Montreal, situated in Quebec, is known for being built around its iconic Mont Royal Park. Offering beautiful views of the city as well as numerous trails for relaxation, this park serves as an oasis in Montreal.
This palette features six shimmer and three matte colors in warm and neutral tones for every skin tone. Perfect!
Zorah Biocosmetiques
Zorah Biocosmetiques of Montreal provides organic, fair trade, vegan and cruelty-free skincare. Their selection features argan oil from Morocco which boasts extraordinary medicinal, cosmetic and dietary properties. Zorah’s founder Melissa Harvey first encountered this treasure during her international development internship there and since has dedicated herself to changing the beauty industry from within.
Her most popular product is the Firming Redensifying Mask, an affordable summer treatment to revive and refresh sun damaged skin. Packed with vitamins and oils to reduce redness, sensitivity and itching.
Zorah Biocosmetiques stands at the forefront of the clean beauty movement by employing natural, ethical and eco-friendly ingredients in its formulas. Furthermore, this company supports sustainable development efforts through supporting Berber women cooperatives who produce its product, purchasing local rather than foreign materials in order to stimulate Quebec economy as well as making its packaging eco-friendly: their jars are composed of recycled plastic while boxes come complete with FSC paper featuring plant-based ink technology while pamphlets feature 100% recycled paper printing!
Watier Cosmetics
Lise Watier was always determined to establish her own cosmetics company after growing up as the daughter of French immigrants in Montreal. Beginning her career as an aspiring model but eventually gravitating toward makeup and skincare products instead, leading her eventually to start her own brand in 1972.
Her company has grown into one of the premier prestige cosmetics firms in Canada, known for producing innovative and beautiful products such as Portfolio Professional Correctors and Neiges perfume.
Recently, Watier changed their brand to reflect findings from consumer research conducted on behalf of their company. Their new messaging emphasizes embracing ageing rather than trying to avoid it.
Lise Watier Foundation also assists women in need through its financial assistance for talented young girls and women, and to rebuild their lives. Furthermore, it serves as a safe space for victims of domestic violence or homelessness.
Le Labo
Montreal’s Rennai beauty flagship stands out with an innovative concept to raise standards of self-care, providing global wellness destination services with its partnership agreements with Hermes, Diptyque and Dermalogica brands.
Le Labo launched in 2006 and offers fragrances created in small batches, blended by hand by their team of experts. Their minimalist design echoes old-school European perfumeries with black frontages, worn leather seating and walls of tin or earthenware.
This brand’s scents are inspired by nature, free from animal products, preservatives, or artificial colours. Furthermore, you can personalize any fragrance with up to 23 characters of text of your choosing; their candles use soy wax with cotton wicks for eco-friendliness; each fragrance bears an iconic note name along with an accompanying number designation such as Santal 33 for instance which contains 33 ingredients altogether.
