Sea Buckthorn

By Sarah London's Organic Hair Oil

We're sure we're not alone in admitting that we spend our early mornings armed with a hairdryer (and other hot hair styling tools…) Whether we're going for a straight or curly style, we're no strangers to using a little heat to tame our tresses at The Amazing Blog; and while our hair looks well groomed, we do struggle with the inevitability of dry and damaged ends. From this issue emerged a quest to bring the shine back, bringing vegan brand, By Sarah London, into the frame. They introduced their Organic Hair Oil to us, and this has been our newfound way of injecting some much need moisture, and we couldn't wait to share this with you all!

By Sarah London is a natural and organic brand, providing products that demonstrate full transparency concerning ingredient choices. From humble beginnings, this brand emerged when founders Sarah and Lauren took on the challenge of soothing Lauren's skin while recovering from leukaemia. Their plant-based goal has since developed into a full range of hair care, body care and skincare products that promote conscious living and natural wellbeing simultaneously.

We tried their Organic Hair Oil, a 98% organic and 100% natural product, without the use of artificial ingredients, essential oils or fragrance. Instead, this gem of a find contains Argan oil, sea buckthorn oil and Vitamin E, actively working to prevent thinning of your tresses, and preventing the split ends often associated with the use of heat treatment. Having used this for a few weeks, we can confirm our hair looks and feels both stronger and softer, and with a pretty and recyclable glass bottle - it looks great on any dressing table too. The oil is also unscented, and is a nice addition in the market of heavily fragrance hair oils. To use, add 1-2 drops to clean, damp hair before blow-drying - or, we were also pleased to discover, this oil can be used before air drying your hair (with no sticky residue - bonus!)

To bring the shine back to your hair, visit the By Sarah London website here, where you'll find the 20ml bottle available for £21.50, a little goes a long way!.

BIO2YOU

Ever the frustrated ex-beauty writer, I just can’t help myself from trying all the new lotions and potions that arrive in a flurry of glossy magazine adverts and media hype.  The more natural that they are, the more inclined I am to whisk them gamely off the shelves and straight into my basket - in other words I have to have a dabble. What whetted my appetite here, is the unusual key ingredient of Sea Buckthorn oil in this new range of skincare BIO2YOU . Sea Buckthorn is proclaimed to be the richest known natural source of carotenoids, beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A), vitamin E, vitamin K1, and beta-sitosterol. Not forgetting to mention that this BIO2YOU Organic Anti Aging Sea Buckthorn Cream also has Hyaluronic Acid & Argireline.   BIO2YOU has over eight different products including serums, skin masks and day moisturisers - all products are completely natural, free from parabens, alcohol and animal by-products.

So now you’re going to ask, what's it like? Well it's very light, fresh and to be honest it quite surprised me as to how compatible it was with my current fav FreshMineral loose powder foundation.  Some moisturisers that I have used in the past have made my foundations go all ‘bobbly’ and this one certainly didn’t.  At  £24.95/50ml (pump dispenser) it’s not too hefty price to pay for something that professes to give long-lasting moisture (yes), nourishment (yes) and has clinical studies showing  application of Argireline over a 15-30 day period produces an antiwrinkle effect (er…ever hopeful!)