Gifting Like a Local: 9 Hometown Beauty Products Made in the USA Inline
Photo: Courtesy of stikscosmetiks.com1/9Stiks Cosmetiks
Hometown: New York City
Morgan Stanley alum Laura Heilman designed her innovative makeup line to fill the white space left by more traditional lipsticks that rely on rounded bullets with pull-off caps. Her New York–based line features a clear, flip-up top that allows for easy, one-handed wielding and immediate color identification with an angled tip for more precise application. Give the gift of options with Heilman’s Stik Kit, a sleek coffret that holds up to three different pigment shades, like her standout Burgundy, Naked, and Red.
Stiks Cosmetiks Lipstik, $15 each, and Stik Kit, $5, for information: stikscosmetiks.com
Photo: Courtesy of littlemoonessentials.com2/9Little Moon Essentials
Hometown: Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Little Moon Essentials started more than two decades ago in Boulder, CO, when a ginger root appeared to singer-actress Laura Lamun in a dream with a skin-clarifying bath salt recipe. When Lamun tried the recipe the next morning to soothe her eczema, it worked. The apparition provided a springboard for what would become a range of salves, sprays, mineral soaks, and lotions made with herbal base oils that are steeped according to the lunar calendar: Each infusion begins on the new moon, and is strained on the full moon to utilize the gravitational pull between the Earth and its satellite (and to sufficiently satisfy Colorado’s super-natural rep). With their colorful, psychedelic labels, Lamun’s muscle-soothing rubs and energy-clearing mists make it easy to check off the mindful beauty enthusiast on your list.
Little Moon Essentials Magical Muscle Oil, $13, and Clear Mind Mist, $9, for information: littlemoonessentials.com
Photo: Courtesy of ecprovisionco.com3/9El Cosmico Provision Co.
Hometown: Marfa, TX
Dry desert air can wreak havoc on your skin. So it goes in Marfa, Texas, which is home to Liz Lambert’s El Cosmico hotel and campground and its increasingly popular provisions company. In the name of hydration, from the sun-scorched Southwest to the cold and windy Northeast, the brand teamed up with herbalist Erin Lee Smith on a natural, plant-based balm, body oil, and face oil meant to target “all areas of the body in need of salvation,” says Smith, who has tucked all three into the Apothecary Provisions Set, along with a pouch of the rose-, lavender-, and chamomile-infused Marfa Shag herbal blend.
El Cosmico Provision Co. Apothecary Provisions Set, $100, ecprovisionco.com
Photo: Courtesy of joabrand.com4/9Jao Brand
Hometown: Lansdale, PA
The brainchild of Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical chemist David Mayron and his daughter, Gale Mayron, Jao started as an essential oil–based hand sanitizer in 1997. Fast-forward 18 years, and the brand has evolved into a full lineup of nontoxic scents and skincare products with instantly covetable retro packaging. Wrapping a box of the brand’s cult favorite, multitasking Goe Oil, would earn you plenty of holiday-gifting cred, but its Save Face set goes one step further, pairing the Monoi-scented wonder salve with Jao’s new antioxidant Seed Face Oil, its ultra-nourishing Face Crème, and soothing LipJao in one very cool denim pouch, no colorful paper wrap needed.
Jao Brand Save Face Holiday Gift Set, $153, jaobrand.com
Photo: Courtesy of herbivorebotanicals.com5/9Herbivore Botanicals
Hometown: Seattle
When Julia Wills and Alexander Kummerow started Herbivore Botanicals by mixing food-grade, cold-pressed oils and steam-distilled therapeutic-grade essential oils in their Seattle kitchen four years ago, the goal was to create luxurious, made-from-scratch products that could turn routine into ritual. The duo’s Coco Rose Lip Collection, which features a scrub, balm, and subtle tint made with virgin coconut oil and Bulgarian rose extracts, adds a sense of luxury to the simple act of moisturizing your mouth—even more so when offered as part of a trio in their blush pink holiday pouch made in collaboration with fellow Seattle brand Pine Boon.
Herbivore Botanicals Coco Rose Lip Collection, $49, herbivorebotanicals.com
