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The Perfect Gifts from the Body Care Sale

A myriad of body care items sit on a wooden table with a red and white stocking waiting to be gifted.

The Co-op’s December body care sale is the perfect way to purchase your holiday gifts and stocking stuffers, and save money. We’ve selected some of our most popular items to help you get started.

Elevate Your Bath

Love Bath Salt Remedy

The Love epsom salt bath is naturally made with organic essential oils created to tantalize your senses and lift your spirit. It is a cheerful bath remedy and one of Shepard Moon Concoctions’ top selling blends. Shepard Moon Concoctions uses only the highest-quality, therapeutic-grade, natural ingredients in all their products. They are handmade, paraben-free, petroleum-free, gluten-free, and vegan.

Bath bombs and salts with stocking on a wooden table

Ginger and Mint Invigorating Aromatherapy Foam Bath

Aura Cacia’s Invigorating Ginger and Mint awakens the senses with the zesty combination of revitalizing ginger and refreshing peppermint essential oils. Aura Cacia’s foam baths are crafted with jojoba oil and gentle coconut-derived surfactants to leave the skin soft and smooth.

Serenity Bath Bomb

The Soul Spring Calming + Centering Serenity Bath Bomb is made with the perfect balance of lavender, sandalwood, and Hemp CBD. All Soul Spring products are made without any parabens, phenoxyethanol, sulfates, PEGs, propylene glycol, petroleum products, artificial colors, or synthetic fragrances.

Plastic-Free Sustainable Shampoo and Condition Bars That Are TSA Approved!

Brixy Coconut Vanilla Shampoo and Conditioner Bars

Brixy bars are made for hair care enthusiasts seeking plastic-free alternatives. The shampoo and conditioner bars are solid, making them perfect for air travel. The coconut vanilla offers a luxuriously sudsy experience formulated with coconut oil, argan oil, and provitamin B5 for strong and healthy looking hair.

Winter Hand Relief

Lime Blossom Shea Butter and Cocoa Butter Hand Cream

Andalou Naturals hand cream uses organic coconut water, fair trade shea and cocoa butter that absorb quickly, leaving your hands nourished and protected. Andalou Naturals is a woman-owned business that donates proceeds from product sales to support non-profit organizations centered on women and girls’ empowerment.

Gardener’s Hand Lotion

Hand screams sit in an out of a stocking on a wooden table

Cold weather, travel, and frequent hand washing can leave your hands dry and in need of extra attention. Island Thyme Botanicals Gardener’s Hand Lotion is a special floral skin soother for your hard working hands. Island Thyme products are botanically-based, made in small batches on their farm and apothecary on San Juan Island.

Booda Butter All-In-One Daily Moisturizer

A Co-op staple, Booda Butter is a blend of gentle yet powerful natural ingredients for deep, long-lasting moisture. The cocoa aroma is sure to please. Booda Butter products are organic, vegan, hypo-allergenic, wax-free, and have no added fragrance.

Gift Ready, No Wrapping Required

Samish Bay Soaps Trio

Samish Bay Soaps has packaged three of their popular body soaps together for easy gifting. Lemongrass and oats, lemon zip, and their cheerful blend are all made in Bellingham using only plant-derived, pure essential oils and herbs.

Moon Valley Organics Skin Essentials Collection

An Orange Spice Cleansing Body Bar, Moon Melt Lotion Bar, and Herbal Lip Balm festively wrapped up and ready to gift from Whatcom County’s Moon Valley Organics. These three products were developed to nourish your body and be positive for the environment.

Beard Grooming Kit

Badger’s Beard Grooming Kit contains an organic beard balm and organic beard oil for a healthy, well-groomed beard. Beard oil nourished the beard and skin with jojoba and babassu oils. Follow the Beard Oil with the Beard Balm, a daily, leave-in conditioner and styling aid that moisturizes with a light, non-greasy feel.

Everything You Need For Traveling

The Co-op has travel sizes of many of our most popular products to help get you through the airport in a flash. Our recommendations to cover your basic needs include:

EO Organic French Lavender Hand Sanitizer

Keep hands clean and refreshed with a 2 oz travel size hand sanitizer spray. The soothing lavender scent helps create a sense of calm to help make your travels safe and relaxing. It is 99.9% effective against most common germs.

Airplane essentials sit in a travel bag.

Himalaya Botanique Toothpaste

Neem and Pomegranate help fight plaque, brighten your teeth, and leave your mouth feeling clean and freshed. Himalaya Botanique offers a rich, foamy texture and great taste without compromising on cleaning or health. The travel size is less than an ounce, free from fluoride, triclosan, SLS, and gluten.

Everyone Coconut + Lemon 3in1 Soap

The 2 oz, travel size is a do-it-all cleanser for your bath, body, and hair. The brightness of lemon and the calming sweetness of coconut combine for a lovely all-over balance.

Everyone Coconut + Lemon Nourishing Lotion

Pair your 3in1 Soap with the Coconut + Lemon 2in1 travel size lotion for complete body care. This bright and uplifting lotion is light, moisturizing and perfect for your hands and body. Fewer bottles means easier routines and more time for life’s little pleasures no matter where you’re headed.

Historical Remedies Homeopathic Stress Mints

Homeopathic lozenges help to relieve physical and mental tension, settle digestion, and restore energy during travel or the hectic moments of the holidays. These peppermint lozenges from Historial Remedies are vegan and gluten-free.

Your #PlasticFree Body Care Routine

plastic free bath and body products on a white canvas backdrop

Tis the season to say bye bye to plastic waste! Swapping a couple daily use items for plastic-free alternatives can make a big impact—just imagine what happens if millions of people opt to ditch one plastic bottle. That's millions of plastic bottles kept out of our environment.

If you're interested making the switch to plastic-free (or less plastic-full) body care, the Co-op wellness department has you covered! We're highlighting 12 products to carry you through a sustainable daily routine.

Moonflower Botanicals Bar Soap

Sam's palm-free bar soaps are handmade right here in Bellingham, Washington! Sam uses flowers from her garden to infuse herbal goodness into the soaps she makes. All bars create a rich lather and are packaging and palm-oil free!

plastic free shampoo and conditioner bars for itchy scalps

HiBar Shampoo & Conditioner Bars

HiBar was born of the belief that salon-quality haircare should come without a polluting plastic bottle. Their paper packaging is compostable and the bars are made without soaps, sulfates, phthalates, silicones, or parabens. The Co-op carries HiBar's for all hair types!

Wild Carrot Herbals

These facial cleansing bars are handmade, biodegradable, and minimally packaged in paper. They're made in Oregon using organic botanicals and high-quality essential oils. Not only that, they're affordable at just $12.99 for a bar that can last up to six months with daily use.

a woman holding four wild carrot herbals facial moisturizers

Wild Carrot Herbals Saffron Seed Nutrient Cream

This facial moisturizer is a Co-op staff favorite! It's filled with ultra-nourishing botanical ingredients like sea buckthorn oil and saffron-infused olive oil. It comes in a glass jar that can be used again and again after you've finished your product.

Moon Valley Organics Lotion Bars

Ditch the pump! These lotion bars are made with fewer than 12 certified organic, herbal ingredients. They come in post-consumer recycled cardboard boxes and cute tins that are recyclable or easily reusable. We love them for carrying jewelry during travel!

Moon Valley Organics lotion bar on forest floor

plastic free blemish roll on with colloidal silver

Uncle Harry's Colloidal Silver Blemish Stick

Uncle Harry's is a local, family-owned company out of Redmond, Washington. Sustainability has always been at the core of their mission. This Colloidal Silver Blemish Stick is less drying than alcohol-based acne products and comes in a glass tube.*

* = Looking for ZERO plastic? While this product is better than most, it does have a plastic cap.

Booda Butter Eco Balm

Another locally owned company with sustainability in mind! Booda Butter Eco Balms come in biodegradable paper tubes (yes, the label is biodegradable too!). Balms are certified organic and Booda stuffs 2x more product into a tube than typical plastic-packaged lip balm.

lip balm in a plastic free tube on green moss

plastic free deodorant spruce and fir scent

Island Thyme Natural Deodorant

Nearby on Orcas Island our friends from Island Thyme make effective baking soda-free natural deodorant that comes in a paper tube! These low-waste deodorants have tons of 5-star reviews. Choose from multiple scents available in the Co-op wellness department!

Plus Ultra Bamboo Toothbrush

Plus Ultra is committed to sustainable practices. Their toothbrushes are made with 100% compostable bamboo materials.* Did you know bamboo has natural antibacterial properties? It's consider a "green solution" to wood for its short growth cycle and great carbon capture potential.

* = Looking for ZERO plastic? While this product is better than most, it does have plastic bristles.

woman just out of the shower holding a bamboo toothbrush

Uncle Harry's Mild Mint Toothpaste

This locally made, natural toothpaste comes in a glass jar* that can be used again and again once you've finished your product! It's completely free of fluoride, carrageenan, triclosan, artificial sweeteners, and SLS.

* = Looking for ZERO plastic? While this product is better than most, it does have a plastic lid.

Radius Floss with Coconut Oil

RADIUS offers an alternative to floss with all that plastic packaging! Radius peppermint sponge floss comes in 100% plastic free packaging* and is a great alternative to silk floss for vegans.

* = Looking for ZERO plastic? While this product is better than most, the floss itself is nylon.

Ginger to the Rescue!

Got cold symptoms? Trying to keep the cold or flu at bay? Then consider adding in fresh ginger root to your daily routine, especially around the holidays, for a whole foods approach to cold and flu prevention. Ginger root is a very safe and effective tool to use during the [...]

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