Growing organic skincare brand Skincando has a brand new product line that’s ready to freshen up adult faces just in time for back-to-school season.
I was an eager test bunny, first hopping on the regimen before the Fourth of July. Just six weeks later, my skin tone has really evened out. I’ve also said goodbye to my dry patches and the redness I used to mask under layers of foundation.
“My products make skin become a non-issue — it’s the skin you’ve always wanted,” says Skincando founder Sara Damelio, adding the new luxe line helps clients take her famed facials to their sink.
Before Sara’s products entered my bathroom, I endorsed what the 20-year esthetician pro calls “drug store” skin. I’d tear miles-long CVS coupons to buy skincare products filled with cheap chemicals, fillers, and fragrance. Now I’m feeding my face with non-processed and organic ingredients (more on my refreshed routine in a minute).
“It’s the difference between eating fast food all the time and eating a healthy, whole food diet,” she says.
I go out all the time, so like many of you out there, I’m not a cleanser-only kind of girl. Luckily, there are lots of makeup brands out there that won’t screw up my face’s newly natural intake.
One is RMS Beauty, an all-natural line founded by runway makeup artist Rose-Marie Swift. After 20 years in the industry, she says she battled health issues from the aluminum, lead, mercury, and pesticides found in most cosmetics. Find her products at Veer and Wander inside DC’s Union Market alongside dozens of organic balms and elixirs. Georgetown’s Take Care Shop DC also serves lots of eco-friendly bath, herbal, and baby product lines.
Back to Skincando.
Here are the skin-changing bottles I pour and slather on my face daily:
Aloe Foam: This witch hazel-based gentle cleanser offers a Vitamin C boost via zesty key lime essential oils, Ph balanced to help lower redness and make your face feel like it just had a quickie at the spa. “It’s a light cleanser without stripping the skin,” she says.
Pearl Mud: This exfoliating cleanser is the “workhorse” of the line, she says, remineralizing skin using fresh glacial clay sourced from Alaska’s Copper River. Its big task is to polish off dead skin cells and gross city-living grime. Skincando’s OG product — Miracle Cream — absorbs much better as a result.
Sage + Gold Toner: This shimmering spray bottle filled with gold flecks has anti-inflammatory properties and helps slough off the day.
Liquid Silver: This weightless SPF-15, applied with a dropper, is stocked with seaweed, silk protein, and micro silver that works like mini-mirrors to reflect the sun. “It’s like a skin smoothie for the face,” she says.
Her products are filled in glass, not plastic, containers as to not taint the ingredients. Her Woodley Park Garden Spa offers free skin consultations by phone (just name drop this read). Find Skincando’s skin candy on skincando.com and Amazon Prime.
And last but not least, don’t forget to use her new CBD Cleansing Oil + Makeup Remover. This on-trend elixir, starring organic CBD bio-active and hemp oil, is packed with a medley of earthy ingredients (peach, apricot, lavender, and spearmint, to name a few) to swiftly delete the day’s makeup. When I wake up (after some interesting and possibly CBD-induced dreams!), my skin is feeling plumped up, rehydrated, and ready to tackle a stressful day.
Sara was an early fan of CBD, the now-ubiquitous hemp oil that boasts lots of external medicinal uses to keep calm and zen on.
“But you can’t just stick it in anything. You have a clean base of ingredients for things like this to work,” she adds.
Learn more this Thursday, August 29, when Sara co-hosts a CBD seminar at Vida U Street, complete with relaxing hand massages, facials, and infused drinks! Purchase tickets HERE!
