Beauty · Skin
Pai Skincare · $54
Rosehip BioRegenerate Oil
Five ingredients. No fragrance, no essential oils, no preservatives. The one face oil we hand to people with reactive skin.
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How to detoxify
How to detoxify
your life
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 only change one thing, change what touches you for the longest. That is your bed, then your face at night, then the water you sit in. In that order — it is the order of hours, not of price.
Beauty · Skin
Mind · Sound
Meinl Sonic Energy · $699
Crystal Singing Bowl Set
Three frosted quartz bowls tuned to G4, E4 and C4. One long tone is enough to change the temperature of a room.
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Home · Textile
Cultiver · $325–$420
Linen Sheet Set
100% European flax, OEKO-TEX certified, softer every wash. Flat sheet, fitted sheet and two pillowcases.
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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
Three gratitudes and one intention in the morning; three highlights and one lesson at night. Undated, so it waits for you.
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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.