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Day vs Night Cream: The Ultimate Guide to 24h Skin Hydration

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Day vs Night Cream: The Ultimate Guide to 24h Skin Hydration

on Jul 30 2024
Have you ever wondered if you're giving your skin the care it deserves? You're not alone! Let's dive into the world of day and night creams, and discover how to keep your skin glowing from morning to night.   The Moisturizer Myth Debunked If you think you can skip moisturizer because you have oily skin, you're not alone! Even so, that's not the case - even oily skin needs hydration! Oily skin is often dehydrated skin in disguise, and trans-epidermal water loss affects everyone - so, proper hydration is essential to keep skin feeling and looking supple and youthful.   Day Cream: Your Skin's Daily Defender Your day cream is your skin's first line of defense. Here's what to look for: Lightweight texture for comfortable wear Pollution-fighting ingredients (like our Really Radiant Moisturiser with plant-based microalgae) Quick absorption for easy makeup application    Night Cream: The Overnight Skin Savior While you're sleeping, your skin is busy repairing and rejuvenating itself. Skin regeneration can be up to three times faster at night! Here's how to maximize this: Choose a richer texture for deep nourishment Look for collagen-boosting ingredients (like the marine extracts in our Bright Night Intensive Cream) Apply to both face and neck    Day & Night Cream Duo So, although both day and night creams have goal to hydrate your skin, they can't be used interchangeably as they target your skin differently. A day cream will nourish your skin while keeping it protected against daily pollution, and a night cream will deeply hydrate you skin while addressing skin concerns.   Your skin deserves round-the-clock care, and now you know how to provide it! By understanding the unique benefits of day and night creams, you're well on your way to achieving that coveted healthy glow. Remember, skincare is a journey, not a destination. Ready to revolutionize your skincare routine? Explore our Day & Night Kit and give your skin the 24/7 care it deserves. Your future self (and skin) will thank you! 
At Home With Beauty Kitchen…How to Make Your Own Sustainable Food Wrap!

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At Home With Beauty Kitchen…How to Make Your Own Sustainable Food Wrap!

on Dec 21 2021
At Home With Beauty Kitchen…How to Make Your Own Sustainable Food Wrap! We’re getting crafty in our kitchens with all this time spent in the house! All of us in the Beauty Kitchen team were thinking of ways to get involved in a few DIY activities whilst still staying sustainable. Our top suggestion was how to create our own sustainable beeswax wrap, which is a great alternative to using clingfilm to preserve food. Just follow these 4 easy steps!Top tip - simply substitute beeswax for soy wax for a vegan alternative. What You’ll Need 100% sustainable cotton fabric (or some old fabric you can repurpose) 100g pure beeswax 10g jojoba oil (for its antibacterial qualities) 70g pine resin Brush with fine bristles Saucepan & bowl Pinking shears or scissors Baking paper Oven set to lowest temperature Method 1. Melt the beeswax, jojoba oil and pine resin into a bowl over a pan on a low heat, stirring every now and again 2. Place the fabric onto a sheet of baking paper and brush your sheet of cotton with the melted mixture. Place another sheet of baking paper on top and bake in the oven for 1 minute to ensure the beeswax mix melts into the fabric evenly. 3. Take the fabric out of the oven and hang to air dry for 5 minutes. 4. Cut the fabric into whatever shape and size you think best using pinking shears to stop fraying (but scissors are fine if you don’t have any to hand!). We’ve gone for 20cm squares which will generally cover your sandwiches! There you have it…your own sustainable preserving beeswax wrap! You’ll have no need to reach for the plastic cling film once these colourful creations enter your household. Why We Love Beeswax 100% of our Beauty Kitchen products are cruelty free and the majority are Vegan Society registered, but a small number of our products contain sustainably sourced beeswax (a waste byproduct of the honey industry). For example, our Natruline lip balm which we do have a vegan alternative for! Our Founder Jo Chidley has a lifetime passion for botany & nature and has been beekeeping since 2008! “I primarily took up beekeeping to make a difference to the plight of bees, but as a herbal botanist I it also made sense to help the local flora and fauna. It’s amazing to watch the colony on its annual journey, growing from 10,000 bees in the winter to 100,000 at the height of summer!” We always want to be transparent with you on our products which is why we use the Vegan Society Registered logo on our vegan products and list every ingredient on our packagaing & website. We hope you enjoy creating your beeswax wraps!

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How can we reduce our use of Single Plastic at home- ultimately to eliminate all Plastic?

How can we reduce our use of Single Plastic at home- ultimately to eliminate all Plastic?

by Mukesh Kapashi on May 31 2024
Shedding light on Beauty Kitchen  2024’s Earth Day theme was ‘Planet vs Plastics’ Earthday.org are committed to ending plastics to benefit both human and planetary health. They ask that we come together to action a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics within the next 16 years (by 2040). We know that plastic is a danger to all living creatures and that it disrupts the delicate equilibrium of life on earth. They press for a rapid phase out of all single use plastics with the utilisation of innovative technologies and materials to build a plastic-free world. The world is already inundated with single use plastic packaging waste and recycling is not going to solve the problem. There are concerns over what actually happens to the packaging we carefully recycle at home. A Greenpeace report states that thousands of tonnes of our household plastic packaging put out for recycling ends up going into landfill or ‘toxic chemical leaching’ waste incinerators. It has been reported that, sadly, half of UK’s plastic recycling is sent abroad to countries that are known to dump or burn plastic waste illegally. What is the solution? Reuseable & Refillable packaging is widely agreed as the best solution moving forward. Beauty Kitchen does just this, eliminating single use packaging waste by reusing their packaging to support a circular economy. Empties can be sent to Beauty Kitchen.  They remove inserts and labels, then wash the packaging and send to their fulfilment team to reuse for the next batch of products. Beauty Kitchen partners with Reposit (Reuse programme)  to create a universal, professional-refillable, reusable packaging platform. The 2020 British Beauty Council survey revealed that 88% of consumers want to buy refillable beauty products, and that 88% of those surveyed expected brands and retailers to help them live more sustainably. Beauty Kitchen found that 92% of consumers would switch brands for a brand with refillable packaging!  How it works for your customers: Enjoy Beauty Kitchen award-winning products. Simply collect and return their empties back to Beauty Kitchen by generating a Freepost label using the QR code on the product label. The packaging is then washed and refilled with another amazing Beauty Kitchen product. Who is Beauty Kitchen? Beauty Kitchen is certified BCorp- they are the highest-scoring beauty brand in Europe! Born out of co-founder Jo Chidley's love of beauty products, but frustration at finding it hard to come by truly effective products that considered sustainable ingredients as well as packaging. Beauty Kitchen are known for their effective, natural and sustainable products, all crafted to the Beauty Kitchen Promise:   First, the products have to really work! Second, they have to give great results with only natural ingredients. Third, they have to be sustainable, both inside and out.   Made in the UK, the range calls upon scientifically proven formulations that give incredible results, crafted from natural ingredients such as seahorse plankton and Abyssinian Oil. As well as being certified cruelty-free, 95% of products are certified vegan by The Vegan Society. Every product in the award-winning range has been designed with sustainability at its heart. Their anti-aging range is supercharged with a unique blend of sustainable -sourced Seahorse Plankton to brighten and renew skin, proven to boost collagen. This natural microalga is grown in a carbon neutral environment -the microalgae absorb CO2 and releases oxygen, a process used to generate power in the facility, with the extra electricity sold back to the grid.  Join us in tackling the plastics pandemic with Beauty Kitchen!
We’ve saved over 4 million Plastic Bottles!

We’ve saved over 4 million Plastic Bottles!

by The Beauty Kitchen Team on Jan 31 2024
Today is Earth Day which is an annual event dedicated to demonstrating support for environmental protection! Every day is an Earth Day here at Beauty Kitchen, however today we want to celebrate how you’ve helped us save one plastic bottle at a time from ending up in our environment by joining our #ReuseRevolution. So, drumroll please… Through our Return•Refill•Repeat programme, you’ve helped us save over 4 MILLION single use plastic bottles since the start of our journey! To say thanks, we’re GIVING AWAY a complete set of our new hair care bars to 20 of you: If you’d like to be in with a chance to get your hands on our Waste Zero Hair Heroes simply: 🌿 Post a photo on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter proudly showcasing how you’ve joined our #ReuseRevolution (with our sustainable products or your favourite sustainable swap!) 🌿  Don’t forget to tag us (@beautykitchen) & use the hashtag #ReuseRevolution We can’t wait to see all of the sustainable swaps you’ve been making to celebrate Earth Day! Here are a few of our favourite examples: