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Orin Balm Cleanser

A solid balm of three butters that melts on contact and takes the day, the sunscreen and the make-up with it.

Size90 ml Price$48
The first cleanse, for make-up and sunscreen.
Orin Balm Cleanser, photographed as a still life

Orin is the oil step before Vell. It is shea, mango and a little jojoba, set solid and melted by the warmth of your hands. Massaged on dry, it dissolves sunscreen and make-up; a warm cloth lifts the lot.

There is no added water and so no preservative system to speak of. Keep it dry and it keeps for a year.

The formula, in full.

4 ingredients. Each named, sourced and explained. The percentages add to one hundred.

  • 38% Shea butter Butyrospermum Parkii Butter
    Hand-pressed, Ghana
    The body of the balm; rich in fatty acids.
  • 20% Jojoba Simmondsia Chinensis Seed Oil
    Cold-pressed, Western Australia
    A liquid wax close to skin sebum; carries the melt.
  • 18% Mango butter Mangifera Indica Seed Butter
    From the mango seed, India
    A lighter butter to keep it from feeling heavy.
  • 0.5% Tocopherol Tocopherol
    Vitamin E, from sunflower
    Vitamin E, to keep the butters from going off.

Scent Faintly nutty, from the butters. No fragrance is added.

What it will not do.

  • It will not rinse clean without a cloth. The melt needs lifting off, not splashing.
  • It will not suit being left somewhere hot, where it melts in the jar.

Not in this formula

  • Added water
  • Synthetic fragrance
  • Mineral oil

Batch dated and numbered. Best within twelve months of opening.

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