The facts about our ingredients
The facts about our ingredients
LAVENDER ESSENTIAL OIL
Calming, Soothing and Balancing
Lavender Oil is used for its balancing and soothing qualities making it ideal for irritated skin and scalp. It restores skin complexion and reduces acne it is also great for calming the mind and aiding a restful sleep. Slows aging with powerful antioxidants improves eczema and psoriasis alleviates headaches, heals burns and wounds.
COCOA BUTTER
Softening and Conditioning
Cocoa Butter is rich in antioxidants including Oleic Acid, Palmitic Acid, and Stearic Acid. These fatty acids provide a layer of protection from skin stressors and free radicals. Helps to slow the process of aging while acting as a mild sunscreen. Will also slow the development of wrinkles. Cocoa Butter is compatible with our body’s natural sebum, aiding the absorption of other active ingredients into the skin.
Cocoa butter is non-toxic and helps to reduces stretch marks.lighten age spots, even skin tone, and reduce scars and heals skin irritations such as eczema and dermatitis.
COCOA BUTTER
Softening and Conditioning
Cocoa butter is rich in antioxidants including oleic acid, palmitic acid, and stearic acid. These fatty acids provide a layer of protection from skin stressors and free radicals. helps to slow to process of aging while acting as a mild sunscreen. will also slow the development of wrinkles. Cocoa butter is compatible with our body’s natural sebum, aiding the absorption of other active ingredients into the skin.
Cocoa butter is non-toxic and helps to reduces stretch marks.lighten age spots, even skin tone, and reduce scars and heals skin irritations such as eczema and dermatitis.
ALMOND OIL
Softening and Conditioning
Moisturizing and packed with Vitamin E - Almonds are traditionally regarded as having special healing and protecting properties, soothing the skin while also hydrating it. When applied to hair, it adds shine and softens the entire hair shaft.
Considered an effective beauty remedy by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks, Almond Oil glides on And leaves the skin and hair silky smooth and radiant.This is because it has high Vitamin E Content, so it is softening and helps to protect the skin from pollutants and irritants. It has a fine texture so is easily absorbed, and its emollient properties mean it helps the skin to balance water loss and absorption of moisture. It is extracted by cold-pressing the kernels of sweet almonds (prunus dulcis), part of the plum family. ordinarily, heat would be applied, thus yielding a higher quantity. in cold-pressing, however, it is extracted at cooler temperatures and yields oil of a much higher quality.
ALOE VERA LEAF EXTRACT
Soothing and Re-hydrate
Aloe vera gel is used in skincare for its soothing quality. It helps calm irritation and redness, re-hydrate and soften. aloe is very gentle, making it a wonderful ingredient to calm irritated skin.
ALOE VERA LEAF EXTRACT
Soothing and Re-hydrate
Aloe vera gel is used in skincare for its soothing quality. It helps calm irritation and redness, re-hydrate and soften. Aloe is very gentle, making it a wonderful ingredient to calm irritated skin.
NEROLI ESSENTIAL OIL
Uplifting and Toning
Neroli has a toning, cleaning, and tightening effect that helps skin look more awake and lively.
Neroli naturally has a natural cleansing property, which means it minimizes the appearance of pores, smoothing skin’s appearance and diminishing the look of under-eye circles.
It helps with oily skin: neroli naturally helps balance oil.
Neroli increases serotonin production in the brain, due to its fresh and uplifting properties. It makes us feel content and cheerful. it also helps improve the skin’s flexibility.
BODY BUTTERS/OILS
We use only the most organic and pure body butters such as cocoa butter, shea butter, cold pressed oils (almond oil, apricot oil. grapeseed oil, jojoba oil) These are directly derived from plant and fruit extract. They are rich in vitamins and antioxidant content. Some of our oils are deodorised for better absorption.
BEESWAX
We use only the most organic and pure body butters such as cocoa butter, shea butter, cold pressed oils (almond oil, apricot oil. grapeseed oil, jojoba oil) These are directly derived from plant and fruit extract. They are rich in vitamins and antioxidant content. Some of our oils are deodorised for better absorption.
ESSENTIAL OILS
We use all organic essential oils of the highest quality and we choose them for their properties for the body and the mind. We never use any isolated compound of the essential oil, we only ever use active and whole oils.
ALOE VERA GELLY
Aloe vera gelly we use also comes from a research centre using their organically grown aloe vera of the best quality.
VITAMINS AND ANTIOXIDANTS
We use only 100% natural vitamins and antioxidants and whenever available are also organic. We add extra pure vitamins & antioxidants to make them more effective.
EMULSIFIERS
Whenever there is both water and oil in a product there must also be an emulsifier, these are not yet available in organic form. We use only non-gmo (from non genetically modified crops) plant based emulsifiers. You can see these in our ingredient list under the names of cetearyl glucoside and xanthan gum.
DETERGENTS
For all our foaming products we use only plant based soft detergents, they are not yet available organic but we are hoping it won’t be long before they are. In order to make them even softer on the skin we blend them with soothing aloe vera and organic oil blends
PRESERVATIVES
Our oils and balms are preservative free. However we use a scientific formulation in our face and hair serum. In some of our formulations, natural preservatives do not offer the same high assurance of keeping the microbial count to a minimum, to the extent that pe does. We want to keep our formulations intact so that when the consumer uses our products they remain pure once opened.
The official material safety data on phenoxyethanol (pe) states that it may cause irritations and long term exposure can be harmful. This data is based on exposure to undiluted pe, it is widely agreed that exposure to 100% concentrations of pe to be toxic. However, the same goes for almost all active substances used in cosmetics. At 1% concentration within a topical skin product the amount of pe that penetrates the skin into the dermis layer is not significant enough to be considered harmful. This has been proved on clinical tests published by the US national library (link below). This is possibly why pe is the chosen preservative for vaccines and intravenous medicines in America and across the world.
At Mana we are still looking for a natural preservative that is proven to be safe and effective. We use natural preservatives for many of our formulations but choose pe as our preservative system for some of products that contain water. This is because pe has a broad spectrum antimicrobial activity against bacteria, yeasts, and mouldS - all the things you don’t want in your products. It is also, in our view, the least toxic.
CONSULTATION
We care about your skin, and so we provide consultation and advice along with a diagnosis of recommended products and expectations to help you tackle expression lines, delay fine lines from forming, etc.
