Pangea Organics Facial Mask Featured on Vanity Fair’s Beauty Blog!

Another member of the Organic Bug family has been recognized for outstanding quality and commitment to bringing consumers more sustainable options.  In the past, Pangea Organics Facial Mask has been featured and honored on numerous occasions such as:

• 2009 Better Nutrition Best of Beauty Award for Best Skin Care
• 2007 H20 Fitness & Wellness for Women H20 Beauty Awards for Best Overall Mask
• 2007 ShapeYou Gear Awards for Great Gear of the Year Award
• 2007 Natural Health Natural Beauty Award for Face Care in the Face Mask Category
• 2007 Best of Show Awards, Natural Products Expo West 2007 for Best New Vegetarian Product
• 2007 New Products Showcase Award, Natural Products Expo East for Best New Product for 2007

Now they can add  the Vanity Fair Favorite Green Pick in May 2010 to this list!    This month, Pangea Facial Mask with Japanese Matcha Green Tea, Acai & Goji Berry made the list of favorite green beauty picks on the very popular Vanity Fair Beauty Blog:

“During the month of May, [Vanity Fair] Beauty brings you our favorite green picks that will keep you pampered from head to toe…..Once a week, we detoxify, cleanse, and exfoliate our skin with Pangea Organics Japanese Matcha Tea with Acai & Goji Berry Facial Mask. Acai helps skin to regenerate, goji berry helps with anti-aging, and matcha tea helps to prevent damage from free radicals.”

The products are handmade in the USA without synthetic preservatives, petrochemicals or parabens.  All Pangea Organics products arrive packaged in molded fiber boxes manufactured using a Zero-Waste process with 100% post-consumer recycled paper and organic seeds like amaranth and sweet basil. Slip off the label and soak the box in water for a minute and plant it approximately 1” deep in soil. Then watch your garden grow!

Genius Mom Entrepreneurs-The Story of Shady Day Sunscreen

One sunny summer afternoon in 2004, two young mothers in New Jersey were enjoying a day at the beach with their children.  As all good mothers should, they applied their kids relentlessly with sunscreen, while complaining to one another about the challenges of the messy, sticky, awful smelling lotion.  They began thinking about what the perfect sunscreen would be, and researched extensively for two years under the careful advisement of a leading dermatologist.  The result was the launch of Shady Day Inc. in April of 2006.

Although in their infancy as a company, they have already received global recognition, celebrity favor and countless honors including Best New Product by EX-TRACTS and Top Sunscreen by Luxury Spa Finder. Their product line is loved by celebrities (seen carrying Shady Day gift bags at the Golden Globe Awards) and has even gotten the nod from Oprah.

Moms everywhere are celebrating their genius. Their collection of sun protection products combine mess free application solutions, with all natural, high quality ingredients.

In line with the Shady Day commitment to using only ingredients that are safe for us, and the environment, Parabens are never used in any of their products. Parabens are a group of chemicals that are used as an inexpensive way to maintain the shelf life of a product. They can cause skin irritations and some studies have even connected Parabens to breast cancer. Shady Day opted to use safer, all natural Paraben alternatives including grapefruit seed extract and vitamin E rather than the harmful Parabens found in most sunscreen products.

Big fat kudos go out to the gals that invented this product. We absolutely love it!