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INFUSED WITH THE WILD FOREST

This is my backyard.

It’s where I collect the flowers, leaves, roots, and other fresh plant parts I infuse into my deeply nourishing skincare and soaps.

Made in tiny batches, by me, by hand.

How am I, and my creations, any different?

Well, for one, I make my skincare for you fresh with my own two hands.

I have great staff who help in my store - but I tackle all the formulating and manufacture of my creations myself.

I stand behind every product - ME!

I’m a real human who has been alive for almost 60 years. I care about you, the actual live human behind that keyboard! And I always will.

FRESH, NOURISHING INGREDIENTS MATTER - inside and out!

Mass production in the cosmetic industry has caused more harm than good. Profit-driven at its core, striving always for the highest quantity at the lowest cost.

You’d think that freshness in skincare doesn’t matter one bit - because it’s rarely mentioned. Big brands can not offer you fresh skincare - so they don’t talk about, ignore it, or brush it under the rug while employing devious gimmicks and misinformation to sell you more, and more and more products at ridiculous markups, often as much as 1000%.

To my far flung tribe of amazing customers … Thank you so very much!

I’m always delighted to see your orders pop up - I’m deeply grateful for your continued support of my humble endeavor and so pleased that you continue to enjoy my creations.

Just discovering me?

I hope you’ll discover valuable information as you explore my website and are inspired to place your first order. Customer service is a top priority, I’m here to help and offer advice. Reach out with questions anytime.

Join me in learning how nourishing skin care traditions, modern science, and fresh, natural ingredients can help reveal strong, healthy, resilient skin!

Your skin loves you  .... love it back

My passion is researching and developing fresh botanical skin, hair & body products combining nourishing skin care traditions and modern science, and the power of the wild forest.

I infuse my creations with FRESH wild, medicinal plants I lovingly gather from the pristine mountains surrounding my home and grow in my garden.

It's my way of sharing the nourishing beauty and healing magic of the forest.

Made in tiny batches by hand with organic and EcoCert ingredients.

Never Synthetic fragrances, only essential oils for aroma

My mission

Providing information, sharing knowledge, and creating small batch soap & skincare….

In our search for natural alternatives and solutions to skincare issues and ways to promote healthy aging, you may be interested in how nourishing skin care traditions and wild botanical-based skin care can help reconcile our modern lifestyles with the biological needs of our bodies’ largest organ.

There’s a lot of very useful information encoded in skin care traditions. And while some practices from the past are better left in the pages of history books, others can help keep our skin healthy and strong from cradle to grave.

Today, science and research inform us how and why these things work, the benefits they offer, and how to determine what is best for you and your skin.

Looking for instructions on how to use my creations?

Want to know more about how to support strong healthy skin? Follow this link to my Knowledge Base …

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Explore my ever-expanding collection of wild-crafted botanical soaps, lotions, and hair and body care creations for men and women of all ages.

Produced in micro-batches, by hand, with mostly organic, EcoCert, and wild-crafted botanical ingredients I collect from the pristine wilds surrounding my home and then infuse FRESH into your product.

We need real soap now like never before …

The foundation of my product line is soap created in a time honored process handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years. They are made from plant seeds oils and butters. These are REAL SOAP, not synthetic detergents (aka Syndets) which are complex blends of chemicals created in a laboratory. They look and act like Real Soap, but they treat the skin very differently, and this matters … a lot.

Why does it matter now more than ever?

Real Soap not only gently cleanses our skin, it possesses a rather mysterious and still unexplained property. Anytime we wash ourselves we remove native skin oils and natural moisturizing factors produced by our skin which the skin has to recreate so that the skin’s Acid Mantle (aka Moisture Barrier) can reform. This takes time. Somehow Real Soap allows the skin to much more quickly restore the Acid Mantle and all of the skin compounds contained therein. Synthetic Detergents (commonly what we call “soap” today) do not do this, so our skin remains irritated much longer. This often leads to skin issues over time, with the first sign of impairment being skin that feels dehydrated and parched (what we commonly call Dry Skin).

Have you tried Moisturizing your skin with pure coconut? How’s that working out for you?

Are you reaching for the coconut oil to moisturize dry, chapped, flaky skin, or relieve eczema

Is your condition improving or getting worse?

If you’re not getting the results you’d hoped for then first you might need a different oil! But more importantly, your skin is most likely craving moisture.

Oils are not moisturizing, there is not one drop of moisture in any pure oil from any seed or plant - none - zero - zip. They provide other important compounds that our skin needs to be healthy ,,,

Follow these links to learn the whole story …

It’s Party Time!

Having a party, shower, or celebration? Want to spoil your guests with a handmade gift of love?

Click on the image to visit my PARTY + WEDDING FAVORS contact page.

Find me in downtown Crested Butte at …

318 Elk Avenue

My boutique entrance is on the second-floor porch overlooking the plaza next to The Chocolate Factory.

Look for my sign in the plaza under the shade of a big aspen tree. Then look up! The stairs to the porch lead up from the sidewalk.

Thank you for visiting my website. My boutique in Crested Butte is open year-round.

If you’re visiting our wee hamlet, come on in!

I hope you’ll find useful information here on my site, and be inspired to try some of my creations!