Founded in 1999 in New York City, Red Flower is a natural and organic beauty brand rooted in holistic medicine, flower power and old world traditions. Their aromatherapy-focused bath and body products are vegan, cruelty free, biodegradable, biocompatible and all-natural. Each of their washes, oils, clays, polishes, scrubs, buffs, mists and creams is formulated with layers of flowers, herbs, minerals, plant extracts, and mushrooms.

About the brand

The story of Red Flower begins in 1999 with their New York City boutique opening in 2000. They’re now carried at some of the most prestigious hotels and spas. There’s a rich history and mission behind the brand. To know the Red Flower story is to know the founder Yael Alkalay. She r descends from eight generations of Turkish grand rabbis, Kiev musicians, Argentinian pampas farmers, and her grandfather was the first dermatologist in Bulgaria. Her global roots inspired her pursuit of botanical practices in college after which she worked as Creative Director at Shiseido. It was only after Yael experienced an intensive stroke while skiing on vacation did she embrace living life consciously to its fullest potential and Red Flower was born.

I tried Purifying Body Wash

The Red Flower Purifying Body Wash in Palo Santo is a unctuous body wash that feels nourishing and creates an excellent lather. It has a musky, earthy scent from the palo santo and simply smells amazing with the warm steam of the shower.

Red Flower offers three types of washes:

• Body wash
• Therapeutic wash
• Hand wash

It come in six scents and various sizes including Wanderlust, Italian Blood Orange, Icelandic Moonflower, Ocean, Palo Santo and French Lavender. Each is made of a blend of certified organic fruit, flowers and leaves. They use concentrated extracts certified organic cucumber, apple, chamomile, green tea and ginger that stimulates, repairs and vitalizes as well as essential oils that lend it its sensorial factor.

I tried Arctic Berry Cloud Milk Cream

The luxurious Red Flower Arctic Berry Cloud Cream is a light hydrating cream with a supremely elegant formula that makes it feel as fluffy and soft as you’d imagine a cloud. The star ingredient cloudberry fights free-radical damage with vital omega 3 and 6, linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid, and antioxidants and works to improve moisture retention and skin tone, diminish age spots and reduce inflammation. Instead of a pump bottle, it comes in a large glass jar.

This is truly an exceptional body cream if you love a beautiful lightweight, whipped cream.

Consistency: Light, whipped, soft, fluffy like a cloud

Scent: Palmarosa, Moroccan rose and Rose Damascena

I tried Body Lotion

The Red Flower body lotion is a lightweight and hydrating lotion that sinks in well and has an intoxicating scent. Palo Santo is such an amazing spiritual scent and I could not be more excited that there’s a brand making beautiful Palo Santo products that are all natural. The addition of Copaiba and White Birch along with sandalwood and juniper make for a rich multi-layered Palo Santo scent unlike any other.

I tried lymphatic phytopower sea cleanser and masque

This creamy lotion-like cleanser is made of vitamin-rich marine plants, arctic white peat, organic mushrooms and sun-filled berries for a complete therapeutic experience. It only provides a gentle cleanse using a blend of aloe and sea algae that balances and repairs environmentally damaged skin. The Red Flower cleanser can also be used as a hydrating mask so you can leave the product on your face longer and allow all those nourishing ingredients to sink in. It feels very soothing and hydrating and has an uplifting therapeutic scent.

Ingredients: algae extract, aloe barbadensis (aloe) leaf juice, chaga mushroom certified organic, citric acid, grape seed oil, helichrysum oil, juniper berry oil, lemon oil, maitake mushroom certified organic, pink grapefruit oil, reishi mushroom certified organic, tangerine oil, vegetable glycerin, vegetable-derived emulsifying wax, water, white peat extract

I tried Illuminating Rose Collagen Renewal Face Serum

The Red Flower Illuminating Rose Collagen Renewal Face Serum contains the whole essential oil of 45 kg of rose damascena petals and 10,000 cold-pressed cloudberry and raspberry seeds in every bottle. It utilizes methods of steam distillation, cold-pressing and raw extraction for potency and freshness. This is an oil serum of medium consistency with a beautiful and elegant rose scent. I love how it feels very silky and sinks into skin without leaving a greasy or filmy feeling.

I tried Organic Perfume

Red Flower also makes organic and all natural perfumes without any synthetics. I tried the Red Flower Gauaic Perfume Oil Roll-on which features the South American tree Gauaic. It can best be described as guava punch and comes in full sized spray bottles and smaller oil roll-ons. Because this is an organic perfume it doesn’t have the same performance or projection as a synthetic perfume. The oil roll-on lays close to the skin, so only if someone were to be smelling you directly would they be able to detect any scent. Their perfumes are composed of essential oils and organic plants like flower distillations, dark-tree resins, fresh herbs and ripe fruit extractions.

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