Clean skincare carries a stigma of being ineffective because people imagine ingredients like aloe vera and jojoba oil without understanding how much green science has advanced. You can have the best of every world, both natural and lab-made with today’s clean beauty brands.  These brands are also stringent about excluding harmful or questionable ingredients to varying degrees. Most clean beauty brands launching these days are focused on targeting Gen Z (they’ve already entered the workforce) and even Generation Alpha who are entering teenhood. So which organic & natural skincare brands can actually tackle the heavy-duty stuff like crow’s feet, wrinkles and age spots showing up from sun damage afflicted 20 years ago? I get this question often from my readers, so I’ve decided to dedicate today’s blog post to this topic and share the best anti-aging natural skincare brands. You’ll find some recognizable OG organic skincare brands as well as newer up-and-coming brands along with some of my personal recommendations.

NuFace Microcurrent

One of the easiest ways to upgrade your anti-aging skincare routine is through technology. NuFace is the reference when it comes to microcurrent technology and helps lift and contour facial muscles.

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Marie Veronique Serums

I recommend Marie Veronique’s serums, especially their retinol products. Marie-Veronique Nadeau is a chemist (and trained esthetician) who founded Marie Veronique back in 2002 and collaborates with her daughter, Jay Nadeau, physicist and bio-medical engineer, to carefully choose each ingredient to address the causes of aging at the source.

Anfisa Skin AN-BALM Radiant Hydra-Balm

Anfisa Skin’s An-Balm face balm is an excellent balm for mature skin as the final nightly skincare step in an anti-aging routine. This is an elegant, lightweight balm perfect for year round use to help lock in all your skincare products and prevent moisture loss during the night.

 

Maya Chia Beauty

Maya Chia Beauty offers a clean skincare line of advanced formulas that target mature and aging skin. If your skin is in need of serious tightening, lifting and smoothing, look into Maya Chia’s hero products.

Odacite

If you’re in need of anti-aging but you ALSO suffer from breakouts or adult acne, then I recommend Odacite. Specifically their Black Mint Charcoal + Rhassoul Clarifying Cleanser, a super potent cleanser powered by Activated Charcoal, Rhassoul Clay, Apple Amino Acids, Tea Tree, Peppermint and more. The Odacite Black Cumin Cajeput Serum Concentrate is also a must for breakouts and will also deeply moisturize without drying out your skin.

 

Le Prunier Plumscreen

You will either love or hate Le Prunier Plumscreen – no in between! The Le Prunier Plumscreen is an eco-luxe sunscreen product, BUT I find it to be an amazing daytime moisturizer with secondary sun protection benefits. I would not consider this an outdoor sunscreen, I repeat, this is not an outdoor sunscreen. The consistency is unique and refined, which is why women keep coming back to this $78 product.

True Botanicals

If you’ve tried and enjoyed Tata Harper, which also offers a quality anti-aging collection, then you will probably enjoy a True Botanicals product or two. At nearly 60-year olds, Brooke Shields is their ambassador if that’s important to you. The True Botanicals Chebula line features Ayurvedic fruit Chebula, an ingredient known as one of the most bioactive, photostable, broad spectrum, cascading antioxidants with an ORAC score higher than Acai. I recommend their Chebula Active Serum for intense hydration.

 

Luzern Serum Absolut V15 Vitamin C

I consider this the holy grail clean beauty dupe to Skinceuticals C E Ferulic. This is one of, if not the most, potent Vitamin C serums in natural skincare that I’ve experienced, and while it retails for $215 it comes in a 2 oz bottle, double the size of most Vitamin C serums. Use a Vitamin C serum in your morning skincare routine every single day.

Tata Harper Elixir Vitae

Tata Harper is a cult anti-aging line for their Elixir Vitae collection. This line is best for severe lines and wrinkles, loss of firmness/ elasticity, and dryness. It is prohibitively expensive even though the average cost of the products in this post are already high.

Furtuna Skin Due Alberi Biphase Oil

Regenerative organic skincare brand Furtuna Skin sources from their own certified organic Sicilian estate where the land must be untouched and irrigated by natural streams. Unconventional in many aspects of their approach to creating skincare, Furtuna uses powerful ingredient complexes like Splendore Anchusa® Complex, optimized delivery methods like Chronoutrition®, and innovative ingredient processes like Soundbath® Method.

Furtuna’s Biphase Moisturizing Oil features their Splendore Anchusa® Complex, a powerful wild-foraged complex that drives formula performance and contains medicinal flower Anchusa azurea rich in protective antioxidant powers, collagen-supporting chicory, Vitamin E-packed asparagus, hydrating beets, and moisture barrier-boosting mallow. Furtuna’s 360° Exposome Defense® Complex fights against the cumulative effect of everyday exposures with a proprietary blend of calendula flower, grape vine, dog rose, and poppy.

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Bluh Alchemy

While smaller than many of the other anti-aging lines mentioned in this post, Bluh Alchemy promises to be a conscious contributor to clean beauty and has a treatment-focused range of advanced bioactive solutions utilizing cellular extraction. I recommend their Nocturnal Repair Active Emulsion as a nighttime moisturizer and their Multi C Serum as a daytime antioxidant serum. This line is also incredibly healing if you suffer from more serious skin conditions.

Emma Lewisham

Emma Lewisham is a luxury green beauty brand from New Zealand that prioritizes scientifically active and proven formulations. They even commission independent laboratories to perform in vivo (on people) and in vitro (in the laboratory) testing. Emphasis on independent labs and not their own. Their Illuminating Oil Cleanser is great for day and night and is formulated with 23 of the world’s most nutrient rich phyto-actives that work together as part of a triple-action ingredient system to deeply cleanse and nourish.

Example Anti-Aging Skincare Routines

Based on the anti-aging brands mentioned, I’ve drafted example skincare routines as a rough guideline for how you can build a skincare routine. Please note, this is not a one-size-fits-all routine and your skincare routine needs to cater to your specific skin type, needs and concerns.

Example Anti-Aging Routine for Dry Skin

• Step 1 Oil Cleanser: Furtuna Skin Oil Cleansing Balm 
• Step 2 Water-based Cleanser: Tata Harper Regenerating Cleanser or True Botanicals Nourishing Cleanser
• Step 3 Toner: Odacite Hydra-Repair Treatment Mist
• Step 4 Serum: Luzern Labs V15 Absolut Serum + True Botanicals Chebula Serum (day) / Marie Veronique Retinol Serum + Tata Harper Elixir Vitae (night)
• Step 5 Moisturizer: Emma Lewisham Creme Riche or Bluh Alchemy Nocturnal Repair or Luzern Nuit Retinol Creme Luxe 
• Step 6 Face Oil: Furtuna Skin Due Alberi Biphase Oil or True Botanicals Pure Radiance Oil or Le Prunier Plum Oil 
• Step 7 Face Balm: Anfisa Skin An-Balm or May Lindstrom The Blue Cocoon
• Sunscreen: Odacite Sheer Mineral Drops SPF 50

Example Anti-Aging Routine for Oily/Acne-Prone Skin

• Step 1 Oil Cleanser: Emma Lewisham Illuminating Oil Cleanser
• Step 2 Water-based Cleanser: Odacite Black Mint Clarifying Cleanser
• Step 3 Toner: Furtuna Skin Micellar Essence 
• Step 4 Serum: Luzern Labs V15 Absolut Serum (day) / Marie Veronique Retinol Serum + Tata Harper Elixir Vitae (night)
• Step 5 Moisturizer: Le Prunier Plumscreen (day) or Tata Harper Clarifying Moisturizer
• Step 6 Face Oil: Odacite Black Cumin Cajeput Serum Concentrate
• Step 7 Face Balm: Anfisa Skin An-Balm or May Lindstrom The Blue Cocoon
• Sunscreen: Beauty of Joseon SPF 50

For more high-end luxury organic skincare check out the below articles:

• Best Luxury Face Cleansers
• Best Luxury Face Moisturizers
• Best Hydrating Face Serums (Hyper Luxe Edition)