Guest blogger Jess, is the Creative Director of Cult Beauty blog and the newly launched Cult Beauty website. Jess has a great eye for beauty trends and products that are definitely bathroom shelf worthy!
Right. Hello Flawless Beauty fans! This guest blog comes from across the pond. I write to you from London, the still swinging heart of Blighty. It’s been a long year of blogging and website building here at Cult Beauty and the Cult Beauty blog, but we were thrilled when the Flawless Beauty blogger asked us to whip up a little guest entry for her lovely blog.
We snapped up the opportunity immediately and decided to give you a best of list for the coolest new natural and organic (and we mean it… no green-washing here) brands from this side of the sea:
- Pai Skincare: it’s a wonderfully gentle yet effective capsule range made by-hand in London proper. The products are so fresh they’re never more than a few weeks old when you order them. The founder’s whipping up a batch of cleanser for us as I type this. We’ve heard from a little birdy that it might be coming to US shores soon.
- Ila Spa: Seriously beautiful bath salts, facial oils, body balms and more made with Himalayan salts, Moroccan Rose Otto Oil and more fragrant ingredients, all packaged in opaque glass containers in the English countryside. Their facial oil is already a cult item in the UK.
- Ilcsi: This range is a staple in virtually all Hungarian bathroom cabinets. Still made by the same Auntie Ilcsi that founded the brand half a century ago, it’s so fresh you need to refrigerate the products once you buy them. They use healing Hungarian mineral waters and mud, Stonecrop, Sour Cherry, Carrot and Rose Petal. Fragrant and so good for you that you could eat it.
- Kirsty Mcleod: This renowned facialst helped Marcia Kilgore get Bliss off the ground in the UK. She had the loveliest little studio in London’s Pimlico neighbourhood but has since upped sticks and started a family. The good thing is that before she did that, she started a range of amazing cosmetics. You’ll find everything from Arctic Raspberry to Pineapple Enzyme in them. The Clarifying Clay Exfoliator is our favourite because it doubles up as a mask and a zit cream. Multi-tasking.
- The last thing we want to tell you about now is a little beauty secret… one of our favourite skincare experts in London is launching her skincare range at the end of the year. She gives amazing facials and happens to be an expert on Cult Beauty as well! Check out her profile here. We love Sarah and have big hopes for her range!
We’ll leave you with those nuggets of beauty wisdom from the UK for now. For a daily dose of insider beauty news from London, be sure to check out our blog, http://www.cult-beauty.blogspot
And, you, Flawless Beauty blog readers, are the first in the States to hear about the online debut of the Cult Beauty website! That’s right… it’s open for business. Check out the cult selection of beauty brands and products, read about our panel of experts and peruse our beauty editorial for the latest in beauty. http://www.cultbeauty.co.uk
2 comments:
The packaging is all so lovely! What I want to know is when we really are going to be able to buy refills of green-ish products. Seems like I am endlessly throwing aways packaging. eeek!
Yes, and I would love if glass became more of a standard for product packaging, easy to refill and nice shelf appeal!
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