Established by a couple who fled urban Manhattan for Vermont to pursue healthier living, this clean skincare brand features nature-inspired ingredients like shea butter, birch sap, and fragrant cedar in its products – boasting 100% natural actives with no fillers whatsoever and up to 83% organic ingredients in every formula.
Ursa Major offers their Fantastic Facial Wash, Essential Facial Wipes, Forest Fix Deodorant, and Morning Mojo Bar Soap in sample sizes or kits on their website and ship worldwide.
Cleanser
Ursa Major stands out from conventional skincare products by using only natural, plant-derived ingredients that deliver results. Inspired by adventurous days on the trail, they create hardworking yet straightforward products designed to give you that healthy mountain glow even if you live far from the mountains!
This non-drying foaming gel cleanser from Nivea offers thorough yet gentle cleansing of excess oil, dirt, and makeup without stripping skin of essential moisture. Plus, it helps brighten the complexion with its natural brightening complex while soothing irritation with aloe vera juice! Moreover, it’s scented with cedarwood spearmint and lime lavender whole essential oils – offering a refreshing fragrance!
Ideal for all skin types, this multi-tasking tonic can effectively treat fine lines and wrinkles, large pores, uneven tone, dullness, and rough texture. Containing ingredients such as aloe vera leaf extract, sunflower seed oil, glycerin, and willow bark in addition to anti-inflammatory ingredients like citric acid gluconolactone and Superoxide Dismutase for anti-inflammation and skin refinement purposes, it features soothing and hydrating benefits as well as powerful skin refiners such as citric Acid Gluconolactone and Superoxide Dismutase for anti-inflammatory action against such skin issues as well.
This product contains ingredients that could cause allergic reactions in certain skin types, including Camellia Sinensis (Yellow Tea) Leaf Extract and Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Oil. Therefore, it should be avoided by those with oily or sensitive skin.
Toner
Toners can remove any residual debris missed by cleansers and serums (makeup, dirt, oil, or sunscreen) while helping balance pH levels and shrink pores. When selecting a toner formula that fits your skin type and doesn’t dry it out too quickly, it is vital to contain no alcohol to not dry out your face too much.
Ursa Major offers several toners designed to balance skin. Their Balancing Toner includes Kombucha Black Tea Ferment as a prebiotic and Shea Butter as a source of moisture for maximum effectiveness in reducing the appearance of enlarged pores, soothing redness, and soothing temperamental skin conditions.
If your skin is normal, you can forgo toner to add a hydrating serum containing shea butter, oat protein for improving razor glide, and birch sap to soften and hydrate skin.
An anti-aging serum such as this one from vitamin C, edelweiss flower extract, and organic rosehip seed extract will do wonders to treat discolorations and dark spots, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, restore youthful radiance to skin texture, and provide the complexion with a vibrant appearance.
Facial Oil
Facial oil softens and strengthens skin while diminishing fine lines, dark spots, and an uneven complexion. Packed with essential vitamins designed to promote good skin health, URSA major offers an impressive selection of facial oils as a necessary addition to any skincare regime.
Ursa Major offers this hydrating serum packed with vitamin C to brighten skin and improve tone and texture. Furthermore, this non-comedogenic face oil, suitable for all skin types, feels thicker than similar products but absorbs quickly without leaving behind an oily film or feeling.
This lightweight gel-like texture contains many soothing ingredients in other Ursa Major products, including aloe vera leaf juice, sunflower seed oil, glycerin, and willow bark extract. However, as this product may contain fragrance ingredients that may not be suitable for sensitive skin, consumers must read its label thoroughly before purchasing.
Daily Moisturizer
ArtNaturals offers a lightweight moisturizer packed with skin-soothing ingredients to reduce redness and inflammation in its non-comedogenic lotion, ArtNaturals Hydrator. Hydration occurs as tea tree oil is a natural antimicrobial to treat acne, while panthenol balances sebum levels for a clearer complexion.
This super-soothing cream works to soothe and replenish hydration with its blend of plant oils such as safflower, shea butter, jojoba, and kukui nut oil, plus aloe vera gel, black currant seed oil, and sunflower seed oils. Incorporating vitamin C helps improve complexion while softening fine lines, while plant-derived glycerides soften the face without feeling heavy or greasy.
Formerly known as Fortifying Face Balm, this lightweight balm is ideal for normal to oily skin types. Provides hydration while minimizing pores with three essential ceramides to support your skin barrier, treat congestion, reduce redness, and soothe inflammation. Niacinamide helps niacinamide provide relief and alleviate inflammation for ultimate skincare benefits.
This cleanser is an all-in-one product, serving as a cleanser, exfoliator, toner, and hydrator in one easy step. It is packed with skin-boosting and clarifying ingredients such as birch sap, witch hazel extract, and green tea extract for ultimate skin boosting and clarity, plus free from petrochemicals such as SLS/SLES/parabens as well as synthetic fragrance or colorants, glycols or silicones- this Vermont based clean skincare range has only quality ingredients with no filler products in their lineup!
Eye Cream
Are you searching for an eye cream that can hydrate, reduce dark circles, and firm the delicate skin around your eyes? Look no further. Packed with forest-derived ingredients such as Chaga, tremella, and pink snow algae that restore elasticity to this peaceful area while brightening fine lines at once, this product could be just what’s needed.
This serum features an impressive combination of actives, including vitamin C (in the form of an advanced, stable derivative) to brighten and even out skin tone and edelweiss stem cell complex to reduce wrinkles. Furthermore, shea butter and kukui nut oil nourish while anti-inflammatory ash tree bark helps depuff.
Its formulation is also free from irritating ingredients like fragrance, phthalates, sulfates, parabens, and silicones; it is also free from petrochemicals, synthetic dyes, or glycols and uses only natural preservatives without testing on animals.
Shehadeh recommends using a cool gua sha or face roller after application for instantaneous cooling and depuffing of eye puffiness caused by fluid retention; to combat it, she recommends drinking more water and eating foods rich in potassium, such as avocados and bananas – these two measures should help reduce eye puffiness significantly.
Lip Balm
Lip balm often gets an unfairly bad rap, but it should not be underestimated as an essential way of maintaining soft, moisturized lips that look fuller and healthy. A good lip balm also protects thin lips against damage as it helps prevent long-term damage to its more delicate skin and makes lips appear fuller with just a small application!
Finding a natural lip balm can be tricky. Be wary of those with harmful ingredients like fragrance, menthol, and phenol (which can dry out lips). Look instead for those made from beeswax, carnauba wax, and shea butter, as these plant-based components offer gentle yet powerful healing power.
Ursa Major offers a powerful two-in-one product to exfoliate and hydrate. Made with therapeutic, plant-derived healing ingredients such as cupuacu butter, sunflower, beeswax, shea, jojoba, birch, and balsam for all-day hydration and protection against extreme temperatures and free radicals – plus its 100% paper tube makes it easy to keep close at hand in your pocket or bag!
Ursa Major products are on its website, Credo, and other online natural beauty and lifestyle retailers. In addition to this, Ursa Major also offers an affordable Bestsellers Trial Kit featuring Fantastic Face Wash, Essential Face Wipes, 4-in-1 Essential Tonic, and Fortifying Balm at $25 each – providing an economical way to find out if their line works for your skin type!
Sunscreen
Sunscreen is one of the most essential products for maintaining healthy skin and warding off premature aging, sunburn, and possible forms of cancer. You can find sunscreen in lotions, gels, sprays, sticks, and powder forms when selecting one that offers UVA/UVB ray protection.
UVA rays penetrate deep into the skin, causing long-term damage, aging, and increasing risk for certain skin cancers. UVB rays cause sunburn and contribute to sun-related skin damage, such as wrinkles and early aging. The best natural sunscreens will contain titanium dioxide or zinc oxide as a mineral reflector while including ecamsule from Mexican yarrow plants to further shield against UVA and UVB rays.
Ursa Major is a Vermont-based skincare brand certified as B Corp that offers an innovative sunscreen/moisturizer that protects against both UVA & UVB rays as well as blue light – in its fragrance-free formula packed with cupuacu butter, grape seed oil, and non-nano zinc oxide for anti-irritation protection. Plus, it does not contain parabens, synthetic fragrances, added sodium lauryl/laureth sulfates, or chemical active ingredients to bleach coral bleached coral bleached coral bleached by Oxbenzone/Octinoxate either! Finally, it features non-nano zinc oxide to provide long-lasting coverage; it is a lightweight application, so that no white cast will result from its application!
