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10 Best Natural Beauty Buys at the Drugstore

Natural beauty products can be spendy. Here are the best ones you can buy on the cheap

by Sharon J. Yi

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Soap: Dr. Bronner's Classic Bar Soap, $4.49 While there are a lot of great natural bar soaps on the market, Dr. Bronner's is the one both Spunt and O'Connor turned to first. "It's a brand that's been making clean soap for a long time," says Spunt.

Here's the thing about bar soaps: "They're supposed to get rid of the muck on the surface of your skin, but they end up being so loaded with surfactants that strip all of your skin's natural oils, it necessitates you to buy more products to rehydrate," says Spunt. "There's literally nothing worse for your skin than being 'squeaky clean.'" Dr. Bronner's soaps don't have those surfactants or other irritating ingredients (like fragrance), so you don't get that itchy, dry, stretched-out skin feeling when you get out of the shower.

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Very good, practical advice. I'm a huge fan of the Burt's Bees tinted lip balms -- I currently own 4 colors. They're good alone, or to wear under other less-than-moisturizing lip products. The Lavera self-tanner looks like a product I might be able to use without my usual itchy reaction.

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