stevia?!

we have been using dried stevia leaves to sweeten our tea for about half a year now and slowly the food industry is catching up. so far we've tried stevia mints

(available at lidl supermarkets), stevia mate drinks and stevia chocolate. the one thing i'm personally waiting for is stevia gummy candy. haribo has stevia liquorice, but i haven't been able to get my hands on a pack of those yet. the problem i think is that stevia has quite a strong taste of it's own that doesn't go with everything.

organic? not quite!

some german beauty companies have come out with products that are hybrids between organic and irritant free.

what does that mean? 
they are not 100% organic and thus not as expensive as products that are because those need to be certified. these products are about 95 to 99% organic and irritant free: no silicones, parabenes, PEGs, mineral oils or other "bad" additives.

what's in it for me?
personally i don't HAVE to have a certified product that is 100% organic. my skincare being irritant free is far more important to me so now i get the best of both for a relatively low price.

what are they?
here are two examples for this sort of product...
#1 a very well known german cosmetics brand NIVEA

the good thing about this line is that it contains a lot of different products for face and body and is easily accessible at drugstores and supermarkets. the bad thing is that even though they are not 100% organic they sure are almost the same price as (drugstore own brand) certified organic products .

#2 a drugstore own brand BALEA

the good thing about this is that the products are considerably cheaper than the nivea ones, they are however only available at dm drugstores and there are only the three products available that are pictured above.