Welcome!
At it’s core, 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 with reactive skin, our ingredients are derived from edible organic cucumber, pumpkin, watermelon, and cupuaçu seed oils.
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 and (while not food grade) safe to ingest.
We make our products using culinary techniques that sometimes ignore the conventional skincare tropes. Instead, we’ve developed honest stuff, backed by research, and made to ease irritated skin.
But skincare isn’t limited to topicals. True skincare involves food, breath, and stress management. Our handmade goods are meant to feed the primal, mundane moments that we humans can only have while we are alive.
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.
The Founder
Hello! My name Is Adrianne Dow Young. I’m a writer and a chef with a background in deep organic growing.
In 2017, after my skin went into a chronic reactive cycle, 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 research and 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 the luxury of not being lied to, think about going waterless and preservative free.