Organic September: 16 Fantastic Beauty Brands To Add To Your Routine
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For the organic-obsessed
Starting to reconsider your beauty regime? If thoughts of GM products and unethical ingredients keep you up at night, it might be worth going organic. These are the best organic beauty brands on the market now – and they’re ready to take their place in your bathroom cupboard.
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What Counts As Organic?
According to the Soil Association, organic beauty consists of products that do not contain genetically modified ingredients, controversial chemicals, parabens and phthalates, synthetic colours, dyes or fragrances.
You can read more about the ins and outs of organic beauty with our guide here.
The Organic Beauty Brands To Know Now
Juice Beauty
US-born brand Juice Beauty was founded with a Californian lifestyle in mind, with an emphasis on luxury organic formulations that could perform better than conventional beauty products. The brand is a big supporter of organic farming, limited synthetic pesticides and fertilisers (the brand has estimated that over the last decade it has avoided three tonnes of pesticides by utilising organic ingredients), creating high antioxidant levels in its cosmetics.
Buy NowTata Harper
Skincare brand Tata Harper was founded on a 1,200 acre organic farm in Vermont, back in 2010. The brand, which is known for its organic skincare lines, makes its products in-house at its farm and beauty lab in Vermont with no outsourced manufacturing. This has enabled the brand to oversee the majority of the process itself, with the result being a line of products that are cruelty, artificial fragrance and GM-free.
Buy NowWild Beauty
Founded back in 2020 by Lord Newborough, owner of Rhug Estate, Wild Beauty is an organic skincare brand inspired by the unspoilt nature of the North Wales countryside. The beauty of Rhug is that it can oversee much of its supply chain firsthand, with ingredients sourced from its estate and locally to create non-genetically modified products that are certified organic by the Soil Association. Lord Newborough recently told C&TH: ‘We have been organic at Rhug for over 20 years and it is in our DNA and across everything we do… We use ingredients from local sources and use as many organic and wild foraged ingredients as we can that we have sourced from the estate, so that our products are as ‘local’ as possible.’
Buy NowBamford
B Corp-certified lifestyle brand Bamford has spent the last few years making the switch to certified organic sources where possible, basing its signature skincare formulations on natural ingredients. Working with the Soil Association, Bamford has pledged that all new products in its Bath & Body collection will aim to meet COSMOS standards to become certified organic.
Buy NowNeal’s Yard Remedies
Any product from Neal’s Yard Remedies feels like an indulgent treat – and knowing that much of the ingredients used are organic makes it feel all the more guilt-free. Whether it’s serums, creams or body oils, the brand is committed to creating its products without genetically modified ingredients. Instead, it opts for all things natural and organic, with 92 percent of its physically processed agricultural ingredients certified organic via the COSMOS standard by weight.
Buy NowUpCircle
You might recognise UpCircle from its stint on Dragon’s Den back in 2018 (where it received offers from three dragons), but these days it’s more common to see the B Corp brand lining the shelves of your local shop. UpCircle is known primarily for giving salvaged ingredients a new lease of life in skincare – think used coffee grounds from local cafes, leftover fruit waters from the juicing industry and chamomile stems saved from the tea industry – but it’s also worth noting that (as part of its promise) all products are certified organic, dermatologically approved, 100 percent natural, vegan, sustainable and cruelty-free.
Buy NowTherapi
The buzz around Therapi? It all comes down to the honey. This British-born label centres its approach skincare on the healing powers of honey and propolis, having been inspired by its uses in natural medicines and superfoods. Products offer a blend of raw honey and botanical extracts, and are created by mother-daughter duo Tanya and Esme Hawkes – who make everything themselves in their Cotswolds studio. And, as a thank you to wild, Therapi makes sure to donate five percent of its profits to wildlife projects and bee conservation work.
Buy NowTerre Verdi
Being one of the first UK-based companies to gain COSMOS Organic certification by Soil Association, Terre Verdi should sit high on your list of brands to check out. With all products ranging from 84 to 100 percent organic, the brand has shown its commitment to creating naturally-derived skincare that uses only high quality botanical ingredients. As well as being organic, Terre Verdi’s products are vegan and free from animal testing.
Buy NowSAIRA Skin
This plant-based skin label is certified both vegan and organic, with cruelty-free ingredients at the forefront of its approach to beauty. Following in the Himalayan heritage of SAIRA’s founder Saira Khan, products are made with organic, nutrient-dense plant oils, antioxidants and minerals – and are designed to be multi-tasking, streamlined and deeply nourishing for skin.
Buy NowSacred + Wild
Another young brand on the organic beauty scene is Scared + Wild, which launched in 2023 and now offers a small (but mighty) range of candles, facial oils and massage tools. The brand prioritises natural and organic ingredients – never tested on animals or genetically modified – but also goes out of its way to ensure all vessels holding its products follow sustainable manufacturing processes. Think candle holders crafted from ethically sourced onyx formed in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains, reusable glass serum bottles, cartons made from FSC certified ingredients and mycelium packaging.
Buy NowOF NATURE
B Corp, Soil Association and Peta certified beauty brand OF NATURE runs on the mission to protect and restore planet Earth, with 40 percent of profits going to vital conservation projects all over the world. A family business, the brand was only set up in 2023 just outside Builth Wells, Mid Wales– but is already making waves with its various environmental projects, carbon negative business model and, of course, fantastic organic creams and serums.
Buy Nowishga
The key to Scottish skincare label ishga’s success? Seaweed. Derived from the Gaelic word for water, ishga looks to the waters of the Hebridean Islands to fuel its organic beauty range. The four types of seaweed here, known for their potent natural antioxidants, vitamins and bioactive minerals, are hand harvested by the team – who turn it into results-driven products that hydrate, firm and enhance the quality of skin.
Buy NowHaoma
Proud to be ‘built on the power of plants’, British skincare label Haoma uses only certified organic plant ingredients in its line of products. Inspired by the legend of a mythical sacred plant from ancient Persian and Zoroastrian culture – also called Haoma – the brand seeks to harness the power of pure planthood with products made by hand in small batches. It’s not just skincare, either. Haoma’s line of self-care essentials spans face, hair, hands, feet, perfumes, soaps and aromatherapy.
Buy NowTabitha James Kraan
Tabitha James Kraan is a veteran in the hairstyling industry, having studied at various London academies (including under the watchful eye of Vidal Sassoon) before opening up her first salon in 1993. Over 20 years later, she set up her eponymous line of organic haircare products, with the goal to ‘show the world how easy, effective and satisfying it is to lead a natural and organic life.’ All products have been developed to protect naturally occurring oils, while rejuvenating hair and scalp health.
Buy NowInlight Beauty
Inlight advocated ‘clean beauty’ from the outset, long before this term turned into a ‘buzz word’. Handcrafted in Cornwall, this 100% organic natural skincare works with the skin for visible results, promoting health and radiance. Dr Mariano Spiezia – medical doctor, clinical herbalist and homeopath – is the wisdom behind the brand. He synthetises over 30 years of his orthodox medical knowledge, the extraordinary yet complex world of green chemistry and his innate passion for alchemy into each formulation. The result is award-winning face and body ranges which promise to deeply nourish, revive and support you in a ‘transformational experience into sustainable beauty’.
Inlight Beauty is featured in our Good Brands Directory
Made For Life
Combining dermatological science with strong botanicals, Made For Life creates skincare that aims to nourish the body both inside and out. Back in 1999, the brand (then known as Spiezia Organics) was the first UK company to achieve 100 percent organic certification across its entire collection from the Soil Association – and since then, it has continued to help enforce organic accreditation for beauty products. The Cornwall-based brand is also a founding member of B Corp’s B Beauty Coalition, a collective action initiative of over 70 B Corps committed to working together to improve the environmental standards of the beauty industry.
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Featured image: Sacred + Wild