Natural skincare that helps people’s lives
Vitamin enriched, effective and healthy
Formulated and made entirely by us in Newcastle, NSW.
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Luminous Face Cream 15% – 120ml
Skin that requires active compounds to assist and influence cells to grow well. Helps skin grow normally when hindered by sustained exposure to sun, sub optimal nutrition and changes that occur as we age.
Luminous feels refreshing and cool on application. It has a medium to thick density feel that is creamy and full bodied. It leaves a velvet feel on the skin with a luminous hydrated appearance.
Skincare that is healthy and supportive of your biological self while also bringing some level of pleasure and calm
A savant product can take many months of thinking, researching, planning, trialing and making. Owning and controlling this process from start to finish, I have learnt, is what has made us unique and, daringly…….exceptional.
Rectifying Serum – 50ml
Suited to and beneficial for everyone. Though more crucial for some more than others. Those who can experience roughened skin on their face such as eyebrows, under a beard, on the nose or around the mouth area. Those who have congestion. Those who can experience perio dermatitis or eczema on their face.
Rectifying Serum has only a very slight residual feel and needs to have a moisturiser applied over it. On the finger tips it feels like water only more slippery, more silky. When applied the Lactates can have a short lived mild prickly feel for skin that is quite dry or broken. Rectifying absorbs quickly leaving a barely discernible feel. It contains no oils, emulsifiers or thickeners.
The process of our skincare products
01.
Choosing our Ingredients
We look for ingredients that have the biological attributes we want to help with a particular skin function. We also look for ingredients that will give us certain textures and feels that we want, We always buy unprocessed so the original qualities we seek are still there in all their glory. We then look where these plants are naturally grown and find suppliers from there. We like to buy from areas where the plant or clay has always been from because those farms are likely to be old and well established and also suitable to how that plant likes to grow.
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Into the Laboratory
We love it when new harvests of ingredients come in. There is always subtle changes in colour, scent, texture, reflecting how that plant grew since the last harvest we bought.
Amazingly we still use no big machinery and our products are made with hand mixers and very large pots.
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Perfecting our formulations
Formulating is very much at the heart of what we do. Some formulas fall into place quickly and proceed along an undisrupted timeline. Others, others have been difficult, some small but important feature I want on a molecular level will just not want to exist.
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Packaging our products
Our products are packaged exclusively in glass or metal. This ensures our product has no unwanted reactions or absorptions from our packaging and also that we are not introducing many thousands of plastic bottles to the environment. We also have a very successful glass return system where customers return their empty glass bottles and jars and we clean and sterilise them and re use them. This has proven to be expensive in both time but far more expensive to the environment if we do not do it.
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From the Apothecary to you
We make to demand and products are never on our shelves long before they are in your hands. We do all our manufacturing in-house from product concept to formulation, to trial, to final product, label design, packaging choice and final production. A product is normally made on a 3 month cycle. We send our product to our own stores where they are given to you by our own staff. Some of our products, particularly the ones with biological actives like Vitamins, need consideration with how they should be used and we like our staff to be very well versed in how our products work on their own or in unison.
Milk Cleanser 200ml
Milk Cleanser is for all skin types and particularly for those who feel dry and want to clean their skin while still leaving it balanced.
Milk Cleanser feels very soft and smooth with a definite feeling of comfort and compatibility. It has a light viscosity with good flow and is easy to move over the skin. When Milk Cleanser is rinsed the skin feel is soft with a just detectable velvet feel.