Persephone’s Ball
Plant-based, minimal ingredient skincare
Created by a chef with reactive skin to provide a break from the noise of unhelpful preservatives and extraneous ingredients. The butters and oils we use are minimally processed and largely sourced from edible, uncultivated plants.
Deceptively simple, incredibly helpful, and a little adult, Persephone’s Ball is made for people who want straight forward, natural, ethical skincare filled with effective chemistry.
the Whys of Waterless
Pollinator Friendly
When water is mixed into skincare, a preservative is required. Full stop.
It doesn’t matter if they’re natural or factory made, preservatives can cause imbalance in the skin’s micro biome and some preservatives have even been observed being uncool to fibroblasts.
Also, physical reality makes it difficult for water to penetrate the skin’s surface. So we keep water out of our balms.
You ever have to rehome hundreds of little insects that don’t want any part of skincare?
We let the pollinators take their fill and live their lives. We don’t harvest the viable flowers they need for habitat and food.
Leaving botanicals to cure on the stem also benefits to the phytochemicals we’re distilling for.
Balms for face and body
Limited ingredient, water-free balms that slip into the skin, attract moisture, and offer extra nourishment in the form of essential fatty acids.
botanical Distillates
Small batch hydrosols that mix in with our Face balm right at the time of application. The result is a safe, luscious feeling moisturizer. Hydrosols also make effective soapless cleansers and gentle toners that contain beneficial phytochemicals.
The Whys of Waters
Our copper alembic still – the original Persephone’s Ball – is why we’re here. Distilling gives us insight into the way plants grow and what phytochemicals they impart. Ethical growing and harvesting is at the center of everything we do.
What if we treated skincare like food?
Most of our ingredients are derived from uncultivated, edible crops. While our balms are strictly topical, (almost) everything we create is made with edible ingredients.
It might be a game changer
Once people learn how skin is structured and functions, their skincare routine evolves. Hop over to the blog to learn how to listen to your skin.
Coming soon
Good Vibes
Seasonally appropriate love. Lanai oil welcomes repair and banishes bites, Ponderosa Pine Hydrosol can change the vibe in the room. Beeswax candles, because whatever you do by candlelight should smell like beeswax. Once-in-a-blue-moon-finds to celebrate the moment.
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