Minimal ingredient Balms | Hydrosols | Soaps

Persephone’s Ball creates products for people who want preservative free, vegan skincare that treads lightly on the earth.

Our limited ingredient balms give reactive skin a break from things to react to and are made using the by products of traditionally uncultivated culinary ingredients.

We harvest our botanicals when the insects are done with the plants – far past when most distillers harvest their material. We're harvesting for specific chemistry, not potency, not volume, not IG photos of pretty fingerless gloves. We are not calling in fan girls.

Chef founded and produced, Persephone's Ball products have helped calm skin, ease agitation, and create space between reactive cycles by quieting the noise of unnecessary ingredients and unhelpful expectations of conventional skincare.

Fire Road Yarrow 10/08/26

This was an efficient harvest right at the base of where the wind comes up from the Enchantments. Late harvest yarrow produces more flavonoids, sesquiterpenes, and tannins than Yarrow in bloom and it enjoys a more stable shelf life as well. When used in conjunction with Face, Yarrow's

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Face Balm was created in 2018 when my skin was in yet another chronic cycle of reactivity. It was impossibly dry, tight, red, and explosive all at once. While not an overnight miracle, Face Balm's ability to quiet angry skin were immediate. Face Balm remains the best solution

Distilling the Dead

It seems like it is getting harder and harder to be an insect these days. So much so, that it's kind of a dick move to harvest anyone's home out from under them just to boil it up and spritz it out. A mid October Yarrow

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Fire Road Yarrow 10/08/26

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Distilling the Dead