The art of herbal body oiling: a practice of loving and nurturing ourselves.

Herbal body oiling is an ancient practice revered in Ayurvedic medicine as a pillar of physical, mental, and emotional health. A deliciously simple act; it involves applying oil to the entire body with presence and loving attention.

We’ve skillfully crafted two special herbal body oil formulas infused with organic herbs and flowers that impart their medicinal healing qualities to the user. These decadent oils envelope your skin in a cocoon of nourishing lipids and are an invitation to slow down and intentionally immerse yourself in a loving ritual of self-care.

“Delight in the sensory pleasure of this ancient practice.”

Often our customers who use body oiling remark on the noticeable calm, groundedness, and deeper sense of embodiment that they feel when they use this practice regularly. This is something that Ayurvedic wisdom has taught for centuries- body oiling is deeply restorative to the nervous system and invokes a sense of connectedness to ones self.

Why we prefer body oils instead of butters or lotions

Botanical lipids deeply nourish the cells of our skin and act as a key nutrient for the health of the skin’s own lipid-barrier- a natural protective mechanism that keeps skin healthy and functioning optimally. Oils are most easily and quickly absorbed by the skin, as opposed to butters, which tend to be significantly slower to absorb.

We infuse our oils with skin-supportive and nervous-system calming herbs to enhance the healing quality of our final product so that users receive the greatest benefit possible from their body oiling practice. Additionally, body oil formulations do not require additives like emulsifiers or preservatives the way that lotions and some body butters do. While we only use natural and clean additives such as these in any of our skincare products, we always opt to keep our product ingredients as close to nature as possible without including any unnecessary additions. We love the simple purity of well-crafted natural body oils.

Our Violet Tide Bath + Body Oil, for example, is a sensual jojoba and coconut oil formula infused with calming organic chamomile and lavender flowers, and topped with a synergistic essential oil blend including pure rose essential oil with an affinity for tending the heart and encouraging self-love.

What makes our body oils unique?

Among the sea of available natural body oils that are on the market, we take care to ensure that our body oils are potent herbal-infused oils first and foremost. Whole-plant herbal infusions are the foundational element in our Violet Tide & Grand Fir + Cypress Body Oil. For us, this means a 5-week double extraction process from start to finish involving traditional herbal infusion methods resulting in a potent, high-quality herbal oil.

Select essential oils are skillfully incorporated in our body oil formulas with a deep understanding of their potency and any possible sustainability concerns- we source only pure, ethically-produced essential oils and never use endangered or at-risk oils. Essential oils are only one (albeit, lovely) dimension of a plant’s medicinal offering. Our herbal infusion process ensures that our body oils are brimming with whole-plant medicine and skin-healing plant constituents that are not found in essential oils.

With each bottle of our herbal body oil you receive a potent and expertly-crafted formula to soothe, protect, and nourish all levels of your being.

Find our body oils in the online shop here.