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Every woman wants to feel special and wearing a favorite fragrance always sets the tone. Wearing a nice fragrance makes women (and men) feel confident, attractive, and sexy and is a proven mood enhancer.
Perfumes can also trigger happy memories, which is why some women wear their mother's signature scent. Wearing perfume doesn't just make you smell better, it makes you feel better too.
For the millions of people living with perfume sensitivity, finding a nice scent can be rather difficult. Most perfumes are synthesized from the fragrance industry’s 3,100 stock chemical ingredients and which ones are used to make a particular scent is a closely guarded secret.
But the fragrance industry is changing and established companies are adding natural scents to their lines. Using all-natural, organic beauty and scent products from ethical and green companies is the latest rage.
If you want to give all-natural perfumes a try, here are a few fantastic scents to get you started.
1. Lurk Perfumes
Lurk perfumes are made of 100 percent essential oils and have 12 natural scents. Lurk infuses a blend of essential oils with USDA-organic jojoba oil with USDA-organic cane alcohol that’s triple distilled for a fresh and balanced fragrance. Lurk’s perfumes are certified organic, GMO and paraben free. The packages are eco-friendly too.
2. Skylar Body
Skylar Body is a start-up with a wellness mission. The company's scents are all made from safe ingredients, and all products are cruelty-free and vegan. Skylar uses 80 percent natural ingredients, with the other 20 percent being non-allergenic synthetic ingredients that pass their ingredient safety screening. There are six different scents to choose from.
3. By Rosie Jane
By Rosie Jane is a line of fragrances created by celebrity make-up artist Rosie Jane Johnston. The line is handcrafted in small batches, and the manufacturing process is sustainable (and cruelty-free) as are the natural oils they are made of. The fragrances are sulfite, paraben, phthalate, and phosphate-free. The packaging is paper that’s 100 percent recyclable.
4. Pacifica
Pacifica features a line of affordable and easy to wear perfumes made from essential and natural oils that adhere to IFRA standards, so they are safe for your skin. This green line is 100 percent vegan, cruelty-free and uses recyclable packaging.
5. IME Natural Perfumes
IME is certified 100 percent natural and free of anything animal based or artificial. The line of nine unique scents is made from pure botanical essential oils, absolutes, and balsams, and pure grain alcohol that is Gluten and GMO-free. This environmentally friendly company is Natural Perfumers Guild certified and certified toxin-free from Safe Cosmetics Australia.
6. Lavanila
Lavanila is an environmentally green and health orientated fragrance company that wants women to look and feel their best. That's why their handmade perfumes made from all-natural and organic ingredients are packed full of with antioxidants, vitamins, and natural oils that are safe and non-toxic. There are no artificial dyes, or any harsh chemicals used, and the company is cruelty-free. The packaging is recyclable. This is a company that gives back to a cause and plants a tree for every purchase to offset any environmental impact.
7. Pour Le Monde
Pour Le Monde sells perfumes that are as natural and ethically made as possible and their products are certified with the Natural Products Association, vegan, cruelty-free, and FSC-certified. It is also the only fragrance company that was awarded a B Corporation certification that is issued to for-profit companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. There are three different scents crafted from Italian bergamot and Florida grapefruit. This company donates 10 percent of the net sale to charity.
8. PHLUR
PHLUR is a company that cares about health and doesn't use any potentially harmful ingredients and unnecessary additives. Its perfumes are made of natural and essential oils and all ingredients are coordinated with the IUCN to make sure they are responsibly sourced and the company is cruelty-free. PHLUR designed an opaque glass bottle to protect its scents so they last longer, and the FSC-boxes are made from 100 percent post-consumer cardboard.
9. Strange Invisible Perfumes
Strange Invisible Perfumes makes a luxury line of 100 percent botanical perfumes. The fragrances blend certified organic, sustainably grown or wildcrafted, biodynamic, and hydro-distilled essences with compelling narratives. Strange Invisible perfumes do not use any synthetic or manipulated ingredients and the company’s motto is that everything is crafted by nature. The packaging comes from paper manufactured using biofuel with pulp from sustainably managed forests. This green company's boutique and headquarters are enrolled in the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Green Power for a Green LA program which relies upon solar, wind, biomass and other renewable sources of energy.
