If you’re new to natural skin care products you may be wondering which brands are truly natural and which are just faking it? Just because you throw a few herbs into your products does not make you natural—especially when you are a subsidiary of the much dispised L’Oréal.

Around here we love Aubrey Organics. The ingredient list on their products reads like a herbal salad of organic goodness. You won’t find a hint of sodium lauryl sulfate or parabens anywhere—Aubrey’s Herbal Base (Deionized Water Natural Grain Alcohol Witch Hazel [Natural Herbal Extract] Vegetable Glycerin; the following whole herbs:

• Organic German Camomile Flowers
• Organic Calendula Flowers
• Organic Lavender Flowers
• Organic Peppermint Leaf
• Coltsfoot Leaf
• Organic Nettle Leaf
• Extracts of Roman Camomile
• Linden Sage
• Clematis
• Coneflower
• St. John’s Wort
• Watercress
• Burdock Root
• Lemon Ivy
• Soapwort
• Meadowsweet
• Bladderwrack
• Horsetail
• Blue Mallow
• Pellitory Root
• Cucumber
• Elder Flower
• Arnica
• Aubrey’s Preservative [Citrus Seed Extract Vitamins A, C and E]
• Organic Lemon Peel Oil
• Organic Aloe Vera
• Extracts of Sea Buckthorn Fennel Hops Balm Mint Mistletoe and Yarrow; Ester-C® Cucumber Oil.

How they manage to squeeze it all in one bottle of toner is one of life’s great mysteries!