Natural Skin Care Creations continue!

Today, we continued to apply our what we learned about skincare and appropriate natural ingredients, and made some more of our own products. In the morning, we not only made soap and deodorant with minimal effort, but we were also lucky enough to hear from a representative from another natural-cosmetics company. Morgan, one of our own PSU student athletic trainers, works for Beauty Counter, and was extremely informative about the skincare industry in general and why beautycounter makes decisions that they do! In the afternoon, we made lip balm and body lotion, which required a bit more effort, but were still manageable. All in all, it was a successful day of practically applying our newfound knowledge on the subject. 

Natural Skin Care Creations of Day 4!

We started our snowy fourth day on campus making our own shampoo and conditioner. We mixed ingredients like apple cider vinegar, liquid soap, and essential oils like peppermint and lavender to make all natural hair products. We also made hand sanitizer using ingredients such as aloe vera gel, vitamin E oil, and witch hazel. We scented this with orange. Finally we made hand lotion using Aloe vera, coconut oil, Vitamin C, and even more essential oils. We learned how easy and simple it is to make healthy natural skin care products! We decided as a group to try and get Badger Bomb products into our very own school store!

working together!

only some of our ingredients

careful pouring

Natural Skin Care, Badger Balm Visit!

Today we went to the Badger Balm headquarters in Gilsum,nNH. We took a tour around the facility and explored the history and values of the company. We asked questions about the ingredients and standards of the company as well. By the end of tour we knew more about Badger Balm and how to take interest in the products we buy and how they affect us. They do great work and were a great host. Tomorrow we will begin making our own products!

employees get a free organic lunch every day!

wall of history

our awesome tour guide!

gazing at the warehouse

Natural Skin Care Day 2

Today we went to multiple locations to see their selection of products. Our first stop was Trader Joe's! We looked in the skin care section and used our phones apps to research certain products and the healthiness of the ingredients. Our second stop was target. They had some good products and some worse than you would think, like sunscreen for babies!  Our last and biggest stop was Whole Foods. We were given a tour of their selection of skin care products by Cindy. We learned about the process that companies need to go through in order to have their products on the shelves in Whole Foods.  Cindy was very nice and put together a gift bag of sample products for us. We then got to buy lunch in their awesome food section and shop around. 

Cindy 

sample bag contents!

checking out their products!

the isle

Natural Skin Care, Day 1!

We started the day off by watching a video on the harmful chemicals that producers put into our every day skin and hair products. We learned that FDA doesn’t do a good job regulating what is in the products. Our group brought in individual products from home that we use and we spent time researching what was in them and one website gave ratings on how good they were and what harmful chemicals were in them. Everyone came back together and gave presentations on what products they use were good for them and things they didn’t know about their products that they were shocked to find out. After lunch we made face masks with natural ingredients like bananas, turmeric, cinnamon, eggs etc. To finish off the day we researched alternatives to replace our products that are harming us. We also researched and found out about Whole Foods since we are taking a trip there tomorrow. 

mixing ingredients!

about to apply egg white mask!

Natural Skin Care is psyched and ready!

Natural Skin Care is ready to investigate their daily routines and see if changes are necessary!