The ritual
Heat, cold, sweat, sea salt. Your skin and your head do a lot of work in a session. A hydrolat is the step most people skip, and the one that ties the rest of it together.
Mist face and neck before the first round and breathe it in. Pine or Pine Buds if you want the room to smell of it too.
Cold dip, then mist. Back of the neck, wrists, face. Skin cools and your head clears in about ten seconds.
A capful in the ladle bucket, never neat on the stones. Pine, Pine Buds or the Wormwood, Mint & Sage blend for an old bathhouse round.
Towel off, mist, then moisturise. Warm skin drinks it in, which is the one moment of the whole session where a toner actually earns its place.
Keep it in the fridge. Morning face mist, pillow spray, after the shower, after the sea.
The mist is the part that makes the cold worth it.
Heat. Cold. Mist. Repeat.
Pick your ritual
| I want to | Reach for |
|---|---|
| Wake up and clear my head | |
| Cool down fast | |
| Feel deep clean after a heavy sweat | |
| Calm skin after heat, cold or sun | |
| Wind down and sleep | |
| Settle oily or blemish prone skin | |
| Scented steam on the stones |
Care and safety
There is no preservative in the bottle. That is the point of it, and it is also the reason it lives in the fridge.
Every bottle is 50 ml, €12.99, and posted within two working days.
The one for the stones. Clears a foggy head and makes the barrel smell like a Nordic forest.
Good forThe gentler pine. Kind enough for the face, and the mist to reach for straight out of the cold water.
Good forWalnut leaf is naturally astringent. The after mist for skin that needs settling rather than stripping.
Good forMist the back of your neck as you step out and feel the temperature drop. The fastest reset in the range.
Good forThe final round mist, and a capful in the ladle water for an old world herbal steam.
Good forNaturally astringent, so it gently tightens and tones. The classic base for an underarm and foot spray.
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