Colorful fruits and herbs are wonderful for natural healing nutrition and creative artistic beauty.  When you mash a tablespoon of each:  blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, coconut oil, olive oil, or jojoba oil–a tablespoon of each, and mint into a creamy paste, you have before you a lovely mixture for creative beauty.  Add a touch of fresh indigo and cinnamon, and you can have some creative artistic fun.  I’ve seen artists do some creative beautiful things with their hair and skin with these colorful plants.  It’s artistic, colorful, and beautiful. And the best part is that it’s completely natural and it helps to preserve health environment safety.

Natural is almost always better than synthetic.  Many health and beauty products have harmful chemicals that we’re unfamiliar with.

Either way, its not such a good idea to use something that you’re not familiar with, yet most of us do.  Here’s where information comes in: It is crucial to know more about natural and handmade products. Here are ten steps to get you started.

1- Read up about natural beauty products. Go to your local library(or bookstore) and browse through books about the natural herbs, vegetables and natural essential oils used commonly in handmade vegan skin care products.

So you want to start making your own vegan homemade skin care products, how do you start?  Its not really that hard, just simply do your research on not only actual recipes, but the benefits of certain natural or organic plants. You cannot just take a salad and throw it in the blender and expect to make, let’s say, an exfoiliant scrub. Here are some tips and ideas to get you started in your kitchen beauty lab with homemade skin care products.

If you’re just discovering the importance of natural true beauty skin care products and cosmetics, you probably have a lot of questions. One of the most important questions to help you get started is to clear up the difference between  natural, organic, and vegan skin care products.  You can walk into a natural food or beauty shop and find an array of products that claim to be natural, organic, or vegan- it seems that people automatically assume these three things are the same thing, but that is not the case. Read on to find out the difference between these labels.

Its no secret that you should use natural beauty cosmetics and handmade skin care products simply because they are healthier for both you and the environment. And despite the fact cosmetic companies and FDA claims that these mainstream products are completely safe to use, many scientists have discovered that these products do contain harmful chemicals, and that over time, the use of such products could harm us. So it comes as no surprise that many companies try to create all natural cosmetics, some are truly natural beauty cosmetics, but others are not. So here is a list of ten chemicals to avoid, when out shopping for all natural cosmetics-

Even if you are not a vegan, you should at least think about using vegan skin and organic skincare products.

If you’ve ever read behind a bottle of lotion, chances are you’ve noticed a long list of chemicals that you may not be familiar with.  And many of these chemicals and synthetic products have harmful effects after years of use.  Some of these mainstream cosmetics may also cause skin irritation and even allergic reactions. Here are a few more reasons to make the switch organic skincare products that help you achieve vegan skin.

Perhaps you heard stories that began with “in my day” or “when I was young” we made our own soap, clothes and food the old fashion way.  Well, life was not so modern or delightfully convenient, lightening fast or informative back then, you knew that your products had no harmful chemicals or preservatives, and that your ingredients came from nature, just like the ingredients that make up your own body.

The traditional cold pressed soap making process creates a highly effective and very efficient skin moisturizer called glycerin.  At foreue, we incorporate this process into all our soaps to produce a soft, mild soap that is both fabulously moisturizing and incredibly gentle.