BLOG

Cooking with seasonal ingredients means that your body has access to nutrients best suited for the weather, climate, and (if you follow Ayurveda or Traditional Chinese Medicine), energetic qualities of the season. For example, Summer fruits are lighter and more refreshing than the denser squashes...

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 ...

Human care can change the world. By prioritizing the well-being of one another over profit, power, and fear, there is an opportunity for so much change. We can practice this kind of care on a daily basis, and these are some of our favorite ways to do it: - Take time to slow down and hear each oth...

Your Autumn skin has different needs than your Summer skin. Generally speaking, you require richer moisture in the colder months than in the warm ones. Gracefully transition into PSL weather by upping your hydration game with these highest-rated and bestselling products: Super Antioxidant Glow Oi...

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...

Joshua Onysko, Pangea's founder, met this incredible producer at a tradeshow in Germany many years ago.Their farm started small as a husband-and-wife team – they were born in Egypt and then traveled to Massachusetts where they became educated in horticulture and organic farming practices. They pu...

We love Aloe for the plentiful, non-greasy hydration it offers all skin types. Learn more about this superlative succulent. 

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...

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...

When I was first talking to Pangea Organics about the opportunity to work on the blog and get to share the magic that is this brand, I was finishing a book (Feeding Each Other: Shaping Change in Food Systems Through Relationship) with my co-author Nicole Civcita. The book is a guidebook for helpi...

What is Bakuchiol? Great question. This superstar ingredient of the skincare world is extracted from the leaves and seeds of the babchi plant (psoralea corylifolia), which grows on the Indian subcontinent in countries such as India and Sri Lanka. Bakuchiol is not a newcomer to the skincare scene;...

From soil to skin, what you put on your body is as important as what you put in it. As your body’s largest organ, your skin is one of the major pathways of detoxification and protects you from environmental factors. Using nutrient-dense, organic-rich ingredients helps to support your skin’s healt...

We celebrate love every day at Pangea. And what better way to do this than the celebration of love and joining of unions for those who find their partners in love and life. We’re talking about wedding season! Here are a few of our favorite gift ideas to celebrate love - both in wedded matrimony, ...

Today we are going to explore three vitamin and antioxidant-rich ingredients (cloudberry, cranberry, goji berry) that work as superfoods for the skin.CRANBERRYCranberries might be the best known of the three. But, did you know that cranberries provide:Vitamin A - which is known for its anti-aging...

Our Superfood Smoothie Mask and Daily AHA Gentle Exfoliator are awesome members of our plastic-free Skincare collection! And both contain bioactives harvested by amazing stewards of our land and sea. They are filled with potent, antioxidant-rich, multi-tasking ingredients to boost your daily ritu...

Around here, it’s been a long wet spring with life-giving rains and cool temps that mean extending sweater weather a little bit. I know other places have been hit with some heat we have not seen, but the solstice in Colorado brings with it an honest change of the seasons and a need to look at lif...

If you’re familiar with our commitment to plastic-free packaging, then you’ve also seen the turtle icon on all of our bottles and tubes. This is a way for us to educate and encourage conversations about the impact of plastic pollution – and hold ourselves to a standard that continually raises th...

"Clean beauty" is a phrase that is bandied about a lot, but what does it mean? What are companies actually promising when they make this claim? We can only answer for ourselves, and we are excited to share with you our clean beauty practices. 

Oh, the joy of longer days and shorter nights. The sun is hitting us in the Northern Hemisphere at a much warmer angle. The smell of grass and flowers and heat and chlorine. The taste of really ripe strawberries, new lettuce, and fresh herbs. Summer is about to hit us in all its glory and now is ...

We thought this would be a perfect moment to re-share a letter from our Founder about why we're working toward creating a #LifeAfterPlastic, beginning with our own plastic-free commitment. Our plastic-free body and skincare is the fruition of a big, long-term vision I’ve held for our company ­­...

There has been a big kerfuffle in the news these last weeks about brands going wishy-washy on love during Pride Month. We stand firm - we love love, we love people who show love, fight for love, embody love, are love heroes and heroines, and who make love a guiding principle in their world. We ta...

We are far enough into the 21st Century to let go of the old fashioned beliefs that we don’t need self-care, especially if “we” are folks who call themselves men. We know that everyone, everywhere needs to care for themselves. And, whenever a holiday comes along - we can and should take the oppor...

Body image is so complex, and our relationships with our bodies “from the skin in” is complex. It can be a place of a lot of confusion, anxiety, and worry, but it can also be a place where we feel freedom, happiness, and joy. What we put in is what we get out. This goes for skincare and bodycare ...

The sun peeped out from the spring rains around here and suddenly everyone I know is talking about camping, making plans to mountain bike, and the trail maps have come out for hiking and running. It’s such a relief to burst out into nature after winter’s winds and cold and then spring’s rain and ...

Today we are going to focus on three bioactives you can find in Pangea products that your grandmother would recognize and approve of. This means you get the best of research and amazing formulation combined with the wisdom of generations. Cucumber Seed OilCucumber seed oil, derived from the seed...

I traveled to Wazuka, Japan, two weeks ago to meet our matcha partners at Nakai Organic Tea Gardens. My favorite memories of visiting Wazuka were waking up at 3 am to journey up the mountain and watch the sunrise. I try to miss as few sunrises and sunsets as possible wherever I am. Japan is known...

In honor of Mother’s Day - here is a tribute to some of the moms behind Pangea Organics and how we have been taught to care for ourselves and the world. Founder Joshua Onysko says about his mom: “My Momma already had her hands full with two boys and then I came along. I was constantly getting in...

Organic products made with the right percentages of bioactive ingredients can do wonders for our skin while keeping us safe from harmful ingredients and harmful effects on the planet and the animals with which we share it.Non-organic products can contain harmful ingredients. You know the old adag...

When Joshua Onysko started Pangea Organics in his garage a little over twenty years ago, the goal was to make products that did not irritate the skin from ingredients that were good for people and the planet. The humble beginnings, including selling the soaps at farmers markets, say a lot about w...

What if today, on Global Love Day, we lived with love in all we do? Take a minute to feel what that would feel like: love in our cooking, our interactions with people, in how we make decisions, in how we treat ourselves, and in how we live our lives.Love is the connective tissue that binds us tog...

There is a theory, called “The 1% Rule,” or the “rule of marginal gains,” that explains: big goals can be reached through small changes. This frees us up from the idea we need to make sweeping changes all at once, which everyone knows is unsustainable. If we strive for a 1% improvement every day,...

While Earth Day is great and we want to take a moment to stop and celebrate it - we are also aware that we are actually an entire Earth Brand. We can’t stop crowing about how we, and therefore you, are supporting the earth through your skin and bodycare. It’s good to know, morning, evening, and w...

The time we spend in our baths, our showers, and in front of our mirrors at our sinks is a kind of retreat we take every day. That time is a step back, usually alone time, before we step out into the world. We can treat it as a duty and a hassle or we can make that time spent in communion with ou...

Scandanavians were ahead of the whole cold plunge and sauna curve. They have been doing it for as long as anyone can remember. When I lived there, I got to find out first hand how amazing the circuit of hot soaks, cold dips, and saunas can be. It took a lot of coaxing to get me to leave the warm ...

Our skin needs what we need - nutrition! Just like our bodies need a wide variety of foods to keep us healthy, our skin needs a variety of ingredients with a variety of benefits to feel and look its best. So just like you might load up a smoothie at the juice bar and ask for the boosters you need...

While Earth Day is great, Earth Month is even better. How about an entire Earth Brand? We can stop crowing about how we, and therefore you, are supporting the earth through your skincare. It’s good to know, morning, evening, and whenever you pull out your hand soap or use your hand cream, that yo...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...