ESSENTIAL OILS
Bergamot - Known to promote healthy skin with its cleansing and rejuvenating properties. It’s used in aromatherapy for its calming effect.
Cinnamon Leaf - Widely used for digestive support, we use cinnamon essential oil for its antibacterial properties. When applied to skin, it helps circulation and soothes sore muscles and joints.
Cedarwood - Aromatherapy benefits of this oil include calming and soothing effects in massage. It is known to help skin recover and promotes clear, healthy skin.
Citronella - Not just any insect repellant!! Used in our soaps, citronella essential oil has known antiseptic, antibacterial and fungicidal skincare properties.Clary
Sage - We use Clary sage in many of our products because of its known antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal, antimicrobial, disinfectant, and astringent skincare properties. Health benefits of this oil include uses for digestive and respiratory discomforts
Clove Bud - A rich and spicy scent, Clove bud oil is unique and powerful when used in aromatherapy for its stress reliever and mind stimulant. Combine this with its known antiseptic and soothing properties, it makes for a great soap.
Eucalyptus - One of our favorite essential oils, we use it in many products. Eucalyptus essential oils is known to reduce stress hormones, boost your immune system and is a natural antibacterial.
Geranium Rose - This essential oil promotes healthy, clear skin by helping to repair and rejuvenate skin cells. Its well-known aromatherapy benefits for emotional support include stress reduction.
Ginger - The benefits for this oil are primarily the same as using fresh ginger root for digestion and other internal discomforts. Its spicy woody scent is very distinguishable. Its known skincare properties include being an antiseptic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory.
Lavender - Most commonly known for its calming benefits, lavender essential oil is also known as an antiseptic, bacteria inhibitor and skin regulator promoting skin health. Its known antiseptic and antifungal properties are used in helping to ease symptoms of acne and psoriasis.
Lemon - Aromatic and full of antioxidants uplifting lemon essential oil is a natural antibacterial making it an uplifting essential oil used to help symptoms of acne and eczema.
Lemongrass - Blended in our Ginger Lemongrass soap, Lemongrass is a known antibacterial, anti-fungal and antimicrobial. Its astringent and antiseptic properties help tone and sterilize your skin.
Lime - Full of antioxidants, this refreshing and uplifting citrus oil has disinfectant and antibiotic skincare benefits.
Palmarosa - Is a well known antiseptic, bactericide and cytophylactic which promotes cell growth.
Patchouli - The many health benefits of Patchouli essential oil include being an antidepressant, an antiseptic, an astringent and a fungicide. These many properties make Patchouli oil a multifaceted skin care oil that promotes a smooth and glowing complexion.
Peppermint - Held as one of the oldest essential oil, Peppermint oils has gone through rigorous testing for health benefits. For the skin, this oil has a cooling effect because it contains menthol. It also has antiseptic and regenerative properties.
Pink Grapefruit - This essential oil has a light and uplifting aroma used to enhance and uplift the spirit. It has cleansing and astringent and revitalizing properties.
Nutmeg - This essential oil is a baker’s friend for good reason, it’s known for helping digestion and relieving gas. Its health properties include aromatherapy benefits like reducing stress and anxiety and for relaxing. And it’s a known antiseptic.
Sandalwood - A many splendored thing! Sandalwood essential oil is known for its many health benefits because of its antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, astringent and disinfectant properties.
Spearmint - Spearmint essential oil has been used in aromatherapy to help uplift your mood with its refreshing aroma. It’s a known antibacterial and antimicrobial widely used in toothpaste and mouthwash to protect from infection.Sweet
Orange - This refreshing essential oil is used in aromatherapy to create a happy, relaxed mood. Health benefits due to its known properties include providing relief from inflammation, helps alleviate depression, inhibits microbial growth and helps symptoms of acne.
Rosemary - Is full of Vitamins A, C and Folate and is rich in antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Widely used to freshen breath and beneficial in reducing stress with documented studies on its use as a cognitive stimulant.
Rosewood - From Brasil, this essential oil is known for many uses including headache and toothache relief, widely used as an antidepressant, an antiseptic and an insect repellent.
Tea Tree - Native to Australia, Tea Tree essential oil is widely used worldwide because of its many powerful properties. Since ancient times, Australians have been using Tea Tree oil as an antibacterial, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral and as an antiseptic.
SPECIALITY OILS & BUTTERS
Acmella Oleracia (Spilanthes) Oil/Extract - Extracted from a plant called Acmella Oleracea. Applied topically, Acmella Oleracea reportedly reduces muscle tension, reducing facial wrinkles caused by tense or contracted facial muscles.
Avocado Oil & Butter - Avocado butter and oil are loaded with Vitamins C, A and E, potassium and lecithin, all known skin enhancing nutrients and easily absorbed through your skin to promote new and healthy skin growth.
Castor Oil - Many properties are attributed and recognized to it, for example, it contains ricinoleic acid, which increases absorption into the skin and is sometimes used in the treatment of various skin conditions such as dermatosis, psoriasis and acne. There are also anecdotal reports that castor oil promotes hair growth, including eyelashes.
Cocoa Butter & Oil - Cocoa butter is full of Vitamins B1, B2, B3 and C as well as beneficial fatty acids that neutralize free radicals in your skin. The antioxidants create a protective barrier against damaging environmental pollutants while keeping your skin deeply moisturized.
Coconut Oil - The health benefits of Coconut oil are many. Applied or eaten, it helps maintain healthy skin, hair and digestion. It is full of lauric acid that destroys harmful viruses and bacteria. It also has caprylic acid that has antifungal properties.
Jojoba Oil - Jojoba oil is known primarily for its hair care benefits. Its anti-inflammatory and anti bacterial properties help keep your scalp clean and healthy, and it is naturally pH balanced.6.
Kukui Nut Oil - Kukui nuts and its oil have been used by Polynesians for centuries! They used it for skin and hair care. Rich in Vitamins A, C and E, antioxidents that help prevent free radical cell damage. Kukui oil also has high concentrations of linoleic and linolenic acids, both very similar to your own sebum making it easily absorbed into your skin to help sooth symptoms of dry skin, sunburn, and eczema.
Macadamia nut oil - Beneficial for your body, both inside and out. Internally Macadamia oil helps to lower “bad” cholesterol and raise “good” cholesterol. Its skincare benefits due to macadamia oil being high in oleic and palmitoleic fatty acids help soothe and moisturize inflamed and dry skin.
Mango Butter - A bite of mango is heaven on earth! Used for skincare, it leaves your skin feeling heavenly! This tropical butter is high in oleic and stearic fatty acids that help moisturize and repair damaged skin. It is rich in Vitamins C and A, helping to promote your skin’s natural collagen production.
Palm Oil - Palm oil is high in Vitamin E, an antioxidant historically used for helping skin ailments. Its reddish color comes from its prime compound, beta-carotene.
Olive Oil - Olive oil is primarily oleic acid, a fatty acid that helps olive oil penetrate your skin easily, nourishing the skin with all its antioxidants. Anti-inflammatory phenols and antimicrobial properties add to the health benefits of this oil.
Shea Butter - High concentrations of fatty acids and vitamins make shea butter an ideal cosmetic ingredient for softening skin. Shea butter also has anti-inflammatory, emolient and healing properties. Using shea butter on your body, especially your face, can condition, tone, and soothe your skin.
Rice Bran Oil - Rice bran oil is rich in Vitamin E, an antioxidant known for neutralizing free radicals in your body. Tocopherols are directly connected to skin health helping cellular regeneration.
Sweet almond oil - Sweet almond oil has a light texture that easily penetrates your skin to soften and moisturize. It is full of monounsaturated fats that hydrate the skin leaving cell membranes healthy. It is rich in antioxidants like Vitamin A and E, and magnesium.
SOME EXFOLIANTS
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Activated Charcoal - Activated Charcoal is well known to draw impurities, dirt and oil from the skin
Adzuki Beans - The adzuki bean plant (vigna angularis) is an annual vine grown in East Asia and Himalayas. Since the 18th century, Japanese noblewomen used stone ground adzuki beans for beauty. Adzuki Bean powder sloughs and deeply cleanses the skin. Contain saponin, which gives it a natural foaming action to help remove dead skin cells and cleanse pores by drawing out pore clogging sebum, dirt and bacteria that can cause blemishes. Its also knowns as tightens and softens the skin, and promotes circulation, giving it a healthy, natural glow.
Jojoba Beads - These beads are a gently exfoliating beads made from jojoba wax and color.
Exfo-Bamboo Powder - Well known for its properties to remove impurities and regulates the thickness, thus providing better cellular oxygenation and a purified appearance. Skin irregularities are reduced and the skin appears more radiant.
Exfo-Lemon peal Powder - Lemon is a natural astringent, antiseptic, and bactericide. The lemon peel contains as much as 5 to 10 times more vitamins than the actual lemon juice. Lemon peels is well known to help in preventing and fighting skin problems such as wrinkles, acne,
pigmentation and dark spots, among many others.
Pink Himalayan Salt - Well known for its anti-inflammatory properties that heal and soothe skin by calming irritations and breakouts. It also helps retain moisture in the deeper layers of the skin. Is a natural exfoliator and sloughs off dead skin cells easily. It contains essential minerals that soften skin and restore hydration at the deepest levels.
Dead Sea Salt - Is salt from the Dead Sea in Israel, which is the saltiest and deepest lake in the world.
It can boost skin health as well as treat various health conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.
SOURCES: International Journal of Dermatology: “Bathing in a magnesium-rich Dead Sea salt solution improves skin barrier function, enhances skin hydration, and reduces inflammation in atopic dry skin.”
Black Sea Salt - The granular texture of black salt makes it an excellent scrub/cleanser for the body skin. It deep cleanses skin to unclog pores and remove deep-set dirt. It may also keep excessive oil at bay and promotes blood circulation in the area it is applied to, thereby imparting a healthy glow.
Turbinado Sugar - Sugar scrubs are mild and help remove dead skin. They also help rejuvenate the skin by cleaning all the dirt from the skin pores.
Cane Sugar - Pure cane sugar (unrefined white) is good for all skin types and contains essential nutrients to feed the skin. It can be used 2 – 3 times per week.
Coconut /Turbinado Sugar - Sugar is one of the best natural beauty ingredients to exfoliate your skin. Combining Turbinado Sugar and Coconut Sugar, the scrub can be an excellent way to exfoliate and moisturize the skin, prevent oxidative stress on the face, leaving you feeling and looking younger than ever before.
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CLAYS AND POWDERS:
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Bentonie Clay - Scientists believe that bentonite clay works by adsorbing oils and dirt from the skin, being a good deoxidizer
Pink - Is a blend of kaolin with red illite. It is well known as delicate and for its properties for sensitive skin.
Orange - It is well known as oxygenating for skin.
Beige - Recognized properties as skin toner.
Green - Well known for its purifying properties for skin.
Gray - Well known for its anticellulite properties in the sking.
Kaolin/White Superfine Clay - Is rich in silica – making it ideal for dry and sensitive skin types, imparts a lovely and silky feel to whatever it is added to.
Rice Bran Powder - Is said to cleanse dirt and oil from pores, balance the natural oils in the skin and moisturize. It can be used with clays, adzuki bean powder, milk powders powdered sea vegetables, herbal extracts and herb powders for face exfoliants and masks.
Spinac Powder - Recognized as helpful for the skin, hair, and bone health because it helps reduce inflammation (including breakouts) and provides you with vital nutrients. Spinach contains vitamins, namely vitamins A, C, and K, which work together to help your skin enhance its radiance, heal from scars or sun damage and fortify its natural barrier.
Matcha Green Tea Powder - Matcha is knowing as an all-around great natural alternative thanks to its numerous antioxidant and beneficial plant compounds. With recognized properties as great ingredient in formulations, from acne cream to anti-aging serums, among many others skin products formulas.
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