How to use XO
Cleanse, hydrate, nourish, seal.
Five minutes at night, two in the morning, and the order is the whole idea. Cleanse gently, so the skin is soft and not stripped. Hydrate with cold floral water. Nourish with oil while the skin is still damp. Then seal it all in.
Step 01
Cleanse
At night: a dropper full massaged into damp skin. Then use the warm, moist face cloth to gently remove the cleanser.
Step 03
Nourish
Three to five drops pressed into damp skin, more if it asks for it.
Step 04
Seal
Snowfall overnight when the air turns cold; Solstice for body, hands and the morning face.
After dark
Night
Cleanse
Lay a warm, moist face cloth on the skin to moisten it. Warm a dropper full of Cleansing Oil between the fingertips and massage it in, in upward circles to the hairline. Lay the warm, moist face cloth on the skin again and take a few deep breaths. Now use the warm, moist face cloth to gently remove the cleanser.
Cleansing Oil
Nourish
Press three to five drops of Facial Serum into skin still damp from the hydrosol, more if your skin asks for it. Or the Pomegranate Facial Serum in its place.
Facial SerumSeal, when the air turns cold
Instead of the serum: six to eight sprays of hydrosol, then a tiny amount of Snowfall from the spatula, warmed between the fingers and pressed over face and décolletage while still wet. Sleep.
Snowfall Night Balm
On waking
Morning
A warm, moist face cloth
No cleansing in the morning: a warm, moist face cloth is enough.
Seal
A tiny amount of Solstice from the spatula, a drop or two of serum mixed in, melted between the fingertips and pressed on. Then sunscreen. And on hands and body, any time.
Solstice Butter
Slow down
A warm, moist face cloth, and a few deep breaths.
The ritual is meant to slow the day down. Warm water, not hot. A cloth laid over the face, the scent of the plants, a few minutes that belong to no one else.
Keep the hydrosol cold and the butters on the spatula, never the fingers. Everything else is just the order.
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