After ten years working towards emergency drugs, I assumed my artistic hearth had been extinguished. The truth is, after 4 years of faculty, 4 years of medical faculty, and 4 years of specialty coaching, I couldn’t bear in mind if I’d ever been artistic. Then, in 2009, I took a soap-making class, and the long-dormant artistic embers inside me all of the sudden burst into flame. 

Quick ahead to 2017. Osmia was a rising pure skincare model, and my artistic flame had been burning like a wildfire for eight years. The model, which launched in 2012, was struggling to maintain all of our 40+ merchandise in inventory, and I nonetheless had concepts. I wanted to maintain creating, however knew we could not maintain including everlasting merchandise to the road. So my intelligent workforce urged The Craft Collection as a approach to include my artistic hearth, whereas sparking it on the identical time. I began with Craft Collection physique oils, and later expanded the sequence to Physique Soaps and Physique Mousses. 

Emerald was my first Craft Collection creation—a stunning mix of untamed mint, geranium, and frankincense. This is an excerpt from a submit I wrote about Emerald, because it was coming to life:

“Perched on a throne, as shut as I’ll ever be to ruling a kingdom. That’s the way it feels after I’m seated at my fragrance desk, the remainder of the world changing into blurry and barely irrelevant. Every vial I open carries me throughout centuries, over oceans, underground, via busy marketplaces, and again once more to my seat within the mountains of Colorado. Is not it unimaginable how, with a single sniff, you possibly can grow to be immediately misplaced? Locations you’ve by no means been, languages you’ve by no means heard, wars you’ve by no means fought, flowers you’ve by no means even imagined, and numerous passionate embraces, each condoned and forbidden. At some point, as I lingered with a vial of neroli, I discovered myself questioning what Cleopatra might need worn on her pores and skin after one in all her milk baths. As I imagined the lifetime of the Egyptian queen, I used to be impelled to create a line of physique oils impressed by historic royalty, comprising oils which have lengthy been the olfactory equal of draping oneself in treasured gems. In a world inundated with low-cost options and manufactured scents, I needed to create a sequence of oils made with essentially the most luxurious parts nature has provided for hundreds of years: merely put, the most costly, most opulent, most sensuous stuff you can probably put in your pores and skin, pure or in any other case. I selected natural sunflower and avocado oils for his or her wonderful pores and skin penetration, and their excessive ranges of nutritional vitamins A and E, each of that are essential for pores and skin perform and therapeutic. Natural camellia oil (made out of tea leaves) and borage seed oil (made out of starflowers) present potent anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant advantages. What does this imply to you? It implies that your pores and skin, which will get broken by UV rays and air pollution and the easy but inevitable passage of time, has an elevated probability to restore and defend itself as these oils scavenge without cost radicals, lower irritation, and strengthen pores and skin cells. The ultimate additions to the mix are the natural oils made out of hand-harvested shea nuts in West Africa and hand-cracked argan nuts from Morocco, each of that are extensively utilized in skincare and have extraordinary emollient properties.”

Now, six years later, the Osmia Craft Collection serves as a celebration of the seasons, with scents impressed by adjustments within the climate, journey, and moments spent in nature. Our Craft Collection Soaps come out 4 instances a yr, with aromas to usher the brand new seasons into your house. Our Craft Collection Physique Oils and Mousses launch roughly each different month, taking your senses on a journey, even while you’re too busy to journey. We hand-craft, hand-label, and hand-box each product with love and intention, as a result of we would like our Craft Collection to make you are feeling as particular as you’re. They’re all limited-edition, and normally promote out in minutes to weeks—be sure you’re on our mailing checklist so that you don’t miss a launch! 

Acquired any Craft Collection concepts you’d wish to see dropped at life? Do inform—I’m all ears. 

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