Ahhh. Spring has sprung, pretty ones! The days are longer and patio weather is upon (some of) us. So we’re happy today to have a wonderful deal—a full 20% site-wide discount—from one of our favorite purveyors of natural oils and scents, Essence of Vali. It just seems fitting.
Valerie, or Vali as many call her, wanted us to tell you specifically about her wonderful bath and body oil, which she just launched. As with all her products, it was made by hand and it features some of our favorite oils: lavender, cedarwood, rosewood, patchouli, palmarosa, gerainium, clove & litsea cubeba into 100% pure golden jojoba. Of course, you can choose whatever your heart desires to bring in the spring…
Just enter the NMDL promo code and get a full 20% off any Essence of Vali products. Pure and simple.
We love this brand, and how reasonably priced everything is. It’s been a big hit with readers too, so please review and share what you’ve tried in the comments! And if you’re a first time user and looking for some guidance you can also reference this useful index on the site.
Got any exciting plans this weekend? We’re gearing up for the two-hour Mad Men season five premiere on Sunday. Excited to see their wardrobes and makeup evolve as the times do. Perhaps we’ll find some new old inspiration.
It’s Friday, and most of us have had a long week. Yes? Yes. So we’re going to keep things easy breezy and share with you a wonderful deal from one of our favorite retailers: futurenatural. Scotch, RMS, Intelligent Nutrients, Lotus Wei… we’ve told you before: These guys carry most of our favorite lines. Oh hey, they even carry our book (and if you haven’t read it yet, what the heck are you waiting for?). Help some sisters out!
So here it is: Buy anything and everything you like and get a 15% discount. Full stop. Just use promo code NMDL15 AND CLICK “APPLY DISCOUNT.” And hurry up! Emma, the site’s founder, is giving away five Suki lip trios (valued at $30) to the first five shoppers who spend over $150 (after discount). And anyone who breaks the $100 mark (after discount) gets FREE SHIPPING too. The deal will run through Sunday night at 11:59pm.
One thing we really love about this site is that they also offer a try-before-you-buy sample program. It’s hard to buy products online, we know. So we appreciate when companies go the extra mile to make it easier.
As per, share with your clean comrades which products you like from this site as well as any general experience stuff. Transparency is always the name of the game, and because natural beauty sites are still something of a rarity, we all love hearing personal experiences from each other.
And while you’re at it… any great plans for this weekend? Alexandra is throwing a three-way bday party. It’s going to be awesome, though not as awesome as it would be if Siobhan were there.
Happy weekend clean ones.
Dearest Friday, we are so happy that you’re finally here. In celebration of your arrival, our good pals at NuboNau are offering a special double dealski. As you guys know, we deeply heart PAI and they recently sent over their new gentle exfoliator for us to check out. Alexandra has yet to try it—because she’s having a weekly affair with her Mia brush right now—but Siobhan has officially added it to her favorite cleanser list. (Alexandra is planning to put down the Mia to try it soon.) Anyhoo….
Deal numero uno: Order the PAI Exfoliator with the PAI Facial Oil (also yummy!) and you’ll get both for $50 (instead of $70). That’s a 30% discount AND you also get FREE SHIPPING. Just use promocode NMDL1 once you’ve added both (and any other) products to your basket.
Deal numero dos: Place any order on anything, spend more than $25 and get FREE SHIPPING on that too. For this one (if you’re not ordering the PAI) use promocode NMDL2 once you’ve added the products to your basket. Claro?
Dont forget to tell your friends: Have you tried PAI? What other lines do you like from this store?
Other stuff you should know:
- If you have any issues redeeming your offer, you can call their Customer Care number Toll Free: 1 877 NuboNau (682 6628).
- Free shipping applies to the USA only.
- You will receive Loyalty Points for all your purchases.
- Deal is valid for one week (until Thursday March 15th 2012 12:00PM PST).
- They are happy to take order over the Phone: 1 877 NuboNau
- Deals cannot be used or combined with any other offers.
Have a sparkly weekend!
After a wee hiatus, one of our absolute favorite brands is back on the Friday Deal scene today. They’d like to introduce everyone to their Facial Cleanser, which has been slightly updated, is now Ecocert-certified, and is even more gentle-in-a-good-way than before. They’re so sure we’re all going to get hooked—we’ll be trying it with the rest of y’all, how we haven’t yet is a bit of a mystery—that they’re offering a generous travel-sized version with any purchase. But on top of that goodness, they’re doing a site-wide discount. Is it us, or these deals just keep getting better?
OK, details! Get a 15% discount on absolutely anything in the Kahina store, along with your free travel-sized cleanser. All you have to do is enter the promo code FREE15 at checkout and the deal and gift will be applied automatically. This will run the full week too, so booya to that! (Note: The image above is the full size version.)
And don’t forget to share with your friends, if your a Kahina user, what you like from this line.
As many of you know, Kahina Giving Beauty makes incredibly clean, incredibly high-quality products using one of our most loved ingredients: argan oil. They also go above protocol to help improve the lives of the women of the Berber community that they work with. Just a little info, in case this is your first rodeo.
Happy Friday, loves!
Ahem! Ladies and gents, you read right: The original queen of green beauty, Spirit Demerson, is back for a freaking awesome Friday Deal with a discount on all things in the Spirit Beauty Lounge. We’re beyond stoked, of course—it’s just hard to beat a site-wide discount, isn’t it? As most of you know SBL carries a wide range of amazing products, including so many of our absolute favorites. They have Ilia and Intelligent Nutrients, Tata, and Pai; they have Kahina and Kjaer, Soapwalla, Scotch, and Tatcha. Just to name a few.
So, easy as pie: Order whatever you want, enter the promo code NMDL15 at checkout, and get 15% OFF your order. Note: This deal will only run until Monday.
What are your faves from this site? Alexandra is out of her Honore des Pres, so she’s going to re-up. Siobhan, meanwhile, needs her Acure shampoo, and may just load up on a top-secret boysturizer for a boy (review coming!).
Happy Friday fun! Gotta any great plans this weekend?
Wootwoot, we’re very excited to have Futurenatural back for a fabuloso Friday Deal. Hailing from Austin—any Austin readers in the house?—this online natural beauty site carries many of our favorite brands, from Scotch Naturals, to RMS, to Kahina and Lotus Wei. Today’s star is of course One Love Organics, whose Skin Savior balm has become a bit of a cult favorite for the green beauty set, and is currently Alexandra’s go-to face cleansing oil. But there’s more to the deal than that!
Here’s the dillio: Spend over $30 on any One Love Organics products and you’ll receive a travel size Skin Savior Balm, valued at $16. OR order over $60 and get their new (and wonderful) travel-sized Morning Glory Serum, valued at $29.
What’s more is that Futurenatural is also offering a site-wide 10% discount on ALL products. This applies with or without One Love purchases. For ALL PROMOS just use the NMDL code and the deals will be applied automatically.
The deal lasts until Sunday night at midnight!
Happy shopping everybody! And happy long weekend for the lucky ducks getting it!
Surprise! It’s 2012 and we are trying new things.
Continuing love-thyself-for-Valentine’s-Day theme, we have teamed up with a fashion designer we love to create two little gift sets for women who are in need of some serious pampering—or who just love pretty things!
Society for Rational Dress has been a longtime favorite brand of ours, so when founder Corinne Grassini approached us about doing a partnership, we got pretty excited. The SFRD name was inspired by a Victorian anti-corset women’s movement called the Rational Dress Society, and Corinne has made female partnerships central to her brand’s philosophy. We obviously love that.
While we don’t fancy ourselves fashion designers, we really enjoyed brainstorming and giving our input to help create this organic hemp nightie (isn’t it pretty?) and relaxing lavender, rose petal and chamomile face pillow. We wanted to offer something that encouraged women to pamper themselves, as well as to take timeouts from their busy days.
The items are being sold as a set of all three (third item being…the book!), or if the nightie’s not your style, you can get just the eye pillow with a book as well. And of you already own a book? Great! Gift it to a friend! Though this one is different from a conventional Friday Deal (BTW that one is still running!), as our readers you get a special discount.
You’ll get an additional 10% off the sets and anything else on the Society website when you enter the NMDL promo code. Because this is sort of an experiment, these were all made in very limited quantities. So if you like it, get ‘er!
And P.S. While we can all agree the model is a total beauty, we also know for a fact this nightie also looks good on girls with some curves. Which matters! Just sayin’!
You probably could have predicted this one, yeah? It’s almost V-day, and whether or not you think that holiday is a Hallmark sham, we can all get behind 1) love, 2) the delicious organic chocolates from Wei of Chocolate, and 3) the bewitching blends (including new perfumes!) from Lotus Wei. So this week we have a double deal from these two very special companies.
Here’s how it works: Get a 15% site-wide discount on any of the delicious, flower-essence infused, meditative chocolates from Wei of Chocolate. Nom nom nom.
And get a 20% site-wide discount from Lotus Wei—be sure to check out the infinite love products (one of our favorites, and truly a love potion). Two deals, two sites, lots of love.
Promo code, as always: NMDL. Deal lasts till next Thursday, February 9, at midnight.
Now, in keeping with our new tradition: If you have tried the chocolates and/or scents from either of these lines, please include your own little review in the comments!
If you have no idea what we’re talking about, as in “what the heck are flower essences, and why would they be in chocolate or anything else?” please go back to previous posts like this one and this one or this one, just to name a few. We’re obviously huge fans.
Have a love-filled weekend.
xo
In case you are too young to recognize what’s going on in the picture up top, that’s a still from Gilligan’s Island, a TV show about a sort of annoying guy with the best luck in the world: He got stranded on a desert island with these two foxes, who were really nice and improbably touchy with him for reasons never made clear. Consider Ginger and Mary-Ann (and, fine, Gilligan) your muses for the next two weeks, because we want you to pretend you’re a castaway…
…and you’re stuck there with just five products to your name, trying to feel and look your best while you do it.
We gave you a little tip off in advance and your comments are inspiring! Many of you are optimistic it will be easy, which we love because we were kind of panicking about having to do it too.
So why do it at all? Many products create the need for more products, and this is especially true when you’re talking about conventionals. You get stuck with skin so dried out from your soap that it feels like it could snap if you don’t moisturize, and if your moisturizer isn’t right for your skin it gives you spots, and then you need acne potions. This is so dumb!
But even devotes of clean probably use and buy more than we need.
People like to say women use 12 products a day on average, and men use 7. We know from counting on our fingers and canvassing our friends that most of us use way more—even people who think of themselves as unfussy.
Variety is nice, but as with anything in life—your work, your personal life, your diet, your sense of your own beauty—something kind of amazing can happen when you limit your options and figure out what works best for you. We were talking last week about what it takes for you to feel your best, and I was the first to admit I don’t always stick with it. Life gets in the way, sh*t gets hectic, we get it. I do this with my skin and hair, too. But consider this an exercise in picking—and sticking with—what you know works.
So let’s do this thing. Choose carefully. Have fun. And remember you have two weeks to pull it off, so if you mess up, you do have time to try, try again.
Some rules: Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t steal.
Instructions: For three consecutive days, use only five of the same products. That includes all personal care products—hair stuff, leave-ins, shaving cream, face potions, makeup, perfume, cologne, mists, body lotions and scrubs, you get the picture—except toothpaste and deodorant. Then write us an email at nomoredirtylooks (at) gmail (dot) com with DESERT in the subject line, and include your first name and location, written thusly “Sally, Boise, Idaho” and a brief description of how it went. Send this to us by the end of the day Wednesday, February 15th. Pro tip: Don’t wait until the end if you actually care about Valentine’s Day and want to get gussied up for it.
Prize: We will pick three winners at random and winners will get a sweet gift certificate from one of our favorite brands or retailers. We’ll tell you who in a couple of days, but regulars will know: Our prizes are always good!
Special favor: Help us make sure this awesome. Tell your friends on Twitter, Facebook, at the gym or at the bar. Friend us, follow us, and then RT us, or whatever. Spread the word!
The reason for the challenge: Well, there are a few. One, see above: We buy more than we need! And two, naturals often cost more than conventionals, which is why we always advocate quality over quantity. Finally, challenges are FUN.
Who’s in?
Was Gilligan the worst or what? Via
We have a tough question to ask you, one that we’ve been asking ourselves.
If you could only use 5 products—total—what would they be? Yep, it’s that childhood game, and we’re gearing up to make it a challenge, so think carefully: What would you take with you on a desert island?
Alexandra would probably take Rare Elements Conditioner, Tammy Fender Repair Balm, RMS lip-to-cheek in Rapture (though she’d shed a big tear for Ilia’s Bang Bang), Afterglow Concealer in Praline, and a good bar of soap. Or no soap—the ocean will clean her!—and her Laura Mercier waterproof mascara instead? Ugh, tough decisions.
Siobhan would take her Acure Shampoo (hydrating enough for her to forgo conditioner), Tata Harper’s Refreshing Cleanser, Laura Mercier Minerals (they’re clean!), 100% Pure Mascara and, like her pal, the Tammy Fender Repair Balm.
Now, tell us in the comments what you would take, and begin to mentally gear up for one of our most exciting (and challenging) challenges yet!
