Online Store Review #3: Lovelula

It's about time that we took a look at this store, we reference it enough. So what is the big deal about Lovelula?

Basically, it's a one stop shop for all of your organic and natural skin care needs. They showcase new brands, stock everything beauty related from bodybrushes and supplements to cosmetics. They also have a strict policy regarding products stocked, they are against animal testing and have a list of ingredients that are verboten (and the reasons why they are avoided) which can be found here. If you'd prefer to just see the list, then you're in luck:

• Artificial colours
• Artificial fragrance
• DEA or TEA (di- or tri-ethanolamine)
• Formaldehyde (formalin / formal and methyl aldehyde, DMDM Hydantoin and Urea-Imidazolidinyl)
• GM ingredients
• Contaminated Lanolin
• Parabens
• Mineral oils and petroleum derived ingredients
• Phthalates (DBP / DMP / DEP)
• SLS (sodium lauryl sulphate)
• Contaminated Talc (i.e. talc without asbestos)*
• Triclosan
• Zirconium

Rating: 5/5

Lovelula are a fantastic online store that run regular offers and have an admirable policy about the products they stock. Delivery usually takes 3-5 days and their customer care is excellent. They offer 5 free samples with each order over £5 and..well, there's absolutely nothing bad to say about them. We've referred our friends (including all of you) to the site and, from what we've heard, they've all had a good shopping experience with them too!

I think that's our shortest review to date!

* in the interest of full disclosure, all of our reading suggests that talc is not good for you, a very brief example comes from the talc entry on wiki:

The studies reference, by subject: pulmonary issues, lung cancer, skin cancer and ovarian cancer. One of these, published in 1993, was a US National Toxicology Program report, which found that cosmetic grade talc containing no asbestos-like fibres was correlated with tumour formation in rats (animal testing) forced to inhale talc for 6 hours a day, five days a week over at least 113 weeks.A 1971 paper found particles of talc embedded in 75% of the ovarian tumors studied.