Our Functional Skincare Line offers gentle, supportive products made with properly-prepared plants, quality minerals, and the finest organic ingredients with no artificial chemicals or preservatives. For best results, you must measure out the proper ratios of the product and HOT water and mix together before applying to the skin.
Sow Your Wild Oats provides gentle exfoliation that keeps a healthy barrier refreshed. Everything is constantly shifting–the seasons, our hormones, our immunity–and that can lead to stagnation under the surface of the skin in the vessels (blood, lymph), the tissues/pores (build-up/congestion) and glands. During seasonal shifts and the weather changes (and colds!) that go along with them, you can use Sow Your Wild Oats every day if you want to–but only a few times a week is necessary. If your skin is sensitized due to an over-use of essential oils or other intense products, you may want to skip the Sow Your Wild Oats until your body has rebuilt itself and dealt with the sensitization. (See one of our Holistic Skin Care Specialists or Practitioners.)
Integrity Biome Mask is an herbal mask that is more “re-foliating” than exfoliating due to the pure nourishing “rebuilding” herbs and blue-green algae that gives it its distinctive texture, scent, and color. Talk about ALL NATURAL! When someone is rebuilding their structural integrity, we will even encourage using this 3 times a week. When the skin is functioning well, it isn’t as necessary and using it whenever you need a boost (even if just emotional) is fine.
Vita-C 10 Minute Dry Serum* is not officially an exfoliant, but it can give people the results they are looking for from an exfoliant without the irritation. In our treatment room, our Holistic Practitioners have nick-named this “clearing serum”, but for the general public we have never shied from long, descriptive names. When there is stagnation that results in an “–itis” type dysfunction (think perioral dermatitis) it can be helpful to pull out this dry serum, mix it with an appropriate amount of water and apply to the skin for 10 minutes and then remove promptly.
*Slight exception to the “Functional Skincare Line”– We do not consider this to be part of the Functional Skincare Line because this product does contain an isolated plant-derived Vitamin-C that is not naturally occurring in its state. We decided to formulate it this way because we recognized that when this product is particularly needed, it is when someone has been using occlusive creams, oils, and balms for a period of time and plain fruit just isn’t enough to clear it out. It is the same Vitamin C that we give our kids when they are ill.