Organic and clean beauty brands often carefully craft their products to contain high concentrations of superior quality ingredients. These brands eliminate harmful chemicals and by-products, and are made without cheap fillers. While common fillers like petroleum and mineral oil are not necessarily harmful, they're inactive ingredients that offer no real benefit aside from helping to fill up the bottle or tube of whatever product they're used in.

As discussed above, natural and organic beauty products contain a higher concentration of beneficial botanical ingredients. This often means that less product is needed at a time, and fewer applications are required per day or week to get results. In other words, you get a product that will last longer, while also yielding better results! Notice that a lot of natural and high-end products come with droppers because a little goes a long way. It might feel like you're dishing out extra money at the time, but, in the long run, it's actually a better investment both economically and in terms of achieving the results you're after.

In order to maintain inexpensive prices, non-organic cosmetic and beauty brands typically mass-produce their products using ingredients cheaply manufactured overseas. When it comes to plant-derived ingredients, the less processing the better. Shortcut techniques, like machine harvesting, strip ingredients of their benefits. Poor regulations also result in environmental and social repercussions in the supply chain. And while a long shelf life might seem like a good thing, it's usually a sure sign that the product contains empty fillers and harsh chemical preservatives.