Customers often ask which products I use to keep my skin looking so healthy.
My skin is now 60 and have been using only my soaps for over ten years and my natural skincare for almost seven.
All the products I make started off filling a need, or solving a problem on the farm, as we move towards self-sufficiency.
"Using natural soap has been the foundation of my low-tox skincare routine for the last 10 years."
Skin Care starts in the shower, and if you are not using soap, you are using a detergent. Soap and detergents act differently and a good quality natural soap is far less drying than any cleanser.
The basket of goodies at the top shows all the products I am currently using.
If I am just on the farm with the animals, I don't even moisturise my face in the morning as my goatsmilk soap doesn't leave it feeling dry.
If I am going out in public, I use the olive oil based OCOBECO to make my skin look more "glowy" and the ACOBECO Almond and beeswax lip balm.
In the evening I use the Emollient Botannica skin serum which has apricot kernel, almond, olive, coconut and jojoba oils. Every time I make a new batch I make a new tester, so I get to use up the old testers at home. I have just finished using a bottle of Meadow and am now onto the Earth blend.
Once a month, I use exfoliating gloves that are probably just supposed to be used just on the body...
The Foaming hand face and body wash is the foundation of my skincare routine. I have a bottle of this at every basin in the house. As it is non-drying you don't need to use any hand cream.
OCOBECO - I use this as my morning moisturiser. After washing my face with the foaming soap, I apply to damp skin and massage in. By adding a little water to your hands and rubbing them together, you can emulsify it into a light lotion, without any preservatives.
CHACOBEE DEO - I prefer the smell of chamomile infused deodorant and it keeps me fragrant all day.
ACOBECO lip balm - I don't use sunscreen, but do like a little extra moisturising help on my lips when I am outside on the farm.
Emollient Botannica - I use this light oil with apricot kernel and jojoba oil in the evening before bed.
Magicalm footspray - I take magnesium tablets every day, but have got into the habit of spraying this before bed. I have had disrupted sleep for 12 years since starting menopause, but seem to sleep for longer and more deeply after using this.
WOODY bar soap shampoo and body bar. I prefer to use a bar in the shower and being busy, I like that I only need the one product. I love the smell of the powdered sandalwood that comes out when using the soap.
CHACHI - When stressed, I get itchy dyshidrotic eczema or pompholyx on one foot, and use either this PPB or Pure Plantain balm.
CCC Balm - the Comfrey infused Castor Oil balm soothes any inflammation and I have used it on sprains and on my knee when my Baker's cyst flares up.
Bye-Bye Bug if I hear a mozzie, I will use this to keep them off me
Room Spray - Air - if we have visitors coming and the house smells a bit too agricultural :-)