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Facial Toners 101: What You Need to Know to Get Glowing Skin
Learn everything you need to know about facial toners, including how they can change the appearance of large pores, the best ingredients to use, and tips for getting the most out of your toner. Achieve glowing, radiant skin with this comprehensive guide.
Ingredients for Clean, natural skin care - Charcoal Algae more
6 Effective And Clean Ingredients You Need In Your Skincare Routine
It may sometimes be hard to work out what you need for a great skincare routine. Whether you’re new to the scene or you’ve experimented before, products with effective skincare ingredients can be a game-changer. Here are 6 ingredients to look for to amp up your routine.
Essential Oil Spotlight: Sandalwood
Essential Oil Spotlight: Sandalwood

If you’ve picked up any candle, incense, or perfume in the last few years, you’ve likely already encountered the warm sweet and slightly woody scent of sandalwood. Sandalwood Essential Oil has been around for centuries, and can now be found in additional wellness products, such as facial moisturizers and massage oils.

Sandalwood Essential Oil doesn’t just possess an amazing scent, however. Using products that contain Sandalwood Essential Oil can also have positive effects on overall well-being, healthier-looking skin, and many other surprising benefits. Here’s all you need to know about this special essential oil.

Source Vitál's Matcha Cool Mask surrounded by a cut lemon, small bowl of matcha powder, and small bowl of algae powder.
Masterful Matcha: Why You Should Be Reaching for This Skincare Superfood
You've likely seen matcha pop-up as a caffeine alternative to coffee, but have you ever considered what it can do for your skin? Read on for some history on this vibrant green powder, its benefits, and how to incorporate it into your skincare regimen.
Woman applying black charcoal clay mask to face with brush
Ingredient Spotlight: Activated Charcoal

Activated charcoal is becoming a popular ingredient to use in many products, including in skincare and body care. Here's what activated charcoal is, and what this inky black ingredient can do for your skin. 

 

Source Vital's Custom Body Cocktail in green shell-shaped dish next to dry brush
Introducing: Our Custom Body Cocktail
We're proud to introduce the latest product in our customizable assortment. Our Custom Body Cocktail allows you to create a formula that is specific to your skin's needs. This blend of 100% natural botanical oils can help you to address all of your intentions and concerns in one bottle. To add a scent and aromatic experience, select from some of our favorite essential oils blends. Hydrated and happy skin coming right up!
Lemongrass Essential Oil Rollerball on top of green leaf on orange leather background
Essential Oil Spotlight: Lemongrass
Lemongrass is one of the most important and versatile essential oils you should have in your medicine cabinet. Here are just a few of the benefits of lemongrass essential oil, from keeping pests away to improving the look of skin.
July is National Hemp Month
It’s National Hemp Month! And our Sir Vitál line of Men's Products is Loaded with Hemp Goodness
July is National Hemp Month! Learn more about it and why we use it in Sir Vitall, our men's line of skin care and grooming products.
It's Aromatherapy Week!
Aromatherapy Awareness Week June 6th-June 12th
Aromatherapy Awareness Week gives us a chance to put an extra special spotlight on the essential oils we love so much. The International Federation of Aromatherapists (IFA) registered Aromatherapy Awareness Week from June 6th to 12th and aimed to bring more recognition to the benefits of Aromatherapy and its role in the health and well-being of the nation. 
Reef Awareness Day
Celebrate Reef Awareness Day
On June 1st, consumers, businesses, and organizations around the world celebrate World Reef Day. It has now become a recurring day to promote awareness and help to motivate positive change for coral reefs around the world. 
Dry Brushing for Softer Skin
Dry Brushing for Your Softest Skin Ever
If you’ve found yourself on Instagram or TikTok lately, you’ve likely come across a video or post about the art of dry brushing. Although this practice may seem a bit intimidating, or even a bit confusing, dry brushing has incredible benefits for your skin. With the changing of the seasons just around the corner, now is the perfect time to adopt this body care ritual. Here’s how to reveal your softest, glowiest, skin ever through dry brushing. 
Why Juicy Orange Essential Oil Should Be Your Go-To This Summer
Why Juicy Orange Essential Oil Should Be Your Go-To This Summer
There’s probably a good chance that you’ve snacked on a juicy orange on a summer day or started your day off with a refreshing glass of orange juice. For many of us, oranges are a means to boost our Vitamin C intake, add zest to our cooking, and curb our sweet tooth in a delicious way. But did you know that there are so many more benefits to using oranges, particularly orange essential oil?
Mother's Day with Source Vital natural, clean products
Show Mom You Love Her "Bunches" This Mother's Day
Discover the Source Vitál Mother's Day Gift Guide for our favorite gifts for the "mothers and others" in your life. This year, we were inspired by the many gorgeous blooms the earth has to offer.
How To Personalize Your Easter Basket This Year
How To Personalize Your Easter Basket This Year
When we think about stuffing Easter baskets, the usual suspects include chocolate, candy, and possibly some other trinkets if you’re lucky. At Source Vital, we think it’s time to step up your Easter basket game while gifting those you love something that they’ll actually use and made exactly with them in mind.

Here are our must-haves for Easter giving, no matter the recipient’s age.
How To Help Manage Stress In Thirty Minutes (Or Less)
How To Help Manage Stress In Thirty Minutes (Or Less)
No matter how busy you are, there should always be time to take care of yourself. We’re here to show you how you can fit stress care into your life-whether it's one minute or thirty minutes.
Step Into Spring With Geranium Essential Oil
Step Into Spring With Geranium Essential Oil
Did you know that there are over 700 varieties of geranium? You’ve likely encountered the vibrant, delicate flowers of the geranium plant at your local garden center, or even in your backyard. Geranium has been used for purely ornamental purposes for centuries. The earliest Geranium Essential Oil usage dates back to Ancient Egypt when it was used for its skin beautifying and wellness benefits.
When it comes to distillation, Pelagonium graveolens is the main Geranium commercially cultivated for essential oil, and what you’ll find bottled today. Geranium Essential Oil has an aroma that is described as strong, sweet, fresh, green, slightly citrus-minty, and spicy. When diluted, this oil is floral and rose-like in scent, which makes sense, considering rose and geranium share many similar attributes.
Spring Cleaning Your Home (And Body) Naturally
Spring Cleaning Your Home (And Body) Naturally
There’s just something about warmer, sunnier days that makes you want to deep clean and organize your life. After months of staying indoors, we are looking forward to shedding the excess layers, deep cleaning our homes, and trading bulkier winter routines for simpler spring rituals. 
Ready to emerge from your wintertime cocoon? Here’s how to get your home (and your skin) springtime-ready!
Happy Birthday, Aries! (March 21-April 19)
Happy Birthday, Aries! (March 21-April 19)
Aries is one of the cardinal signs of the zodiac, initiating not only the start of the zodiac calendar, but also the beginning of the spring season. This makes perfect sense, as Aries are naturally born leaders, fiercely independent, and highly competitive. Read on to find out our favorite gifts for Aries babies.
Ingredient Spotlight: Turmeric
Ingredient Spotlight: Turmeric
With springtime in reach, you may be looking to shake up your skincare routine. One can’t miss ingredient that needs to be on your radar is turmeric. 
Although you may have seen this delicious spice used in the culinary world, you may not know that this superfood can be beneficial for your skin as well! 
Four Bedtime Rituals For Your Best Sleep
Four Bedtime Rituals For Your Best Sleep
Quality sleep is important to our well-being, because it’s the only time our body, brain, and even our skin have time to recover from the stressors of the day. We’ve compiled a list of simple, easy-to-incorporate, bedtime rituals to help you achieve your best nights sleep.
Dry Skin Versus Dehydrated Skin-What's The Difference?
Dry Skin Versus Dehydrated Skin-What's The Difference?
You may be thinking, “wait, aren’t those terms- dry and dehydrated- basically the same thing?” Although we use the words dry and dehydrated interchangeably, and heck, they may even feel similar, they are not the same thing. 
Let’s explore the difference between dry and dehydrated skin, characteristics of each, and how to effectively treat and manage both. 

So...What Is The Difference?

In the simplest terms- Dry is a skin type, Dehydration is a skin condition. Skin type is what you’re born with (dry, oily, combination) and is classified as more permanent. Skin conditions can happen to anyone, can range from sticking around temporarily to more long-term, and can be caused by things such as environmental factors.