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General Information

While most moisturising creams and lotions use as their base oils, either vegetable or mineral oils, they don’t have Lanolin’s compatibility to those oils of our skin. We use some mineral and vegetable oils as supplements. When the sheep is shorn each year (the sheep’s hair cut) the wool is washed, processed and the oil is extracted and refined.

The Lanolin is the Sheep’s natural nourisher and protector against the extremes of its environment. These oils are extremely similar to those natural oils we secrete from within our own skin (we’re both animals). Thus Lanolin is the only animal (human compatible) oil obtainable without having to kill or harm  the animal.

But lanolin oil, in our opinion, forms the greatest replacement of our endlessly leached skin oils (washing, pollution, air-conditioning etc). Leached due to our environmental harshness and modern way of life.

Aging, sunlight and the vagaries of life in general result in a reduction in the ability of the Stratum Corneum to retain its ideal moisturise content, so the skin gets drier, rougher and looses it’s youthful elasticity . Certainly this is a natural and inevitable process, but the incorporation of moisturising materials in skin care creams can be effective.

Nature is abundant with materials which are beneficial to humans and their well-being.

LANOLIN is such a material. Predating Science, it was never "invented" and has never been bettered for versatility. It is a unique, natural healing oil, designed by nature, fashioned by humankind.  Follow a link below to view our Skin Care range