Interesting name, wouldn’t you say? Well, it is more than just a name; it is the philosophy behind Nude skin care. This company creates its products to be biocompatible by using high performance bioavailable ingredients. The focus is that it works with your body’s own biology, so it recognizes it and helps it deliver the intended results.

One question and answer I found particularly interesting on the Nude web site was:

Why do we feed our skin chemicals we would never consider eating?

Nude is free from the chemicals you would rather your body didn’t absorb. Our first priority is to formulate without ingredients which are irritating to the skin or potentially harmful to the body and we have minimized our use of preservatives by using airless packaging. Where necessary, we have selected a safe, non-irritating, synthetic preservative because the natural option caused skin irritation.

We will choose organic ingredients wherever possible. However, some of the advanced ingredients we use, such as peptides from milk, simply aren’t available organically.

Nude has not conducted, or commissioned any animal testing on ingredients or products and we actively support the development of alternative ingredient testing methods through sponsorship of the UK charity FRAME.

I had the opportunity to try out some of these amazing products. I was given the Nude moisturizing body polish and the moisturizing body cream. My first reaction was that the packaging was a little masculine for me. Once I opened it and smelled it, I thought the same thing. It was not girly enough for me! Therefore, I enlisted the help of my fellow (male) co-worker, Charlie P. He tried them out for me, and these are his thoughts:

“I really liked this lotion; I first noticed the masculine design and the nice clean scent. I thought gardenias, and some of my co-workers thought honey suckle and star jasmines. This is important for a guy because we don’t want a bottle that looks like it belongs in a Victoria’s Secret magazine.

When I put it on I was a bit nervous because it seemed greasy… but it was not at all. It glided on and made my skin feel so nice and it did not leave residue. I also liked that all the ingredients are free trade and the bottle is 100% recyclable; this is a great thing, especially with the environmental concerns we are faced with in this generation.”

Such an amazing premise for a company to have, and the packaging on the products are fully recyclable — just return it to Nude and they will handle the rest. Try it out!

Photo Credit: Nude