FROM SOIL TO SOUL: THE STORY

 

The journey first took root in the quiet countryside of Black Diamond, a small town nestled in the rolling hills of western Washington. It was there, among the damp earth and whispering trees, that my hands first learned the rhythm of soil, harvest and creation. My sisters and I tilled the earth alongside our parents, hands deep in the land that sustained us. The rhythm of the seasons shaped our days planting, tending, harvesting while the wind carried whispers of something ancient, something sacred. We later moved east, where the sun stretched wide across the land, and the soil, dark and fertile, answered our labor with abundance.

It was there, in the heart of a home filled with hard work and tradition, that my love for skincare took root. I was only four when I first held a packet of cream in my hands, a gift from my grandmother at a kitchen table gathering of women. While they spoke of beauty, of care, of ritual, I traced the texture between my fingers, unaware that a seed had been planted one that would grow into something far beyond my imagining.

Like the land, my skincare brand has changed with time. The brand was born with my hands in the soil, coaxing life from the earth, tending to the herbs that would become the heart of my formulations, embracing a true seed to bottle approach. But creation, I have learned, takes many forms. The work of my hands is no longer in growing the ingredients but in refining each blend, in honoring the wisdom of nature and the alchemy of transforming each formula.

As time unfolded, my brand grew beyond ingredients grown and harvested by my one touch, and the creations evolved into new forms of innovation, the greater part of my formulation are tended by me alone. While the base products of the remaining formulations, I have entrusted to one who walks the same path of reverence and intention. A kindred spirit, a like minded chemist, one who shares my devotion to purity and purpose. She weaves the base, and I complete the ritual, selecting and sourcing the rarest, most potent oils, extracts, and botanicals.

In the stillness of the farm that my brand now grows upon, where the wind hums through the fields, and the past lingers in the quiet, all mixtures are crafted to completion and infused with intention before they are poured, bottled, and sent to distant lands far and beyond, carrying with them the essence of something old, something true.

This is more than skincare, it is a return. A return to the wisdom of the earth, to the sacred art of tending, to the belief that what we place upon our skin should honor the body as deeply as the food we place upon our table.

This is Sacred Alchemy. A covenant between nature and skin, between past and present. A journey that continues, through passion and grace. Weaving a story that transcends the ordinary.