The aim of Holistic skin care is to work with the natural process of your body in order to achieve healthy, radiant skin as compared to what we call "western-pharmacological" or "Suppressive" skin care. Suppressive skin care looks at a problem or blemish and tries to kill it, punish it, dry it out or push it back in. This only leads to irritaed skin, longer healing times and pimples that keep returning again and again (I call these "the ghosts of pimples past") Holistic skin care works in conjunction WITH the skin's naatural process to encourage it to heal properly without scarring, preventing irritated skin and eruptions, and allowing the body to find it's own happy balance.
Truly holistic skin care has to be made by nature and containing little (if any) preservatives. Preservatives work like broad-spectrum anti-biotics and other medications on your skin--sending it off-balance and suppressing the healing that your skin wants to do all by itself! There are ABSOLUTELY NO CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVES in any of the products that you will read about in the "Holistic Skin Care" and "Herbal Apothecary" Section of this field guide to Between You & The Moon Products.
How do we do that and continue to provide a safe and effective product? We provide the freshest herbs, grains and oils in our basic ingredients while you provide the "water" - mixing a fresh batch of skin care product in the palm of your hand daily. You can even choose to use one of our healthy TONING MISTS instead of your running water.
The best way to start your journey to healthy skin is to cleanse every morning with either a warm, wet washcloth or the SOW YOUR WILD OATS: ORGANIC GRAIN CLEANSER. Mix a dime size amount of the grains with enough water to form a paste and massage into your skin using circular motions. Remove by splashing with tepid water or a damp cloth. Mist a few sprays of your TONING MIST and leave your face slightly dewy as you mix 4-6 drops of NOURISH AND REPLENISH OIL with a little water and massage into your skin.
You may choose instead to use the SOW YOUR WILD OATS at night before you mist and give yourself a nice massage with 6-8 drops of the oils mixed with water.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email us!