Better-for-You Blog

10 Plant-Based Ingredients That Help Heal the Skin
Harnessing the powerful natural ingredients in plants can have significant benefits for the health of our body and our skin.
Eco-Friendly Gifts Friends & Family Will Love
By putting some eco-friendly creativity into your gifts, you’ll be able to assemble unique gifts with lots of personality.
Shea Butter: The Wonder Ingredient for Skin & Hair
Shea butter is a proven plant-based super hydrator that’s been used as a healing ingredient in skincare for centuries.
How to Rid Your Home of Toxins & Live Healthier
Research shows that toxins in personal care products and in home products can trigger health problems like asthma, headaches, cancer, and other health conditions. 
Beautiful Benefits of Hemp Seed Oil
Hemp seed oil is rich in nutrients, is super hydrating, and serves as an anti-inflammatory, making it an effective way to soothe itchy, dry, and chapped skin.
How Fluctuating Hormones Can Affect Skin & Hair
Using the most natural, plant-based ingredients on skin helps support the body’s natural processes, rather than disrupting them as many chemical ingredients can do today.
Benefits of a Vegan Hair Care Routine
Vegan, cruelty-free hair care products offer an effective alternative to traditional hair care products. Plus, these products are better for your health and the environment too.
Do-It-Yourself: 4 Better-for-You Beauty Recipes
With natural and organic ingredients, our toxin-free clean beauty products can be used to create more bath and body essentials. 
Green Up Your Beauty Routine & Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
If you want to do good for Mother Earth, there are easy steps you can take to "green up" your beauty routine and reduce your personal impact on the environment.
6 Natural Ways to Protect Hair All Summer Long
Summer can wreak havoc on healthy hair strands. Extreme heat, the sun’s UV rays, salt water, and chlorine can all rob hair of essential moisture.
Oh-So-Healing Aloe: All About This Amazing Plant
Aloe vera contains powerful health-promoting compounds like amino acids, lipids, sterols, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Beautiful Benefits of Green Tea
So many plants have powerful benefits for the skin and the body. But green tea in particular has been shown to promote healing, reduce inflammation, and rejuvenate the skin.
8 Simple Ways to Switch Up Your Beauty Routine for the Seasons
There’s no question that our skin and hair needs change as the seasons change. Fall and winter brings cooler, dryer air that can easily sap skin and hair strands of essential moisture. Spring and summer brings warmer temps and more...
Home Spa Hacks: How to Turn Your Space Into a Blissful Retreat
If you’re feeling a bit frazzled, the thought of booking a spa vacation may be appealing but may not be practical—or necessary. The truth is: while going away to a spa is an alluring idea, you don’t need to travel...
On-the-Go Clean Beauty Essentials for Hair, Body & Lips
The key when traveling is to pack natural better-for-you and cruelty-free multi-tasking essentials. When your products work double or even triple duty, you can pack less.
Our Commitment to Sustainable Beauty
Sustainable beauty to us at Pharmacopia means ensuring that the products we create are not just better for the planet, they’re also non-toxic and better for you and your health.
The Healing Benefits of Essential Oils
At Pharmacopia, everything we do is better for you and plant based. That’s why we use only the purest essential oils and nature-derived fragrances in our products for hair, body, and lips.
Show Your Locks Some Plant-Based Love
Sudsing up your locks should be a pampering experience. And it’s why all our ingredients are not only plant-based, they’re also filled with heady natural scents.
Perfecting Your Pout: The Art of Lip Natural Care
At Pharmacopia, we know that skin—the largest organ in the body—can absorb what you put onto it. And the lips are no different.
Clean Beauty: 7 Key Characteristics to Look For
Clean beauty, in a nutshell, is beauty — from body care and hair care products to makeup and skin care — that’s free from toxins that can be harmful to health.
Toxin-Free Home Cleaning Hacks That Work
The traditional cleaning products you use in your home to clean floors, kitchens, bathrooms, and more can be harmful not only to you, but to the environment, too.