For stressed skin, dark spots & lingering post-breakout marks
Olive Repair Serum is a deeply restorative, truly multi-purpose botanical oil created for skin and hair that need a little extra care. Omega-rich Sacha Inchi and Hemp Seed oils join Tamanu, Moringa, Squalane and Jojoba to nourish and replenish the skin's moisture barrier, calm the appearance of redness, and improve the look of lingering post-breakout marks, dark spots, uneven tone and dry, stressed skin. Despite the richness of its botanical ingredients, it absorbs beautifully and leaves skin and hair feeling incredibly soft, conditioned and replenished, but not greasy.
Use it as a daily facial serum, concentrate it on areas that need extra attention, massage it into hands, cuticles or dry areas of the body, nourish a dry-feeling scalp, or smooth it through the ends of hair to tame frizz.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For the face, warm a few drops of serum between your palms and take a slow, deep breath of the aromatic botanicals before applying it to your skin. Gently massage into clean skin until absorbed. Use all over the face or concentrate it on areas of dryness, uneven tone, dark spots or lingering post-breakout marks.
For hands, cuticles and dry areas of the body, massage a small amount directly into the skin as needed. For the scalp, work a few drops into dry-feeling areas and massage gently. For hair, smooth a very small amount through dry ends to soften, condition, tame frizz and add shine.
Because this is a concentrated botanical oil serum, a little goes a long way.
ABOUT:
Olive Repair Serum brings together an unusually rich collection of botanical oils, each contributing naturally occurring fatty acids, antioxidants and skin-conditioning compounds.
Sacha Inchi Oil is exceptionally rich in omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid and omega-6 linoleic acid, essential fatty acids that help support the skin's moisture barrier, reduce moisture loss and keep dry, stressed skin feeling supple.
Hemp Seed Oil provides omega-6 linoleic acid, omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid and gamma-linolenic acid (GLA). This makes it particularly valuable for supporting the moisture barrier and conditioning skin that feels dry, reactive or out of balance.
Tamanu Oil is one of the stars of this formula. Its fatty acids help replenish and soften the skin, while naturally occurring calophyllolide and other coumarin-related constituents make it particularly well suited to caring for the appearance of lingering post-breakout marks, uneven tone and visibly stressed skin.
Moringa Oil is rich in oleic acid and tocopherols, helping condition and protect dry skin while giving it a soft, velvety feel. Moringa seed-derived materials have also been studied for their potential to support a brighter, more even-looking complexion, making Moringa particularly fitting for the appearance of dark spots and uneven tone.
Jojoba is a liquid wax rich in wax esters similar in character to components of the skin's natural sebum, helping soften and condition without heaviness. Squalane helps reduce moisture loss, improve suppleness and gives this rich botanical blend its beautiful absorption and elegant finish.
Together, these oils provide essential fatty acids, barrier-supporting lipids and naturally occurring antioxidants that replenish dry, stressed skin and improve the appearance of softness, smoothness and overall tone. They also beautifully condition dry-feeling scalp, cuticles and hair.
Moringa, Hemp, Tamanu and Blue Tansy create the serum's naturally beautiful olive-green color. Tamanu Oil contributes its deep, earthy-herbaceous aroma, which can have an almost celery-like quality, while Blue Tansy, Frankincense, Tea Tree and Litsea Cubeba add fresh herbal, resinous and citrus notes.
Floating inside each bottle are delicate yellow Palo Verde flowers, gathered here in the Sonoran Desert. Palo Verde is extraordinarily adapted to desert life. During drought it can shed its tiny leaves to conserve water while its green branches continue photosynthesizing, then cover itself in brilliant yellow blossoms when conditions are right.
To me, Palo Verde is a symbol of resilience, adaptation and flourishing. There are times when flourishing means expanding, blooming and giving freely—and other times when it means conserving our energy, adapting to difficult circumstances and putting healthy boundaries in place. Protecting our resources doesn't mean we've stopped growing. The capacity to bloom is always there, waiting until we are ready.
Each bottle also contains beautiful pale Yellow Calcite crystals, associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra and ability, execution, accomplishment, confidence and personal power. In color therapy, the paler and more luminous the yellow becomes, the more intense its Solar Plexus energy, making pale Yellow Calcite a particularly powerful expression of the color.
The Solar Plexus is the energetic center of our ability to act and accomplish—to trust in our own capabilities, make decisions, take action and carry something through to completion.
Olive green is associated with the Heart Chakra and forgiveness and the release of bitterness—letting go of resentment and regret toward ourselves and others, old hurts and emotional burdens that can quietly consume our energy.
Forgiveness doesn't have to mean excusing what happened, forgetting it, or even reconciling with another person. It can simply mean freeing ourselves from the stress and emotional weight of continuing to carry it. And that especially includes forgiving ourselves—acknowledging our mistakes without relentlessly punishing ourselves for them, and finding peace in the understanding that we are human and naturally make mistakes.
Just as Olive Repair Serum cares for the visible marks our skin can hold onto—post-breakout marks, discoloration and signs of stress—olive invites us to consider what else we may be ready to release.