The Ingredient Glossary
One entry per ingredient, written once and surfaced everywhere: on product pages, on formula lists, and here. If it is printed on a strangely. label, it has a page.
Minerals
Bamboo Charcoal
The reason it pours black and rinses clear.
Botanical Extracts
Aloe Vera
The one living green note in a black formula.
Botanical Extracts
Rosemary
The scalp botanical that earned its reputation before marketing found it.
Botanical Extracts
Oregano
Kitchen herb, serious chemistry.
Botanical Extracts
Vanilla
Scent from a bean, not from a synthetic mystery blend.
Botanical Extracts
Blue Spirulina
Absurdly blue, and the color is the ingredient.
Emollients
Squalane
Barrier, sealed. No shark involved.
Minerals
Volcanic Sand
Polishes without shredding.
Butters
Shea Butter
The reason dry ends stop announcing themselves.
Vitamins
Panthenol
Provitamin B5: the quiet reason hair stops snapping.
Conditioning
Behentrimonium Methosulfate
The detangler with the worst name and the best manners.
Vitamins
Niacinamide
Vitamin B3, doing the evening-out no scrub can do mechanically.
Botanical Oils
Olive Oil
The slow base a cold-process bar is built on.
Botanical Oils
Coconut Oil
The lather, and only as much of it as the bar needs.
Botanical Oils
Hemp Seed Oil
Lightweight lipids, so cleansing does not turn into depleting.
Botanical Extracts
Nettle Leaf
The weed that earned its place in the bottle.
Proteins
Hydrolyzed Rice Protein
The reason clean skin still feels soft, not squeaky.
Minerals
Kaolin Clay
Second on the list, and the one doing the job.
Botanical Extracts
Turmeric Root
The gold. Also the reason you want a dark towel.
Botanical Extracts
Saffron
In the formula. Not in the sales pitch.
Botanical Oils
Blue Tansy Flower
The flowers are yellow. The blue happens later.
Botanical Oils
Apricot Kernel Oil
One of six carriers getting the seventh onto your face.
Botanical Oils
Kukui Nut
Light. Absorbs fast. Doesn't sit.
Botanical Extracts
Centella Asiatica
Cica. The step with no color in it.
Exfoliants
Sugar (Sucrose)
First ingredient. The sugar is the scrub.
Exfoliants
Coffee (Coffea Arabica)
The color and the smell. Not the grit.
