Keep It Simple, Then Branch Out 

You do not need complex formulations to have optimal skin and health. All you need is a bottle of cold pressed, unrefined, unfiltered oil in your bathroom and you set. 

You do not have to use our products (although why not, they're pretty nice). You can find good quality botanicals from the farmers market, the grocery store, or online. Look for pure, organic, single origin, small batch, authentic, single ingredient substances and you're set. 

If you are looking to try pure botanicals that are not mixed with anything, just 100% made of the substance they actually are, then look through our BOTANICALS collection. We continuously add new ingredients when we discover new distillers, alchemists, producers, and suppliers that we trust. In the future we will cultivate and produce our own botanicals (stay tuned for that). 

Once you have established a base of botanical balance in your self care routine, then why not branch out. There are so many botanicals to explore, switch up your oil once and a while - we have a few good recommended POTIONS that are blended perfectly to spice things up in your skin routine. 

ELIXIRS are clearly blended with two ingredients (for the most part) & are powerful concentrated blends that really let each botanical ingredient shine on its own, delivering bioactive benefits deep into your skin cells.  Think of them as potent serums. If you're really daring use them allover your body to unlock your skin's ultimate potential. 

 

Like Fine Wine 

Making botanicals ingredients is like making wine. The quality of the wine depends on the distillation process, the harvest, and the expertise of the wine maker. Essential oils, for example, are very similar. Distillation of essential oil is an art and a science. Some producers are better than others. 

When you find a truly spectacular wine you remember it. The same goes for our botanical collection at VILES. We curate only the finest creations with integrity and transparency in mind. 

If you are buying cheap essential oils or other botanical ingridents, you are basically drinking cheap wine. 

Tainted Botanicals 

Nobody likes additives in their botanicals. Today, even if an ingredient claims to be 100% pure and 100% organic, there is a good chance that the production was altered in some way or something added somewhere along the supply chain to taint the botanical. We live in a world where companies will do anything for a cheap buck. Synthetic fragrance could be added to essential oil for example - one of the worst offences one can think of. 

Simply Stop 

It may seem impossible to unlearn everything about hygiene and self care that we have been taught, but the reality is that once you stop using regular products, a whole bounty of botanical possibilities opens up before you.

Once you stop using regular toothpaste, you start to think of cinnamon, clove, and tea tree in a whole new light. Botanicals that have been used for thousands of years pre Colgate actually work and don't damage your mouth microbiome like regular toothpaste. 

Stop using a harsh cleaners on your face. Use oil. It will change your skin and the way you think about 'cleansing' forever.  

Build A Personal Apothecary 

Get raw, real ingredients into your bathroom, office, and bedroom. Buy a massive bottle of organic olive oil and plop it right next to your sink. Buy a vial of sea buckthorn for your under eyes. Slowly build you own, unique apothecary that caters to each and every cell of your body. 

Douse yourself in botanicals daily and replenish your little glass bottles monthly with new, exciting ingredients (VILES can help with that of course). 

There is so much fun to be had in crafting a self care routine rooted in nature and using raw materials in ways you probably haven't thought of before.

Get crafty. Get creative. Your hair, skin, and body will thank you.