DARK SKY PRESERVE SHAVE SOAP

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Notes: Lavender Blend, Evergreen Blend, Tree Moss Blend, Benzoin, Bergamot

A dark sky preserve seeks to severely limit sources of artificial light to allow for better views of our night sky. Not only is this important for astronomy and general stargazing, but the night sky has important ties to history including mythology, navigation, philosophy and art. Alberta has four main dark sky preserves, including one nearby my home in Edmonton.

The scent behind Dark Sky Preserve is an upscaled version of my popular “Lavender + Spruce” products in my skincare lineup. DSP features a lavender blend including “fine” lavender from france, grown at high altitudes and is a softer and sweeter version of lavender with a somewhat “citrusy” top note. Other lavenders featured are from Greece, Bulgaria, South Africa and deep and rich lavender absolute to help extend the notes. Since spruce essential oil doesn’t hold up well in soap-making, I’ve added in some fir needle essential oil and absolute as well as some evergreen fragrance to ensure the evergreen notes are present in the soap. Benzoin helps support the dry down, which is given interest with a touch of my tree moss blend of oak moss, pine moss and cedar moss.

Given the nature of essential oils, this scent will be somewhat lighter than other MSC scents.

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• This is a softer soap. Brush lathering works but is easy to overload!
• We are proud to include beef tallow sourced from a family run farm in Alberta that is both grass fed and humane.
• Made with four skin nourishing butters: fair trade raw organic shea butter, kokum butter, fair trade cocoa butter and mango butter
• Green Tea extract is a rich source of antioxidants such as Vitamin C and Vitamin E
• Tremella extract is high in vitamin D, has strong water-binding capacities, easily penetrates the skin’s layers, forming a protective film of moisture that transforms the look and feel of dryness and roughness.
• Hydrolyzed Oat Protein* is a moisturizer that enhances the moisturizing properties of our shave and imparts a velvet-like smoothness after drying.
• Silk, goat’s milk and yogurt lend a luxurious creaminess to your shave.
• Superfatted with the organic oils of argan, jojoba, pumpkin seed, camellia seed and shea butter.
• Aloe Vera helps soothe the skin and makes for a better post shave feel.
• All of our fragrance oils are paraben and phthalate free.

*The manufacturer states that the product is gluten free however because it is made from the proprietary hydrolysis of oats, there may be traces of gluten remaining. The manufacturer has tested several lots and all contained less than 20ppm gluten.

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Stearic Acid, Tallow, Glycerine, Castor Oil, Kokum Butter, Shea Butter*, Cocoa Butter, Camellia Seed Oil*, Mango Butter, Aloe Vera, Goat Milk, Hydrolyzed Oat Protein, Sodium Lactate, Argan Oil*, Jojoba Oil*, Pumpkin Seed Oil*, Tremella Seed Extract, Silk Peptides, Green Tea

Extract, Yogurt, Parfum

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