Necessaire skin- and body-care products, $25-$55, available at Necessaire
While many clean skin-care brands focus on facial products, Necessaire aims to create clean products for your whole body and do it in a self-care kind of way. If skin is our body's largest organ, why do we just use whatever body wash we got on sale last week?
"We are on a mission to reimagine personal care as self care," says co-founder Randi Christiansen. "We believe in better personal care, made in a better way. Our approach is to be clean, effective, transparent, and sustainable."
The body wash ($25) and lotion ($25) are already cult items despite the brand only being around since November 2018. The body wash comes in two delicious scents — sandalwood and eucalyptus — as well as a fragrance-free version. They're more like body oils that rinse clean as there are no sulfates that lather up into suds, so the experience might trip you out, but in a good way.
The body lotion is a personal favorite. It absorbs in seconds, doesn't feel greasy at all, and my hands still feel moisturized even after washing them. Made with marula, cacay, and meadowfoam oils, niacinamide, and an alphabet soup's worth of vitamins, the formula reads like a luxurious facial serum.
What the brand vows to never use: Sulfates, parabens, phthalates, silicones, petroleum, drying alcohol, chemical screens, synthetic fragrance, synthetic dyes, mineral oil, and PEGs.