An aromatherapy blend of ancient frankincense resin — carried across deserts for four thousand years, burned in temples long before it ever touched skin — and premium grade A vanilla beans.
Warm, resinous and quietly steadying. The kind of scent that makes you breathe out.
Infused slowly and handmade by a qualified herbalist who loves creating solutions to ease our daily lives, with a touch of luxury, here in Melbourne, Australia.
Why the resin, and not just the oil
Boswellic acids exist only in frankincense resin, and infusion is the only method that extracts them. Steam distillation cannot carry them — the molecules are too heavy to travel with the steam — so frankincense essential oil contains none at all, and neither does hydrosol. The only way to bring that fraction into a product is to extract the whole resin into oil, slowly.
So that is what we do. Whole Boswellia carterii resin, broken down and macerated in organic jojoba for six weeks. Six weeks is not an arbitrary number: resin is hard and gives up its constituents reluctantly. A week gets you scent. Six weeks gets you the colour, the weight and the resinous depth that tells you the oil is carrying more than perfume. It is why our labels read Resin, not only Oil.
In the leave-on oils and butters, the boswellic acid fraction is there for the look of firmness, smoothness and suppleness over time. In the soap it is there for the scent — the low, warm weight of frankincense that essential oil alone cannot give you. No fragrance oils anywhere in the range. Essential oils and our own infusions, and nothing else.
And paracress, the one you can feel
Paracress flower contains spilanthol, an alkylamide that produces a light tingling, tightening sensation on the skin. It softens the look of expression lines, and unlike almost everything else in natural skincare, the effect is immediate rather than cumulative. You feel it working within a minute of pressing it in.
Start with the Firm & Lift Face Oil
If you take one thing from this collection, take this one. It is the product the whole range is built around, and the only place these two botanicals meet: whole frankincense resin and paracress flower, both infused rather than added as extracts, in a base of jojoba, castor, black seed and cold-pressed rosehip oils with bakuchiol.
Paracress works in minutes. The resin works over weeks. One you feel, one you see. Not an injection, not a procedure — something you do every evening that feels good while you are doing it.
Made for the part of the day where you slow down.
