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 unnecessary additives. The butters and oils we source are minimally processed and largely derived from edible, uncultivated fruits and seeds.
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? It’s chaos.
We let the pollinators take their fill and live their lives. We don’t harvest the viable flowers they need for habitat and food.
botanical Distillates
The feel of water is primal and necessary. We offer small batch hydrosols made from steaming plants and water and collecting the steam and oil.
Mix Face balm and Yarrow together in the palm of your hand to create a luscious-to-the-touch moisturizer. Or use few spritzes for 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.
In our experience, uncultivated botanicals left to grow and complete a lifecycle produce a better distillate. Leaving phytochemicals to cure on the stem also benefits the distillate.
We strongly believe 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?
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.
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 the body in a bioavailable form.
It’s skincare for people who prefer healthy skin without the clickbait promises and fad ingredients that fuel unhelpful expectations.
Clarity over charisma
Once you know the workings of the integumentary system, the charm of the skincare industry dwindles.
Skin is always working to keep us alive. It protects our insides from being poisoned by random deadly pathogens. It regulates body temperature, ensuring that we don't overheat.
Skin is key in human behavior and senses everything from danger to sex. Skin can make the unseen, seen by communicating how our immune and digestive systems are functioning.
…and yet we expect it, above all, to be pretty.
Hop over to the blog to learn about the reality of what skin wants and what it will and won’t do when it’s given bioavailable, bioactive plant based chemistry.
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