Our products are formulated to create nourishing, balancing, authentically holistic skin care. We do this by selecting botanical for nutritional content as well as its healing and balancing constituents. Then, we synergistically combine these plants in specific ratios to increase formula homeostasis and potency. Also taken into consideration are the natural preservative qualities of certain plants and nutrients. This helps us produce an effective formula which is also safe and wholesome, using the least amount of the safest preservative available. Often, what is not in a formula is as important as what is.
Glossary
☯Anti-oxidant:
Inhibits the oxidation process by reducing the number of free radical
oxygen molecules that damage our cells. Oxidation is the reason age
takes its toll on our skin and is responsible for "sun spots," wrinkles,
loss of tone, premature aging and leaves it vulnerable to disease as
well. A full range of anti-oxidants accompanied by all the nutrients
which make them powerful and wholly effective is essential to a
comprehensive skin care program which addresses the health and integrity
of the skin, a program like ours. See collagen for more about
oxidation.
☯Amino Acids:
Components of protein and the virtual building blocks of our skin.
There are 19 amino acids in dermal protein in varying percentages. Our
products contain all 19 amino acids in bio-available form and correct
ratios for optimal growth (regeneration).
☯Auyervedic Medicine:
Auyervedic Medicine teaches us that health and wholeness result when we
are in a balanced state, and balance is achieved when there is harmony
between the forces of life called prana (energy). These basic forces
are referred to as dosas. The dosas are pitta (forces of heat and
energy), kapha (forces of water and tides) and vata (forces of wind and
movement). Imbalances (or excesses) of one dosa in relationship to the
others can manifest in the skin as dis-ease: rashes, inflammation,
oiliness, infection, congestion, pallor, dryness and premature aging.
Auyervedic Medicine employs many practices for achieving balance such as
correct diet, exercise, meditation and the use of herbs. It is correct
diet (nutrition derived from whole plant concentrates) and the
life-giving force of each plant ( its prana) that are carefully
considered when creating our balancing, nourishing, truly holistic
formulas. See Chinese Medicine.
☯Bio-available:
The ability of a substance to be biologically absorbed into our skin
and utilized by our cells. For instance, the molecules of important
minerals are too large to be absorbed by our skin until they have been
ionized or transformed by plants, making the molecules small enough to
be bio-available to our cells. Also, the addition of liposomes in many
of our formulas help make certain substances bio-available by carrying
them deeply into the dermis for release. Enzymes make many fats and
proteins bio-available by breaking down their molecules for thorough
digestion by our cells. See enzymes.
☯Chinese Medicine:
Similar to Auyervedic Medicine, Chinese Medicine is founded on the
belief that health and vitality result when there is balance between the
forces of life called chi (energy). These are said to be either the
feminine force of yin (cold and cool) or the masculine force of yang
(hot and warm). Equilibrium results when there is equality between the
two. The chi of a plant can be detected by its taste and smell: sour,
sweet, pungent, salty and tasteless or astringent. With regard to the
skin, an over abundance of one chi in relation to the other can cause
imbalances which ultimately lead to degeneration and/or disease. A
formula, as a synergistic whole, should be neutral for normal skin and
close to neutral with slightly cooling or warming tendencies for oily or
dry, respectively. It is the combination of wholesome naturalness,
complete nutrition and the balancing principles of the Chinese and
Auyervedic Medicines which sets our cosmetics apart. See Auyervedic
Medicine.
☯Cold Infusions:
A method similar to hot infusions, using cold water, hydrosols and/or
ionic minerals to seep herbs for one to several days before straining.
☯Collagen:
A dermal protein, this fibrous material makes up about 30% of total
body protein and 70% of our connective tissue! In short, it's what hold
us together. Healthy, youthful skin is comprised of mostly non-cross-linked, flexible collagen which we call soluble. Aging,
wrinkled, damaged skin (caused by oxidation, see anti-oxidants) contains
mainly cross-linked, inflexible, insoluble collagen. Healthy, soluble
collagen resists wrinkles, is responsible for good elasticity and the
skin's its ability to absorb and retain "plumping" moisture, much like a
sponge. Our programs help halt destructive oxidation while feeding the
skin bio-available botanical substances which it recognizes as collagen,
and help increase native collagen production as well.
☯Complacency:
The tendency of the skin or hair to tire of or neglect to respond to
the efficaciousness of a cosmetic after sustained use because of the
"sameness" of the formula. One of the beautiful things about relying
entirely upon nature as our source is its subtle, ever-changing
character which produce just enough variance in the composition of a
plant (and therefore a botanical formulation) to keep the skin and hair
"interested" and responsive. Some of the factors contributing to these
subtle variations are weather, soil, time of harvest and geography. Man
made ingredients, on the other hand, are consistently identical. In
fact, it is this dependable predictability (and affordability) of such
ingredients which make them preferred by most cosmetic manufacturers.
Even the minutest changes in the chemical composition of a plant can
cause a formula to become ever so slightly thinner (or thicker) from
batch to batch. Also, this phenomenon sometimes causes the nuance of a
fragrance to change just enough to be detected by sensitive noses. We,
however, embrace these subtleties and live with occasional, miniscule
changes in our natural products as part of nature's wisdom in keeping
our cells excited and enticed, therefore preventing complacency. We hope
you will as well. Note: As the skin or hair move closer to a healthful,
balanced state, changes become less dramatic.This is different from
complacency. And you can be confident in this: Just as a wholesome,
balanced diet from a wide variety of whole foods will continue to make
positive changes in your general health, so will it be with your skin.
☯Enzymes:
Any of numerous complex proteins that catalyze biochemical reactions
such as the breaking down of fats, proteins and carbohydrates into
molecules small enough to be digested by our cells. See bio-available.
☯Essential Oil: The highly concentrated, intensely fragrant “essence” of a plant rendered via the distillation process. A botanical’s essential oil is what remains when the water and roughage is removed. Sometimes it can take hundreds of pounds of leaves, roots, bark or flowers, depending on the plant, to yield one very precious ounce.
☯Hot Infusions:
A method of extraction just like making tea: Flowers, leaves and/or
stems are seeped in hot water for 10-30 minutes before straining. Or, as
with certain roots and barks, herbs are simmered for an appropriate
period of time before straining.
☯Hydrosol:
The flower water which remains when the essential oil and roughage of a
plant are removed. Hydrosols are very valuable, lightly fragrant and
lend many important skin-beneficial properties. They work in much the
same way as homeopathic preparations. We use herbal-infused hydrosols
(and ionized mineral waters) in place of distilled or deionized water
in our face care formulations to produce highly beneficial, active
formulas without “dead space.”
☯Oil Infusions:
Some herbs, such as beautiful, regenerative calendula, will only render
their healing constituents in oil, and sometimes with very specific
oils; calendula loves soy oil. Commonly, this is done by heating the oil
and herb mixture at fairly high heat for several minutes before
straining. To protect the integrity of our cold- and expeller-pressed
vegetable oils, we take our time. We bring the temperature of the
mixture to just under 90 degrees twice daily for 3-5 days, depending on
the formula, before straining.
☯Synergistic:
The relationship of two or more actions or substances which, when
combined in precise amounts, produce a sum more potent, effective or
altogether different than the sum of the parts not in specific
relationships to each other.
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