Our Ingredients

Aloe Vera

Aloe vera provides antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties making it an excellent option for acne treatment. It contains Vitamins C and E, both of which are important for healthy skin. It also helps to improve the skin’s natural firmness, elasticity, and the appearance of wrinkles. This ingredient will leave your skin feeling soft, supple, and hydrated. We include it in many of our face cleansers and serums because of its wonderful ability to treat and heal blemishes.

Apricot Oil

Another plant-based ingredient, apricot oil is a light expeller pressed oil rich in vitamins A, D, and E, and in oleic and linoleic acids. It’s non-greasy and is easily absorbed into the skin. It’s also a great moisturizing and conditioning oil for mature and sensitive skin and skin that is inflamed and dry.

Avocado Oil

This ultra-rich organic oil, from an ultra-rich delicious fruit, is a natural skincare treasure. It’s highly recommended for those with sensitive skin, problem skin, and other irritations that require vitamin-rich oils. It contains high amounts of Vitamins A, B, D, and E and essential fatty acids. These properties soften and soothe your skin, increasing the production of collagen and penetrate through layers of skin for better moisturization and improved skin texture. It’s an ingredient that is particularly kind to sensitive skin and helps to relieve skin concerns like eczema, psoriasis, dry skin, and signs of aging.

Baobab Oil

Baobab oil is another oil rich in vitamins and nutrients your skin loves. These include vitamins A, E, and F and omega fatty acids 3, 6, and 9. It helps to improve the appearance of skin by reducing the look of fine lines, wrinkles, marks, and scars. It moisturizes the skin and is fast absorbing.

Carrot Oil

Carrot oil is an oil we love for many reasons, but particularly for all the good that it offers your hair. T

his oil is high in Vitamin A, Vitamin E, and beta-carotene, all of which support your skin to help repair and protect from environmental factors. In addition, this oil and its vitamins play a role in softening and protecting your hair. Anecdotal evidence suggests that it even helps your hair become thicker and grow more quickly.

You can find this nutrient-rich oil in our Regrow Hair Oil to add it to your hair care routine.

Chamomile

Chamomile is often known for its relaxation benefits and uses in tea. In the form of oil, this ingredient offers benefits to both your skin and your hair. It helps to soothe irritated skin, moisturize, and conditions and adds shine to hair. In addition to this, it helps to prevent scalp concerns such as dandruff.

Cocoa Butter

We love cocoa butter for its incredible skin-nourishing properties. It helps to soothe and moisturize dry skin, to treat and prevent the appearance of wrinkles, marks, and scars. It contains vitamin E and can melt into the layers of your skin. This increases oxygen levels which encourages healthy skin. 

This ingredient is derived from the same bean that gives us chocolate, the cocoa bean. It’s a vegetable fat, and this is what makes it so easily absorbed by the skin. It can be found in a few of our bestselling products, like our Mango Papaya Body Butter, Satsuma Body Butter, and in our Mark and Scar Therapy Butter and Body Oil.

Coconut Oil

We’re in love with coconut oil for our skincare products. It’s an ingredient that is easily absorbed into the skin, giving you a softer, healthier, more youthful appearance. It contains high amounts of rich natural fats, Vitamin E, antioxidants, proteins, and triglycerides. These components play a role in strengthening skin tissue, removing dead skin cells, and reducing the appearance of aging. These qualities make it a great ingredient for the promotion of healthy skin.

Eucalyptus Oil

Eucalyptus oil, from the evergreen eucalyptus plant, offers many benefits for our health and wellness, and these include our hair and skin. It was originally used by Indigenous peoples in Australia to treat and heal wounds. Its properties, like being anti-inflammatory and anti-fungal, help prevent scalp inflammation and dandruff, giving us good reason to love this oil.

Grapeseed Oil

This is an effective oil that we love to include in our skincare products because it helps to naturally clear the skin. It contains linoleic acid, antioxidants, and anti-inflammatory properties that help treat skin concerns like acne. In addition to this, it’s a great option in skincare regimes because of its astringent qualities that deliver natural skin tightening and toning with regular application.

Geranium Oil

This oil is included for its powerful healing qualities it offers your skin. It’s a natural way to soothe dry skin, to reduce cellulite, and to clear the complexions of those with oily, acne-prone skin.

Glycerine

This plant-based ingredient helps to heal and moisturize the skin while smoothing its overall texture for soft and supple skin. It’s a humectant which means that it helps draw moisture from the humidity in the air and from the deeper layers of the skin to the surface to aid in hydration. 

This moisturizing ingredient can be found in our Tea Tree Face Toner, Tea Tree Face Mask, and in our Black Soap Cleanser.

Jojoba Oil

Another oil we love, jojoba oil can be found in many of our body butters and body oils. It is a great natural skincare remedy that softens, reconditions, protects, improves texture, and relieves dry and flaky skin. In addition to this, jojoba oil benefits the skin with its antiviral, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. It is produced from the seed of the Jojoba plant. 

We’ve dedicated blog space to it here, to highlight its many healthy skin qualities.

Lavender Oil

This popular oil is traditionally used to help relax, relieve stress, and relieve headaches. In addition to these things, it offers benefits to your skin. It plays a role in healing burns and wounds. Try out our Lavender Body Butter to enjoy the benefits of this oil.

Lemon Oil

Lemon oil offers antibacterial properties and natural exfoliating abilities that help to prevent breakouts. It helps to repair the skin’s complexion and leave skin looking bright. When used in the hair it helps to prevent dandruff and adds shine. This citrusy addition to your skincare routine can be found in our face serums, beard oil, and hair oil.

Lemongrass Extract

Lemongrass extract is a great natural ingredient for glowing skin and giving you an even healthy skin tone. It has antioxidant, antibacterial, antimicrobial, and antiseptic properties that help in healing and preventing skin conditions. And as if that weren’t enough, it also works as a natural stress reducer and muscle relaxant. Check out our Lemongrass Set to see this extract at work.

Marula Oil

This South African oil from the Marula Tree, offers your hair, skin, and nails many benefits. It has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-aging properties alongside nutrients like amino acids, and fatty acids. It helps to restore and recover your skin’s hydration while being lightweight and fast-absorbing. This oil is wonderful for dry and aging skin. It has Vitamins C & E that nurture, protect, and repair your skin.

The anti-inflammatory properties help calm skin irritation, dryness, itchiness, and redness, and on top of all this, the oil deep conditions the hair.

Moringa Oil

Moringa oil contains many properties that make it an excellent option for moisturizing the skin. Some of these properties include Palmitoleic, Oleic, and Linoleic acids, unsaturated fatty acid, and Vitamins A and C, all components your skin loves and needs.

Neem Oil

High in fatty acids, Vitamin E, and antioxidants, neem oil helps to protect the skin from environmental damage and to prevent and treat acne scars. It is also an excellent oil for treating dry skin, restoring the skin’s natural elasticity, combating spots and acne, promoting healthy skin and an even complexion.

If you’re looking to add this ingredient to your skincare routine, you can find it in our Mark and Scar Therapy, Shea Smooth Body Butter, Perfect Skin Serum, and in our Acne Spot Serum.

Olive Oil

Olive oil is useful to many areas of the body, including skin, hair, and nails. It is rich Vitamins A and E, and in antioxidants, these all work together to deeply moisturize and protect your skin. This oil improves the skin’s elasticity for a firmer and smoother appearance. It is especially useful to areas of the body prone to dryness and cracked skin like the heels and elbows. Used on the hair, it provides deep conditioning and nourishment to the scalp and hair.

Peppermint Oil

This cooling, fragrant oil penetrates deep within the hair follicles and stimulates circulation.  The increased blood flow oxygenates the hair follicles and promotes growth. Additionally, peppermint oil is an astringent cleaner that clears the pores, allowing your scalp to breathe, bringing even more scalp-healing and rejuvenating oxygen to your hair. You’ll see this ingredient in our hair care items and our Mint Lip Therapy.

Rosehip Seed Oil

Rosehip oil is another oil we enjoy using in our products — its benefits seem endless. Rosehip oil is excellent for skin rejuvenation, and it nourishes your skin with multiple types of vitamins your skin loves. It is an oil rich in essential fatty acids and antioxidants that work wonders on scars, stretch marks, dark spots, skin discolorations, fine lines, age spots, and wrinkles. It’s also a great moisturizer and can help relieve eczema, dermatitis, and psoriasis. It minimizes pores and blemishes and helps the skin to naturally regenerate.

Want to learn more about this beneficial oil? Take a look at our blog post, Rosehip Seed Oil — The Skin Regenerator.

Rosemary Oil

This plant-based oil contains antimicrobial and antiseptic qualities that help to eliminate eczema, dermatitis, and acne. It can also give the skin a healthy, even glow while promoting your skin’s healing.

Rosewater

This fragrant, floral ingredient offers benefits to hair and skin that seem endless. Its scent alone helps to relax and soothe, and when used on the skin it helps relieve skin concerns like wrinkles, fine lines, redness, irritation, and more. It helps to care for your skin with anti-inflammatory and anti-bacterial products that soften and hydrate and nourish your skin.

Shea Butter

We like to call this ingredient nature’s miracle gift to skin. This West African butter, derived from the seed of the Karite Tree, is a staple in many of our skincare products. It’s rich in vitamins and nutrients your skin loves like Vitamins A, E, and F, and essential fatty acids. On top of these, shea butter offers anti-inflammatory properties, and it works to protect, repair, and moisturize the skin. 

 

If you’d like to add it to your skincare routine it can be found in over 80% of our products. Try out our body butters or oils to add it to your routine. We love this ingredient so much that we’ve dedicated two blog posts to it, you can read them here and here!

Sunflower Oil

Sunflower oil primarily contains linoleic acid and Vitamins A, D, K, and E. This ingredient is useful in skincare because of its natural emollient properties. It hydrates the skin clearing up dry, rough skin, and leaves you with a healthy glowing appearance. In addition to these things, it helps to increase the skin’s elasticity which prevents and reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

Sweet Almond Oil

This sweet oil is kind to the skin and is best known for its ability to naturally soften, soothe, and re-condition the skin. It works to improve your skin’s complexion and to give you naturally glowing skin through its deep moisturizing abilities. It can be used to soothe skin inflammation and irritation, as well as to relieve dry and irritated skin.

This oil is included in many of our sweeter smelling products because of its light and complementing scent. Find it in products with Mango, Satsuma, Lemongrass, Vanilla, and Berry in their titles.

Tamanu Oil

This plant-based ingredient from Southeast Asia is a remarkable skin healing agent with anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antibiotic, and antioxidant properties. It takes on many skin concerns including the improvement of acne, scars, stretch marks, skin blemishes, cellulite, minor cuts and abrasions, rashes, age spots, acne scars, psoriasis, dermatitis, eczema, and damaged skin. These qualities all help give you healthy skin you can feel confident in. This is why we include it in many of our facial cleansers, toners, and serums.

Tea Tree Oil

This plant-based ingredient from the leaves of tea trees is known as a skin miracle for its anti-viral and anti-fungal benefits. Tea tree oil is a fantastic remedy for acne, scars, and blemishes. It is best for oily, acne-prone skin. 

It’s another ingredient we love, and we’ve written even more about it on the blog.

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a nutrient that is excellent for the maintenance of healthy skin. It has been shown to penetrate layers of the skin to promote healing, the improvement of scars, wrinkles, cuts, and blemishes. Its rich, antioxidant properties prevent premature aging and help clear the skin. This vitamin also encourages the production of collagen, a structural protein partially responsible for the strength and elasticity of the skin.