Your skincare is only as vital as the land and people it comes from.
What does regenerative farming have to do with your moisturizer, oil serum, or hydrosol? Everything.
Regenerative farming nurtures the earth while also supporting the farmers and communities who grow these ingredients. Soil love is skin love. Healthy soil fosters healthy plants, which in turn nurture healthy skin. Regenerative organic farming focuses on soil teeming with life—microbes, fungi, and other organisms that work together to enhance plant vitality. This vitality is directly transferred into your skincare, offering deeper nourishment and more potent results for your skin.
Research has shown that crops grown through regenerative methods are richer in vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients compared to conventionally grown crops. These plants are packed with antioxidants and secondary metabolites—compounds that help both plants and your skin thrive. These powerful nutrients work together to enhance your skin’s protection, adaptability, radiance, health, and resilience.
This means that the botanicals in your skincare—crafted from regeneratively farmed plants – are more potent and effective, offering superior benefits for your skin.
Soil love is skin love.
Left: A neighbor of our regenerative olive grove using conventional farming. Right: Frantoio Olive Grove - our regenerative olive grove.
What is regenerative organic farming?
Regenerative organic farming is a holistic and transformative approach that goes beyond traditional organic methods. While organic farming avoids synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, regenerative farming actively restores soil health, improves biodiversity, and enhances ecosystems. Practices like composting, crop rotation, minimal tillage, and cover cropping all work together to create nutrient-dense soil that nourishes vibrant, potent plants.
Regenerative farmers prioritize growing a mix of diverse crops, rather than relying on monoculture systems. This approach fosters communication between plants and soil microbes, enriching the land while also locking carbon into the soil.
By choosing skincare made with regenerative organic ingredients, you’re making a decision that extends beyond your own wellness. Regenerative farming is a powerful tool for healing the planet. It reduces carbon emissions, supports biodiversity, and creates agricultural systems that are resilient to climate change.
Your skincare ritual becomes part of a larger movement—one that promotes the health of the earth, the farmers, and yourself.
Regenerative certification.
Two paths to regenerative certification have emerged: Regenerative Organic Certified and Certified Regenified. The former uses the USDA Certified Organic standard as a baseline upon which other pillars are included in one certification. Regenified recognizes and certifies those who adopt regenerative practices. Both are supporting farmers to rebuild our soil health. Ultimately contributing to long-term solutions to the climate crisis, factory farming, and fractured rural economies.
We are using Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) herbs from Oshala Farms, Oregon; ROC olive oil from Frantoio Grove, California, and ROC sunflower oil from La Tourangelle, California. In addition, we are using Regenified certified organic shea butter from ORGIIS, Ghana. Our Carlsbad production facility is Regenified certified. And, having submitted for ROC certification for our Carlsbad facility, we are awaiting confirmation.
evanhealy team harvesting summer 2024 at Morning Myst.
Celebrating milestones and partnerships in 2024.
This year, we embraced our role as rag-tag alchemists traveling the world on a regenerative journey. Along the way, we’ve forged meaningful partnerships, championed soil health, and celebrated milestones that reflect our belief that your skincare is only as vital as the land and people it comes from.
From the farms of the Columbia River Valley to the women’s co-operatives of Morocco, each step of this journey tells a story of regeneration, connection, and collaboration. Here’s a glimpse into the highlights that have shaped our year and the partnerships that inspire our work.
Hydrosols from the Columbia River Valley.
In Washington state’s Columbia River Valley, Regenified certification is underway for the farms that grow, harvest and distill our plant hydrosols. The next step is an April site visit by Regenified to ensure these lands meet the rigorous standards for regenerative agriculture. Come Fall 2025 you can expect most of our hydrosols to be Regenified.
This past August our team participated in the annual distillation of hydrosols at Morning Myst Botanics with (below) owners Jud and Anne Carleton and their son Gideon, our partners for the past 15 years.
Olive oil from the world’s first ROC certified olive grove.
Following a farm visit in May 2024 with Patrick and Claire, Frantoio Grove, nestled in northern California, is now our sole resource for Regenerative Organic Certified (ROC) olive oil.
Our team walks the olive grove with Patrick and Claire (also shown at bottom).
ROC herbs from Oshala Farm.
This past June we met Elise and Jeff Higley, owners of Oshala Farm. Oshala is nestled in Oregon's Applegate Valley. Not long after, Oshala was regenerative organic certified (ROC). Currently, eight ROC herbs from Oshala are being steeped in our lab forming extracts featured in our cleansers, moisturizers, and balms. Next summer, we'll add another 13 ROC herbs from Oshala. At that point most, if not all of our herbs, will be ROC certified.
David harvesting chamomile at Oshala. Bottom: Elise and Jeff, co-owners of Oshala.
Inspiration certified from Sustainable Herbs Initiative (SHI).
In June we joined Ann Armbrecht, founder of the Sustainable Herbs Initiative (SHI), for a four-day workshop in southern Oregon's Applegate Valley. Ann's mission addresses challenges like
Top Right: One of many circles at SHI Learning Journey in Oregon. Bottom: Ann Armbrecht, founder of SHI.
Argan oil regeneration in Morocco.
In September we returned to Morocco to visit Mohamed El Karz (Simo), founder of Argand’Or and Royal Argan. Back in 2001 Simo began working with women’s co-operatives to expand the argan trade. In the ensuing years, big business swooped in to buy up most of the available harvest. When we were last there in 2016 we co-sponsored the planting of 400 argan saplings as a small step in supporting the harvest specifically for the coops. Since that time, Simo orchestrated a government-backed reforestation project, which planted 48,000 argan trees in co-operative lands. This initiative not only combats soil erosion and promotes carbon sequestration but also restores ancestral heritage and supports the financial independence of the women in these communities. Certified organic Al Amal Cooperative argan is featured in several of our oils and moisturizers.
Left to right: Stefan, David, Simo, evanhealy team, Mohamed.
Shea butter regenified certified from Ghana.
This past spring we met Julius Arwaregya, a Ghanian native, through our colleague Andy Thornton of Silvan Ingredient Ecosystem. Julius founded the Organization for Indigenous Initiatives and Sustainability (ORGIIS) in Ghana as a non-profit to empower communities and regenerate the environment through sustainable farming practices. To expand his impact he added a supply chain business model to further engage and turn around the community. The result: Regenified shea butter that is now featured in all of our butters, balms, cleansers and moisturizers.
Our colleague Andy with Julius holding a shea sapling during a February 2025 visit to Ghana.
Frankincense from Böswellness, Somaliland.
Mahdi Ibrahim founded Böswellness, our frankincense steward, with his wife Jamie Garvey in 2004. Mahdi had fled his homeland of Somaliland to Canada to escape the civil war for Somali independence in 1988. The two met just as he was pursuing a business that would keep him connected to his home country. They have since forged deep relationships with the harvesting communities in the Sanaag region of Somaliland, where they give 20% of their profit back to the region for development projects. In this way they – and you – are strengthening the local economy for multigenerational families who have harvested frankincense for thousands of years. In November 2022 Jamie visited our team in Carlsbad sharing their amazing journey, all the while enchanting us with a variety of beautiful oils and resins. This June we will participate in the distillation at their Vermont facility, where they distill the resin which they import from Somaliland.
Mahdi, second from left, with harvesters.
Thank you for sharing our vision
This year has been a celebration of the partnerships and milestones that inspire us to keep growing, learning, and regenerating. Together, we are shaping a future where beauty is rooted in respect for the land and the people who nurture it. We are deeply grateful for the farmers, artisans, and stewards of the land whose dedication and wisdom make this regenerative journey possible, and for you, our community, who share in our vision
