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Top 5 Ingredients to Fight Cellulite

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The warmer weather has arrived and we’re all ready to get outside and show a little extra skin. If something like cellulite is holding you back, we’re here to share the top ingredients to fight cellulite as well as some solutions to help your odds in this battle.

What is Cellulite?

Cellulite is a cosmetic skin condition in which the skin on the thighs, hips, abdomen, or other parts of the body have a dimpled, lumpy appearance. It is caused by a buildup of fat underneath the skin and it’s often the result of hormones, pregnancy, genetics, weight gain, poor diet, and/or an unhealthy lifestyle. While cellulite can affect men, it is far more common in women as it affects 80% to 90% of them.

I’m sure you have seen different potions and lotions out there promising miracles. The best firming creams are made up of ingredients that reduce inflammation, protect the skin against harmful UV rays, and restore skin cells to their natural state. Beauty companies have tried for many years to crack the code of firming creams, but they struggle to do so naturally.

A Natural Solution

We’ve made it our mission to create dry skin focused products featuring concentrated natural ingredients sourced from the fierce Sonoran Desert to help combat aging, tighten, and firm your skin. We’ve combined tried and tested natural ingredients to create Buzz Chill natural body cream in order to combat the appearance of cellulite while helping to firm your skin.

Tried and Tested Firming Ingredients:

Caffeine and Coffee

Caffeine has been celebrated for its circulation-boosting benefits. When caffeine is used in cellulite creams, it has anti-inflammatory benefits. It reduces some tissue swelling which can create that cobblestone appearance of the classic cellulite look.

Caffeine will also help to improve the appearance of smoother looking skin. The caffeine-cellulite connection is important because caffeine is known for stimulating circulation, which is another important component for promoting the look of smoother skin.

Guaraná

Guaraná is an herb which contains five times the caffeine of coffee and is ideal for boosting energy, supporting natural circulation, and smoothing the skin. It is a vascoconstrictor, which means it reduces puffiness and smooths the skin, creating a youthful glow.

Guaraná has anti-aging and toning properties and is often used as a treatment for stretch marks given its theophylline and caffeine components. It’s antioxidant and antimicrobial properties make it a common additive in cosmetic products. It has been known to aid blood flow to your skin, reduce damage linked to aging and minimize undesirable features, such as saggy skin and wrinkles.

Vitamin C

Vitamin C as the most important vitamin in terms of collagen production. Did you know that Vitamin C deficiency leads to the creation of weak collagen, which in turn leads to looser connections between the skin and underlying structures? These loose connections give cellulite its textured look.

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that revitalizes and promotes a natural regeneration for the skin. Vitamin C is also a powerful protectant against the harmful UV rays of the sun, and it occurs naturally in many fruits, like nutrient rich Sonoran Lemons.

Olive oil

Olive oil has long been known for its beauty benefits Olive oil is a natural emollient that provides a long-lasting shield of moisture to keep skin smooth and supple.

The nutrients in EVOO have been shown to tighten and firm up textured cellulite patches. As with wrinkles, olive oil can “attack” cellulite at a cellular level. Massaging olive oil into affected areas daily should show an improvement in the firmness of your skin.

Vitamin E

Similar to Vitamin C, Vitamin E naturally protects the skin from UV rays. Vitamin E is crucial to our health and wellness, both inside and out. It naturally reduces inflammation, protects the skin against inflammation, and smooths skin imperfections.  

BONUS: Organic Shea Butter

Organic Shea Butter adds penetrating moisture to skin. It has an abundance of vitamin A, which helps to repair damaged collagen fibers. This leads to the appearance of plumper, firmer skin. It is also rich in an acid called cinnimac, which helps with proper blood flow to the skin.

Anti-cellulite Ingredients In Action

Buzz Chill firming cream contains all these superstar ingredients! We recommend using the lemony fresh cream liberally by applying daily all over your body. For areas of concern, massage the product in with a roller ball or deep tissue massage. This will help speed the breakup of cellulite. Buzz Chill works on its own but if you work to break up the cellulite while applying it you will see more dramatic results.

Daily dry brushing can also be super beneficial in your quest to minimize dimpling. It’s one of the best things you can do to stimulate circulation, which in turn flushes out excess fluid and swelling that can exacerbate the look of cellulite. In other words, pair dry brushing with a hydrating cream for a one-two punch. Dry brush pre-shower, then apply Buzz Chill which magically transforms into a lightweight oil immediately post-shower.

Using this naturally fragrant cream all over will help to revive, lift, and tone your skin over time. Enjoy the season and firm up your plans for a spectacular summer!

Take selfcare into your hands!

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When was the last time you took a minute to appreciate your hands? They work hard to allow us to show love, work, eat, and find balance. Your hands deserve to be pampered. We have some ideas.

Permission Granted

When it comes to finding some extra time for selfcare, sometimes all it takes is giving yourself permission. We are sharing a luxurious ritual to encourage you to take a guilt-free moment of Zen. Feel free to make it work for you. Go for a full spa experience or create an express version. Your hands will be grateful either way!

Start At the Top

Begin your ritual by taking a relaxing bath or shower. Consider giving your hair a nourishing natural oil treatment. Simply wet down your hair and run some warm natural oil through the strands. Any natural oil will do. Coconut oil or Olive oil work wonders. Start about 3 inches from the scalp when hair is wet and just let it run all the way through your hair. A little bit of heat will activate but wrap up hair in a shower cap for deeper moisturizing penetration.  

Post-shower is a great time to slather your entire body with a natural body cream to moisturize. If you want to draw moisture into your skin, try Cactus Crush or Serene Marine, made with a dose of hyaluronic acid. For the deepest hydration, go for Boho Coco with Coconut Oil, Shea Butter and Vitamin E which combine to form a deeply penetrating, skin softening, dehydration-banishing cream.

Nailed It

You’ve been playing with natural oil and probably have some extra on your hands. Go ahead and use it to massage it into your nails and the area around your nails. This is one of the things we sometimes forget to do. In this ritual you don’t have to buy and use a cuticle oil!

Treat your delicate hands with the same care your face regularly enjoys. If you have it in your vanity, use a natural face scrub like Sia Botanics Revive Facial Scrub to gently exfoliate your hands. Rinse and finish with a generous dose of nourishing Rose Glow luxe hand cream applied as a massage.

Rose Glow

Rose Glow luxe hand cream is full of nourishing ingredients like botanical hyaluronic acid, rose water, and organic aloe juice that help smooth, soften, and protect the delicate skin of your hands from harsh environmental conditions.

The luscious natural cream also provides a luminous mineral veil which helps minimizes imperfections with light deflecting minerals. It absorbs easily without being greasy so you can immediately do all the things, but now is a time to be generous with the amount you use and patient with how it soaks in.

Going Deep

To encourage your luxe cream to penetrate deeper you can cover hands in a plastic wrap or simply cover with a warm towel for about 10 minutes. Take this time to take some luxurious yoga breaths, meditate, or make a mental list of gratitude.

When it’s time, pay attention to your cuticles. This extra love will help reduce annoying hang nails, dead skin, and any other issues that pop up. With consistency, you will get the benefit of strengthening while getting rid of ridges on your nails.

Enjoy your ritual and remember that hand care is just one part of your selfcare routine.

Everyday Is Like Earth Day

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Earth Day is upon us, but around here we like to make everyday Earth Day! This year Earth Day falls in between the full moon and the solar eclipse. It is a powerful time for implementing change, growth, and healing energy into the universe and planet in which we inhabit. Yes, please.


If you’re looking to cook up some magic this Earth Day or if you just want to find some new ways to honor our environment, here are some ideas:


Grow Your Garden with Wildflowers and Native Plants


Wildflowers and indigenous species are not only beautiful but also attract native and beneficial insects that improve both pest control and pollination. I’m talking about bigger flowers and bigger harvests!


As we move into our new place, we were gifted some columnar and prickly pear cactus cuttings and succulents that we have lovingly planted in hopes of baby roots in the next few weeks. You may already know, but we also celebrate prickly pear in our Cactus Crush natural body cream. Try adding a couple of your favorite native plants to your garden each year. You’ll be amazed at the difference.


Make a Connection


Have you heard of Earthing? This exercise invites us to go barefoot outside and connect with the earth. Firmly plant your bare feet in the ground. The weight of your body will organically give you the connection as your feet sink into the ground.


Imagine planting roots into the grass or sand. Feel free to close your eyes. Maybe even do a quick meditation to soak in the connectivity.


Consider Going Meat-Free


A vegetarian or vegan diet is much better for our environment than one which includes meat, believe it or not, and there are several reasons why this is so. Take a baby step by introducing “Meatless Mondays” into your home.


For extra credit, keep using vegan and all-natural skincare!

Use a Refillable Water Bottle


Just because you’re tossing your plastic water bottles into the recycling bin doesn’t mean they’re not hurting the environment. It takes a lot of energy to make the bottles. Plus, landfills are filled with millions of bottles.
Please consider buying a reusable bottle. And, shop for one that has a filter attached to it, so you’ll be getting fresh water every time.

Your gold star is on its way because our products use Organic Aloe Juice instead of water as the first ingredient. By keeping water and other fillers out of products, we lighten the load when shipping and allow customers to avoid buying extra packaging. They are so easy to travel with!

Eat Local


Buying your fruits and veggies local helps small businesses and the Earth. Fresh food always tastes the best! Seek out a local restaurant who values sourcing local and seasonal ingredients.


When possible, get your produce from a local farmer’s market. Food in the grocery store travels a long way. All that shipping causes pollution and extra carbon emission. The same goes for eating out.


Shop Local (and smarter)


Looking for a new outfit that will have you standing out from the crowd? You can do it in a way that’s environmentally friendly!


As with any kind of material good, buying something that’s already been used is great for the Earth because it doesn’t involve new resources. This means you’ll save some cash. An extra benefit of upcycling or thrifting is that you’ll be able to create a look that is totally unique to you.


Make EVERYDAY Earth Day!


Don’t stop with just one day of conscious living. We encourage you to try out each of these tips and see how many you can make stick. If we all pitch in to make some small changes, we can amplify our actions and make the next year something to really celebrate!

Deep Dive into Aloe Vera Juice

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How are you feeling about the movement focusing on skin health with ingredients like aloe vera juice? We are totally into it! Each of us wants our skin to look and feel smooth, but there is more to the equation. Keeping skin moisturized and protected from the environment’s everyday stressors is also key to optimal skin health.

Speaking of the elements, dry skin is especially common during extreme conditions. This means extremely cold and extremely hot seasons. These harsh conditions leave skin vulnerable to cracking and feeling uncomfortably tight. Staying hydrated is essential for keeping your skin looking fresh and feeling luscious.

Juicy Skincare Rituals

One key to achieving and maintaining a healthy glow is having a skincare ritual that works for your specific needs. To help skin health from the outside, our Natural Body Creams and Rose Glow Luxe Hand Cream provide nourishment to thirsty skin.

Each cream is made for a specific purpose. Powerful natural ingredients are combined with Organic Aloe Vera to target skin concerns like firming, tightening, crepe skin, and intense hydration.

We choose to use Organic Aloe Juice as the first ingredient instead of water because water doesn’t add any value to the hydrating creams. It feels wasteful to us to add any filler without a purpose.

When the ingredients are super concentrated, you get all the nutrient rich goodness without any fillers.

What is Aloe Vera?

Aloe vera is a succulent plant that’s been used for its healing properties for centuries. We use desert derived aloe sourced locally from Arizona’s fierce Sonoran Desert where the harsh environment produces the most concentrated juice.

The aloe vera plant is most famous for its healing abilities when applied directly to the skin. A lot of our Moms have slathered aloe vera gel on our sunburns earned by unprotected days in the sun as kids. It helps to soothe and protect skin after skin has been damaged.

This is probably a good place to remind you that sun exposure is the most damaging factor on skin aging. Please consider a mineral sunscreen to protect your skin!

Benefits of Aloe

Externally, healthy foods like aloe vera juice can have hugely positive benefits on your skin’s appearance. This can be a great compliment to your skincare routine for the ultimate glow. 

Some studies have shown that drinking one glass of Aloe juice a day can have wonderful effects on your skin, keeping it healthy and clear. Aloe vera can also be eaten as a health food

The benefits of aloe vera juice are numerous, since it contains such a complex array of vitamins and antioxidants. Some of them have been found to repair and reduce skin damage from sun exposure and even the appearance of fine lines.

Aside from skin benefits, it also helps with digestion and encourages a healthy liver! Vegans and vegetarians in particular may want to drink it as a source of vitamin B12, which is rare to find in foods beyond animal products. This speaks to us as all of our skincare is completely vegan.

How Does Aloe Vera Benefit Your Skin?

Aloe contains collagen, which has been known to help repair your skin cells and protect healthy cells, giving your skin a radiant youthful glow. It has also been associated with decreasing active acne and reducing its appearance.

The folic acid, chromium, potassium and other compounds in collagen are beneficial to skin and overall good health. These nutrients allow the aloe vera juice to help prevent some visible signs of aging and helps to fight the development of future wrinkles and discourages them from deepening. 

It’s also an excellent source of Vitamin C, which helps skin regenerate naturally! The vitamin breaks down free radicals that damage skin through sun exposure and air pollution that affects your skin every day.

Keep Your Skin Healthy

Hydrating aloe vera juice is just one way of delivering moisture to your skin. Topical face creams, face wash, and serums can also deliver a punch of moisture when you need it most.

Prioritizing your skin by investing in skincare that actually works with your skin type will keep your skin clear and smooth! Upgrade your skincare ritual and make eating nutrient dense healthy food into the mix to look and feel your best!

Prickly Pear For Smooth Skin

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Don’t be a prick! Unless you’re a prickly pear cactus. In that case, prick it up and do anything you need in order to protect your inner beauty by whatever means necessary. We’re sharing why prickly pear is so great for you and your skin.

It’s harvest time in Arizona. It’s time to give prickly pear its moment in the sun, which is pretty easy in this desert life. This fierce superfood holds concentrated plant richness with amazing health benefits created by holding it down in the desert’s harsh environment. We harvest the juicy leaves from native cacti to create succulent selfcare for all.

Don’t squeeze a cactus!

They are gorgeous to look at, but you know better than to just grab a prickly pear cactus, right? If you’re curious about a prickly pear’s ripeness, watch the fruit color change from green to a solid red or yellow color. This is the most important indicator, and often only indicator, as to the fruit’s ripeness. If the fruit feels firm, it is another indicator that the fruits are fully ripe. Again…don’t squeeze a prickly pear while still thorny.

According to our friends at Arizona Cactus Ranch, harvesting prickly pears is best done in the late summer when the fruit has turned to a deep magenta color and has no green remaining. The peak season for prickly pears is late summer through early winter.

The Prickly Pear Glow

Prickly pear is great for all skin types and especially great to help hydrate, smooth and revitalize. The oil of prickly pear helps to address signs of aging and provides immediate skin-softening that finishes with a dewy glow.

Prickly pear contains the highest level of betalains in the world. What are betalains? These phytonutrients are found in rich colored fruits (like pomegranate) and have amazing anti-inflammatory properties that have been known to help promote skin elasticity and can help stimulate collagen production. If your skin is prone to skin conditions that cause redness or swelling, betalains can help alleviate these symptoms.

Is there such a thing as too much of a good thing in skincare?

Since prickly pear is a very alkaline ingredient, it does have to be formulated to work well with your skin’s barrier. Fortunately for you, the Cactus Crush pure body cream is a well-balanced formula. Your skin will get all the amazing antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits of prickly pear cactus plus other plant rich ingredients.

Desert-Derived + Sustainable

The desert harvested prickly pear we use is more sustainable than argan oil. We buy it from a local farm right here outside of Tucson, Arizona Cactus Farm, where they’re actually planting the cactus. Prickly pear cacti are also grown outdoors, so you’re getting all the benefits of the intense Arizona weather and in the concentrated nutrients it provides. No pesticides are used on this sustainable farm.

Can Prickly Pear Change Your Life?

We think it can. If you would like to try your first Prickly Pear offering, we have a recommendation:
Cactus Crush natural body cream for crepe skin. It is a synergistic blend of botanicals that target all the contributing causes of crepe skin to immediately reduce its appearance and help stop its long-term progression. Oh, and it smells good enough to eat! 

We are obsessed with this best-selling vegan body cream, but don’t take our word for it. Here is a review from a customer in Santa Fe:
“Apparently my skin is thirsty, and nothing quenches quite like Cactus Crush! I didn’t know what crepe skin was when I bought it. It was the rich texture and fresh fragrance that did the trick. Now I realize that I feel better when my skin feels good. I love that I can have prickly pear cactus and hyaluronic acid in a body cream!”

Prickly Pear Is Good For Your Skin

We didn’t stop with just one skincare super star. Here are the other key ingredients that make Cactus Crush a fan favorite:

Botanical Hyaluronic Acid naturally helps draw moisture from the environment into the skin and to helps smooth out crepe texture. Studies have also shown that long term use can help build collagen.

Vitamin B5  – Regenerates skin and helps support skin structures to retain skin resilience and elasticity.

Organic Sugar Cane helps increase cellular turn over which makes crepe skin lines look less deep by gently removing the top outer layers of dead skin.

Prick Life

In addition to succulent self care, go ahead and introduce prickly pear in your life in different ways.

You’ve probably seen it in cocktails (hello, Prickly Pear Margarita) but take a shot of prickly pear juice straight or mix it into a smoothie! Juiceries sell drinks with prickly pear in them because the prickly pear borders on being a superfood. Smart venues like Topo Arizona sell delicious prickly pear soft serve because it tastes like a dream!

We’re so fortunate to have so many powerful and beautiful ingredients at our fingertips in Tucson. We invite you to add prickly pear into your routine! It’s so easy to crush hard on this desert beauty body cream. We know you will too.