Face Many Ways

Face balm was first whipped up in the middle of a postpartum hormone storm to temper an unstoppable cycle of chronic reaction. It’s created to be easy to absorb, gentle, straightforward, and calming.

Each batch of Face is created to suit the season using ingredients that are easily synthesized by the body into bioreactive compounds that the body (positively) responds to.

Kalahari Melon oil’s vitamin E content acts like a backstage pass to the skin’s intercellular matrix. The key is the oil’s lipophilic tocopherols (γ-Tocopherol and a-Tocopherol), which slide below the surface to offer up antioxidant and antiinflammatory benefits.

When Kalahari Melon oil is not available, we use cucumber oil and meadow foam oil. Cucumber oil is rich in linoleic acid and is easily absorbed into the skin. Meadowfoam seed oil is a relatively new oil that contains long-chain fatty acids essential for cellular regeneration.

Raw Cupuacu butter is the polymath of the cosmetic butter world.  It contains just the right ratio of long chain fatty acidsthat take on all the roles: a skin softening emollient; a protective occlusive; and a humectant – drawing moisture to the skin.

Imagine a piece of toast and imagine a swipe of butter.

When you put butter on the toast, do you want the butter to melt or do you want it to sit on top, like a protective layer so that when you dip the bread into a roasted tomato soup, the bread doesn’t sop up all the soup and get soggy?

Face Balm can either sit on top of the skin or be easily worked in.

How Face Balm is applied changes its function.

Face Balm, when applied just before leaving the house, will work as an occlusive to protect your skin from drying out in the cold air.

Use it with Yarrow Hydrosol (most of us spritz our face and then unceremoniously smear on butter) for a refreshing moisturizer. Cupuacu butter absorbs up to 40% of its weight and is lipid-loving and small enough to be allowed access under the skin’s surface. The Steric Acid Content in Cupuacu butter helps to limit Tewel, allowing your water barrier to stay in homeostasis.

Freshly applied Face Balm does not work with foundation and is kind of a nightmare with mascara. It’s a champ in makeup removal, though! To wear makeup and use Face Balm, wait 90 minutes after applying the balm to apply make up. We made a couple of early morning candles to ease the change in your routine.

Tips

Use a clean spoon with every application.

Swipe up in circles and make sure to work around your hairline. Cupuaçu is great for hair growth, but hair follicles hate occlusives, so work the hairline last and longest.

Take time to massage into lines that you want to soften and skin you’d like to calm.

Remember that skin takes at least 28 days to regenerate. You might see immediate calming, but the end of the skin cycle and the beginning of the new cycle will indicate how skin is improving with Face Balm.

Look at Infused Face to break a reactive skin cycle.