Root Stem Branch
RSB is a unique skin care line that is based on classical Japanese food therapies with traditional preparations. Our skin care line is hand-crafted in small batches with care and respect. These living nutrient formulas are designed to help support the vibrant communication between internal and external terrain. One unique aspect to our skin care is that these formulas can be applied to all skin types, and adapt to individual needs. It is created with the most sensitive skin in mind, including environmental and autoimmune conditions.
Given that there are no preservatives, solvents, coloring, binders, or chemicals added to our body care, the challenge to maintain all living nutrients and their life giving properties is resolved using time-tested traditional preparations. These preparations allow the plants to express themselves fully (full spectrum), and provide the right conditions for the plants to digest and assimilate, creating amazing new nutrition through fermentation.
Simple ingredients dance with complexity to return to simple skin.
Understand - your skin is a living canvas which expresses your daily needs. With Japanese theory, we learn to acknowledge these daily needs through awareness and taking a moment for self care.
The purpose of Root Stem Branch facial line is to help nourish your senses with simplicity, providing seasonal nutrients that feed and protect healthy skin.
Just like one's diet, variety is key in obtaining a broad spectrum of nutrients to allow for the full vibrancy of skin cells to be expressed.
The Root Stem Branch utilizes whole fruits, flowers, stems, seeds, leaves, barks, semi-precious stones, seaweeds, mushrooms, and herbal extracts to create the finest quality, whole food skin nutrition available anywhere.
Root Face Cleanser
Uses: Daily Cleanser, Scrub, Exfoliant, Polisher, Mask
Action: Benefits root nutrition, hydrates, smoothes, balances, and cleans. Works to slough off old cells and activates the lymph, promoting circulation, and increases blood and Qi (energy) movement.
Ingredients: Rice sprouts, aloe, perilla extract oil, silk extracts, land vegetable fibers and extracts. Living fermentation process with plant probiotic/microbial support.
How to Use:
Steam face with a vessel full of hot water. Pour hot water into vessel over roses, chrysanthemums, or amacha tea for an enhanced experience. Or you may lay a hot, wet towel over face to steam. Both processes will open the pores - preparing the skin for cleansing of toxins and debris, receiving nourishment and hydration.
Use a utensil to retrieve dime size amount of Root Cleanser and apply to palm of hand. Root Cleanser is a living fermentation, offering plant probiotic and microbial support, so it is important not to contaminate the cleanser container.
Sprinkle a few drops of water into the cleanser in hand. Work into a thinner, wet paste.
Apply cleanser to the major zones of the face, then gently work it into all areas of the face and neck. Use fingers to massage the skin, exfoliating and increasing Qi circulation to the surface. To remove cleanser, use moist towel to continue exfoliation while removing cleanser. Pat dry with a clean towel.
To use as a mask, follow all instructions - leaving the cleanser for elapsed time before removal. With time, cleanser becomes soft mask offering extended nutrition, hydration, and probiotic and microbial support.
