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Friday, September 30, 2011

Fragrance - natural or artificial effects our health and lifestyle

Fragrance is an important part of our experience of living.  Our sense of smell is connected with emotion.  A smell can create a mood or evoke significant memories of a person, time or place which means something to us.


Inhaling artificial fragrance from our personal care products or cleaning products could be masking our natural sense of smell and affect our natural experience of the world.

A single word “Fragrance” denotes a load of chemicals
The single word "fragrance" on a cosmetic ingredients list - be it skin care  product, makeup,  or perfume  can mean a formula that comprises hundreds of chemicals many of which can get absorbed through your skin and get inside your body and cause health problems and allergies. Manufacturers are not legally bound to disclose the full ingredients of a fragrance because it is a secret brand formula.  So the consumer will never know what is in their product.

To avoid synthetic fragrance choose an organic natural brand.  Having a certification such as Soil Association, BDIH or Ecocert will ensure that it doesnt have synthetic fragrance.  At suvarna, of course, we don’t sell any products with synthetic fragrance, only natural fragrance from plant extracts and essential oils.

I feel it's absolutely unnecessary to create synthetic scent given the wealth of lovely fragrance available from nature from pure essential plant oils. Essential oils are more expensive than chemical fragrance which is a motivation to the profit driven chemical cosmetic manufacturers.

Unscented can mean extra chemicals added
Some petrochemical cosmetic products which are marketed as unscented can mean that they use a lot of chemical fragrance to mask the natural (or unnatural) scent of the other chemicals.  It may be advertised as a simple, gentle product but it is actually complicated to make something with no smell.

When natural organic cosmetics brands state unscented, on the other hand, this usually means it is without essential oils.

Perfume from essential oils creates a holistic effect
Since aromatherapy has become more mainstream many of us are aware that essential oils applied to the skin are absorbed in to the body and have powerful therapeutic properties. And we know how they can create a mood - relaxing, de-stressing. healing or stimulating effect.  Natural cosmetics with essential oils therefore give us more than superficial beauty and healthy skin but have a holistic therapeutic effect on the whole body, mind and emotions.

At Suvarna we sell totally natural organic perfumes and eau de toilettes from Farfalla, Lavera and Florascent.

www.suvarna.co.uk

Thursday, September 1, 2011

New! Sante Goji Berry Moisturizing Day Cream

I tried this new day cream with organic goji berry and found it light and smooth in texture yet moisturising enough for dry skin.  It has a pleasant berry fragrance. 

The value of Goji berry extract is that it is rich in vitamins and minerals, antioxidant, moisturising and strengthening. This moisture cream  also contains  a host of other moisturising organic ingredents such as organic shea butter, passion flower oil, olive oil, organic aloe vera (soothing, moisturising). jojoba oil, almond oil: (nourishing, softening, soothing).

I love the packaging with a very pretty pink/purple tube with leaf design!

For more info and to purchase this product visit: http://www.suvarna.co.uk/moisturisersandnightcreams/organic-goji-daycream.html



New Sodasan Organic Lavender Soap

If you love Lavender you'll love this soap with a gorgeous real scent of lavender! This pure vegetable soap is made in a traditional way and is truly organic - All the ingredients are certified organic.  Moisturising organic shea butter and organic Lavender essential oil are added after saponification to the cold soap therefore the shea butter has a moisturising effect rather than being saponified.  It makes a nice gift too! For more info visit: http://www.suvarna.co.uk/soaps/sodascan-lavender-soap.html