September is right around the corner, which means it’s time to start thinking about returning to class and simplifying your skincare and cleaning routine. Since many will be focusing on your studies, it’s best to follow routines that are simple yet effective, so that you can have glowing skin and a clean living space that doesn’t take too much of your time.
Within your back-to-school clean skincare routine, you’ll want a cleanser, toner, serum, moisturizer, and a product that contains SPF. In addition, a dry shampoo, creamy conditioner, and clean, natural laundry detergent can improve your life in ways you never thought possible.
Before building out your new regimens, here are Think Dirty’s top back-to-school picks that have you feeling confident on and off campus.
Kind Laundry — Laundry Detergent Sheets
When you’re off at college or studying full-time from home, finding the time to do your laundry can be challenging. But using an eco-friendly, zero-waste laundry detergent can provide you with that little extra push of motivation you need to run a load. These Kind Laundry detergent sheets come in two scent options: fragrance-free and ocean breeze. They are also contained in zero-waste packaging instead of those traditional single-use plastic jugs that end up in the landfill.
Codex Labs — SHAANT Hydrating Body Scrub
The SHAANT Hydrating Body Scrub is ideal for those who struggle with blemishes and acne on their chest, shoulders, and back. It’s vegan, cruelty-free, microbiome-friendly, and gently removes dead skin cells while building up and supporting the skin’s sensitive barrier. Along with removing dead skin cells, the body scrub also hydrates, removes impurities, and balances oiliness.
Force of Nature — Force of Nature Starter Kit
Parents aren’t part of the classroom experience, but they can help schools learn about ways that they can keep classrooms disinfected without exposing kids, teens, and young adults to harmful chemicals. Sadly the chemicals that many schools and daycares rely on can actually make kids sick. Force of Nature kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses and is an EPA-registered disinfectant, but it’s also the same substance that our own immune systems make to fight infection and is gentle enough to use around children and babies.
Odele — Leave-In Conditioner
This salon-grade Leave-In Conditioner from Odele delivers when it comes to moisture, detangling, and defining soft, flexible curls. Whether your hair is naturally thirsty or dry from treatment, this quenching conditioner is formulated with amino acids that help improve hair health over time. You’ll be left with better bounce and better movement, so shine on! It’s suitable for all hair types and textures.
Odele — Dry Shampoo
This dry shampoo, that’s vegan and cruelty-free, can instantly revive your hair and add volume with its nutrient-packed, plant-based powder. It can absorb excess oil and add oomph between showers. No one will ever know if you skip one or several washes. Odele’s Dry Shampoo is suitable for all hair types and textures, especially those with an oily scalp.
Odele — Clarifying Shampoo
Wash away buildup from products, pollutants, hard water deposits, or chlorine with this salon-grade clarifying wash. Formulated using both sulphate-free lathering cleansers as well as chelation technology that acts as a magnet for impurities, this shampoo brings you back to neutral. Get your hair back into its birthday suit and look forward to a fresh start. This clarifying shampoo is suitable for all hair types and textures, especially those with product, chlorine, and mineral buildup from hard water.
MANJULA Essentials — Body Oil
This body oil blend is luxurious and is made with four Ayurvedic natural botanical extracts that soothe inflammation, boost recovery from exposure to free radicals, and encourage deep hydration. The moisture-replenishing body oil will leave you feeling soft, radiant, and restored from your head to your toes. It can be used on the face as well, leaving you with a dewy glow.
MANJULA Essentials — Hair Oil
It’s exactly like MANJULA Essentials’ Body Oil but for your hair! Created with six Ayurvedic botanical extracts, this hair oil can strengthen and repair damaged hair without weighing it down. Along with preventing breakage, it can stimulate hair growth, and delay greying. Plus, you even have the option to use it on body hair or beards to improve growth and add hydration.
Hempz — Fragrance Free Herbal Sugar Scrub
If we know one thing, it’s that all of the body products created by Hempz smell incredibly delicious. This fragrance-free sugar scrub brings a rather luxurious experience to showers and bathtubs everywhere. The naturally gentle, exfoliating scrub is made with sugar and plant-based oils, making it a favourite among those who prefer vegan and cruelty-free products.
Eyetitude — IllumineyeZ Rejuvenator
Unlock the full benefit of your favourite serums and creams with the IllumineyeZ Rejuvenator. It provides maximum hydration while reducing the appearance and formation of wrinkles, scars, and age spots. The rejuvenator uses 10,000 times/minute high-frequency vibration massage, heat, infrared LED light, and negative ion technology to repair damaged cells, enhance cell activity, promote collagen and elasticity, tighten pores, and firm skin. Additionally, it promotes blood circulation whereby reducing dark circles and under-eye bags and increasing the maximum absorbability of your go-to creams and serums, increasing blood circulation for protection against puffiness & dark circles. The device is easy to use and gentle for all skin types.
My Little Mascara Club — Best Mascara Ever: Length + Definition
Made with more than 90% natural ingredients, this lengthening and defining mascara is sweat-proof and smear-proof, and won’t leave you looking like a raccoon after wearing it all day. It easily removes with water and is created with ingredients like plant-based squalene, candelilla wax, and palm oil — so you can rest easy knowing you’re not coating your gorgeous lashes in any harmful chemicals. The formula is clump-free, easy to apply, and is considered eco-friendly.
100% Pure — Coffee Bean Caffeine Eye Cream
The Coffee Bean Caffeine Eye Cream from 100% Pure de-puffs, boosts circulation and brightens dark circles with caffeine extracted from coffee and green tea. This cream will be incredibly helpful after pulling an all-nighter when studying for an exam or finishing an essay. Its formula features anti-aging vitamins and rosehip to promote a youthful eye area.
100% Pure — Bright Eye Masks
These hydrating eye masks can be worn when you’re getting ready, studying, or lounging around in your free time. The formula uses cooling cucumber and naturally-derived caffeine to reduce puffiness around the eye area. Every mask is made with 95% organic aloe juice and the other 5% is plant cellulose. They are vegan, cruelty-free, and gluten-free.
Branch Basics — Classroom Essentials Kit
If you’re a teacher, or if you like to keep a clean living space, this Classroom Essentials Kit is a must-have for September. The kit contains everything you need to keep a clean classroom, including a multi-purpose, eco-friendly concentrate, two all-purpose bottles, and two foaming wash bottles. The concentrate is made with non-toxic, fragrance-free ingredients and the packaging is all biodegradable.
Ekhambee — Sensitive Skin Face Cleanser
This facial cleanser’s scent is really something to write home about — the tangerine smell will provide you with a boost of energy every time you wash your face. The formula is suitable for dry, combination, normal, and sensitive skin, and is gentle enough to use daily in the mornings and evenings. Beyond giving your face a burst of hydration, it softens and gently cleanses while fading dark spots, discoloration, and hyperpigmentation, along with bringing a radiant glow to your face and body while making you smell good.
Beessential — Sweet Orange Foaming Soap
This rich Sweet Orange Foaming Soap is tantalizing to the senses. It contains the perfect combination of moisturizing oils: coconut oil to hydrate, olive oil to provide antioxidants known to prevent premature aging, and hemp oil for soothing and healing. This proprietary combination of oils is saponified (a fancy word for turning oil into soap) in small tank batches, so each bottle is made with the care and commitment you expect from Beessential.
Standard Self Care — Hyaluronic Daily Moisturizer
You will thank us for introducing you to this moisturizer.
Say hello to a skincare gem that effortlessly works its magic day and night. Packed with the dynamic duo of Hyaluronic Acid and Kakadu Plum, it’s like a hydration hug and radiance boost rolled into one.
In addition, this product will increase collagen production and is cruelty-free and vegan. What more could you ask for in a moisturizer?
Standard Self Care — Omega+ Cell Regenerating Eye Cream
We saved the best product for last!
Presenting the Omega+ Cell Regenerating Eye Cream — the ultimate game-changer in clean skincare. Think luxurious hydration meets plant-powered magic. Sea Buckthorn Oil, Bilberry, Maple Sugar, and Albizia Jilibrissin Bark join forces for skin that’s happier than a puppy with a treat. And guess what? Hyaluronic Acid’s on the scene, boosting collagen, dialling up radiance, and saying “see ya” to fine lines and wrinkles.
Get ready to wave goodbye to tired eyes and say hello to a fresh, vibrant gaze. The Omega+ Cell Regenerating Eye Cream: because why settle for ordinary when you can sparkle?
Whether you’re a teacher, student, or parent of a student returning to school in the fall, these products are sure to be appreciated by all. It’s no surprise that germs live in the classroom and on campus, which is why a cleaning kit or foaming soap makes the perfect back-to-school gift for the learners (or teachers) in your life. All of the products featured within Think Dirty’s back-to-school guide are made with clean ingredients and are eco-friendly, making them guilt-free purchases you can feel good about.
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