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Introducing Moon Haven's NEW Anti-Ageing System

When I was formulating Moon Haven’s NEW Anti-ageing product line I was faced with a dilemma.

It is one I battle with, whenever I formulate a new product

You see the botanical world is divided… the wonderful extracts and compounds found in nature that deliver such amazing results to our skin, and bodies and minds … are often either water soluble or oil soluble

…and we all know that water and oil don’t mix.

In fact we can mix the two if we use an emusifying compound.   But the trouble with making an emulsion ( these are all your common creams and lotions you use on your body every day) is that the water to oil ratio is heavily biased towards the water side.

The fact is that most lotions and creams contain 90% to 95% water based components and only 5-10% oil based ingredients!

So what is a girl to do… the oil soluble extracts and ingredients are so valuable in the fight against aging that I didn’t want to compromise…
so …TA Da… we decided to formulate two anti-ageing products that work hand in hand -

- one water based gel filled to the brim with water soluble anti-aging extracts and botanicals – we call it our BioNutrient Facial Gel
-one oil based formulation choc full of all the wonderful botanical lipid based ingredients – our Age Defying Serum

While you can use one without the other and still get great results… the synergy created when you apply the water based BioNutrient Gel first…allow it to dry and then apply the Age Defying Serum …is amazing.

I am so glad that we didn’t compromise and made two, not just one anti-aging product – the results are speaking for themselves.

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There has been a recent number of requests from visitors to the Moon Haven Soap cottage for olive oil soap.

There has certainly been a lot more olive oil soap available over recent years due to the rapid increase of olive plantings in Australia…. and more soapmakers are sourcing stunning olive oil from local plantations…as we certainly do at Moon Haven.

Yet an all olive soap doesn’t always stack up in the shower. You see each vegetable oil used in soap gives that soap certain properties.

Olive oil in soap gives great skin conditioning and feel to the skin…but its bubbles…well woeful would be a good description.   And the lather has been described at times, as stringy and slimy… to be generous we could say it was creamy and smooth – but there is distinct lack of well formed bubble with its accompanying lather. We could call olive oil only soap as unbalanced.

There are just so many other great oils out there that can give fantastic benefits to skin as well as the total bathing experience.

So we choose to forumlate our soap with four different oils to make for a balanced, bubbly yet wonderfully skin conditioning soap.
They are:

• Olive oil – for its skin conditioning properties
• Coconut oil – for is wonderful fluffy, strong bubbles
• Palm oil from sustainable sources – because it contributes to a strong stable lather, hardness and makes for a longer lasting bar
• Rice Bran Oil – for its wonderful nutrient rich, anti-oxidant and skin conditioning properties.

The result is a Moon Haven Soap- so deeply skin conditioning it is suitable for people with skin sensitivities, eczema, psoriasis, dermatitis and yet provides a wonderfully bubbly lather – even in hard water.

We have been having fun at Moon Haven this week. Our new Shower Friendly Body Polishes are about to hit the shelves of Moon Haven.

With the onset of winter I have been able to more than look longingly at my workshop come laboratory.
One issue we wanted to solve was that many of our bathing products are just that.. for use in the bath… and our “shower only” users had been missing out – but not for long!

So Herb Girl (Stacey) and I formulated, discussed, sampled and finally decided on a set of formulations we definitely love and now the team and our happy band of testers are now busily polishing away…not the family silver …but their bods.

You see Stacey and I have developed a great range of Body Polishes for use in the shower. Based on the purifying power of sea salt and the incredible skin moisturising properties of Jojoba oil, this new range of exfoliating scrubs leaves your skin marvellously alive and moisturised -AND IT WON’T LEAVE AN OILY RESIDUE IN THE SHOWER

The polish actually changes to a salt laden lotion on contact with water and so washes straight down the drain with the water. So no more major shower clean ups and rescues just because you wanted to exfoliate your body!
We are still finalising packaging and firming up the final varieties but so far we have:

• A Spice blend withGinger, Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Clove and antioxidant Rooibos scattered throughout

• A Floral blend with ground Rose, Jasmine and skin softening Blue Mallow flowers

• A Herbal formulation with ground Spearmint, Peppermint and Rosemary

I will get back to you with the final names, photos and packaging in the next few days…so watch this space.