Stop chasing hydration.Start holding onto it.
A waterless barrier balm for skin that’s dry, reactive, overworked, or just some seriously chapped lips.
She tops up the lipids your barrier relies on, helping reduce moisture loss so skin feels less tight, less easily irritated and more comfortable.
Fifteen ingredients. Each with a job. Bakuchiol at 0.5%, the concentration the published studies used, to support your skin’s own renewal. Squalane, shea, calendula and eleven very useful colleagues.
Made for skin under pressure™
- Face, hands, cuticles, elbows, heels. Yes, even there.
- Nothing to evaporate. No petroleum. No added fragrance.
- Melts into skin in just a few minutes. Soft-matte.
- 60 mL. Typically three months or more.
Fifteen ingredients. Each with a job. No water, no petroleum, no added fragrance, no synthetic preservatives.
- MCT oil (caprylic/capric triglyceride)fast-absorbing carrier
- Shea butterflexibility
- Jojoba oilmirrors your skin’s own lipids
- Edible-grade beeswaxbreathable hold. The reason it isn’t vegan.
- Calendula-infused sunflower oilcomfort for reactive skin
- Olive squalanethe soft-matte finish
- Marshmallow rootfriction relief
- Plantain leafskin-conditioning botanical
- Vitamin Ekeeps the oils fresh
- Monolaurinfood-grade stabiliser
- Manuka oil, 0.6%the only essential oil in the tin, dosed under the scent threshold
- Bakuchiol, 0.5%gentler retinol alternative
- Bisabololtakes the edge off redness
- Helichrysum CO₂skin-conditioning, low dose
Full INCI: Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Cera Alba, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Calendula Officinalis Flower Extract, Squalane, Althaea Officinalis Root Extract, Plantago Major Leaf Extract, Tocopherol, Glyceryl Laurate, Leptospermum Scoparium Oil, Bakuchiol, Bisabolol, Helichrysum Italicum Extract.
A rice grain for lips, a pea for both hands. Warm between fingertips until it turns to oil. Press in, don’t rub. Thin by day, over actives and under makeup; let it sink in before SPF. Thicker where skin needs cover: heels, lips overnight, fresh shaves. If it sits on top, you used too much.
$6.95 AU shipping, free from two tins. Dispatched Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 30-day one-tin guarantee: if it doesn’t earn a permanent spot in your bathroom, email us and we refund one tin, minus shipping.
Made for skin under pressure™
Sensitive-skinned.Skincare-obsessed.Skincare deniers.And whoever keeps stealing yours.
Your barrier decides whether moisture stays put.
Short on lipids, water escapes. Tightness creeps back by lunch. The cream that used to work suddenly stings. Very rude. Also very common.
The Everywhere Balm replenishes the lipids your barrier relies on. Moisture stays put. Skin stays softer, more comfortable, less easily irritated.
Not a moisturiser.Not another active.A lipid top-up.
Silk. Soft-matte. Never shiny or slick.
- Melts in on contact. Gone in around 90 seconds.
- Absorbs into the outer skin layer instead of sitting on top until it rubs off.
- Softness that holds, even after you wash your hands.
- Leaves nothing behind on your phone screen. No white cast on any skin tone.
Fifteen ingredients.Each with a job.
MCT and squalane move fast through the outer layer, pulling the rest with them.
Jojoba mirrors your skin’s own lipids. Shea restores flex. Beeswax slows water loss without sealing like petroleum.
Bisabolol, calendula and marshmallow root take the edge off reactive skin.
Bakuchiol at 0.5%, the concentration used in clinical studies as a gentler retinol alternative.
Plus six very useful colleagues. No water to evaporate. No petroleum. No added fragrance.
Most of your shelf is water or petroleum.
Petroleum jelly isn’t bad. It’s basic. It seals what’s already there and replenishes nothing. Fine if your barrier is fine.
From 18 cents a day.
$39.95 for the 60 mL tin. Around three months or more at daily use. The four or five it usually replaces:
Trust issues? Us too.
Their phones. Their skin. Their words.
They stopped reapplying as often, too.
“I have always struggled with products that hydrate but last about 5 minutes before my skin is dry again. This lasts all day. And fragrance free.”
“My lips about twice a day, which is incredible because a regular lippy I’d be reapplying numerous times. After 2 weeks of daily use my skin is glassy and supple. You’d need 4 different products to get the same result.”
“After I developed an allergic reaction to my trusty paw paw ointment, Nooks came to the rescue. Except it’s even better. Chuck out all the old weird lip balms and crusty Vaseline pots lurking in your handbag.”
Reviews that make us cry.And sometimes laugh.
I think this balm is going to change my life. 4 years and no creams or ointments have done anything even with multiple scripts and dermatologist appointments. 5 days into using this balm and my hands have actually began to clear up.
I was beginning to despair of things ever settling down. It’s been 10 days of using Nooks, and 10 days without any kind of weeping or bleeding sore on my face. The longest I have been blemish-free for literally years.
Literally saved my skin. 2 years of no barrier, tried EVERYthing. Doctors, derms, regular facials. My skin hatedddd me, reacted to everything, even the most basic of moisturisers. I’ve purchased 2 more within a week.
It’s seen me through postpartum skin changes, contact dermatitis, nappy rash (not mine) and most recently helped ease my horrific itchy-burny face after daycare gave us all hand foot & mouth. It’s also folded the laundry, sorted all our books by genre, and last night I caught it solving the long abandoned Rubik’s cube.
I work in water, my skin tears and cracks and is looking worse and worse. I took a chance on Nooks Balm and am so glad I did. My hands are finally feeling soothed and the relief is so incredible.
I’ve recommended this to so many people, and apply it on my partner’s hands when they split from her boxing coaching. Applying the balm onto a loved one is so meditative and beautiful too.
This is a winter godsend, and also the most calming thing I have ever used on my mild rosacea. My skin feels 5 years younger in 5 days! I have ordered 3 more tins for me and my partner. Please please don’t change the recipe or price.
As a 65 year old who is generally disillusioned with mainstream skin care and constantly looking for something natural that stays the course, Nooks is the best thing I have found. My skin is less dry, red and inflamed than it has been in ages.
This balm is the best skincare purchase I’ve ever made. It feels like I have tried everything from basic moisturisers to azelaic acid to $250 clinic-only serums that all promise to reduce redness but nothing seemed to work. After only a few days my skin was noticeably calmer and less red.
Waking up looking crepey and 10 years older than I am. 2 applications of this balm and my skin is looking 30 again. I don’t know what witchcraft was used in this balm but I am so thankful.
Your skin, specifically.
Built to an intimate-skin spec first: no added fragrance, no essential oils beyond a micro-dose of manuka, nothing that tingles. If it behaves there, a face is easy.
“My skin is so sensitive and I react to a lot of stuff. I was nervous about using a balm texture on my face but it’s worked beautifully.”
Less than you think.
A rice grain for lips. A pea for both hands.
Between fingertips until it turns to oil.
Press in, don’t rub. Thin by day, over actives and under makeup. Let it sink in before SPF. Thicker where skin needs cover: heels, lips overnight, fresh shaves.
* If it sits on top, you may have used too much. She’s concentrated and she knows it.
Doesn’t earn its spot?
We refund it.
Use it for 30 days. If the Everywhere Balm hasn’t earned a permanent spot in your bathroom, email us. One tin refunded, minus shipping. No forms, no posting back a half-used tin.
Built for the most sensitive skin first.
I’m Dani. Founder, and patient zero. Nothing on the shelf was allowed near the most sensitive skin on the body, so I built something that was. Fourteen testers and three formulas later, it turned out a balm that behaves there behaves everywhere. Formulated in Melbourne. Self-funded. Fifteen ingredients I’d put anywhere.
Questions we get asked. Answered properly.
No. It absorbs in around 90 seconds and dries soft-matte. If it feels greasy, you used too much. A pea covers both hands.
Yes. Thin layer, last step at night or under makeup. If your skin is oily and already holds moisture well, it may sit on top. Use it on lips and hands instead.
Vaseline is one ingredient that seals. This is fifteen that replenish, then hold. Vaseline stays on your phone screen. This doesn’t.
Yes, after them. A topped-up lipid layer slows how fast actives get in, so they sting less. It contains no acids and no retinoids of its own.
Yes. Every ingredient was chosen for intimate skin first: no added fragrance, no essential oils beyond a micro-dose of manuka, nothing that tingles. External use.
No retinoids, no essential oils beyond a micro-dose of manuka, nothing you need to wipe off. Check with your GP or midwife, as with anything you use while pregnant.
Suitable from age two. Under two, ask your paediatrician.
No. It contains edible-grade beeswax, which is what holds moisture in without petroleum. Everything else is plant-derived.
No added fragrance. A faint shea note that’s gone as it sinks in.
Petroleum seals. It replenishes nothing. If your barrier is short on lipids, sealing traps the problem. We’d rather add the lipids.
At 0.5%, the concentration used in clinical studies as a gentler alternative to retinol for skin renewal. No retinoid irritation, so it’s fine on reactive skin and alongside your own actives.
Formulated and tested in Melbourne. Manufactured to our spec by a specialist balm maker in China. We move production onshore when an Australian manufacturer can match the spec, not before.
Stable to 35°C. It softens in a hot car and firms in a cold one, and works either way.
Not SPF. Moisturiser: often. If your cream lasts an hour, this replaces it. If your skin holds water fine, keep the cream and use this where it doesn’t.
Used daily on lips, hands and face, three months or more. A week of decent use barely dents it.
Retire the rest of your shelf responsibly.
One very useful thing. Goes everywhere. Yes, even there.
30-day one-tin guarantee. If it doesn’t earn a permanent spot in your bathroom, we refund one tin, minus shipping.