Barefoot Venus

It’s all about how you feel. This Kelowna, B.C. company’s guiding principal is to support a lifestyle of beauty and wellness. Their natural, aromatic bath and body products look, smell and certainly feel good too.

Indulge yourself and glow like a goddess while pampering your skin with massage and bath oils, extra rich body lotions, soaking salts and hand repair salve. Get a little sassy with their Georgia Peach Massage Oil or the extra rich Save Our Skin Hunny Mango body cream.

When you want to be good to yourself, or have a friend that needs some nurturing, luxuriate in some Barefoot Venus.

Escents Body Products

Jacquie MacNeill, Escents CEO, has a passion for fragrance. At age 23 she began blending her own aromas and selling handmade, quality products from a 4 x 10 table at the local market. Fifteen years later, this Vancouver company has worldwide outlets and travels the globe sourcing out the best aromas.

Escents uses the delightful banquet of aromas that nature provides to create a feast of different fragrances for you to indulge in…whatever the moment.

Their products are animal cruelty free and biodegradable. They do not contain paraben, phosphate, petroleum or synthetic dyes so they are safe to use for anyone – babies, children and adults. All products contain essential oils.

Escents has hand and body lotions, wash and bubble liquids, bath melt bars, soya candles and handmade soaps in delicious scents of black currant and grapefruit, lavender, basil and lemongrass, lily musk…and many more.

Pamper, soothe, exhilarate and refresh yourself.

Kogi Canada

Kogi creates skin care products from natural ingredients carefully selected for their healing, soothing and/or penetrative properties.

Their Radiant Skin Therapy Kits contain all you need to have beautifully soft glowing skin – bathing tonic, soap and lotion. Feel relaxed and revived and smell great while bringing back that baby softness to your skin.

Pure and natural soaps gently cleanse without stripping your skin of its natural moisture. For instance, their handmade carrot and honey soap is formulated to treat dermal conditions such as psoriasis and eczema. Carrot is recommended for premature aging and dry and itchy skin conditions. Honey is naturally moisturizing and has antibacterial effects and skin soothing properties. Absolutely fabulous for all skin types but especially formulated for dry, itchy eczema prone skin.

Get moisturized and have great looking skin, naturally, with Kogi.

McBlooms

As every gardener knows, as much as we love digging, planting, trimming, cutting and generally playing around in Mother Nature’s earth, our hands take a beating. The Ladies at McBlooms started their company with a single product – Hardworking Hand Scrub – designed to cleanse and soothe hands made rough and dry from gardening. Almost 15 years later, McBlooms has blossomed (sorry for the pun but it was irresistible) into a full line of bath and body care.

McBlooms Extremely Rich Cream is a must for all gardeners. This cream is excellent, not just for your cuticles, knuckles and hands, but also to soothe rough skin on elbows and heels. Another excellent product to pamper your feet is McBlooms Soothing Foot Soak with sea kelp extract to cleanse and deodorize tired feet. Follow that with their Nourishing Foot Cream, with shea and cocoa butters, to take care of cracked heels. At the end of a busy day, what feels nicer than a hot bath to soothe tired muscles and revitalize your spirits. McBlooms has thought of that as well with their Revitalizing Bath Salts with Jojoba Oil, Vitamin E, Eucalyptus and Green Tea Extract.

McBlooms products are based on naturally derived, paraben-free ingredients and botanical extracts.

Put pure pleasure into your busy day – soak up the natural goodness of McBlooms.

Mythical Matters

This funky little company in Toronto has an eclectic mix of products. Co-owners Shadow and Storm are merchants of enlightened giftware and inspiring experiences, who scour the world for interesting products that are microbiologist formulated, tested and approved. And a percentage of every sale is donated to the Toronto Wildlife Center.

Their product line includes ‘Smells Like a Flower Shop’ lotion for instance. Everyone loves the smell of a flower shop so why only enjoy it when buying flowers?

Soak yourself to Nirvana with one of their ‘Posture’ bath salts. Used for thousands of years in ashrams and temples, the champa flower and the lotus blossom are both intimately linked with yoga and spiritual practice.

Enjoy the pleasures of giving or receiving a sensual, erotic massage using Shunga Erotic Massage Oil. Or embrace the Tibetan Buddhist Philosophy and chant along with Tsar Tsar Gyalten Rinpoche as traditional Tibetan Tangkas, inspired by the richly illustrated works of Kalsang Dawa brought to life on Tibetan Buddhist Chants DVD. With accompanying ambient music composed by Victor Chorobik, this collection of mesmerizing traditional Tibetan Buddhist chants are presented in a first ever DVD format, featuring Buddha Shakamyuni, Chenresig and Mahakala.

Put a little Om in your home and a little Nirvana on your asana!

Wild Prairie Soap Company

This Edmonton, Alberta company manufactures over 10,000 pounds of soap each year, incorporating over 5,000 pounds of olive oil. Their technicians use age-old methods, which they have adapted to suit current ingredients and equipment.

Being ever mindful of the environment, they use natural ingredients, which are biodegradable – no chemicals on your body, no chemicals in the environment. Their processing methods are such that there is little waste – and what waste there is is either used or donated.

Wild Prairie’s extensive line of hand and body soap uses 50% olive oil which makes for a hard, long-lasting soap yet gentle for all skin types. Oils of palm and coconut are incorporated to help create great lather and contribute skin conditioning properties; a variety of herbs, essential oils and high quality fragrance oils are then added to scent and colour their soaps. Each bar has a unique scent, colour and recommended skin type.

Their lotion bars are great for traveling and popping into a purse or tote. They look and transport like a deodorant bar but melt as you apply to your skin – no spillage and very convenient. And, of course, blended with all natural ingredients to soften and protect your skin…even if you don’t live on the dry, cold prairie.