Our rich, restorative, organic face balm and mask. Created as a protective shield against the deepest cold. Crafted for extreme dryness, irritation, eczema, and sensitive or allergy-prone skin, it supports the skin’s natural ability to regenerate by encouraging healthy blood flow. Winter Solstice soothes swelling and irritation while helping brighten areas of discolouration. Use it daily as a nourishing balm, or indulge in its nutrient-dense benefits as a winter mask.
The word solstice originates from the Latin solstitium: sol (sun) + sistere (to stand still).
In the moment when the sun appears motionless in the coldest season, Winter Solstice stands as your shield—holding warmth, strength, and protection when the world becomes still.
Why Protection Matters in Winter
Let's look at what meets the cold first?
The Epidermis—the skin’s top layer and its frontline defender. When exposed to cold temperatures, the Epidermis sends a message inward to the Dermis, where blood vessels live—the delivery system for oxygen, nutrients, and cellular repair. To preserve core warmth and ensure your survival, those vessels naturally constrict, pulling warm, nutrient-rich blood away from the skin’s surface. Your own “medicine”—your warm, life-sustaining blood—is redirected deeper within, leaving the skin more vulnerable to harsh environmental conditions. And the cold brings another challenge: dryness. Cold air seeks moisture, and as part of the natural balance of the whole, your skin gives its moisture to the winter air—a yin-yang exchange. Understanding this shifted something in me. I stepped outside, opened my arms to the cold, and whispered, Take what you need.
But I also knew this: We are not meant to suffer in order to give. We are meant to adapt—so that our presence, our evolution, contributes to the greater whole with strength rather than depletion.
How to Use
Daily Application
After misting the face and neck with Rose Mist, apply the Elixir of your choice. And then apply a small amount of Winter Solstice.
As a Winter Mask
For an intensive treatment, apply a generous, even layer to clean skin. Massage in circular motions. Leave on for at least 20 minutes. Remove excess with our warm, damp bamboo cloth. Finish with Rose Mist and a few drops of your chosen Elixir.
Warmth has meaning because cold exists. The sun feels like a blessing because winter once asked something of us. If you’ve never felt the bite of cold, you can’t feel the miracle of sunlight. If you’ve never walked through winter, you can’t understand the medicine of summer. If you’ve never known stillness, you don’t recognise expansion. Cold awakens the inner fire. Sun ignites the outer glow. Together, they form the full spectrum of human vitality. To appreciate the sun, you must have been shaped by winter. To appreciate warmth, you must have stood inside the cold.
This is the beauty of Earth: We are not here for one sensation, but for the whole arc, from frost to fire, contraction to expansion, darkness to dawn. The body is seasonal. Adaptation is sacred. This is why we came here. The human spirit grows at the edge of contrast. The soul recognises truth only after feeling both sides of it. You appreciate the sun because winter taught you how.
Winter Solstice Balm for Winter. Sun Elixir for summer to support both poles of human evolution. Together they form a complete philosophy:
Adapt.
Evolve.
Live seasonally.
Return to the wisdom of the body.
Return to the wisdom of the Earth.
Because you were never meant for constant avoidance, you were meant to experience life, to meet its elements, and to grow through them.
And now, you have a companion for both ends of the spectrum:
Sun for expansion.
Winter for resilience.
You, in the middle — evolving.
with all my love,
Ezgi