Our brand new, 60 qt mixer is busy whipping up luscious batches of our fragrant and creamy shea butter for you! This picture was taken on the day of our mixer's 'maiden voyage' so I decided to memorialize it by snapping a few pictures of it in action. It takes about 4 hours of constant whipping and close monitoring to create our two Shea Butter products: Patchouli Vanilla + Olive Leaf infusion. The mixer is constantly watched as the shea butter begins to soften. At just the right time, we slowly drizzle in a variety of flower, seed and nut oils such as local organic olive oil, deep green and aromatic; organic calendula sunflower infusion; St. John's wort oil, Madagascar Vanilla pods infused into coconut oil, Evening Primrose oil, organic olive leaf infusion...and at the very end we mindfully add, drop-by-drop, biodynamic Flower Essences. We let it sit quietly overnight, to rest. In the morning it is ready to be put into jars, all the while we chant, sing or listen to music. Good vibrations! We NEVER HEAT our shea butter!! Many companies do, we do not. It was over the many years of personally working on my formula that I discovered that truly organic, raw, unrefined and unbleached shea butter does NOT like to be heated. It gets grainy and rancid, the heat creates moisture that condenses in the jars and rancidity ensues. I created this formula a few years ago over a long summer, blending and mixing and experimenting with different shea butters and flower, seed, nut oils. I wanted to create a Butter so satiny soft, yet also dense and stable. I didn't want it to be light and airy like a soufflé that would collapse the moment you touched your warm fingertip to it. I needed to figure out a way to soften shea's natural hardness, something that would create a sense of 'loft', but that would also maintain some structural integrity. So, necessity being the mother of invention (and the fact that I was standing in my kitchen and not in a lab) I hauled out my cake mixer. As I was whipping, I noticed that the shea butter began to transform and soften...it was becoming something...else. Huzzah! From then on I spent weeks literally up to my eyeballs in the emollient, fragrant, skin-healing goodness of organic shea butter... and the rest, as they say, is history. Enjoy this wonderful, artisan made, hand-whipped, organic, skin-loving butter!

Homeopathic Enlivening: Drop-by-drop, we add biodynamic Flower essence remedies to our Cleansing Milks, Day Moisturizers, Whipped Shea Butters, and Blemish Roll-on. Flower essences, not to be confused with essential oils, are energetic imprints of the life force of plants which interact with these subtle bodies of the human being, and evoke specific qualities within us. FLOWER POWER! CRAB APPLE Flower Essence - Cleansing, bringing a sense of inner purity. Crab Apple is in our Blemish Roll-On and Tea Tree Gel Cleanser.

Sunshine in a bottle... Sweet Blossom Body Oil is a special treatment for all-over (yes, including face!) body care. The scent is fresh and clean with light heart notes of petitgrain sur fleur neroli, the steam distilled combination of fragrant leaf and sweet blossom from the bitter orange tree. Nourishing and soothing with certified organic essential oils, our new intensive body oil blends cold-pressed, premium plant oils that work to create softer, smoother skin while protecting its natural hydro-lipid moisture balance. Daily use after bath or shower eliminates dry, dehydrated and damaged skin caused by environmental conditions in summer and winter. Appropriate for all skin conditions: quenches dry, dehydrated skin, calms inflammation, deeply moisturizes the skin...Scented with the clean, fresh fragrance of petitgrain leaf, layered with sweet neroli blossoms, exotic ylang ylang... and balanced with rich, resinous frankincense essential oil. Sweet Blossom Massage Oil can be used as a massage treatment oil, this vitamin-rich blend activates the body’s circulation which helps to eliminate toxins and excess water while refining, softening and firming the skin. No GMOs, parabens, petroleum-based products, synthetic fragrances, gluten, or animal testing. No sodium lauryl or laureth sulfates. "Using this body oil after my shower was an ethereal experience. It was so soothing and and warming the moment it touched my skin. I worked from the toes to the neck. All it took was a small amount. I have never felt any oil like it and I've tried soooo many. I love the scent because it is there...but not overwhelming so it is stimulating and fragrant to use but easy to also use perfume after I dressed." Candy G. Newport, RI