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5 Clean Beauty Brands That Will Enhance Your Summer Glow

It's time for a post-quarantine glow up.

Kaitlyn Stivers

Jun 23, 2020

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5 Clean Beauty Brands That Will Enhance Your Summer Glow

Instagram: @beautycounter

Heading into summer, and out of quarantine everyone wants to look and feel their best. What better way to do this than by investing in beauty products that are actually good for your skin!? Trust me, your skin will thank you after this. Clean beauty products are recognized for ethically sourced ingredients that create products free of toxicity. These products are often environmentally friendly and some do not use animal testing. Surprisingly, the beauty industry is one of the least regulated, but most used. Many brands produce through unethical operations and include toxins that are unsafe and ineffective. Not only does making the shift to toxin-free beauty products benefit you, but it also contributes to making our world a better place. it's the best of both worlds! Below I have provided a list of clean beauty brands and options that can help you get the summer glow you're looking for post-quarantine.

1. Beautycounter

Instagram: @beautycounter

The company Beautycounter strives to educate and inform individuals on safer products with the hopes one eventually making all beauty clean beauty. Beautycounter participates in responsible sourcing for its products to maximize safety and quality. To purchase Beautycounter items you can visit their website or talk to one of their beauty consultants.

2. Credo Beauty

Instagram: @credobeauty

Credo Beauty has set out on the mission to change the beauty industry for the better. All products sold meet a rigorous 'Credo Clean Standard.' Additionally, this company is unique because 90% of its brands are women-owned. Support clean beauty and girl power!

3. 100% Pure Beauty

Instagram: @100percentpure

100% Pure Beauty...well that just about sums it up! Not only does this brand dedicate themselves to clean and safe ingredients to products, but they are known for only using 100% natural ingredients.

4. Juice Beauty

Instagram: @juicebeauty

Juice Beauty uses all recyclable packaging and materials as well as fully implemented wind and solar powered production facilities. This brand also does not condone animal testing and produces cruelty-free and vegan products.

5. Alima Pure

Instagram: @alimapure

Certified B Corporation, Alima Pure, is carbon friendly and cruelty free. They produce high quality products that are safe for your skin. Insider tip: they're known for having very good powder foundation. Even Kerry Washington supports this brand!

The 12 Stages Of Course Registration, As Told By "Friends"

No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

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As college students, we are all familiar with the horror show that is course registration week. Whether you are an incoming freshman or selecting classes for your last semester, I am certain that you can relate to how traumatic this can be.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

Bonus points if it is more than two.

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Economic Benefits of Higher Wages

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

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Raising the minimum wage to a livable wage would not only benefit workers and their families, it would also have positive impacts on the economy and society. Studies have shown that by increasing the minimum wage, poverty and inequality can be reduced by enabling workers to meet their basic needs and reducing income disparities.

I come from a low-income family. A family, like many others in the United States, which has lived paycheck to paycheck. My family and other families in my community have been trying to make ends meet by living on the minimum wage. We are proof that it doesn't work.

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13 Times April Ludgate Perfectly Explained College

Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

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Every college student knows and understands the struggle of forcing themselves to continue to care about school. Between the piles of homework, the hours of studying and the painfully long lectures, the desire to dropout is something that is constantly weighing on each and every one of us, but the glimmer of hope at the end of the tunnel helps to keep us motivated. While we are somehow managing to stay enrolled and (semi) alert, that does not mean that our inner-demons aren't telling us otherwise, and who is better to explain inner-demons than the beloved April Ludgate herself? Because of her dark-spirit and lack of filter, April has successfully been able to describe the emotional roller-coaster that is college on at least 13 different occasions and here they are.

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5 Clean Beauty Brands That Will Enhance Your Summer Glow

It's time for a post-quarantine glow up.

In This Article:

1. Beautycounter

2. Credo Beauty

3. 100% Pure Beauty

4. Juice Beauty

5. Alima Pure

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

What is the current minimum wage at the federal level?

What are the benefits of raising the minimum wage?

What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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