Persephone’s Ball
Waterless, Preservative free, restorative AF.
Plant-based, minimal ingredient skincare created to provide a break from the noise of unhelpful preservatives and extraneous additives. The butters and oils we source are minimally processed and largely derived from edible, uncultivated fruits and seeds.
Founded by a chef with reactive skin, Persephone’s Ball products are powered by culinary methodology and made with ingredients that you’d be okay to send directly into your digestive system.
Preservative free
Pollinator Friendly
For reactive skin, preservatives are an issue. It doesn’t matter if it’s an all-natural essential oil or factory-made broad spectrum stuff invented to kill, preservatives can cause imbalance in the skin’s microbiome.
Some preservatives have even been observed being uncool to fibroblasts. Fibroblasts – the spindle-shaped cells that produce collagen – don’t like exploding.
But we’re not here to change anyone’s mind about preservatives. We’re here for the people who have decided to go preservative free.
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 sesquiterpenes and sesquiterpene alcohols to fully develop under hot sun. Leaving botanicals to cure on the stem benefits the distillate.
botanical Distillates
The feel of water is primal and necessary. We offer small batch hydrosols that mix into Face balm right at the time of application. The result is a safe, luscious-to-the-touch moisturizer.
Hydrosols also make effective soapless cleansers and gentle toners.
The Waters are why
Our copper alembic still – the original Persephone’s Ball – is why we’re here.
Distilling gives us insight into the way plants grow what phytochemicals they impart when allowed uptake autonomy.
Ethical growing and harvesting is beneficial to human health and it 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 ingestible butters and oils derived from edible plants.
Easy to absorb balms
Deceptively simple whipped balms full of effective essential fatty acids. Ingredients are limited to only those that have something to offer skin in a bioavailable form.
The result is skincare for people like healthy skin without the clickbait fads that fuel unhelpful expectations.
Clarity over charisma
Skin is the complex caretaker of your body. It needs you to listen to it and not perky uninformed influencers and corporations who sell chemicals in water.
Hop over to the blog to learn about our ingredients, tips on using our balms, and how to listen to your skin.
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