Everything looks shiny and new at Sephora, but clean skincare at Sephora is super important to us. No matter how tempting it might be nor how many endorsements a product might have, if a product isn’t clean, we’re not buying it.
This shift into mindful beauty was a bit of a work in progress. Years ago, we began to focus on eating mostly healthy foods (with a little bit of cheats here and there) with a focus on healthy ingredients. The next logical step seemed to be ensuring that what we apply to our skin (our largest organ) should be as clean as possible.
Plus, there have been great strides in the beauty industries in recent years. Long gone are the days of meh moisturizes and dull lipsticks. Now, you can get high quality, beneficial, and safe products to put on your skin. Why use anything toxic when you can opt for healthy?
Clean Skincare at Sephora: Spring Sale Edition
We took advantage of the Sephora Spring Sale this year to re-buy some of our favourite clean skincare products, which we’ve linked below.
We are not currently making any affiliate commissions on these recommendations, but only sharing what we love and hope you get some helpful information to use.
- Tatcha’s Rice Wash is a decadent face cleanser. It has a slight exfoliant, but is gentle enough to use daily. Plus, it has a lovely smell.
- Tatcha’s Dewy Skin Cream is a luxurious face moisturizer. This cream is rich, without being heavy nor oily (at least not on combination skin). Using it feels like doing a facial at home. When we use it at night, we notice that our skin feels and looks plump the next morning. If you’re using it during the day be sure to apply sunscreen on top of it.
- Farmacy Clearly Clean was one of the first makeup cleansing balms we used. Years later, we’re still using it. We’ve noticed that over time, and in conjunction with other cleansing products and good moisturizes, this leaves our skin extremely clean and radiant. Highly recommend.
- B-Hydra Intensive Hydration Serum from Drunk Elephant As with most of Drunk Elephant’s products, this is a surprisingly effective serum. It’s hydrating and leaves our skin feeling and looking smooth.
- Protini Polypeptide Cream from Drunk Elephant We originally bought this on a whim and it worked so well that it’s been on rotation. It’s also been a to-the-rescue moisturizer and cleared up redness and hydrated dull skin.
- Supergoop’s Unseen Sunscreen is our go-to daily sunscreen for our faces. Regular body sunscreens tend to make us break out, so we are sure to apply this every day. It’s smooth and non-greasy. We will admit that when we’re in Portugal, we have to reapply this sunscreen throughout the day more often than when we’re in Toronto. That’s not much of a surprise since there are over 300 sunny days in Portugal and the sun feels more aggressive there than here.
These were samples that Sephora provided with our purchase. Out of these, we’ve only tried the eye cream. We’re looking forward to trying the rest and letting you know how they turned out!
- Squalane + Omega Repair Deep Hydration Moisturizer from Biossance
- Squalane + Marine Algae Firming & Lifting Eye Cream from Biossance An eye cream that is on rotation in our beauty regimen. It depuffs and calms the eye area. Another bonus is that it lasts a long time.
- Dermalogica’s Mini Daily Microfoliant Exfoliator
- Shani Darden’s Cleansing Serum
- Shani Darden’s Retinol Reform
Have you tried any of these clean skincare items? Let us know which one is your go-to product.
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