Saskya ask…Does any one know some about Juice Beauty
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If you are looking for a new moisturizer but don’t want to spend a lot of money, then Juice Beauty
Juice Beauty Moisturizer
At $36 for 2 ounces of product Juice Beauty moisturizer is only about 50% more expensive than a store brand like Olay or Neutragena. But is it 50% better? To figure this out we need to look at the ingredients and the marketing story.
Juice Beauty Ingredients
Here is the ingredient list for their nutrient moisturizer.
organic juices of vitis vinifera (white grape) juice, daucus carota sativa (carrot) juice & aloe barbadensis leaf juice, organic botanical extracts of calendula officinalis flower, matricaria chamomilla flower, tilia europea (linden) leaf & rose canina (rosehip) fruit, glycerin, organic plant oils of butyrospermum parkii (shea butter) & simmondsia chinensis (jojoba) seed, organic essential fatty acids of oenothera biennis (evening primrose), linum usitatissimum (linseed) seed & borago officinali (borage) seed, organic honey, vitis vinifera (grape) seed oil, organic algae extract, squalane, limnanthes alba (meadowfoam) seed oil, tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E), retinyl palmitate (vitamin A), magnesium ascorbyl phosphate (vitamin C), panthenol (vitamin B5), hyaluronic acid, hydroxypropyl starch phosphate, glyceryl stearate, potassium sorbate, phospholipids, beta carotene, palmitic acid, stearic acid, cetearyl glucoside, xanthan gum, disodium edta, sodium hydroxide, benzyl alcohol, phenoxyethanol, litsea cubeba (may chang), cananga odorata (ylang ylang), boswellia carterii (frankincense) & commiphora myrrha pure essential oils.
I have to give them credit, they sure pack a lot of ingredients into their formulas. But this is the first red flag. In fact, it could be a basic Beauty Brains belief.
“BEWARE OF LONG INGREDIENT LISTS”
You don’t need a lot of ingredients to make a good moisturizer so when you see a long list you can be fairly certain that the company is trying to trick you. Why have carrots, aloe, grape juice, rose hip, jojoba, linseed, ylang ylang and more? Is this a martini, a salad or a moisturizer?
Of the nearly 40 ingredients in the formula, only about 12 of them are actually making the product work. Those are the thickeners (hydroxypropyl starch phosphate, xanthan gum), and the “fatty/oily/moisturizing” materials (palmitic acid, stearic acid, cetearyl glucoside, glycerin). Other cosmetic ingredients like sodium hydroxide, benzyl alcohol, phenoxyethanol & disodium EDTA are for preservation and formula adjustment. All of these ingredients can be found in less expensive store brands.
The rest of the ingredients are marketing fluff to make you think the product is worth more.
Juice Beauty story
On their website, Juice Beauty has the quote “Buy it because it’s organic…use it because it works.” They then go on to explain why “organic” is better than “non-organic” in an interesting Question and Answer section. In reality, no one has ever shown proof that using “organic” ingredients in skin care products will make them work any better or be any safer for you. It’s one of those things that might feel better even though it’s not.
Brain’s Bottom line
Juice Beauty moisturizer contains ingredients proven to help moisturize your dried out skin. But these ingredients are the same ones you’ll find in less expensive store brands so you might want to try those products first. While Juice Beauty moisturizer is 50% more expensive, it’s not 50% better.
Do you use Juice Beauty products? What do you think of them? Are they worth the expense?
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But you are completely ignoring their key ingredients, all the white grape and carrot and aloe juices. Don’t they do anything? Have important vitamins and such? Sure looks really impressive all those fruit and flower essences, they could help nourish and sooth the skin.
Well if you are ONLY looking for the moisturising effect, yeah, a simple drugstore moisturiser could do it as well. But how can you ignore all the extras this lotion seems to have?
Natural moisturisers(honey, shea butter, jojoba oil etc.)
Antioxidants(grape juice, grape seed oil)
Vitamins(Vit E and C)
True, maybe not all the ingredients in it seem to have a function(although I think ylang ylang is there for the fragrance) but it’s packed with good things for your skin. It might not MOISTURISE 50% times better, but it looks like it’s better for your skin than a drugstore product.
I use an OLAY moisturiser myself daily, but now I’m impressed with this ingredients list and would buy one if I could find it here.
I would agree with you if the subject of this post was an Yves Rocher product(generic formulas, a few useless natural ingredients added to make the ingredients list fancy), but this one appears to be one of the better “organic” brands.
Juice Beauty – do they work? Not very well. Just ok, and packaging problems with some of the products.
If you want the effect of grapes and stuff, just go out and buy some and eat them. It’ll work better then rubbing it on your face.
Only 50% more expensive? Geez, $24 for 2 ounces is still awfully expensive. I think I just paid about $7 for 4 oz of Target’s Oil of Olay knockoff. Am I missing something?
I had really bad breakout few years ago…and I mean to the point one day I woke up and had little one bumps EVERYWHERE. It was about 98% coverage. I tried hot yoga (to sweat it out which helped like 1%), Accutane which did help for a bit but my doctor had medical concerns so I was withdrawn from it.
I tried Dr. Brandt No Pores line which also helped a bit. Story was, I had maybe 40% of my face covered in acne when I tried Juice Beauty line, including their moisturizer and beauty serum and it got rid of most of my acne. I have psoriasis also so I find many of acne lines are too harsh for my psoriasis. Juice Beauty really helped my acne without flaring up my psoriasis. I think like most cosmetics, it really depends on your skin too. Olay, Dior, Clinque, Neutrogena, Aveeno all make my skin breakout or flare up my psoriasis. I used Juice Beauty for few years and moved to Caudalie now. If it works for an individual, then it works. It is personal preference. I like Sephora which carries Juice Beauty and Caudalie because you can ask for a sample or return it if it doesn’t suit you, whereas I find products like Aveeno and Olay, you can’t get a sample easily or return it if you don’t like it.
Sure ingredients makes a different, but we also forget that how much of an ingredient available in a product makes a difference too.
@Terpitude congrats on Juice Beauty working for you. I just wanted to say that I haven’t had a problem returning cleansers or facial moisturizers like Olay or Aveeno to my local drugstore because I shop at one with a more lenient policy than others (Shoppers Drug Mart, if you’re in Canada). Sometimes it means that it’s priced $2-3 higher than those with a no-return policy, but I’d rather be $2-3 out than $11 if it doesn’t work out
(I’ll agree about the sample part, though!)
I have similar questions as the other commenters about ingredients like jojoba oil which really do help.
A reason to buy organic products is because you’re interested in helping the environment and supporting companies that use organic materials — so, that may be the reason they’re advertising the fact that it’s organic — not necessarily because it is good for your face.
But Tammy, it’s a proven fact that many “organic” products are NOT, in fact, organic. Nor are they all good for the environment.
U agree with Jami. Juice Beauty is not certified as an organic product, which means not ALL ingredients are organic…but as Tammy said, it is about helping the environment and reducing our carbon footprint. When a company claims they are “organic” sometime could mean they used about 90% organic products.
As for Angela, I do live in Canada, and generally, Shoppers Drug Mart has good return policy…but not all stores are consistent with their return policy (trust me, I worked in one and going to different stores I found inconsistency which shouldn’t happen). I find SDM are unlikely to give you a refund on the lower mass products just because “you don’t like it” or “it doesn’t work”. For the higher ends like ROC, Vichy, you got 30 days because those products ‘stand behind it’.
I think higher end cosmetics are getting bad raps sometimes due to high prices. But it is also about the brand name, how consumers subliminally connect price to luxury and what their expectations are, how much advertisements they put out…do they use celebrity endorsements etc? But lastly ingredients. Sure this is where they get the bad reputation but the amount of ingredients matter, the technology behind it and lastly the quality of the ingredients.
I have seen Olay claim they have retinol but they have a derivative of it, the lowest derivative (which can be ineffective), whereas products like Avene, have the derivative thats one below the prescription retinol.
Hi, I LOVE all the comments on our brand, Juice Beauty. I’d like to point out a few things. Lots of comments about drugstore brands but most of those brands contain petroleum or petro waste products like butylene and propylene glycol (NOT good for your skin); they are also mostly preserved parabens which have been found to be harmful to health. So….Juice Beauty uses an organic juice base (instead of tap water or petro) so every drop is jammed with vitamins and minerals; clinically validated age defying results and all of this without petro; artifical dyes, fragrances, etc. I also wanted to comment that Juice Beauty only purchases ingredients from USDA certified organic farms and meets the toughest law around–the California Organic Products Act law. Thanks and I LOVE yoru blog commentary!! Karen from Juice Beauty
To readers who like Juice Beauty and/or want to support *environmentally responsible beauty companies*, but don’t have a lot to spend, check out Juice Organics. They are owned by Juice Beauty and are a great, little line of organic skincare and haircare. Their Brightening cleanser($9.99), moisturizer ($14.99) and conditioner ($8.99) are AWESOME. No affiliation with the company.
I LOVE juice beauty green apple nutrient moisturizer! As you might be worried becuase of the price tag, i would rather spend more money for a product that is good for the earth and my body then save money and buy something harmful. I like to pay for active ingredients in my products rather then just H20. if you look on many of your lotions you will see the FIRST ingredient is water! you paying for WATER! I really think you would like this product and being good to your skin is important!
I am a huge fan of Juice Beauty. Since their products are packed full of antioxidants and nutrients from the juice base (without water) a little bit goes a long way! My favorite product is their Green Apple Antioxidant Moisturizer (2oz.), it lasts me about 3-4 months! Its actually a great deal considering that you aren’t paying for fillers like other drugstore brands that ARE horrible for YOUR SKIN and the ENVIRONMENT! Yes, there is a lot of green washing out there, but it you do your research, you’ll see that Juice Beauty is a great brand and always ahead of the game and science of organic!
a reminder to those that fall for that marketing gimming of the products not having water as the main ingredient: juices are +80% water!!!
so you might be getting more water than you think and they’re +80% less “jammed with vitamins and minerals” etc
Not to mention vitamins and minerals really only work if you CONSUME them. So unless you’re EATING your JB products they’re really not doing anything for you that Vaseline does for a fraction of the cost.
Nor is everything that’s toted to be environmentally friendly really friendly in the long term. Short term, maybe, but in the long term many “green” products actually do MORE harm to the environment then the stuff you’re turning your back on.
I don’t agree with vitamins being only good if you consume them. You CAN use them topically too, because Vit E and C are antioxidants, and antioxidants fight free radicals, thus aging.
Your skin doesn’t really absorb them, you know. It’s like putting vitamins on your hair or nails. It really doesn’t do diddly squat. Vitamins really only work internally or through injections.
*There is no doubt that ingesting your vitamins & minerals from fresh or flash/frozen sources is the best way to get their benefits. However, that does not negate the benefits of using certain ones topically. Science & research have already proven that.
*LBB is correct – most skin-care products are waaay over-priced, and contain far more ingredients than necessary to do the job. However, the cold, hard fact is that too many women think a product is only good if it’s expensive. I’d rather see people spending that same money on the decent ingredients in JB than other, junk brands – which includes – sorry Dollfie & Jami – Olay & Vaseline. Vaseline has its place, but it is not on the face!
*Any product using mineral oil or petrolatum or any other petro-chem ingredient is to be avoided on skin at any price.
*I wish more women would exhibit some of this skepticism, but try not to let it carry you into cynicism regarding all things “natural” – the word (& concept) is greatly mis-used, but there are indeed companies out there with integrity that are doing the best possible job they can within the confines of the sometimes overly-protective FDA.
*Correct – any juice is made up of water from nature, as are we all, but the nutrients are there as well – or they wouldn’t be fruits.
I do avoid mineral oil or any other form of it in my facial products, including makeup removers.
And your skin doesn’t really need to absorb antioxidants for them to work. As far as I know they work on the surface of the skin. They are there to protect you, not to nourish.
However, it’s a fact that vitamin molecules are so tiny and easy to be absorbed. Besides, hair and nails are made of off dead cells, unlike the alive skin tissue. It’s basic high school science.
Look at our great great grandmothers, did they use all of this fancy shmancy stuff? I don’t think so, and everybody’s skin was good with what they had. And they looked beautiful. I don’t think we need all these moisturizers made up of ingredients that we can’t pronounce. It’s just the sellers are fooling us into buying something that is supposely better than everything else… It’s not. You can live without all those ingredients on your face.
I have really bad rosacea and have used everything from over the counter products to really, really expensive products to Rx products. Juice Beauty’s products actually work for me. I’m willing to pay the extra money when it means my face no longer looks like a read bumpy strawberry. I’ve only found one of their products that doesn’t work for me and recommend the rest to everyone I know.
could you please explain to me, why is a “organic” product better for the environnement?
i am from czech republic, and there is this company, that just started to produce “organic beer”
yeah, great. but they have to get ingredients from all over the world, because most of them are not produced in organic quality in europe. in my opinion, that is much more harmfull to the environnement and a bit crazy, as they could buy great ingredients localy…