Golden Path Alchemy: Green Skin Care
Most skin care products are loaded with preservatives and are created by companies that discard the importance of using environmentally-friendly ingredients and production methods. Golden Path Alchemy creates products that, unlike their counterparts, are all-natural, handmade, and effective. This company recently was nominated by Green America as one of the top ten green businesses to vote for in its People’s Choice Award competition.
The mission of Gold Path Alchemy is “to create holistic herbal skin care to transform your skin, body, and spirit, revealing your radiant beauty.” The company has an extremely unique approach to the manufacturing of their products, from the beginning of production to their final marketing. They create their products in small batches and buy local, organic materials. The products are sold in glass containers that can be recycled more easily than the typical plastic ones. The company primarily uses 100% recycled paper, and the default receipt method is electronic rather than paper.
Gold Path Alchemy offers general skin care products, facial products, body & spiritual products, and an assortment of other extras including tote bags and sample kits. The skin care line has five categories: Awaken, which is designed to bring out the radiance of skin; Purify, which cleanses oily skin; Refine, which has been formulated to refine skin to improve one’s overall complexion; Renew, which revitalizes dry or aging skin; and Illuminate, which is designed to brighten skin for a more luminous complexion. Specifically for the face, Golden Path Alchemy also offers cleansers, toners, moisturizers, masks, and steams.
The only caveat here is that the shelf life of the products, without being jam-packed with preservatives, is inevitably much shorter than that of a typical department-store product. Yet, most of the products still have a shelf life of several months to a year, which would be sufficient for most products, assuming they are used regularly.
Golden Path Alchemy is based in Los Angeles, California, but shipments can be arranged to all 50 states and even other countries. To lessen its environmental impact a step further, the company commonly ships in recycled boxes, using previously-used materials as often as possible.
