Sustainable beauty, tested
Beauty that doesn’t cost the earth.
Clean formulas, honest sourcing, and the brands actually doing the work, not just the packaging. I test everything before I recommend it.
One vetted recommendation a week. Leave whenever you like. Or see the latest verdicts first.
Tested before a verdict
Taken
Products
The kind of product that gets a verdict. Demo photo.
One verdict, one score, and three months behind it.
Read it first
The ingredient list and every claim on the label, checked against each other.
Live with it
It goes into my own routine. I note the packaging, the refills and how it wears.
Make the call
One verdict, one score out of 5, and the reason, written down.
Keep, swap or skip.
Vitamin C serum in amber glass
Holds up on ingredients, claims and wear. It stays in my routine.
Night cream in a bamboo-lid jar
Fine, but something cleaner or simpler does the same job.
More than three hundred products reviewed. Each one comes with its verdict, score and ingredient line.
Swap guide
What’s in your cabinet?
Three changes that cut waste or cut the nasties, and cost about the same. Tap what you use and I will show the swap.
Try this instead
Three swaps in the guide. Pick what is in your cabinet and I will narrow it down.
of 3 swaps fit what is in your cabinet.
Nothing in the guide for that yet.
About Aster
I left a corporate beauty job when I realized how much greenwashing I was helping sell.
Now I test every product myself and only recommend what actually holds up, for your skin and for the planet.
Seven years of testing sustainable beauty.
What readers say
“Aster cuts through greenwashing better than anyone.”
Freya B.
ReaderDemo review
“The only sustainable beauty account I still follow.”
Naomi K.
ReaderDemo review
“She tests everything before she recommends it.”
Jonas P.
ReaderDemo review
On the shelf this month
This month’s clean swap
A refillable case, not a throwaway
Packaging worth applauding
The ingredient list comes before the label
The Clean List
Want a cleaner routine?
One vetted recommendation a week, no greenwashing allowed. Each one comes with its verdict, score and ingredient line.
One email a week. Leave whenever you like.
One vetted recommendation, once a week.
Its verdict, its score out of 5 and its ingredient line.
A small number of personal routine audits each month, if you want one.