2008 Archives: Lluvia: Organic, Eco-Friendly Skincare from Amazon Herbs
No chemicals? Check. No preservatives? Check. No synthetics? Triple check. Skincare without these things isn’t revolutionary. But a skincare system that incorporates botanicals from the Amazon rainforest and supports the indigenous people who live there? You can’t check that off so easily.
That’s why we love Lluvia, a line of skincare products from the Amazon Herb company, which has been sustainably sourcing rainforest botanicals for three decades through the work of its founder “Amazon John” Easterling, who made us aware of crazy, pull-it-out-at-a-party-and-amaze-your-friends kinds of factoids that start with “Did you know that the rainforest
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...contains more species of plants and animals than all of the earth’s other ecosystems combined?
...produces 50 percent of the world’s oxygen?
...contains 80 percent of the earth’s surface vegetation?
...is where roughly 40 percent of our modern medicines are sourced—from a mere two percent of the available botanical plants?
The man is to the Amazon what Stephen Hawking is to black holes. And he puts his money where his mouth is, funding indigenous tribes in their efforts to protect their land against logging that destroys 75 acres of rainforest every minute—adding up to 39 million acres a year. But we digress (with good reason, of course).
Known more for their nutritional supplements and teas than moisturizers and exfoliants, Amazon Herbs launched Lluvia (“ju-vee-ah,” the Spanish word for rain) in order to access the power of potent antioxidant compounds found in plants like the Sangre de Drago tree. Think vitamin C kicks ass on your fine lines? Try some “blood of the dragon” tree sap on for size—it contains up to 90% proanthocyandin antioxidiants as well as taspines, nutrients that stimulate the migration of fibroblast cells responsible for tissue regeneration.
Now if we could only remember that definition of taspines at the water cooler.
