"May the sun bring you new energy by day, May the moon softly restore you by night. May the rain wash away your worries, May the breeze blow new strength to your being. May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty all the days of your life."  ~ A P A C H E  B L E S S I N G

Using an age-old technique called sun-infusion, we slowly release the therapeutic components of our flowers, fruits, skins, leaves, bark, seeds, resins, even wood and minerals into biodynamic olive oil over a period of 4-6 months, sometimes up to a year for a very valuable vintage.

As a result of their more solid structure than that of leaves or blossoms, barks, roots, and skins take longer to extract. Additionally, resins must be removed from their water-soluble gums before they can dissolve into my oil.

This slow natural process produces zero carbon footprint and preserves the heat sensitive medicinal properties of our botanicals and cold pressed oils and synergises their healing powers in ways that stove-top produced extracts just can’t, in my humble experience.

It also allows me to use unrefined, extra virgin and cold pressed olive oil, whereas commercially, the less nutritious, refined and heat stable sunflower seed oil is used.

Rudolf Steiner, an early 20th-century German philosopher, humanist, and wholistic activist, pioneered biodynamic principles, homeopathy, and founded the eponymous Steiner schools, with which Johanna's family has been actively involved for four generations, from the schools' founding days to the establishment of schools all over the world. Rudolf Steiner's teachings on anthroposophy gave rise to biodynamic.

In essence, we see biodynamic as the evolution of organic farming.

Biodynamic concepts, which literally translate as "life force," aim to bring harmony to nature and perceive the sun, moon, and stars, as well as the earth, plants, animals, and people, as components of a whole.

Using cosmic forces, rhythmic stirring to activate natural fertilizers, the lunar cycle, and seasonal observation, biodynamic principles seek to establish a production cycle that is completely sustainable.
all to generate extraordinary, vibrant produce with powerful qi (lifeforce).

It's just a very organic, genuine way of being; it's not rocket science.

In accordance with the biodynamic lunar calendar, we combine during the new and full moons to channel heavenly energy into our compositions.
So that when we use our skincare, we can feel closer to ourselves and the environment.

At full moon, we combine our daytime compositions to capture the Sun's reflected light energy.

At New Moon, we combine our nighttime compositions to harness its reviving vitality.

We use the entire therapeutic spectrum of our botanicals rather than focusing on a single component to ensure that the components interact and work in concert with one another in our extracts just as they would in their natural environment.

Each component of a plant serves a particular function that is inextricably linked to all other components.
There is now a ton of evidence showing that combined whole plant extracts are significantly more effective than their individual components.

Additionally, the nutrients in the olive oil we use for extraction combine with our broad spectrum plant components to enhance the strength of our extracts.

Because each ingredient in our skincare is active and has a very specific way of interacting with other ingredients, we don't follow the traditional formula of carrier oil + actives + scent.

Instead, we design our skincare using the sacrosanct rule of THREE. In the same way that architects build houses, composers stack their symphonies, and perfumers make their smells (grounding base, complicated middle, ethereal top):

1. Energising Foundation
2. Balancing Center
3. Harmonising Charge (our ‘Sacred Trinity’ blend of Frankincense, Myrrh and 24 karat Gold)

Our skincare's three components are organized according to the concepts of "wholeness":
It respects the three layers of our skin (epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis), as well as the three layers of plants (root, stem, and blossom), and it takes into account the wholistic traditions of homeopathic therapies, which view all living things, including Earth, as sacred trinities of body, soul, and spirit; a "whole."