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Now you can enjoy one of our favourite scents while bathing! The newest addition in our soap world is Film Noir, with scent befitting the boudoir, with it's dark, sensuous whisper of cacao, patchouli and myrrh. Handcrafted in-house from top quality oils and butters, these cold-processed bars have incredible lather and are moisturizing leaving your skin smelling fresh and feeling smooth and nourished.

Our new formulation is palm-free, and is es  pecially formulated to clean and condition hair and scalp. One of our most beloved bathing treats - like a chocolate bar for the tub. 

Ingredients: Saponified vegetable oils (organic virgin coconut oil, organic virgin olive, shea butter, cocoa butter, cold-pressed castor), water, proprietary essential oil blend.

Kyphi Galilee is a contemporary interpretation of Ancient Egyptian Kyphi recipes, using local ingredients. In addition to the traditional resins that make Kyphi such a soothing balm for the soul, vibrant vegetation and unusual botanicals were used: wild herbs such as myrtle and bay leaves, water mint, sage blossoms, fig leaves and fig wood, vitex berries and many more. The result is a very lively green yet soothingly sweet kyphi that has the life-giving energy of a river lush with vegetation.  

The majority of the ingredients were organically grown in my own garden, or wild-crafted. Each raw material was ground separately, then they are all compounded together in a mixture of myrtle and arbutus berries (which were used in lieu of the traditional raisins) soaked in local wine and wild honey. This not only binds together the ingredients but also creates an alchemical process that truly transforms the aroma of the incense and creates a heavenly smoke when burnt on a charcoal. It can also be used by placing on an aromatherapy diffuser (place on a piece of aluminum foil to prevent it from sticking to your diffuser). 

Passover Kyphi was born out of curiosity and wonder. From a passion to create a Kyphi for purification, using Ezov (the Biblical Hyssop), which was used by the Israelites to protect their homes from the last and most deadly plague.
Noticing that the traditional process and key ingredients of Ancient Egyptian Kyphi visually and aromatically resembles the Haroset, a traditional paste of minced dried-fruit and nuts, spiced and preserved with wine.  

Kyphi is an ancient Egyptian incense which is considered to be the first perfume ever created. The elaborate and complex recipe for Kyphi was found on the walls of Egyptian temples and called for 16 distinctive ingredients. In the temples, Kyphi was burnt at dusk or early evening to prepare for the evening rituals and for dream work. Kyphi was soaked in wine and consumed as medicine, and was burnt by Egyptian nobles to as a personal fragrance by means of smoke (which would cling to hair and clothes), and were burnt in the evening to banish the worries of the day and invite good dreams. 

Our Kyphi Passover is a modern interpretation of the original Egyptian Kyphi, using 18 precious ingredients that are ground separately, then compounded together in a mixture of organic resins, local wine and wild honey. This not only binds together the ingredients but also creates an alchemical process that truly transforms the aroma of the incense and creates a heavenly smoke when burnt on a charcoal. It can also be used by placing on an aromatherapy diffuser (place on a piece of aluminum foil to prevent it from sticking to your diffuser). In addition to the traditional resins, the Passover edition for Kyphi uses Ezov (Origanum syriacum), myrtle, wild water mint, wild fennel seeds and other secret wild aromatics that are sure to bring a wonderful cleansing and sweet scent to your home this spring. 

This fantastic soap bar is made from organic olive, local wild honey and nourishing organic goat's milk from my village. It is superfatted  with - which means it has wonderful moisturizing qualities due to high content of unsaponified oils within the formula. This time with apricot kernel oil and almond butter! It also has a delicious almond fragrance, a lot like marzipan.

We're using olive oil that was cold-pressed from olive which were organically grown and harvested by my family in Clil, Organic virgin coconut oil (both are food grade quality), palm oil, almond and apricot kernel oil for their skin conditioning properties. Finely ground oatmeal is both soothing to the skin and provides a gentle exfoliation effect for renewed and rejuvenated skin, further softened by the honey and organic goat's milk.  

The result is a hard, long-lasting bar with rich lather that is very moisturizing and soothing to the skin - a real treat with mild exfoliation from oatmeal. And with a delicious almond, marzipan-like aroma. 

Ingredients: Saponified vegetable oils (coconut, olive, palm, almond, apricot kernel), water, almond butter, oatmeal, honey, bitter almond essential oil. 

This fantastic soap bar is made from olive-oil and water infusions of wild sage (Salvia fruticosa) in all of the soap's phases, creating a beautiful bar of soap, with surprisingly warm and delicious scent, almost like honey cake.  

Like all of our soap, it is superfatted - which means it has wonderful moisturizing qualities due to high content of unsaponified oils within the formula. It is the same rich-lathering formula we've always had for our soaps, now handcrafted in our new studio in Clil by yours truly! 

We're using olive oil that was cold-pressed from olive which were organically grown in a Druze village near Mt. Meron infused with summer wild-harvest of Three-Lobed Sage (Salvia fruiticosa) leaves and resin; Oganic virgin coconut oil (both are food grade quality), palm oil and castor oil for that extra emollient quality. The finely ground and infused myrrh and frankincense resins provide both healing and nourishment for the skin, as well a bit of "peeling" effect for renewed and rejuvenated skin, further softened by the honey. 

The result is a hard, long-lasting bar with rich lather that is very moisturizing - a real treat for your skin, hair and even for shaving; and with a  surprisingly warm, sweet aroma of sage tea, honey and resins. 

Ingredients: Saponified vegetable oils (coconut, olive, palm, castor), water, wild sage (Salvia fruiticosa)*, myrrh (Commiphora myrrha) resin*, frankincense (Boswellia carterii) resin*,  honey, garden sage (Salvia officinalis L.) essential oil 

*Wildcrafted

Botanical incense pastilles designed for each one of the seven ancient planets. 

This series of these resin-based, monastery-style incense pastilles is the result of close to 20 years of researching the botanical symbolism and alchemical traditions of each planet, and creating the best depiction of these planetary energies.

SATURN NERIKOH 
(Japanese Pastilles - for heating only)
Ironically, the harshness of reality hits when reaching the planet that is furthest away from earth. Saturn is often perceived as our challenges, burdened with rigidity and stiffness. On the other hand, it is through this strict form that our innermost intentions will manifest. 
Saturn's incense is deep with dark myrrh resin, cedar, cypress, patchouli, cassia, vetiver, agarwood and a touch of honey to balance its heaviness. 
Burn on Saturdays, or when you require grounding, material wealth, support as well as discipline to achieve your goals.  
Please note: This is Japanese-style Nerikoh, which are honey-based and are meant for warming on a mica plate, aromatherapy lamp or a designated electric incense heater; they are NOT resin- pastilles for burning on charcoal. 

Arabian-inspired luxury incense form of our Song of Songs perfume: These are sandalwood and oud chips (infected Aquillaria species), that are infused by Song of Songs perfume, and blended with the finest Yemeni myrrh which was infused with fresh hyacinth flowers from Ayala's perfumed garden in a unique resin-enfleurage technique.

Bakhoor incense can be burnt on charcoal to release fragrant smoke meant for perfuming one's robes, hair and even stationary. But it is best to enjoy this precious incense using an incense heater, which is not only longer lived, but also will show the multilayered nuances of both the perfume and the precious wood that was soaked with it. 

"Me, the Rose of Sharon, the Lilly of the valley..." (Canticles 2;1) The Song of Songs (AKA The Song of Solomon, or Canticles) is an erotic love poem, that sensually reveals in quite detail the rich aromatic culture of the Biblical Middle East. This passionate perfume consists of all the Biblical plants and aromatics that were used to cleanse, purify and seduce in that magnificent poem.

Top notes: Saffron, Hyacinth

Heart notes: Rose, Spikenard

Base notes: Frankincense, Myrrh, Agarwood, Labdanum, Sandalwood

Fragrance Families: Opulent Ambery, Incense

Triple Goddess incense cones were handcrafted with reverence to all phases of the moon, and all facets of womanhood - Maiden/Mother/Crone, the birth, pregnancy and softening of the age of wisdom. This incense is created with women's healing in mind, for all stages of life, but especially for times of transition, large and small - be it birth, loss or the monthly bleeding time.

Triple Goddess incense cones were conceived on a a Full Moon Monday and are infused with energy that is meant to aid and assist women and girls during the time of bleeding and any other challenges faced by Womanity.

Incense resins of the three colours representing the Life-Death-Life cycle were chosen lovingly for this blend: Frankincense and White Copal for the Maiden; Dragon's Blood for Motherhood, Bleeding and the "Fertile" years; and Black Copal, Bdellium and Myrrh for the wisdom of the Crone. These were all manually ground with mortar and pestle, and mixed with finely powdered red and white sandalwood for an even burn of mysteriously fragrant smoke. 

* This incense is also available in a loose-incense, resin-based blend, in which all these colours are visible. 

Incense cones, hand-rolled in the traditional Asian style, made from botanicals that were finely ground on location and artfully blended. No saltpetre or charcoal used in these cones. Cones are generally faster burning than a thick joss stick (range of burning time may be from 7-15min, and produce more smoke. They are more convenient to burn while traveling and outdoors, and they stand on their own base, and therefore don't really require special equipment or vessels.  

Burning instruction: Prepare a heat-proof vessel, on a sturdy surface away from flammables and out of reach of children and animals. To prevent scorch marks, it is recommended that you layer some sand, earth or ash on the vessel.  Place the cone and light the tip of it, and allow the flame to extinguish. Because these are handmade cones, each has a different burning times.