As you all know by now I’ve been really revamping my skincare routine and taking the opportunity to try out lots of new brands. Urban Veda are a natural, cruelty free brand with a pretty cool ethos.
Their skincare is built on the priciples of Ayurveda, a traditional holistic healing system that states there are three main body types, known as doshas, these are Vata, Pitta and Kapha. These doshas express everything about us from our skin type and physical characteristics, to our health and personality traits. You can read more about Ayurveda on the Urban Veda site. Urban Veda have a questionnaire online to help you decide your ‘doshas’ and this in turn tells you the range that is most suited to you. (Pretty cool, huh?) Urban Veda skincare are also microbead free! They use powdered pumice in their scrubs which is a natural exfoliant and is much more gentle on sensitive skin.
My dosha is ‘Pitta’ and the soothing range is most suited, which is no surprise as my skin is so sensitive!
“Pitta skin tends to be fair and sensitive, and the heat that Pitta can generate in the body is generally indicated by moles, rosacea, rashes, acne and a tendency to burn in the sun easily. Pitta skin needs cooling and nurturing and a soothing skincare regime.”
Each range has a cleanser, toner, exfoliator, day cream and night cream and a body wash, body lotion and body exfoliator.
Soothing Day Cream*
This day cream contains calming sandalwood, anti-inflammatory rosemary, harmonising ylang ylang, irritation-relieving peppermint, clarifying clary sage, regenerating palmarosa and fights fatigue and dehydration.
As soon as you apply this to your face you can feel it instantly cooling and soothing. It sinks into skin really quickly and leaves skin soft and smooth. It’s lightweight but still gives deep hydration. This cream didn’t cause any spots or breakouts. (Something a lot of creams cause my sensitive skin to do) I’ve been using it every morning for around a month now and I genuinely love it. It smells luxurious and is such a treat to put on every morning.
The only thing I will say, this cream doesn’t have any SPF so be sure to use a suncream before this moisturiser!
Soothing Clarifying Night Cream*
The night cream contains balancing sandalwood, healing geranium, calming lavender and anti-inflammatory rosemary.
This is just as amazing as the day cream and has the same luxurious smell. I’ve always struggled with finding a night cream that deeply hydrates my skin but doesn’t cause me to break out. Like the day cream you feel an instant cooling effect when this is applied. It’s thicker than the day cream but sinks in just as quickly and thankfully didn’t cause any breakouts. This is a staple in my evening skincare routine, I couldn’t be without it. I also find the scent helps to relax me in the evening and help me get off to sleep quicker!
I absolutely love both of these creams and I can’t wait to try more of this range. All Urban Veda products are SLS and paraben free along with having no GM ingredients. They’re also cruelty free and vegetarian society approved. Honestly, what more could you want in a skincare range?!
Have you tried anything from Urban Veda? Take the questionnaire and let me know what your ‘doshas’ is!
Great blog post, I’m not quite sure if I have sensitive skin just yet, I don’t think I have but then again I don’t know however this was such a great post. I love reading all your blog posts I find them really helpful and enjoyable to read
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The day cream sounds lovely! X
Great post! I’ve never heard of this brand before but as someone with sensitive skin, I am very intrigued! I’m especially interested in the night cream, I have been on the hunt for a good one for a while and this seems like it would fit my criteria! Thanks for sharing! xo
How cool! You should try EverCalm by REN
This line sounds amazing! IM ok glad to see so many brands are going microbead free, too. The night cream sounds like a miracle moisturizer — I need it for winter! Thanks for reviewing this line, since otherwise I wouldn’t know about them!
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Emily
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I have sensitive skin so I’m really intrigued by this brand. Def need to check them out!
jen, velvet spring x
I’ve been meaning to sort of my skincare recently, so I think I may have to try out some of this range for myself soon 💖🍵
I love the concept of this brand and how you can personalise which skincare range you use by them based off the questionnaire! I’ve never heard of this brand but finding a skincare brand that respects the environment and is also cruelty-free is amazing and I’ll definitely look into this brand!
Jenny x
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Great post! I have quite sensitive skin so may just pick up the night cream to see how it goes. 🙂
I’ve never tried Urban Veda before but after reading this post I really want to. It seems like such an amazing skin care brand. x
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I love the sound of this range, especially as it’s cruelty free! I’ve recently started replacing all my non CF old faithfuls with cruelty free brands, so this is really useful, thank you! X
These look great! Will be trying soon as looking for a new face cream
Super keen to try these out! So hard with sensitive skin.. been thinking of trying new things 😊 thanks for such a great post x
Oooohhh interesting! I’ve never heard of this brand before! I’m actually just about to run out of moisturiser and this one sounds great, so I think I’ll give it a try!
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Havent tried this yet! Might give it a go!
These sound so interesting! I’d never heard of them before, might try a few out 🙂
Kirsty
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This is such cool idea! I am so going to check this brand out x
I’ve never heard of Urban Veda but they sound really good, I’m currently having a play around with my skincare at the moment too and I might have to look these up!
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These sound soooo good! Skincare is easily becoming my new favourite type of product, I barely wear makeup everyday now so skincare is #1 🙈
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These products sound amazing. You should read Kate Hudson’s book Pretty Happy, she talks about the principles of Ayurveda and our happiness and lifestyle. It is a great read. Great post! xo
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This sounds like such a cool brand and way to market it! I love the idea of having your own little group to slot into. The products sound gorgeous and soothing and like they would smell really nice too with all the ingredients you’ve listed, I really want to try these now!
Alice Xx
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I’ve never tried anything from this brand before, but both the day and night creams sound pretty great!
I’m all about natural skin care, so I’ve just recently started using L’Occitane, but now I’m intrigued to try this one too 🙂
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Never heard of them before, but as someone with sensitive skin, I imagine this would be really helpful! Gonna have to check them out, I think! x
very helpful post! I nominated you for the mystery blogger award in my latest post. Xx
My skin it’s quite sensitive as I have rosacea! I need to check it out! Great review! Would you mind check out my page? It would mean the world to me, maybe if you want we can follow each other?
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