Find your ritual
One ritual, for every skin.
The cleansing oil and the serum are made gentle enough for every skin type. The oils in each bottle stay the same; what changes is the scent. So choosing comes down to three questions.
1 · Your skin
How does your skin feel?
01
Dry
Feels tight after washing; drinks up oil.
The Ritual, with the Facial Serum: meadowfoam and rosehip make it a favourite for dry and mature skin. Then Snowfall overnight to seal it in.
02
Normal
Comfortable most days.
The Ritual, in the scent you like best. Add a seal when the air turns cold.
03
Combination
Shine in the middle, dry at the edges.
The three steps, with a light hand: three drops of serum, pressed in where you need it.
04
Oily
Shine by midday.
Oil cleansing suits oily skin too: the oil lifts oil, with no detergent. Then plenty of hydrosol, and the lightest touch of serum.
05
Sensitive
Reacts to scent, or to almost anything.
The essential-oil-free versions, and the softest of the waters: cornflower or German chamomile.
06
Weathered
Sun, wind and travel: tired and dry at once.
The Ritual with the Pomegranate Facial Serum in place of the Facial Serum: pressed fruit-seed oils for sun- and weather-stressed skin.
2 · Your scent
Then choose what it smells like.
The cleansing oil and the serum are scented with essential oils, or made with none. The hydrosol has nothing added: each one is the water distilled from a single flower, and smells only of it. Pick the one you want to breathe in at the end of the day.
Geranium
Green and rosy. With lavender, the scent customers reorder most.
In the Cleansing Oil · Facial Serum
Also as a floral water: the Hydrosol
Lavender
Clean and herbal, the classic.
In the Cleansing Oil · Facial Serum
Also as a floral water: the Hydrosol
Neroli
Orange blossom: bright, light, a little honeyed.
In the Facial Serum
Also as a floral water: the Hydrosol
Jasmine
Sweet and deep, a flower that opens after dark.
In the Facial Serum
Mandarin
Sweet, sunny citrus peel.
In the Cleansing Oil · Facial Serum
Mandarin hinoki
Mandarin over Japanese cypress wood.
In the Facial Serum
Rose
Damask rose, full and soft.
In the Facial Serum
Also as a floral water: the Hydrosol
Ylang ylang
Rich, creamy and floral.
In the Facial Serum
Cornflower
Faint and green, the quietest of the waters.
Only as a floral water: the Hydrosol
German chamomile
Soft, herbal, a little like hay and honey.
Only as a floral water: the Hydrosol
free
Essential-oil free
Nothing added: only the soft scent of the oils themselves.
In the Cleansing Oil · Facial Serum · Pomegranate · Snowfall
3 · Seal it in
For the seasons, and the rest of you.
After sun and weather
Pomegranate Facial Serum
Pressed fruit-seed oils in place of the Facial Serum, for skin that has had a summer.
$70
Cold or dry air
Snowfall Night Balm
An overnight balm, pressed on over the hydrosol in the cold months. Sleep in it.
$80
Hands and body
Solstice Butter
A rich, nourishing butter for any day of the year, and the last layer on the face on dry mornings.
$47.50
Deeper
Why one formula suits every skin.
Plant oils differ most in their fatty acids. Two families matter most for skin, and every XO serum blends both.
Lighter · Omega-6
Linoleic-rich oils
Thin, quick to sink in. The Skin Atlas suggests them first for oily skin.
In XO: rosehip, strawberry seed, black currant seed, raspberry seed.
Richer · Omega-9
Oleic-rich oils
Fuller, slower, cushioning. The Skin Atlas suggests them first for dry skin.
In XO: peach kernel, camellia seed, and the butters.
Want to go further? The fatty acids, explained ↗ The whole Skin Atlas ↗