Beautiful You

This is the third blog post in our series about specific ingredients to help with individual pain points with skin. This is a quick look at what antioxidants are overall best for your skin type and why. We all have vastly different skin, dry in some areas, oily in others. Some prone to acne, or early aging, some of us have dark spots or hyperpigmentation. Below is a quick guide to what might work well for your specific skin care needs.

This is the second blog post in our series that is dedicated to individual types of pain points and what natural ingredients can help solve them. It seems that women (and an ever increasing number of men) hit about 30 years old and realizes it is time to start thinking about their skin.

Here at Recherch’e we are all about education of natural ingredients and how said ingredients  can best benefit you and your skin’s journey to wholesome radiance. This is the first blog in a 3 part series about specific and individual pain points. Below you will find ingredients that specifically target acne scaring.

With thousands of different companies out in the online world, trying to eek out a presence, it can be confusing trying to figure out who is the right fit for YOU. Below I am going to outline a few different things that set Recherché Organics apart. Things you may or may not know, depending on how closely you follow us. 

Let me start here. There is NOTHING wrong with crows feet, but there is also nothing wrong with nourishing and feeding your skin!
Crows feet, the fine lines etched in the corners of the eyes, known by many men and women as smile lines and laugh lines. These are hard won, many say with some pride. People often love them and hate them simultaneously, as around our eyes is the first place we usually start to “age”. 

Amid all of the chaos, and heart ache and hardship right now, do you know one thing that I think is absolutely amazing?  It’s how businesses, small and large, all over America are pivoting and changing mid stride to accommodate, keep their doors open and help fight this invisible “enemy”. 

Are you a person that scans and checks out labels? On Food? But what about in your day to day skin care and body care products? There are so many things that are snuck in and added to our “beauty products” and one of those seemingly harmless products is alcohol. In fact, men have been trained to like alcohol in some of their products like aftershave, as it creates the tight feeling and sting that tannins used to be responsible for. Let us take a few minutes and dive into why one should steer clear of products using alcohol as a cheap filler and preservative. 

Silk peptides, also known as silk protein, is slowly but surely making its way onto the main stage of the beauty care scene. This protein is broken down by high powered water beating against the cacoons of silk worms. The end result is a fine grained water soluble powder, chemically unaltered, and a composition very similar to our skin and hair. Though it is still relatively unexplored as a modern “marvel” within the twenty-first century, silk amino have long been known by Chinese practitioners for both internal consumption as well as for beauty. 

For those of you who don’t know me, I am the founder and creator of all things Recherch’e. We are now eight years into this wild ride and when looking back the things that stick out most to me are just how closely a business comes to representing its founder! Here are a few funny facts about my self that have absolutely changed the face of this company.

I grew up and went to school as an herbalist and then went back to become a certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant. For years I told people, outside of Latin names, “If you cannot pronounce it don’t use it.” Here’s the thing… That is just not true. Below you will find a list of very scary named ingredients that you definitely WANT to find in your beauty and skin care products. 

I remember my grandmother’s little opaque square bottle of Witch Hazel that she used for most everything. It would sit on the shelves next to the sink and this was a common item in “reducing heat” in the face or if I got a cut, or to take play make up off with. Each night she would take a cotton ball and dab a bit of Witch Hazel on it and swish it around her face. A one stop beauty regime for those who grew up during the great depression.  Here’s the thing, pure steam distilled Witch Hazel IS a very good option for all of the above mentioned uses, however most of what you find stocked on the shelves is distilled using alcohol, or worse hexane,  and a residual 14-15% remains in the product. While seeming like a relatively small amount of alcohol, studies have shown that even half of that amount creates damaging effects to the skin, strips the acid mantel which further reduces our skins natural protection and barriers and is highly drying to all dermal layers. What I am saying is; With this product/ingredient, the quality truly matters.

It’s hard to believe that this little company has come so far. Sometimes it is difficult to see our everyday successes until we lay them out in front of us and take a good long look. With our Eighth birthday just behind us, we thought it was a great time to take a little walk down Memory Lane. I hope that you like this little snap shot into the last eight years as much as we have enjoyed creating this post! Here’s to another eight years, and the excitement that comes from building something from the ground up. Thank you for walking this road with us, for without YOU, none of this would be possible.