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It has been a year, a glorious year, since our plastic-free Skincare launched. We created packaging free from single-use plastics, and we upgraded our formulas with a lineup of powerful bioactives designed to seriously uplevel the glow and beauty of your skin. We could not be more thrilled at how...

I don’t know if you remember the 90’s at all, but if you do, you remember the drugstore exfoliator we were all obsessed with that felt like scrubbing your face and body with the love child of construction grade sandpaper and a seville orange. It felt so, so, cleansing. However, for those of us wi...

Rituals, according to Pangea founder, Joshua Onysko, help us in many ways: they help us make our day run smoother, get stuff done, elevate our daily tasks to the sublime, and organize our world. Small rituals can have big impacts and simple changes are the kind of changes that stick. And, change ...

First off, your skin, like your gut, has a microbiome. Your skin microbiome includes the skin’s surface, hair follicles, and sebaceous glands. All of those areas are rich in bacteria but each person’s microbiome is not exactly the same, even twins. Your skin microbiome hinders the growth of patho...

Optimism is good for you. Yes, that’s a scientific fact. Being optimistic, having a positive attitude, and looking at the world through realistic but upbeat glasses can not only improve your attitude but also your health. How do we increase optimism? According to a New York Times Article, “Pessim...

“Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.” ...

There is a cafe and analog shop in Vienna called Supersense. It sits on a side street looking like any other cafe, but, when you open the door, you know right away you are in a magical place. There are gorgeous letterpress prints, amazing coffee, analogue recordings, and old school art. In the ba...

March 7th, every single year, is plant power day. A day to celebrate the ways in which plants bring health and wellbeing to our lives and a chance to take a look at sustainable living from the point of view of our chlorophyll-loving friends. Plants are the OG of sustainability: getting their need...

It’s going to be spring, if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, no matter what the groundhog says this year. Spring means rain, flowers, milder weather, sweet smelling earth, and more time outside. It also means different conditions for your skin, which is a good thing.After what felt like a real...

For International Women’s week, we bring you the 100% women-operated farm where we source essential oils for our products. According to Joshua Onysko, Pangea's founder, he met this incredible producer at a tradeshow in Germany many years ago. Their farm started small as a husband-and-wife team – ...

In college my best friend and I used to sit around and wonder what we would have to give up in order to save the planet. We would look at all our fancy skin and body care products and sigh. We’d be willing, but definitely not happy about it. What did not exist back then was luxury skincare and bo...

There is a song about shampoo from the musical South Pacific that suggests you can wash a bad relationship out of your hair with a good scrub. And, if that’s true, which honestly it probably is, then we can also wash stress right out of us with a good face wash. If you need a more recent stress s...

I recently spent time with a friend who was a former hand model in Los Angeles. You have seen her hands in a lot of commercials for cleaning products. She told me some hilarious stories about how hard it is to clean coffee grounds off a counter in one swipe while making sure your hands look grace...

Sometimes it seems as though making change in the world is limited to people with huge influence or lots of power. Or, it feels like there are so many things we need to change that we don’t know where to begin. But both of those ideas are just limiting beliefs that keep us stuck. The reality is t...

Our Superfood Smoothie Mask is the product of a love story about love for humans, love for connection, love for ourselves, and love for the Earth we inhabit. The mask itself was born of serendipity and playfulness, as good love stories often are. Over 20 years ago, our founder was making breakfas...

Recently, my book group, which is a six-person totally bada@$ community of women, took time to have a retreat together. We met in the desert and spent five days having each other’s backs, supporting each other, eating great food, listening, talking, and no - we never got to discussing the book we...

Welcome to the month where everything is love: chocolates are love, roses are love, jewelry is love, dinners at fancy restaurants are love, cards picked out while in line at the post office are love, really just about anything with a pink or red heart on it becomes a sign of love. Ok, that’s grea...

In our family it’s a tradition to give something practical and long-lasting for Valentine's Day. Roses are just too expensive the second week of February, and they wilt anyhow. Who wants to symbolize love everlasting with a gesture that’s not unique nor does it have staying power? So we give sock...

Phew, January is over. All the hubbub about self-improvement as a thing we do once a year and then slowly slip back into our old habits has died down and we are free. So let’s put aside the idea that we are going to do a 180° on anything in our lives and focus instead on renewal. We are perfect t...

Today, we want to make a very unusual proposition. Instead of saying, “Be Here Now,” we want to say, “Be anywhere but here. Go! Get out!” There are times when we all need to accept that the obstacles in our path are the very path itself. However, there are also times when we need to get away from...

The best gifts are experiences - especially ones that connect people and expand our potential for joy. When we give people our time and create an experience for them, we show them how deeply they matter. When we know them well enough to know what they love, we tell them they are seen. Sure, you c...

Writing longhand can access places in your heart and soul that you can’t get to any other way. The power of pen and ink and paper is primal and takes us to a place that meditation tells us is the goal: that place of the neutral observer. I cannot tell you how many meditation retreats I have been ...

Winter is a wonderland, but it brings with it some harsh conditions for your skin. Never fear, if we take good care of our skin, we can create and maintain a healthy skin barrier. Your skin’s barrier protects your skin from the environment (like UV rays and pollution), and also helps retain moist...

Dr. Maya Angelou said “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” In our history there are figures who taught us all to know better and do better, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King is one of those figures. We would not be the people we are today without his deeply s...

As Pangea Founder & CEO, Joshua Onysko says, “Rituals have the power to change our lives.” We can make just about any part of our day into a ritual, and by doing so, we both elevate our lives and calm our minds. Here are four ways to practice mindfulness in your daily life that may have much ...

Facials are an amazing experience. During and after, we feel scrubbed, anointed, and coddled. However, finding the right practitioner, who uses the right products, can be a challenge. Plus: time and money. However, doing it yourself in the privacy of your own bathroom with your own fluffy towels ...

What your skin looks like and how it feels, according to Pangea Founder & CEO, Joshua Onysko, is a product of what you eat as well as what you put on your skin every day. If you’re reading this blog you probably have a good grasp on what you put on your skin - though with seasons, age, enviro...

Peptides are amino acids that naturally occur in all our skin, and they are part of what makes firm, youthful skin. These peptides are the building blocks of collagen, and the more collagen we have, the younger our skin appears. They are also messaging agents telling skin it's time to repair. Luc...

Thinking about doing something kind for yourself this January? Consider going plant-based for a month and see how you feel. Pangea Founder & CEO, Joshua Onysko, swears by a plant-based diet for feeling your best and looking your best. Plus, you are helping to change the world when you eat low...

These days we’re hearing a lot about 14 step skincare routines and super complex skincare regimens, and it makes us wonder why someone needs 14 steps when we can start off with three? There is magic in making life simple. And your skincare routine should be magically easy, too.We want you to glow...

Who does winter best? In my mind it’s the Scandinavians. They have a lot of it, and because of that they have created rituals that make the most of the long, cold, dark days. One of the best things about Scandinavian winter is their bath ritual. When I lived there, I got to find out first hand ho...

We can all become a little obsessed with what we put on our skin, hoping that the products we use will improve our skin. What we miss when we focus only on what goes on our skin is that first we need to take some stuff off. In other words we need to exfoliate. Without exfoliation our skin is simp...

No one can talk me out of the belief that a good mocktail is a thing of beauty. So when “dry january” rolls around and the mocktails come out, I’m not only ready, but a willing participant in the celebration of juice, flavor, and hopefully an edible flower or two. In case you haven’t found the m...

Pangea founder Joshua Onysko believes in the power of ritual to change our lives. Rituals bring us joy, they allow us to build oxytocin in our lives. They take us closer to who we are meant to be in the world. And they can make the mess of life a lot calmer. Ritual is just more powerful than any ...

Today is National Resolution Planning Day, which you may not have even known about. It’s a time to pause to look at how you’ve been doing and feeling this year. We often go straight to all the changes we’d like to make, the ways we’d like to be different and better. National Resolution Planning D...

1. BTS from our January plastic-free Skincare shoot in Topanga, CA We packed one set of hand-filled products to film for the upcoming launch of our plastic-free Skincare collection. With a small team, and over the course of two days, we created content for eleven products. I love this image of Li...

The essence of the winter solstice around here can be summed up in one recipe: Fermented German Glühwein. This mixture can be used pretty much right away - but the longer you keep it the deeper it gets. So, make it at this darkest time of year and sip till spring. The orangey, gingery, sweet tart...

Travel opens our eyes to new places and ideas, it brings us close to loved ones, it takes us out of our comfort zone, and it brings us a whole world. And, even with all the benefits, travel can be really stressful, especially this time of year. Car, plane, train, bike, hike, sail - there are tips...

“I’m excited about this WeFunder campaign because I believe in democratizing investment in privately held companies. We should all have the right to invest in brands we love – especially when they align with our values. Through this campaign, I aim to build an authentic community around our brand...

It’s really here. Look outside, smell the air, it’s winter. With all the joys of winter comes the opportunity to share. Share food, share gifts, share the light that makes this season shine. And, to do it all in your own special way. Human care and earth care come in all kinds of packages - some ...

“The soil is the great connector of life, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no...

One of the best places to take a spa day is the Japanese-inspired baths in Santa Fe, Ten Thousand Waves. However, it’s a long haul to get there and so, not always possible. One of the things to love is the woodsy smells and the pine trees outside the tubs, giving off that spicy and clean pine sce...

This time of year, when your alarm goes off in the morning, you probably wake up to a To-Do list longer than your memory can hold. Work, holidays, ever-changing schedules, and a lot of end of the year finishing up to do. Plus, the time changed, the weather is changing and, at least here in Colora...

It’s time to talk sustainability. Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability is about us and our world and how we chose to spend our time, money, and energy. Planet care can sound imposing. But it’s no...

Saturday, November 26, 2022 is Small Business Saturday. We celebrate small business every day, but it’s great to have the world give us a shout out. Small businesses do so much for our communities and this year, especially, we could use some cheer. In case you need them, here are some reasons to ...

Every year I host a Friendsgiving - it’s a privilege to come together with lifelong friends who have become my extended family. I started this tradition almost twenty years ago, and I am so grateful for the friends I’ve grown up with who have supported both me, and Pangea brands (some of whom, ha...

The whirlwind is upon us. The holiday season, with all the joy, energy, travel, parties, people, and presents, begins next week. As wonderful as this time of year can be, there’s no denying it’s also a lot. Sometimes it’s not so wonderful and is just a lot. So it’s time to up your self-care game ...

Today is World Philosophy Day. We wanted to share the feelings of two old school poets and early environmental philosophers William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in their book Lyrical Ballads because they share our love of the earth and the healing power of nature. “…Therefore am I still...

Kindness happens all around us, every day, we just need to notice it and give it our attention. Today is World Kindness Day, the perfect time to find and share some kindness (and couldn’t we all use a dose of delight right about now?). Why Practice Kindness? It’s selfish, really: practicing kindn...