Some skin needs more than another layer of cream. Especially when hormonal changes of mid-life start to occur.
Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm is an exceptionally rich, waterless treatment balm created for skin that feels dry, depleted, rough, or simply hungry for more nourishment.
A concentrated blend of argan, sea buckthorn, evening primrose, borage, pomegranate, tamanu, and safflower oils is combined with shea and mango butters, botanical waxes, Vitamin E, Centella asiatica, calendula, chamomile, and antioxidant-rich plant extracts to envelop the skin in lasting nourishment.
Unlike a traditional moisturizer, this balm contains no water. Instead, it creates a luxurious lipid-rich layer that helps soften dry skin and reduce the loss of precious moisture already within it.
Use it as a rich facial moisturizer when skin is exceptionally dry, press it over your skincare to help seal everything in, or reach for it anywhere from your neck and décolleté to dry cuticles, elbows, knees, and other stubborn areas.
A little goes a very long way.
Hydration and moisture aren't quite the same thing.
Hydrating products help increase the water available to the skin. Oils, butters, and balms help provide emollient lipids and create a protective layer that can slow moisture loss.
Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm is designed to do the latter exceptionally well.
Its concentrated combination of botanical oils, rich plant butters, and protective candelilla wax helps reinforce the skin's surface while restoring softness and flexibility to areas that feel dry, rough, or depleted.
That's what makes it especially useful as the final step of a nighttime routine: apply your water-based hydration and treatment products first, then use a small amount of the balm to help seal that goodness in.
The next morning, skin feels beautifully soft, supple, and conditioned.
This isn't a moisturizer with a few botanical oils sprinkled into an otherwise water-based cream.
The balm itself is the treatment.
Its waterless formula is built around an unusually diverse blend of nutrient-rich botanical lipids selected for their complementary fatty-acid profiles and skin-conditioning properties.
Argan and safflower provide lightweight conditioning.
Evening primrose and borage contribute essential fatty acids.
Sea buckthorn and pomegranate bring naturally occurring antioxidant compounds.
Tamanu provides additional rich emollience.
Shea and mango butters cushion and soften.
And Centella, calendula, chamomile, green tea, honeysuckle, and other botanicals round out the formula with soothing and antioxidant support.
The result is a concentrated multipurpose treatment that can go wherever your skin needs a little extra love.
• Provides intensive nourishment for very dry or lipid-depleted skin
• Helps seal in hydration and reduce moisture loss
• Softens rough, flaky, or uncomfortable-feeling areas
• Replenishes skin with a diverse blend of botanical lipids
• Helps improve the feeling of suppleness and elasticity
• Leaves dry skin feeling softer and more conditioned
• Provides antioxidant support from botanical oils and extracts
• Makes a luxurious overnight finishing treatment
• Beautiful for the neck and décolleté
• Softens dry cuticles and skin around the nails
• Helps condition rough elbows, knees, hands, and other stubborn dry areas
• Waterless and highly concentrated—a small amount is all you need
Often called "liquid gold," argan oil is naturally rich in oleic and linoleic fatty acids along with antioxidant compounds. It provides substantial conditioning while helping dry skin feel softer, smoother, and more supple.
A particularly distinctive botanical oil with an impressive naturally occurring lipid and antioxidant profile. Sea buckthorn contains fatty acids, carotenoids, tocopherols, and other plant compounds that make it especially appealing for dry, mature, and environmentally stressed skin.
These two oils are particularly interesting because of their gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) content. Together, they provide essential fatty acids that help condition dry, depleted skin and complement the balm's barrier-supportive lipid blend.
A rich botanical oil traditionally valued for conditioning compromised-feeling skin. Tamanu contributes fatty acids and naturally occurring plant compounds while giving the formula additional nourishing and emollient properties.
An antioxidant-rich specialty oil known for its unusual fatty-acid composition, including punicic acid. It helps condition the skin while complementing the formula's focus on mature, dry, and environmentally stressed complexions.
These luxurious plant butters provide rich emollience, helping soften rough areas and create the cushiony, protective feel that makes this balm so effective for exceptionally dry skin.
Also known as Gotu Kola or Cica, Centella is prized in skincare for its soothing and skin-conditioning properties. It helps support a calm, healthy-looking complexion and makes a beautiful addition to a formula designed for stressed, depleted skin.
Two classic skin-comforting botanicals that complement the balm's richer oils and butters while helping soothe and condition dry-feeling skin.
An antioxidant that helps protect the formula's botanical oils while also providing additional conditioning and antioxidant benefits for the skin.
Naturally abundant in antioxidant polyphenols, green tea helps provide additional defense against oxidative environmental stress.
Your skin naturally contains lipids that help form the protective barrier responsible for keeping water in and the outside world out.
When skin becomes exceptionally dry, those lipids can be depleted and water can escape more readily through the skin's surface.
Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm creates a lipid-rich finishing layer over the skin.
Botanical oils and butters help fill the spaces between dry surface cells and restore softness, while candelilla wax adds a protective occlusive component that helps slow moisture evaporation.
This is why the balm can be especially effective when applied over hydrating products rather than instead of them.
Think:
Hydrate → Treat → Moisturize → Lock It In.
This is one of those products that tends to migrate from the bathroom vanity to the bedside table because you'll continually discover new places to use it.
Try it as:
• An intensive moisturizer for exceptionally dry facial skin
• The final moisture-locking step of your nighttime routine
• An overnight neck and décolleté treatment
• A targeted treatment for stubborn dry patches
• A nourishing hand treatment before bed
• A cuticle and nail-area conditioner
• An elbow and knee softener
• A treatment for dry shins, ankles, or heels
• A protective balm during especially dry weather
• An extra layer of comfort when travel, indoor heating, or air conditioning leaves skin feeling parched
• Very dry skin
• Lipid-depleted skin
• Mature skin
• Rough or flaky areas
• Seasonal dryness
• Skin exposed to dry climates
• Dry neck and décolleté
• Dry hands and cuticles
• Rough elbows and knees
• Anyone who loves rich, oil-based skincare
• Anyone wanting an overnight moisture-sealing treatment
Because Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm is intentionally rich in botanical oils, butters, and waxes, it won't be the ideal facial moisturizer for everyone.
If you chronically experience clogged pores, comedonal acne, or breakouts from richer occlusive products, I would choose one of our lighter facial moisturizers for everyday use instead.
You can still enjoy Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm as a targeted treatment on the neck, lips, cuticles, hands, elbows, knees, and other dry areas that need extra nourishment.
Warm a very small amount between clean fingertips and gently press into the skin.
For facial use, apply as the final step of your skincare routine after water-based serums and moisturizer to help seal in hydration. (Daytime SPF would go on top.)
If your skin is extremely dry or naturally lacking in oils, it may also be used as your primary moisturizer over the top of a hydrating serum (Top Secret Serum is typically preferred.)
For the neck and décolleté, massage a small amount into the skin before bed for a rich overnight treatment.
Apply directly to dry patches, hands, cuticles, elbows, knees, or anywhere else that needs additional conditioning as often as desired.
Because this is a concentrated waterless balm, start with less than you think you need and add more only if necessary.
When skin keeps asking for more no matter how much moisturizer you apply, it may not need another layer of water.
It may need lipids.
Nourishing Moisture Lock Balm surrounds dry skin with argan, sea buckthorn, evening primrose, borage, pomegranate, tamanu, shea, mango, Vitamin E, Centella, calendula, chamomile, and antioxidant-rich botanicals to help restore softness and seal in precious moisture.
Rich enough for your driest skin.
Luxurious enough for your nighttime ritual.
Versatile enough that you'll find yourself reaching for it everywhere.
