The Beauty Librarian

If you read my rave review, you already know that I have fallen in love with Blissoma Holistic Skincare and Apothecary because the products work beautifully and do not cause my sensitive skin any problems.  Yet that is just one of many reasons I love this line, albeit an important one.  As long as my review was, there was actually more I wanted to say about what makes the company and its products special.  For starters, I recently came across a blog post detailing 65 Great Reasons to Love Shopping with Blissoma.  Sixty-five reasons may sound like a lot, but I agree with all of them.  What’s more, having experienced the superb quality, transformative effects, and unmatched value of Blissoma products for myself, as well as having had several helpful interactions with Ms. Longyear and Blissoma staff, I can assure you that the above list is merely scratching the surface of things that make this line so special and appealing.  I feel compelled to add a few more reasons to love Blissoma to the list.

 

More Reasons To Love Blissoma: My Additions to the Blissoma post 65 Great Reasons to Love Shopping with Blissoma

 

66. Blissoma offers spa-grade herbal skincare that effectively targets specific skin concerns and delivers turnaround results for a variety of frustrating skin troubles. This is line of truly transformative products!
67. Blissoma delivers products of unrivaled quality and integrity all at prices that are half or even a third of what other lines of comparable quality charge.
68. So many skincare lines are positioned as luxury brands and intentionally priced to be generally out of reach, even when their products are mass-produced in factories; in contrast, Blissoma is a handcrafted, small-batch line, and yet founder Julie Longyear is expressly committed to keeping Blissoma accessible. She has said, “The entire time I have been in business I have always felt like exceptional products should be accessible to as many people as possible. This to me has always meant keeping our line affordable.”
69. The folks at Blissoma understand that consumers’ trust has been abused by the beauty industry, and they see your trust as something precious they are happy to earn.
70. The Blissoma team generously gives back to their community of St. Louis, MO. (e.g., housing their production studio in a revitalizing urban neighborhood where they have established a community garden, hosting community clothing swaps and donation drives), and they actively donate to local nonprofits, such as Earthdance Farms and the House Rabbit Society of MO.
71. Blissoma founder, herbal chemist Julie Longyear, started a movement called the Green Beauty Rebellion, complete with an inspiring 5-Step Action Plan outlining everyday actions you can take to ultimately create big changes to benefit yourself, your community, and the world.
72. Longyear operates Blissoma with the explicit goal of flipping the fear-filled beauty industry on its head.
73. As part of ongoing efforts to remain transparent to customers, Blissoma lists every single ingredient–including every essential oil—on their labels, rather than hiding ingredients behind a proprietary claim.
74. When you shop with Blissoma, you can have confidence that your products have been crafted in small batches frequently, such that they are fresh and fully potent when you receive and begin using them.
75. Blissoma founder and formulator Julie Longyear is a widely respected herbal chemist with a deep appreciation for and an incredible knowledge about botanicals.
76. Longyear has authored two fantastic ebooks, both of which I recommend, that share some of her unique insights: Natural Anti-Aging Ingredients You Should Know and Solve Your Dry Skin Naturally.
77. Blissoma products tend to combine well over a dozen complementary beneficial These actives include generous doses of natural vitamins and minerals, antioxidant-rich botanical extracts, soothing seed oils rich in omega fatty acids, rejuvenating phytonutrients, active fruit and vegetable enzymes, plant-based preservatives, plant wax emulsifiers, and unrefined, raw plant ingredients
78. Rather than tossing in the latest popular ingredients, each Blissoma ingredient has been carefully chosen, with a specific purpose and function in its recipe. Every ingredient from top to bottom is essential, such that the final product would not be the same without it.
79. Longyear chooses only ingredients with solid safety records and good science behind them.
80. Each product recipe is completely unique to the Blissoma line, such that you will not find anything else like it on the marketplace.

81. Blissoma founder and formulator Julie Longyear explicitly prioritizes quality over quantity when it comes to her line. As she has said, “I’d rather spend a year on one formulation and get it really, really right than have 5 or 6 products that only sort of do what they say they should.”
82. Even within the Blissoma line, every individual product has its own collection of unique ingredients, so that when you use an assortment of Blissoma products, you are truly getting a broad spectrum of topical nutrition without much overlap or repetition. Just as it is healthy for us to eat a variety of whole foods, the wide-ranging botanical actives featured across Blissoma different products offer a complete, well-rounded assortment of nutrients for optimal skin health.
83. If you want to test the waters before committing, Blissoma offers Samples and Trial Sizes of products!
84. Blissoma offers a Loyalty Points Program that gives you 5 points for every $1 you spend. You can redeem points for samples, full-sized products, or gift certificates!  Bonus: When you redeem your points on a gift certificate, you earn more points on the transaction!
85. The team at Blissoma wants you to be satisfied with your purchase, and back this up with a generous 30 Day Return Policy on full-sized Blissoma Skin and Body products purchased directly from their site.
86. Blissoma makes skincare SOLUTIONS for a variety of skin types and concerns, yet across the line, there is a common focus on healing, soothing, and regeneration.
87. I tried five different items, and I would (and will) happily repurchase each and every one of
88. Of the five products I tried, their effectiveness across the board is particularly significant in my case, as my skin is extremely challenging. I deal with a real jumble of skin problems including dehydration, acne, sensitivity, chronically inflammation, and signs of aging, and Blissoma offered me well-rounded regenerative solutions for each of my concerns.
89. Rather than artificial, lab-produced fragrances, Blissoma utilizes essential oils of plants; essential oils infuse the product with a natural scent and are also part of the total therapeutic action, for instance providing detoxifying or regenerative effects in addition to contributing to the overall aesthetic experience.
90. Blissoma is Leaping Bunny Certified Cruelty-Free.
91. Blissoma uses no animal-derived ingredients in any of its products and is Certified Vegan, making it a truly plant-based line.
92. In a stand against animal testing, the company adopted an abandoned rabbit, Blossom, who is now housed comfortably in their store as a beloved part of the Blissoma family. Longyear explains, “We adopted Blossom to help people connect products with the very real, beautiful, loving, and honestly magically healing creatures that are suffering in the name of “beauty.” Now when our customers walk in, they will be able to put a face to the name: the victims of animal cruelty. …Since we live in a capitalist economy one of the best ways to affect change is to change consumer behavior.”
93. Louis residents and visitors can enjoy shopping for Blissoma and other carefully curated natural and cruelty-free beauty products (including high-performance color cosmetics, natural hair care, and nontoxic nail polishes) at Blissoma’s charming Botanical Beauty Retail Store in historic Flower Row at 2730 LaSalle St. Walk-ins are welcome, and their knowledgeable staff and thoughtfully pre-screened products will allow you to shop with confidence and ease as you enjoy the luxurious, bohemian loft-style setting.  You can browse the curated delights to your heart’s content and/or get expert advice from Blissoma’s  professional makeup artist or licensed esthetician.  (I so wish I lived closer to St. Louis!)
94. Blissoma Botanical Beauty offers a number of specialized professional services, including natural makeup and skincare consultations with their makeup artist or licensed esthetician, a green beauty swap service, makeup lessons, and professional event makeup.
95. Blissoma hosts all sorts of natural beauty and wellness events, as well as educational presentations providing healthy skincare education. They make a number of these events available virtually for customers who live at a distance.  Watch one of my favorites, an eye-opening seminar on how chemical and mineral sunscreens work.
96. Blissoma offers free skincare consultations by email to help you select the best items for your needs. You can email their staff esthetician for her expert advice at esthetician@blissoma.com
97. The line is enthusiastically endorsed by a large and growing number of holistic estheticians and skincare
98. The Blissoma newsletter provides thoughtful, expert content that is worth reading. (I always open my Blissoma emails and read them eagerly.) Sign up here to receive valuable natural skincare advice, informative videos, DIY recipes, exclusive sales, and inspiration on inner beauty and outer care.
99. Along with great content, newsletter subscribers receive a special code for free shipping on all orders $65 or more.
100. Blissoma thanks their community of subscribers with a fantastic yearly Summer Subscriber Sale, with significant discounts (30% last year!) on their complete line of products, making the excellent value of a Blissoma purchase even better!
101. Founder Julie Longyear cares more about customer feedback than awards and has said, “My feeling is that we are not in business to seek awards. We are in business to do good work.” Still, it’s worth a mention that Blissoma is award-winning.  Awards include Healing Lifestyles and Spas Earth Day Beauty Award, Well Beauty Blog Pick, St. Louis Magazine Editors’ Choice Winner, Alive Hotlist, Natural Solutions Beauty with a Conscience Award, Green Team Best of Beauty Award, Nation-Alist Best of Beauty Award, Gorgeously Green Beauty Award, Kiwi Natural Beauty Award, Organic Beauty Talk Best in Green Award, and Fig + Sage Editor’s Choice.
102. Blissoma is an inner beauty company, which means that they do not promote insecurity to sell their products and instead try to encourage self-acceptance. They create their products to respect and feed your inner beauty.
103. Better yet, for Blissoma, inner beauty is not a marketing tactic. When you dig into their website and blog as I have, rather than finding the usual messages targeting insecurity, you will discover that Blissoma offers reassurance and empowering messages such as, “Age is no obstacle to beautiful skin.”  I have never seen anything else so pro-aging from a skincare company before or since.
104. Blissoma’s self-loving, holistic skincare is smart, soulful, and will leave your skin looking amazing, regardless of its starting point.
105. Longyear sees the skincare she creates as something wonderful and enhancing; she recognizes that an essential beauty exists in you with or without it. As she explained in an Instagram post, “You and I are perfect and whole without modifications.  I have some stuff that will make your insides shimmy with happiness but it’s just here to add to your already amazing self.”
106. Blissoma has a great YouTube Channel, complete with collections of videos detailing: the brand, Natural Skincare Tips, Tutorials on Herbal and Natural Lifestyle.
107. With Blissoma, skincare is not about “fighting” fill in the blank (e.g., aging, acne), but rather about nourishing; it’s a way to provide topical nutrition targeted for specific skin types and needs. As Ms. Longyear has said, “Skincare and beauty can be a cornerstone of a healthy relationship to self or a key example of self-criticism and insecurity. Instead of creating a costume that we wear every day, what if we felt like each day we were meeting the world authentically as ourselves?”
108. Blissoma will leave you in awe of the power of plants.
109. With Blissoma, you no longer have to choose between your health and your looks; you can have the best of both worlds wrapped up in one amazingly healthy and high-performance line.
110. My rave review is just a drop in the ocean of endorsements this line has earned.  They have a page dedicated to love letters!
111. At the core, there is this: green beauty is full of lines that strive for and/or try to project integrity partly as a marketing tactic, but Blissoma is the real deal.

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