Beauty · Skin
Pai Skincare · $54
Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil
The one face oil we hand to people with reactive skin. Five ingredients, and not one of them is a fragrance.
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Ethos curated
Fewer things,
Fewer things,
checked properly
Not a catalogue. A short list of things that survived a check, with the check printed underneath, including the parts we could not verify.
Where to start
If you change one thing, change what touches you longest
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1
Your bed
Eight hours a night, every night.
Linen Sheet Set · Cultiver →
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Your face at night
On your skin until morning.
Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil · Pai Skincare →
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3
The water you sit in
Forty minutes, most weeks.
Magnesium Bath Flakes · Ancient Minerals →
In that order. It is the order of hours, not of price.
Everything, in one place
What has passed
What has passed
the check
Added one at a time. Nothing arrives here because a brand asked. Every page below says plainly what we could verify and what we could not.
Beauty · Skin
Mind · Sound
Meinl Sonic Energy · $699
Crystal Singing Bowl Set
One long tone is enough to change the temperature of a room. Three frosted quartz bowls, tuned to G4, E4 and C4.
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Home · Textile
Cultiver · $325–$420
Linen Sheet Set
You touch this for eight hours a night, which is why it is the first thing we would change. European flax, OEKO-TEX certified, softer every wash.
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Mind · Course
Sam Harris · ~$130
Waking Up
A thirty-day introductory course that treats meditation as a skill to be taught rather than a mood to be sold.
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Beauty · Bath
Ancient Minerals · from $10.95
Magnesium Bath Flakes
Zechstein magnesium chloride, one ingredient, unscented. The cheapest thing in the shop and the one we use most.
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Mind · Journal
Intelligent Change · $32
The Five Minute Journal
Five minutes a day, and it is undated, so a gap costs you nothing. Buy it as a habit, not as a treatment.
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Our own Ethos products are on the way. Until then, we show products from other makers we trust.
The checks
Why these, and not others
Every rule in the shop came from something we read. Here is the reading.
The chemicals that do not wash off
Researchers tested 231 cosmetics for the marker of “forever chemicals”. More than half carried it, and almost none of them said so on the label.
One word, three thousand ingredients
“Fragrance” is a single line on a label and a legal shelter for thousands of chemicals. Here is how that happened, and what it means for a shopping list.
What a singing bowl actually does
One study, sixty-two people, and a result worth taking seriously, as long as you also take seriously what it cannot tell you.