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  • Five Elements Skincare: New Zealand-Grown, Botanist-Created Beauty

    Five Elements Skincare: New Zealand-Grown, Botanist-Created Beauty

    Five Elements Skincare is a standout handcrafted, all-natural line of skin-loving botanical products from New Zealand that powerfully restore and enhance skin’s wellbeing and vitality, all without any questionable ingredients, common irritants, or harmful additives.  When Five Elements founder Karen Mackay reached out to me and offered me the chance to try a few of

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  • Interview with Five Elements Skincare Founder Karen Mackay

    Five Elements Skincare is a lovely natural skincare line from New Zealand.  In addition to enjoying and reviewing several of the products, I also had the privilege of interviewing Five Elements Skincare Founder Karen Mackay, a trained botanist who brings a deep knowledge of plants to her formulations.     What are the Five Elements? Karen Mackay

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  • Béni: The Best of Clean Beauty, Personalized

    Béni: The Best of Clean Beauty, Personalized

      The hunt for the perfect beauty product can be dizzying.  Sometimes there are so many choices that it’s hard to know where to begin.  There are so many brands—with new ones popping up all the time—that it’s hard to evaluate them; this becomes especially true when you consider that in addition to just wanting

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