Why we don't make health claims about our products

Walk through the skincare aisle and you'll see soaps claiming to be therapeutic, detoxifying, healing, or able to treat a wide range of skin disorders. These claims can be appealing, but they often raise an important question: where is the evidence? And who is policing it? 

Our approach is a bit different. We are so pleased when customers tell us that one of our products has had a positive impact on them. For example, we've had at least ten people tell us our bar soaps have "cured" their eczema or psoriasis. Still, our question is, what were you using before? So many of the things we eat and put on our bodies are what's making us sick, so just removing the irritant will bring the body back in balance. Did our soap "heal," or did stopping to use something not natural allow the body to return to normal?

Our belief is that the human body was designed to make it to relatively old age without much deterioration in function, subject to good diet, habits and emotions. Everything needed by a body is provided within a relatively small radius of where it finds itself, whether it be food, "maintenance," shelter, etc. So, these seed and nut oils, the production and use of which has been documented throughout time, if properly extracted and regularly used, can help the body maintain its best form until the end.

Our face oil won't help you defeat aging, but it'll keep you looking your best, as long as possible. The nutrients absorbed through the skin help prevent arthritis, keep veins and other tissues nourished in a way that the blood circulation by itself cannot. We are against the belief that you can "live how you want" and then just take a supplement (natural or otherwise) to counteract that. How about we all try and be more in balance, and discover what that is for each of us individually through our intuition and not only through outside sources?

Our assumption is that the body knows how to age, but like with nutrition, it must be done in cooperation with ones' surroundings. We are trying to do that for ourselves, and we reference traditional wisdom on how plants have been used and other historical evidence. Still, the best way to know what's good for you is not what's on a label, but how your body reacts to it!