Persephone’s Ball explores minimal ingredient, botanically powered skincare that works with the earth rather than on top of it.
Created by a chef and grower, our ingredients are derived from edible organic cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon, and cupuacu.
Much of what we select comes from uncultivated crops that have long been used by humans for medicinal or culinary use. Every ingredient that we include has been found to benefit skin barrier function and health.
We make our products using culinary techniques and outside of the rules of cosmetic formula creation.
Lab coats and formulas don’t make legitimate (or good) skincare. Caring for skin by knowing how it functions does.
Side A
Listen to your skin
Side A is a product journal that contains information about how to use our current offerings, ingredient information, and facts about skin that the skincare industry doesn’t tell you (like the surface of your skin is dead and water insoluble).
Side B
If You’re going to be in hell, Be the Queen of hell
(and throw a party)
Fun reads sans the outrage. coming soon.
Aloha for home
25% of the profit from our Lanai Oil is dedicated to Regenerative Education Centers and the Lahaina Community Land Trust.
Meet The Founder
Hello! My name Is Adrianne Dow Young.
My middle name should be “Free Radical.” I like to roll around in life. In my youth, I saw the wrong side of dawn a bunch.
In school, I was that kid who asked too many questions.
As a writer, I often disappear into deep dives of research. As a chef and former deep organic farmer, I’ve learned the importance of bio available uptake and understanding the ground that you’re working with.
In 2017, after my skin went into a chronic cycle of reaction, I began to read science publications about the integumentary system. Simultaneously, I read DIY skincare blogs, distilling and essential oil books, and vendor ingredient descriptions.
The more research papers I read, the more the skincare industry revealed itself to be a work of fiction.
Persephone’s Ball rolled out after years of finding consistent relief and success with waterless, preservative free, minimal ingredient skincare.
The store is stocked with the things that I, my family, friends, and animals all use on the daily.
If you are working through hormone change, have reactive skin, or are just looking for honest skincare without the bs, I hope you join us. Lotsa people won’t use anything else.