Hojari Frankincense, Boswellia sacra, Incense sticks. Ancient. Wise. Refreshing and lemony. Uplifting and relaxing. Our Frankincense Incense Sticks come directly from the Dhofar region of Oman. (Look for our new Incense in "Fragrances" - under Attars + Incense) A few months ago David and I were hungry in LA and happened into an Ethiopian restaurant for lunch. As I walked in, I was struck immediately by the lovely scent of wafting frankincense. From that moment on, before dinner almost every evening I will light a chunk of lovely green Hojari Frankincense resin…and this stick of Heritage Frankincense Incense smells exactly like that precious Hojari Frankincense. The breath of the gods... Some of you may ask, "What's Incense got to do with holistic skin care?" Everything! Inhaling and exhaling - deep, peaceful, rhythmical breaths - leads to quiet moments of meditation that work to heal the skin by purifing the emotions, quieting the heart and uplifting the spirit. A few words to start your journey inward towards quiet serenity… Frankincense has been called “The Tree of Life”….The lost city of Ubar in Oman is believed to be the center of Frankincense trade. “Frankincense is an evergreen tree and is a symbol of immortality. The tree can live for at least 100 years. It seems that the power and beauty Frankincense is a reflection of its intense tenacity for life. In the driest areas, it condenses the solar heat and chill night winds into a rare essence. The gnarled exterior is in great contrast with its inner spirit.” The white smoke of frankincense curls upwards carrying prayers to the gods. Our newest sacred fragrant offering is a packet of very long burning Frankincense sticks, 8 to a packet/ $7.95. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ These sticks were made using the finest Hojari (Boswellia Sacra) Frankincense Resin from Oman. Breathe and relax.

Evan has now completed the basics of an Aesthetician Salon Program featuring evanhealy facial protocols; as well as qualifications to be recognized as an evanhealy approved aesthetician. On a regular basis we get requests from our dedicated customers asking for an evanhealy facial. Our next phase will be to identify and train a few evanhealy aestheticians in each key market so that we can match our customers with qualified aestheticians. If you’re an aesthetician who would be interested in working with Evan, please contact dixie.rose@evanhealy.com who will guide you through every aspect of qualification, training, protocols and so on.

Our brand new, 60 qt mixer is busy whipping up luscious batches of our fragrant and creamy shea butter for you! This picture was taken on the day of our mixer's 'maiden voyage' so I decided to memorialize it by snapping a few pictures of it in action. It takes about 4 hours of constant whipping and close monitoring to create our two Shea Butter products: Patchouli Vanilla + Olive Leaf infusion. The mixer is constantly watched as the shea butter begins to soften. At just the right time, we slowly drizzle in a variety of flower, seed and nut oils such as local organic olive oil, deep green and aromatic; organic calendula sunflower infusion; St. John's wort oil, Madagascar Vanilla pods infused into coconut oil, Evening Primrose oil, organic olive leaf infusion...and at the very end we mindfully add, drop-by-drop, biodynamic Flower Essences. We let it sit quietly overnight, to rest. In the morning it is ready to be put into jars, all the while we chant, sing or listen to music. Good vibrations! We NEVER HEAT our shea butter!! Many companies do, we do not. It was over the many years of personally working on my formula that I discovered that truly organic, raw, unrefined and unbleached shea butter does NOT like to be heated. It gets grainy and rancid, the heat creates moisture that condenses in the jars and rancidity ensues. I created this formula a few years ago over a long summer, blending and mixing and experimenting with different shea butters and flower, seed, nut oils. I wanted to create a Butter so satiny soft, yet also dense and stable. I didn't want it to be light and airy like a soufflé that would collapse the moment you touched your warm fingertip to it. I needed to figure out a way to soften shea's natural hardness, something that would create a sense of 'loft', but that would also maintain some structural integrity. So, necessity being the mother of invention (and the fact that I was standing in my kitchen and not in a lab) I hauled out my cake mixer. As I was whipping, I noticed that the shea butter began to transform and soften...it was becoming something...else. Huzzah! From then on I spent weeks literally up to my eyeballs in the emollient, fragrant, skin-healing goodness of organic shea butter... and the rest, as they say, is history. Enjoy this wonderful, artisan made, hand-whipped, organic, skin-loving butter!