The Organic and Natural Beauty Show

Hi! What a great sunny week right? I've been out in the sun (with sunscreen on) for a bit to boost my vitamin D. =D

On Monday, I went to Organic and Natural beauty show at the London Excel, it was free. Apparently this is their very first show, and I think it was pretty good for their first show. I was meant to blog about this event a couple of day ago but my internet wasn't working, finally got it fixed!

At the entrance, they had some goody bags that you had to pay for £1. I bought one as it's only a pound and I know there will be some sample products. lol. There were 2 magazines, a couple of promotional flyers and food sample products, not beauty products!

There were so many skin care brand, too many that I didn't know where to start. And because of that I sort of lost interest, I was looking for products that wasn't for skin.

I found a couple of Argan oil companies, they both sell 100% natural Moroccan Argan oil. Argan oil has been one of my favourite beauty products recently. I currently use Organix Argan Oil but contains a lot of other chemical ingredients. So I was very interested in these companies.

Alassala stand.

I first visited Souss Argane, and they were only selling one product at their stand, Argan oil for both hair and skin. I actually like that because its simple, you won't be bombarded with too any choices.Second Argan oil company is called Alassala, they had two products; Argan oil for face and body and another for the hair. I had a look at the ingredients and both said 100% Argan oil. So I asked the owner what's the difference, and he said they are the same but it's just a way of marketing the product. Ok that's strange.

Another company, Eden, was selling Argan oil as one of their products. They specialise in oils. They also sell jojoba oil, avocado oil, and rose hip oil. They are all pure and natural no other added ingredients. Great stuff!

Aduna

My favourite company was Aduna (see photo above) because they were different. They don't sell skin products but food. (Trust me to be looking for food products at a beauty show lol) They sell 100% natural baobab powder. Not sure what baobab is? It is a fruit from Africa. If you've watched the Lion King, you will have seen this fruit. In the beginning when the monkey put some juice on to Simba's forehead. That was the fruit. I know this because that's exactly what the lady at the stand told me lol. The lady also said that baobab is almost fifty percent fibre, contains 14 essential vitamins and minerals and has one of the highest antioxidant capacities of any fruit in the world. It helps improve skin health, energy metabolism and there were other benefits she mentioned that I forgot. Basically good stuff!

Although I've been trying to use more natural and organic products but after this show I realised I am more interested in products that are made with minimal ingredients and doesn't not have words that you can't even pronounce. But I know it's hard to find skin care products with minimal ingredients.

Anyways that's it. This Sunday I'll be going to V Delicious show at the Olympia. A vegetarian show that is co-located with Allergy and Free From show. Thanks for reading!