Our Ingredients

Every ingredient in every jar, with its sourcing story. The full deck, disclosed.

Two rules govern this list. First, the form that keeps the plant's chemistry intact: cold-pressed oils and CO2 extracts wherever they exist, steam-distilled oils where that is how a plant gives up its oil, and one purified plant active, bakuchiol, because the research was done on the pure compound. Second, studied doses: where an active carries a studied concentration, we formulate to it.

What we never use lives on the Never List.

The base

Grass-Fed Suet Tallow

Regeneratively farmed, grass-finished, slow-rendered suet, not trim fat. Its fatty acids are the ones your skin's surface already runs on, and it is low in polyunsaturated fat (about 4%), so it stays fresh instead of oxidizing. The chemistry case lives on Why Tallow. Read: suet, not trim and the fatty acids in a jar of tallow.

Squalane

Sugarcane-derived and biomimetic: a mirror of a lipid your skin makes on its own. Absorbs fast and hydrates without weight. Read: squalane, meadowfoam and jojoba, the carriers that behave like skin.

Meadowfoam Oil

Ultra-long-chain fatty acids that form a light, breathable seal, and one of the most stable oils known, quietly shielding its more delicate neighbors. Read: the three carriers, explained.

Organic Jojoba Oil

A liquid wax that mirrors skin's own sebum, conditioning and balancing without clogging. Organic and cold-pressed. Read: why a wax ester suits skin.

Cold-Pressed Oat Oil

Pressed, not solvent-stripped, so ceramides and phospholipids arrive intact: the lipids a healthy barrier is built from. Read: oat and calendula inside Honey Glow.

The actives

Bakuchiol 99%

A plant-derived retinol alternative, 99% pure, formulated at a true 1% finished, twice the 0.5% used in the head-to-head trial against retinol. Read: how bakuchiol works and bakuchiol vs retinol.

Vitamin C (oil-soluble)

The oil-loving form of vitamin C at 1.5%: stays potent where L-ascorbic acid breaks down, travels the skin's lipid layers and converts once it is in the skin. On the ingredient list it reads Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate. Read: how vitamin C survives in a waterless balm.

CoQ10 (Ubiquinone)

The lipid antioxidant skin makes less of with age; partners with vitamin E on defense. Read: what ubiquinone does inside a balm.

Manuka Honey Extract

The famed New Zealand honey in an oil-soluble form, so real honey can live evenly in a waterless balm. Read: what honey actually does in a balm.

The botanicals

Organic Blue Tansy

True Tanacetum annuum from Morocco, organically grown. Its rare azulenes visibly settle the look of redness, and its chamazulene is the sapphire in Moonlight Calm; no dyes anywhere in the line. Read: why blue tansy is blue and blue tansy vs menthol.

Organic Blue Chamomile CO2

Organic German chamomile in concentrated CO2 form: the second azulene botanical, comfort for easily-flushed skin. Read: blue chamomile, the second azulene.

Organic Rosehip CO2

Whole organic rosehip seed drawn by cold CO2, nothing lost to heat: naturally rich in vitamin A compounds, carotenoids, and sterols. Read: rosehip CO2 and the look of tone and texture.

Organic Calendula CO2

CO2-extracted organic calendula, 5 to 10 times more concentrated than a slow-infused oil: a long-trusted comfort for skin that runs sensitive. Read: calendula and oat inside Honey Glow.

Organic Helichrysum

The true immortelle, steam-distilled in Croatia, long prized for improving the look of scars. Read: the flower chemistry behind Recovery Balm.

Organic Sea Buckthorn CO2

Pulp extract rich in rare omega-7 and carotenoids; the golden cast it lends Recovery Balm is the ingredient itself, never a dye. Read: sea buckthorn, omega-7 and carotenoid color.

Organic Tamanu Oil

Virgin, unrefined, cold-pressed from South Pacific nuts: the traditional island answer for skin under stress. Read: tamanu, the tradition and the evidence.

Organic Bulgarian Lavender

Lavandula angustifolia from Bulgaria at a gentle dose in Bare Silk's Lavender Edition: the classic calm-down note.

Frankincense CO2 and Bulgarian Rose CO2

The two Velvet Face Renewal editions: Somali Boswellia, smoky-lemon over balsamic, or the same Rosa damascena behind rose otto, from the Valley of the Roses. Read: how Velvet works as a system.

Organic Vanilla CO2

Organic Vanilla planifolia pods, hand-cured and CO2-drawn whole at 12% vanillin, in Honey Glow's Vanilla Edition. Comfort as a scent, never bakery-sweet. Read: inside Honey Glow.

The quiet workers

Vitamin E (Mixed Tocopherols)

The antioxidant guard that keeps every oil in the jar fresh to the last scoop. Read: how long a tallow balm lasts.

Organic Rosemary Antioxidant CO2

Vitamin E's partner on defense in most of the line. Bare Silk has no rosemary in it.

Organic Arrowroot

A touch of organic arrowroot lends every balm its powder-soft, matte-velvet finish.