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10.02.16
There’s no surprise why the world’s beauty brains turned to discovering all-natural beauty practices. We are inevitably connected to the world of minerals and crystals. Many of them have skincare benefits and positive impacts on energy and mood, which are worth to be discovered in depth and employed to their maximum potential. Which are, not to mention, endless.
As we’re just in the heart of the last winter month, let’s talk amethyst - February birthstone.

Amethyst, a violet variety of quartz, is a meditative and calming stone which influences emotional and spiritual experiences, delivering balance, patience, and peace.
Amethyst has a gently sedative energy that can promote calmness, happiness, and contentment. It can also bring emotional stability and inner strength, enhance intuition and psychic powers of all kinds. It can protect from nightmares and self-criticism.
Overall, amethyst is all about getting rid of negativity.
Amethyst has become frequently used in facial creams, masks and cleansers. You can find it among your bath salt ingredients, or even in some luxury make-up products. Minerals in amethyst purify and detoxify, making your skin more radiant, smooth and bright. Beauty products infused with amethyst crystals have many other benefits including vitalising, moisturising, and softening.
As amethyst is the power stone of the month, we have put together some of our favourite gemstone-infused beauty products for you to try this month. Click the images for more details.
Therapie Roques O-Neil Himalayan Detox Salts
The pace of modern life can often be a bit too much. A hot bath before bed with essential oils and powdered amethyst can be the perfect release to daily overload. Designed to balance positive and negative ions, dissolve accumulated physical and emotional toxins, it can also provide you with a great bathing experience.
Gem Beauty Amethyst Facial Mask
When 100% natural nutrients deeply diffuse onto your skin, your skin turns to a gem. With 63% of amethyst powder with honey, collagen, ceramide, tocopherol and natural oils, this facial mask is a luxury retreat for your skin. It helps to eliminate waste deep inside pores, leaving your skin gently cleansed, refined and moisturised.
Aquarian Soul + Earth Oils Amethyst Headache Oil
“Every crystal has a different vibration, a different healing energy that works with our own chemistry to help restore our bodies to their highest potential”, says Ally Sands, herbalist and founder of natural beauty brand Aquarian Soul + Earth Oils. It’s time to stop taking loads of painkillers and aspirin. Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration.
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