Shiva Rose Spills Her Secrets To Ageless Beauty: Restore & Replenish
Shiva Rose rocks our world (and this cute headband). Photo: Jeana Sohn.
Yes, you’re in the right section: Although Shiva Rose is a true EcoCelebrity, she joins us this month in Beauty & Health. The 41-year-old actress, designer, mother and writer—she’s written for Vogue, Lucky and the Huffington Post, and recently launched her own awesome website, The Local Rose—truly rocked our world when she confessed her devotion to EcoStiletto and told us she wanted to share her secrets with our readers. Considering she’s a true eco-beauty expert and has the luminous skin, gorgeous hair and perfect smile to prove it, we’re feeling pretty lucky right about now.
I’ve been eating organically for over fifteen years, so it came as quite a shock when I realized that as I was attempting to eat healthy, I was still poisoning my body by using toxic products on my face. Our skin is our largest organ, and therefore we absorb most of what we put on our skin into the blood stream. I quickly swapped out my toxic regiment—now I believe you shouldn’t put anything on your face that you wouldn’t eat.
Europe has banned over 1,100 chemicals, yet in the United States, only a handful have been outlawed. We’ve been sold a bogus idea that certain creams, with their fancy labels and exorbitant price tags, are going to make us more beautiful when in fact many of them are filled with parabens, fragrances and other toxic chemicals.
Today we are so blessed with a multitude of chemical-free choices for our entire skin care regime. Now we can take care of our skin in a way that’s not just skin deep, but organ deep. The biggest dilemma is choosing just one!
Plenty of skin-care experts have eponymous product lines. Few, though, make their lotions and potions with plants grown right in their own backyard! Tata Harper not only grows her own organic botanicals on her farm in Vermont, she also uses her own proprietary base rather than buying a base elsewhere and adding her own ingredients to the mix. I love that her products are 100% pure and of the highest quality and grade.
I use all her products, but my favorite is Tata Harper Replenishing Nutrient Complex. This oil contains alfalfa extract and antioxidant vitamins A, B, C, D and E, which protect against the environmental stresses that cause premature skin aging. It also contains Rosa rubiginosa seed oil, which is rich in fatty acids and trans-retinoic acid—natural compounds that have been shown to facilitate wrinkle reduction and fade age spots. It also has beta-carotene-rich carrot seed oil, to improve skin elasticity and tone, and borage oil, which has high levels of gamma-linolenic acid—a powerful wrinkle fighter. I especially appreciate the Precious Rose Otto, which adds its exquisite scent and is also great for brightening a dull complexion.
Tata Harper Replenishing Nutrient Complex ($45)
Want more? Shiva Rose shares her eco-beauty picks to replenish skin, combat sun damage, brighten eyes and act against aging. Could she have found the fountain of youth?
Shiva Rose is an actress, activist, writer and mother who grew up as organic as it gets in Iran’s rural countryside. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Lucky and the Huffington Post, among other pubs, and she video blogs for C Magazine. Currently she lives green, collects vintage, raises two beautiful daughters and runs her eco lifestyle website The Local Rose in Los Angeles.
