For skin under pressure™Barrier repair for skin that has had enough.
When the barrier goes, everything else follows. Cracking, tightness, flares that will not settle.
Fifteen botanicals. Anhydrous.
No water, no petroleum, no fragrance.
★★★★★ 4.9 out of 5, verified reviews
Barrier repair. Not wellness theatre.
Your skin is not overreacting. It is overwhelmed.
The barrier is a lipid matrix. Fats and oils that hold water in and keep irritants out. Intact, it recovers on its own. Stripped daily, it cannot keep pace.
The dryness, the tightness, the redness that will not settle. That is not sensitivity. That is a barrier running on empty.
It does not need more product. It needs what has been taken out.
One tin. The whole list.
Cracked and chapped.
Hands that get washed forty times a day, knuckles that split in winter, heels, cuticles, the back of a new boot. Skin that never gets long enough between hits to close.
Reactive and inflamed.
Skin that flushes at almost anything. Bisabolol and bakuchiol sit in the formula at cosmetic concentrations chosen for skin that reacts, not skin that tolerates.
Thinning and ageing.
Barrier function slows with age and with actives. Bakuchiol at 0.5 percent, within the clinically studied range, and skin-identical lipids to put back what the routine removes.
Soap takes lipids out. She puts lipids back. That is the whole argument, and it fits on one line.
You can skip the ingredients list. Read the end of it.
Petroleum-derived ingredients are legal, cheap and extremely good at one job: sitting on top of skin and slowing what leaves. They are not treatments and were never sold to you as treatments, technically. If that is what you are paying for, four dollars is the going rate.
They usually show up as:
- Petrolatum
- Paraffinum Liquidum
- Mineral oil
- Cera Microcristallina
- Ozokerite
- Ceresin
- Synthetic wax
- Hydrogenated polyisobutene
- Isododecane
None of those are in this tin.
What is in it, in formulation order:
- MCT
- Shea butter
- Jojoba oil
- Calendula
- Beeswax
- Squalane
- Marshmallow
- Plantain
- Vitamin E
- Monolaurin
- Manuka oil
- Bakuchiol 0.5%
- Bisabolol
- Helichrysum
- Sunflower
Fifteen botanicals. Fragrance-free, mucosal-safe, and safe on skin from age two.
You can read the whole list before the kettle boils.
She goes where most balms are not allowed.
The objection to a balm is grease. Fair objection.
This one goes on as a solid, melts at skin temperature and settles to a soft-matte finish. It absorbs in about a minute and does not transfer onto a keyboard or a shirt collar.
Use less than you think. The more you use it, the less you need.
"I finish every gym session applying it to my grip calluses, and after just a week, the hardened skin started to soften noticeably. I love that it keeps my hands hydrated without any scent or grease."Jye, verified review
The Everywhere Balm.
Fifteen botanicals, no water, no petroleum, no fragrance. She is anhydrous, which means nothing in the tin is filler.
Age 2 and up
Mucosal-safe
- Bakuchiol 0.5%, within the clinically studied range
- Supports the barrier and quiets reactive skin
- 30-day guarantee
- Free shipping in Australia over $50 or on two tins
- Age 2 and up. Under 2, consult a paediatrician for ongoing use
Barrier repair. Not wellness theatre.