exfoliate 100ml / 3.4 fl oz RRP $39.00: Lavender & Rosella, Citrus & Coffee or Unscented with Wattle Seeds; lavender ingredients
Aloe Vera Juice* (Aloe Barbadensis), Australian Wattle Seeds (acacia victoriae), Rosella Flowers* (Hibiscus Sabdariffa), Sclerotium Rolfsii Gum, Australian bitter orange extract (citrus aurantium) bioflavanoid mixture, Australian Lavender Essential Oil* (lavendula intermedia)
(*ACO Certified Organic); citrus ingredients
Aloe Vera Juice* (Aloe Barbadensis), Australian Coffee Beans*, Sclerotium Rolfsii Gum, Australian bitter orange extract (citrus aurantium) bioflavanoid mixture, Sweet Orange Essential Oil* (Citrus Sinensis)
(*ACO Certified Organic); unscented ingredients
Aloe Vera Juice* (Aloe Barbadensis), Australian Wattle Seeds (acacia victoriae), Sclerotium Rolfsii Gum, Australian bitter orange extract (citrus aurantium) bioflavonid mixture.
(*ACO Certified Organic); A stimulating, deep-cleansing, high antioxidant blend for perfectly polished, glowing skin.; Directions: Select your favourite scrub, apply desired amount of gel to your face and work in moderate circles around entire facial area. Leave skin for a minute or two, allowing the antioxidant rich ingredients to work on your skin then rinse thoroughly in luke warm water. How often you exfoliate is up to personal preference however those with sensitive skin may prefer to exfoliate no more than once per week.; Always follow exfoliation with a Pure & Green Organics moisture lotion.; back to products page

Why Our Scrubs Are Healthier For You And The Environment

exfoliate Exfoliants are among the most popular skin-care products on the market, and they come in two varieties – chemical and physical.

Chemical exfoliants use chemicals to dissolve the dead cells sitting on the surface of the skin.
Physical exfoliants use abrasives to scrape away those cells.

Chemical exfoliants leave people at a higher risk for sunburn and associated skin cancers. Because of this, many come with built in sunscreen, often based on petroleum with another whole range of negative side effects!

Among physical exfoliants, the most widely favoured are aluminum oxide crystals, used in a spa treatment called microdermabrasion. There are now several companies that sell home use microdermabrasion kits, all based around aluminum oxide crystals.

Aluminum oxide crystals are harmless to humans, but when you’re done washing your face, those same crystals go down the drain, into the sewers and out into the oceans, where they cause massive harm.

The US EPA flatly states that any form of aluminum is “highly toxic to many species of aquatic organisms”. In fish, the metal has been linked to birth defects, increased mortality and a host of other complications.

But there are organic alternatives. Old school physical exfoliants are making a come back. Pure and Green Organics chose coffee beans and wattle seed grounds for the following reasons:

They are grown in Australia, reducing transport related carbon emissions.
Harvesting does not kill the plant, so topsoil is held in place preventing soil erosion.
We are able to source "waste wise" materials.

Being Wastewise

Coffee beans that are irregular shapes and sizes are usually not sold but added to the compost heap! We buy irregular sized Australian certified organic coffee beans and use them in our exfoliating facial scrub. They still smell like coffee and provide the same beneficial properties no matter their size! Irregular size does not mean irregular quality.
A flavour extract is made from wattle seeds by ethanol extraction, and the grounds are the part left behind, devoid of aroma. These "left-over" grounds are perfect for our unscented scrub as they are spherical in shape making them an extremely gentle exfoliant material for sensitive skin. These grounds are also generally destined for the compost heap, so by rescuing them we are in fact preserving all the water used to produce the seeds.