleanser (for combination-skinned pittas) and Utterly Quenched Hand & Body Lotion (for dry-skinned vatas) give the age-old healing concept of Ayurveda a modern twist. Veria’s Ayurvedic supplements further connect health, beauty and wellness. Booth 3213
BRÖÖ Craft Beer Body & Haircare for its original branding and use of an old-school hair care remedy.
This luscious body oil is about as pure as it gets. Although it debuted in 1978, it’s equally relevant 35 years later with jojoba—a time-tested natural moisturizer that matches your body’s natural sebum oil. The only difference in the product today? It now boasts the USDA Organic seal. Booth 3220
Aura Cacia essential oils for leading the way in sustainable, fair-trade sourcing. Booth 3633
Just when we thought Dolphin Organics’ labeling couldn’t be more innovative (its kids products clearly label ingredients as natural, organic or synthetic), the company’s new DO Naturals tween line spawned a fresh way to teach young girls about what goes into their beauty products. One small label succinctly lists each ingredient’s origins and how it works. Simple yet brilliant. Booth 5600
W.S. Badger Co. for its safe-cosmetics advocacy and advancements. Booth 3413
Andalou uses cell science in this therapeutic product trio that proves how far natural beauty products have come in offering real solutions for common beauty woes. Its star ingredient, argan stem cells, revitalizes dormant scalp cells and aging hair follicles. Booth 3714
Giovanni 2chic Avocado & Olive Oil Ultra-Moist Deep Moisture Hair Mask for highlighting two pantry favorites in a sophisticated hair care line. Booth 3520
Props to a company that’s making great products even better. This supercharged version of Reserveage’s original Collagen Booster (Best Beauty Supplement 2012) combines research-backed, skin-firming BioCell collagen; Reserveage’s antioxidant-rich resveratrol blend; and new fruit and veggie beauty complex Dermaval. Booth 1442
Vermont Soap Green Gold Organic Herbal Moisturizer for building on nutrient-dense hempseed oil.
Fiery Lava bright red, Sunkissed light orange-pink, Amethyst dark purple ... choosing from this nontoxic nail polish line’s 30 colors is the adult, nontoxic equivalent of staring into a new box of special-edition crayons. The best part: All are vegan and free from formaldehyde, toluene, camphor and dibutyl phthalate. Booth 4120
Deep Steep Hand Scrub for using sea salt and shea butter to make you feel like you just left the salon. Booth 3812
New from the maker of Alaffia, this committed fair-trade line offers more (for less) of one of our favorite ingredients: coconut. The base is nutrient-dense coconut water, and its key moisturizer is the seed’s fatty-acid-rich oil. Booth 4707
Natralia Dry Skin Lotion for its truly unscented formula that uses Xeradin—a highly concentrated moisturizing bioactive from clary sage.Booth 4002
We’re still smiling about last year’s Best Oral Care winner. VitaCare recently added a sensitive whitening line in Chia flavor, featuring potassium nitrate to protect sensitive teeth and gums with its patented Vita-Boost Complex consisting of vitamins A, C, D and E plus calcium. Booth 3709
Tom’s of Maine Botanically Bright Whitening Toothpaste Peppermint for its short and sweet ingredient list. Booth 4036
This two-sided stick not only hides skin imperfections with a quick-fix cocktail of plant-based pigments but also offers a longer-term solution by “zapping” blemishes with antiseptic and anti-inflammatory botanicals.
Larenim Mineral Diamond Girl Glossy Lip Color for its blend of fruit, flower and seed extracts, and va-va-voom hues.
Getting men to show interest in personal care is difficult, but this United Kingdom–based company gets the job done with fun, masculine branding and an unintimidating approach to ingredients. Booth 3823
Organic Homme 3 Cool Down Moisturizer for its commitment to organic ingredients and a plant-based, function-first ingredient combination. Booth 3627
New USDA Organic beauty brand Nourish appeals to already health-conscious foodies with a complete personal care line that meets organic food standards. Shea butter, aloe, açaí and almond feed your skin in this berries-and-cream-like lotion. Booth 4123
SeabuckWonders Himalayan Sea Buckthorn Body Lotion for its yellow hue that proves its high concentration of skin-healthy sea buckthorn oil. Booth 1766
Weleda’s new feel-good body lotions, including Pomegranate Regenerating and Citrus Hydrating, come in an airless bag-inside-bottle system that prevents spoiling—no icky preservatives required. It’s fully recyclable, too.
Sororia Organics for using seeded Lotka paper that supports rural craftspeople in Nepal.
We almost guarantee you’ll be as addicted to these beauty chews as we are. Sweetened with monk fruit and colored with fruits and veggies, a two-chew serving offers 2,000 mg of skin-firming collagen, along with hyaluronic acid and vitamin C. Booth 1514
Sibu Sea Buckthorn Cellular Support for its high omega-7 concentration and sustainable sea buckthorn sourcing. Booth 3613
Here’s a product that lives up to the saying “You get what you pay for.” Its price rivals those of products sold at salons and spas, but the company backs the potent cream with clinical research showing it reduces premature signs of aging and fine lines, thanks to yeast collagen and vitamin C. Booth 3913
BeeAlive Enriching Royal Jelly Crème for tapping three skin-healthy ingredients from the hive in one luscious formulation. Booth 4124
Natural beauty veteran Mill Creek Botanicals is becoming a family brand. Our favorite is the multipurpose calendula cream created for a baby’s sensitive skin. Booth 3728
Babytime! By Episencial Soothing Cream for pairing restorative calendula and neem with probiotics—which may help ease eczema, according to some research. Booth 4337
We’re fans of Ginger People’s ginger chews for upset tummies and pickled ginger paired with sushi. The same company got our attention for skin care. This product uses ginger to energize and cleanse skin naturally. Booth 4821
Lily Organics Nourishing Facial Cleanser for the original farm-to-bottle approach that shines through in this vegan formula.
This restorative day cream doubles as a lightweight sunscreen, making it a must-have for any woman looking to streamline her beauty routine while following her dermatologist’s advice to wear daily sun protection. Booth 3234
Hyalogic Episilk Pure Hyaluronic Acid Serum for containing only two ingredients: water and “nature’s moisture magnet,” hyaluronic acid. Booth 1658
Ranked a stellar 1 by the Environmental Working Group for its broad-spectrum UVA and UVB coverage and safe ingredients, Eco Logical impressed us with a sheer, lightweight consistency despite its 22 percent zinc oxide (once known for a thick, white application). Other ingredients include restorative shea butter and organic green tea extract. Booth 3201
True Natural All Natural Baby & Sensitive Skin Sunscreen Lotion for its Natural Products Association Natural and USDA Biobased certifications and EWG 1 ranking. Booth 3627
Ancient Ayurvedic neem is a staple ingredient around the Delicious Living office because of its range of uses. Now we have another reason to tap the “village pharmacy,” as the ingredient is known in India: This new product combines neem leaf, bark and oil in a cooling ointment for cuts, bites and other boo-boos. Booth 1614
J.R. Watkins Kids’ Juicy Sweet Apple Foaming Hand Soap for its gentle, kid-friendly foaming formula that uses essential oils. Booth 3226
Wake up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed … or at least bright-eyed, thanks to this well-formulated product that uses research-backed brightening ingredients madonna lily and niacinamide, along with bearberry and vitamins E and A, to counter dark under-eye circles and restore skin’s vibrancy. Booth 3320
Dr. Hauschka Regenerating Eye Cream for its plethora of plant ingredients, including silica-rich field horsetail.
Dr. Hauschka Regenerating Eye Cream for its plethora of plant ingredients, including silica-rich field horsetail.
Sorting through hundreds of beauty products may be fun—but choosing 40 winners from a record-breaking number of submissions wasn’t easy. Natural and organic body care saw an 8 percent sales boost in 2012, according to Nutrition Business Journal, and Delicious Living’s fourth annual awards were more competitive than ever.
Beyond excelling in purity and integrity—essential for any Delicious Living winner—these innovative natural beauty formulations deliver the highest performance yet. Among them, you’ll find time-tested ingredients upgraded and honest labeling improved—just two of many reasons to stock your HABA department with these winning natural beauty products.
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