Bare Essentials: Face Balm

Bare Essentials provides gentle, everyday skin support. Its rich blend of skin-identical lipids (tallow and jojoba) restores barrier function and hydration, while castor oil and totarol soothe and protect the skin. This balm helps maintain skin balance, defend against environmental stressors, and provide mild antioxidant support. Its subtle essential oil profile adds a calming, uplifting aroma, making it ideal for a quick daily ritual that leaves skin soft, comfortable, and resilient.

Bare Essentials is designed for skin that doesn’t require intensive treatment but benefits from consistent barrier support and hydration, helping maintain healthy, nourished, and smooth skin over time.

Skin Ailments & Conditions That May Improve

• Mild dryness or compromised barrier: Restores hydration and skin lipids with tallow, jojoba, and castor oil, improving moisture retention and comfor
• Environmental stress: Protects skin from wind, cold, or pollution with totarol and antioxidant support from tallow.
• Early signs of dullness or uneven tone: Light antioxidant support and gentle essential oils help maintain skin radiance and overall evenness.
• Sensitivity or mild irritation: Soothes reactive skin with frankincense, ho wood, and citrus oils, supporting barrier comfort and reducing discomfort.
• Everyday maintenance for normal skin; Supports ongoing hydration, resilience, and comfort without heavy actives, perfect for daily use.
• Environmental stress: Protects skin from wind, cold, or pollution with totarol and antioxidant support from tallow.
• Early signs of dullness or uneven tone: Light antioxidant support and gentle essential oils help maintain skin radiance and overall evenness.
• Sensitivity or mild irritation: Soothes reactive skin with frankincense, ho wood, and citrus oils, supporting barrier comfort and reducing discomfort.
• Everyday maintenance for normal skin; Supports ongoing hydration, resilience, and comfort without heavy actives, perfect for daily use.

Essential Oil Profile

The Bare Essentials essential oil blend is light, uplifting, and subtly resinous, creating a fresh, comforting scent for everyday use. Sweet orange and bergamot give soft citrus top notes that feel energising, while ho wood adds a gentle, balancing green aroma. Frankincense provides a warm, grounding depth, making the balm feel both refreshing and calming during application.

Ingredients

Grass-fed tallow, jojoba oil, castor oil, totarol.

Essential Oils: sweet orange, bergamot, ho wood, frankincense.

Ingredient Benefits

Grass-Fed Tallow: Prized for centuries across cultures—from ancient Egyptians and Romans to Indigenous peoples—tallow mirrors human sebum more closely than any plant oil. Rich in vitamins A, D, E, K, and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), it promotes regeneration, elasticity, even tone, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial action, deep hydration, and barrier repair—ideal for aging, sensitive, or compromised skin.

Jojoba Oil (Simmondsia chinensis): Native American tribes used it for centuries to heal wounds and sun damage. Mimics sebum to balance oil production, deliver vitamins and fatty acids, support collagen, soothe inflammation (eczema/rosacea), and leave a velvety, non-comedogenic finish.

Castor Oil (Ricinus communis): Cleopatra's beauty secret. Ricinoleic acid soothes inflammation, draws moisture, heals blemishes/scars, improves texture/glow, and boosts collagen/elastin over time.

Totarol (Podocarpus totara): New Zealand Tōtara tree extract. Powerful antioxidant/antimicrobial (targets acne bacteria), reduces inflammation/oxidative damage, supports clearer/calmer/resilient skin.

Therapeutic Focus of Each Balm

Heirloom Remedy (Premium) - Premium, targeted repair and anti-aging.

• Focus: Deep skin repair, barrier rebuilding, pigmentation correction, collagen support, anti-aging, and regeneration of compromised or mature skin.
• Key Ingredients: Prickly pear, emu, tamanu, sea buckthorn, baobab, carrot macerate, cacay, bakuchiol, vitamin C (THDA), rosehip CO₂, totarol.
• Therapeutic Notes: Designed for skin that needs intensive restoration, tackling fine lines, uneven tone, reactive skin, and post-inflammatory marks, while supporting long-term firmness and elasticity.

Daily Calm (Mid-range) soothing and maintenance with mild pigment support.

• Focus: Soothing, calming, and barrier-supportive for sensitive, reactive, or stressed skin; mild pigmentation support; hydration and resilience.
• Key Ingredients: Tamanu, jojoba, rosehip CO₂, black cumin CO₂, calendula CO₂, totarol.
• Therapeutic Notes: Supports daily skin maintenance, reduces redness and inflammation, aids gentle healing, and improves overall comfort and hydration. A gentler alternative to Heirloom Remedy with a focus on calming rather than deep regenerative repair.

Bare Essentials (Entry-Level) Lightweight, everyday hydration and barrier support.

• Focus: Light hydration, antioxidant support, and gentle maintenance for normal to slightly dry skin; everyday use.
• Key Ingredients: Jojoba, castor, totarol.
• Therapeutic Notes: Ideal for skin that is relatively healthy but exposed to daily environmental stress; helps maintain balance, hydration, and barrier protection without strong activ