If you’re like me, you love being actively involved with natural beauty. I love supporting ethical makeup brands or recycling beauty packaging – you know, things that let me take green beauty into my own hands.
Industry professionals take green beauty into their hands to give back to clients.
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These professionals create a significant impact on the trends within the beauty industry. Spa and salon owners advance the latest beauty craze by offering treatments and services that cater to the consumer’s growing demand for clean beauty.
One Woman Spa recognizes the appeal of natural skincare and beauty products to their customer base. The spa uses natural beauty brand products in their treatments. One Woman Spa’s commitment to their customers’ wellness proves true in employing natural products that are effective yet gentler than chemical-based products in treatment.
“These products are also appealing to the brand I have built,”
-Rose Nunn, Owner of One Woman Spa
Nunn’s Tacoma-based business isn’t the only spa to embrace the green beauty movement.
New York is a powerhouse of innovation in eco-conscious spa and salon operations. In New York City alone you can see different businesses implementing environmentally-friendly practices beyond the brands they partner with.
Treatments feature natural quality ingredients, such as Joanna Vargas Salon using proprietary products and pure oxygen to leave clients with rejuvenated skin. O’live Organic Spa & Holistic Wellness operate by using electronic client forms to reduce paper consumption, as well as using energy-saving bulbs to light their interior. Even the foundations of businesses are made with environmental consideration. Pratima Ayurvedic Skincare Spa Clinic uses sustainable and recycled building materials, such as bamboo, cork, and cotton, to further enhance a visitor’s natural experience.
Hopefully, establishments like these inspire more businesses to take on a green-beauty revolution too.
Popular natural treatments like mud baths and body wraps use the highest quality ingredients to deliver the maximum amount of nutrients and minerals to the skin. Spas take advantage of the naturally occurring goodness in their plants and earth-based ingredients, like grapeseed oil and kaolin clay, to provide a holistic wellness experience.
How does your favorite spa measure up?
Beauty establishments can do a lot in-house to contribute to green-conscious practices. Energy-efficient lightening and water-conservative sinks and toilets are better for the planet but can also save any business hundreds of dollars.
Spas can be committed to using recycled or sustainable sourced wood and textiles for furniture and linens. These are some hidden areas of spas and salons that can be reevaluated for greener change.
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Don’t have a go-to spa or salon?
Me neither. But that doesn’t stop me from getting some much-needed beauty pampering. Some treatments can be replicated in your own home.
- Mix sugar and honey for an eco-friendly and delicious lip scrub. Sugar is an excellent replacement for other gentle scrubbing agents because it does not contribute to pollution once rinsed away down the drain. Honey has been used for centuries in beauty for it’s hydrating and nourishing properties. Body scrubs can be similarly made by mixing coffee-grounds in olive oil.
- Drape a towel over your head and a pot of boiling water to give your face a little steam. Just be careful it’s not scalding hot and uncomfortable. Add a drop or two of your favorite essential oil for more relaxing steam. Steam treatments relax muscles, open pores, and promotes sweating that can lead to healthier skin.
- Watch some YouTube videos to learn how to give yourself a face massage. This can be a product-free treatment to give yourself (or a friend) but using some techniques with your favorite natural skin products could promote more effective absorption of product into your skin – a zero waste bonus!
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