- The Intention
- The Ingredients
- The Ritual
- The Botnia Story
A multi-use maven that can be a beautiful ally as a daily cleanser, exfoliating treatment, or facial mask companion, Essential Enzymes is a biome-supportive, anti-inflammatory, and healing powerhouse. Hydrosols of juniper and calendula unite with calendula extract, shea butter, lactic acid, and rose geranium to gently brighten, softly exfoliate, and deeply nourish...all while protecting the health of your skin's acid mantle. We love to harmonize this offering with powder masks in place of water for a next-level facial experience.
4fl oz
Organic Vegetable Glycerin, New Mexico Wildcrafted Juniperus spp. (Juniper) Hydrosol, Ultra Pure Water (Aqua), Calendula Officinalis (Calendula) Hydrosol, Calendula Officinalis (Calendula) Extract, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Oil, Olivem (Cetearyl Olivate and Sorbitan Olivate), Lactobacillus Ferment, Pomegranate Enzyme PF (Lactobacillus/Punica Granatum Fruit Ferment Extract & Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Lactic Acid, Tocobiol SF C (Tocopherol), Benzeneethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Pelargonium Graveolens (Rose Geranium) Essential Oil
As a cleanser: Apply morning and/or evening, massaging into the skin for 60 seconds. Rinse clean.
As an exfoliating treatment: Use alone as a weekly mask by staring with freshly cleansed skin. Apply mask to entire face and décolleté. Let sit for 15 minutes, then rinse clean. Follow with your daily skincare routine.
Or combine with a powder mask for a weekly exfoliating treatment: Start with freshly cleansed skin. Mix 3 to 5 pumps Essential Enzymes with equal parts powder mask. Apply diluted mask solution to entire face and décolleté. Let sit for several minutes, then rinse clean. Follow with your daily skincare routine.
Founded by longtime esthetician Justine Kahn after eight years of working in spas and realizing she couldn’t do all she wanted for her clients’ skin with the ingredients and products available to her – not to mention she noticed that not only were these ingredients not helping to heal, but they were actually causing damage with synthetic fragrances, alcohols, and questionable preservatives – she began her mission to help people understand that our skin IS our body. What we put on it will eventually be working its way through our entire system. This motivated her to figure out which ingredients positively impact the skin.
While training in cosmetic chemistry at the Nova Studio in Richmond, CA, Justine became very clear on this: simple skincare is more effective and healthy. And in December of 2010, with deep motivation to create something that would truly serve each individual’s needs and desires, she opened Skin Remedy, a luxury spa in San Francisco, CA. Using her new energy and excitement from all that she had learned, she designed the business to be able to customize each client’s experience in the treatment room. This is when she began to develop her signature collection of powerful, raw ingredients that she would use to formulate the perfect remedy for each person’s skin.
Six years later, Justine expanded on what she had been developing and using in the treatment room. Teaming up with an incredible plant biologist to help ensure each product and service they offered was using plants to their nutritional maximum, they were able to create a complete line of science-based, truly organic skin: Botnia.
And to ensure the Botnia team has access to the most potent and fresh botanicals, they grow and care for their own plants on their microfarm at Botnia HQ and take them right into their own green laboratory on-site in Sausalito, California to keep the supply chain simple and transparent, reduce fossil fuels, and create incredibly effective products with in-house infusion, macerations, extracts, and hydrosols. And if they're not able to grow it, they source as locally as possible and look for the same organic farming practices they use on their farm.
They think about every aspect of the product creation process: starting with organic soil and seed quality through growing to harvest, drying, and finally processing each botanical in their own lab. Botnia’s farm follows the natural cycle of their climate, and they employ water catchment and eco-farming practices. The Botnia farm is protected from any pesticides and their pest control consists of neem, ladybugs, and their farm cat Aleister. They utilize organic soil, fertilized with homemade compost - mainly of leaves and vegetable scraps - into a rich soil amendment that keeps their plants thriving from the moment they are planted to the time they harvest them.
As conscious stewards of Mother Earth, they take responsibility for every step of their process and question how it can be less of a burden on the planet. Their goal is that their little organic farm nurtures a holistic relationship between the soil, plants, and waterways, which in turn creates a more sustainable earth.
The Intention
A multi-use maven that can be a beautiful ally as a daily cleanser, exfoliating treatment, or facial mask companion, Essential Enzymes is a biome-supportive, anti-inflammatory, and healing powerhouse. Hydrosols of juniper and calendula unite with calendula extract, shea butter, lactic acid, and rose geranium to gently brighten, softly exfoliate, and deeply nourish...all while protecting the health of your skin's acid mantle. We love to harmonize this offering with powder masks in place of water for a next-level facial experience.
4fl oz
The Ingredients
Organic Vegetable Glycerin, New Mexico Wildcrafted Juniperus spp. (Juniper) Hydrosol, Ultra Pure Water (Aqua), Calendula Officinalis (Calendula) Hydrosol, Calendula Officinalis (Calendula) Extract, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Oil, Olivem (Cetearyl Olivate and Sorbitan Olivate), Lactobacillus Ferment, Pomegranate Enzyme PF (Lactobacillus/Punica Granatum Fruit Ferment Extract & Leuconostoc/Radish Root Ferment Filtrate), Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea Butter), Lactic Acid, Tocobiol SF C (Tocopherol), Benzeneethanol, Potassium Sorbate, Pelargonium Graveolens (Rose Geranium) Essential Oil
The Ritual
As a cleanser: Apply morning and/or evening, massaging into the skin for 60 seconds. Rinse clean.
As an exfoliating treatment: Use alone as a weekly mask by staring with freshly cleansed skin. Apply mask to entire face and décolleté. Let sit for 15 minutes, then rinse clean. Follow with your daily skincare routine.
Or combine with a powder mask for a weekly exfoliating treatment: Start with freshly cleansed skin. Mix 3 to 5 pumps Essential Enzymes with equal parts powder mask. Apply diluted mask solution to entire face and décolleté. Let sit for several minutes, then rinse clean. Follow with your daily skincare routine.
The Botnia Story
Founded by longtime esthetician Justine Kahn after eight years of working in spas and realizing she couldn’t do all she wanted for her clients’ skin with the ingredients and products available to her – not to mention she noticed that not only were these ingredients not helping to heal, but they were actually causing damage with synthetic fragrances, alcohols, and questionable preservatives – she began her mission to help people understand that our skin IS our body. What we put on it will eventually be working its way through our entire system. This motivated her to figure out which ingredients positively impact the skin.
While training in cosmetic chemistry at the Nova Studio in Richmond, CA, Justine became very clear on this: simple skincare is more effective and healthy. And in December of 2010, with deep motivation to create something that would truly serve each individual’s needs and desires, she opened Skin Remedy, a luxury spa in San Francisco, CA. Using her new energy and excitement from all that she had learned, she designed the business to be able to customize each client’s experience in the treatment room. This is when she began to develop her signature collection of powerful, raw ingredients that she would use to formulate the perfect remedy for each person’s skin.
Six years later, Justine expanded on what she had been developing and using in the treatment room. Teaming up with an incredible plant biologist to help ensure each product and service they offered was using plants to their nutritional maximum, they were able to create a complete line of science-based, truly organic skin: Botnia.
And to ensure the Botnia team has access to the most potent and fresh botanicals, they grow and care for their own plants on their microfarm at Botnia HQ and take them right into their own green laboratory on-site in Sausalito, California to keep the supply chain simple and transparent, reduce fossil fuels, and create incredibly effective products with in-house infusion, macerations, extracts, and hydrosols. And if they're not able to grow it, they source as locally as possible and look for the same organic farming practices they use on their farm.
They think about every aspect of the product creation process: starting with organic soil and seed quality through growing to harvest, drying, and finally processing each botanical in their own lab. Botnia’s farm follows the natural cycle of their climate, and they employ water catchment and eco-farming practices. The Botnia farm is protected from any pesticides and their pest control consists of neem, ladybugs, and their farm cat Aleister. They utilize organic soil, fertilized with homemade compost - mainly of leaves and vegetable scraps - into a rich soil amendment that keeps their plants thriving from the moment they are planted to the time they harvest them.
As conscious stewards of Mother Earth, they take responsibility for every step of their process and question how it can be less of a burden on the planet. Their goal is that their little organic farm nurtures a holistic relationship between the soil, plants, and waterways, which in turn creates a more sustainable earth.