The “Liquid Clay Cleanser” is one of my favorites, its cooling and nurturing properties are perfect for summer. A blend of volcanic ash clay, french green clay, mixed with green tea extract, lavender hydrosol, alcohol free witch hazel, papaya enzyme, fennel essential oil, and many more healing concoctions. A divine potion to start and end your day, leaving your skin cleansed, refreshed and nourished. Cleansing and toning are one of the most effective ways of maintaining healthy, vibrant skin. Cleansing removes excess oil and impurities from your skin and helps improve its health and radiance. Cleansing also helps prepare your skin for the other steps in your skincare program. Regular facial cleansing is an important factor in helping the skin maintain a proper level of hydration. Dehydrated skin looks and feels rough, wrinkled and aged. Cleansing helps manage PH levels of the skin; enabling sufficient water and product retention, clearing pores of debris preventing dirt buildup, allowing the sebum oil to reach the skin surface unimpeded; decreasing the chances of a breakout.
Toning is an important second step that completes the cleansing process. A good toner will remove any remaining bits of oil, dirt and debris left behind by the cleanser. More importantly, toner will help soothe, nourish and hydrate the skin while restoring its delicate pH balance. “Elixir II Rejuvenate” is a wonderful toner.
“Elixir II Rejuvenate” is a hydrosol of rose, neroli, and sandalwood, mixed with a non alcoholic witch hazel and aloe vera gel. Acerola, gotu kola, reishi, and hibiscus extract combined with wakame boiferment, silk amino acids and many more powerful extracts and essential oils such as helichrysum, creating a powerful hydrating mist. Hydrosols, also known as floral waters, they are produced from steam-distilling plant materials. Hydrosols are the condensate water co-produced during the steam- or hydro-distillation of plant material for aromatherapeutic purposes. Hydrosols contain all of the essence of the plant in every drop, just like essential oils but in a milder form; making them suitable for all manner of applications where essential oils might be too strong for daily use. Hydrosols are effective toners, anti-inflammatory, cooling and wound healing. Hydrosols are energetic, dynamic plant fluids and represent ‘sunlight in a bottle’ through the alchemy of steam distillation, the watery, pranic, immune system of the plant. Hydrosols help to regulate the skin’s production of sebum, are anti-inflammative, balance skin pH, have antioxidant properties and add significant amounts of valuable hydration, offering exceptional softening and toning benefits to aging skin; they effectively minimize the appearance of pores, fine lines and wrinkles and are highly adapted to use on dry, fragile and sensitive skin. They contain no alcohol, no preservatives and no artificial fragrances and are appropriate for all skin conditions. The most common way to utilize this dynamic water is in combination with the “Blemish Solution Facial Oil’. Hydrosols mix and encourage the skin’s reabsorbtion of excess oil, without drying the skin. The ‘weak acids’ in plant hydrosols provide a gentle purifying, detoxifying effect.
Step three in Isa’s beauty regime would be to use either “Blue Beauty Balm” or “Immortelle Beauty Balm”.
I was getting excited as Isa showed me the high quality grade of the blue chamomile essential oil that she uses for the “Blue Beauty Balm”. Camomile essential oils are anti-allergenic, and they help cure acne by removing toxins and cleaning sebaceous and eccrine glands through sweating. Its supportive ability to enhance a healthy inflammatory response along with its ability to nourish and restore healthy sebum or skin oil have made it an excellent natural support for skin health and beauty. A combination of exquisite oils like Shiso, babassu, sweet almond, andiroba, oat, sesame and pomegranate are carefully blended to create the sumptuous balm. A mix of butters such as shea and cupuaçu are infused with herbal extracts such as rosemary and essential oils. Not only are her products visual poetry, the smell divine and are truly restorative and nourishing.
The “Immortelle Beauty Balm” is made of powerful oils from seeds such as borage, argan, sea buckthorn fruit and many more. I love sea buckthorn fruit, it prevents sunburns, heals wounds including bedsores, burns, and cuts, it’s great for acne, dermatitis, dry skin, eczema, skin ulcers, and skin color changes after giving birth. It protects the mucus membranes, and it has anti-aging actions. Sea buckthorn oil is well-known for its healing and rejuvenating effects on the skin. When used topically, it’s a great natural cleanser and exfoliator. Using sea buckthorn oil daily helps slow down the signs of aging by nourishing the tissues in your skin and body. Sea buckthorn oil promotes skin hydration, elasticity, and skin regeneration, and even helps treat and prevent acne. Sea buckthorn oil may also be beneficial for rosacea, a chronic inflammatory condition that causes small red bumps on the face. The “Immortelle Beauty Balm” also is infused with herbal extracts such as rosehip, violet, rose and many more powerful plants. Blended with healing essential oils such as cedar wood, rose, myrrh, and other delightful fragrances.
The “Recovery Eye Serum” is made with the whole plant and its is a triple infusion of hibiscus, nettle, fennel, calendula, violet, bilberry, and gotu kola. Organic cold pressed unrefined oils are blended in this herbal concoction, red raspberry seed, cranberry seed, argan, buriti, sea buckthorn and other super oils are mixed with rose, neroli and carrot seed essential oils. Making this eye serum a delicate and rich nourishing blend, that will hydrate and soften the lines around the eye.
“The Blemish Solution Facial Oil” can be mixed into the “Activated Coconut Charcoal Face Mask”, a high concentration of very healing oils. Rosehip, Evening Prime Rose and Tamanu, are some of the powerful oils in this blend. Tamanu oil possesses a unique capacity to promote the formation of new tissue, thereby accelerating wound healing and the growth of healthy skin, known as cicatrization. Tamanu (Calophyllum inophyllum) is indigenous to Southeast Asia, the oil of tamanu has been used to relieve the pain of sciatica, shingles, neuralgia, and rheumatism. Tamanu Oil contains three basic classes of lipids, neutral lipids, glycolipids, and phospholipids. The oil contains a unique fatty acid called calophyllic acid, and a novel antibiotic lactone and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent called calophyllolide. Tamanu Oil is antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, perfect for the treatments of acne and acne scars, eczema, psoriasis, stretch marks, age spots, skin rashes, and dermatitis. The combination of essential oils, such a bergamot, neroli, sweet orange and other earthly surprises, make “The Blemish Solution Facial Oil” a favorite of mine.
Her “Activated Coconut Charcoal Face Mask” can be blended with avocado, papaya, yogurt and honey. Every ingredient is top quality. The plants are coming directly from an organic farm in Vermont, offering incredible vitality. The Ingredients of the “Activated Coconut Charcoal Face Mask”, are pure poetry. A mix of Moroccan rhassaul clay, raw cacao, activated coconut charcoal, a blend of herbs and essential oils, depict the elegance and grace of herbalist Isa Brito.