We love a good lip gloss as much as the next person, but unfortunately a lot of brands have harmful ingredients in them that are damaging to our skin externally and us internally. Plus, sadly still test on animals. Whether it’s fragrance, metals or chemicals, they can impact our health in the short or longterm. We should be especially careful of what we put around our mouths because we have the potential of swallowing it. This is why we’ve put together a list of some beautifully shining lip glosses that are completely clean, so you can feel good that your external glow isn’t interrupting your internal one.

5 Completely Clean Lip Glosses:

Brand: boosh 

Featured Shade: Ruby

Get everything you’re looking for in a gloss: no stickiness, smooth shiny glide and the ideal amount of colour, without any chemicals. Boosh’s gloss uses natural ingredients to make you feel as good as you look like coconut oil for moisture and peppermint oil for a cooling sensation.  

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Brand: Elate Cosmetics 

Featured Shade: Radiate

Leave your lips feeling fresh and cool with this peppermint essential oil infused lip gloss that also highly moisturizes. It mixes the perfect natural combo of coconut oil for shine and castor oil for colour, making it great for any occasion. 

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Brand: Harlow Skin Co.

Featured Shade: Natural 

This multi-purpose Skin Gloss can be used on your lips, cheeks and eyes for a beautiful dewy look that protects while bringing benefits. It’s been created to enhance natural skin pigments and has ingredients like cocoa seed butter to nourish and beeswax for anti-inflammatory purposes. 

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Brand: Zorah biocosmetiques

Featured Shade: Mya 

Treat your lips to an argan oil base that helps protect and repair your lips while they shine with a beautiful mineral pigment. With rich ingredients like shea and cocoa butter, it leaves your lips looking plump with a comfortable, non-sticky feel. 

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Brand: Pure Anada

Featured Shade: Morganite

Nourish your lips with mineral metallics for a high shine and plant butters. It has zero silicone and artificial colours/ flavours so you can feel confident so what’s going on your lips is not only going to give you an amazing glow but is also beneficial.

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As our new year’s resolutions are often focused around grand goals for wellness, spirituality and physical fitness, we often forget about our daily routines and how small changes can go a long way towards helping us feel better, lighter, nurtured and more conscious.

One of the simplest ways we can enhance our daily wellness is by turning a conscientious eye to our make-up counters and beauty products. Mindful beauty purchases not only benefit our bodies, they are also a great way to nurture our hearts and planet. Further to, when we purchase from companies that are conscientious about their ingredients, we are supporting brands that have oftentimes chosen to put the well-being of their customers ahead of mass profits, by sourcing responsible, quality ingredients that are truly beneficial to our bodies. And as part of our 2019 resolutions, why not absolve to part with our hard earned money responsibly and exchange it for products that serve us not only from a beauty perspective, but from a heart perspective as well?

Here are 5 of our favourite Canadian clean beauty products and companies to try this year:

Boosh Lipstick 

Boosh is a small-batch lipstick company from western Canada that develops bold and fun lipstick shades without the chemicals, food-dyes and petroleum-based fillers. All colours are limited to season so get them while you can!

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Altilis Beauty 

With a strong focus on sustainability, Cambridge, Ontario-based Altilis Beauty focuses on incorporating environmentally-sound and highly effective natural ingredients such as breadfruit into its soothing and nourishing products.

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Woodlot

A sublime combination of self-care products for your skin and and home, Woodlot offers a stunningly simplistic line of soy-based candles, room sprays and skincare inspired by the rituals of previous generations and aligned to a planet-forward lifestyle of the future

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Graydon Skincare

Graydon Skincare is developed with superfoods (think chia, avocado, blueberries and more!) and pure plant-based ingredients which the company strives to source from Canadian growers and manufacturers as much as possible, creating products that feel luxurious while being effective and highly nourishing.

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Cocoon Apothecary 

Beautifully crafted with quality organic botanicals and high-end green chemicals, Cocoon Apothecary is a plant-based vegan line that is biodegradable and highly effective with top tiered serums that perform amazing on all skin types.

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