Island Skin handcrafted on the Big Island of Hawaii
WILD HARVESTED · ORGANICALLY GROWN
Small-batch botanical salves, made with care on the Big Island of Hawaii and in the high desert.
Shop the salvesA living relationship with plants
After many years in close communion with plants wherever I lived on the planet, I felt the matter-of-fact desire to wear them on my skin—to let them directly interact with my body and its needs. It felt deeply right, delightful, empowering and, hehe, revolutionary. Like an act of rebellion. I love being a bridge between worlds: between the wild and humans who want to become closer to the wilderness, who trust in its goodness and sense its healing potential. These salves are handcrafted in devotion to the wild and the exquisite support of plants.
With love, Veronica
From the Big Island of Hawaii
Healing salves made in Hawaiʻi.
The magic of organically grown and wild-harvested plant medicine.
The one salve for everything.
Made with noni, organic comfrey, local Hawaiian beeswax, coconut and olive oils, and amber crystals. For face, body, dry skin, scratches, and weary muscles.
Wild-harvested or consciously grown botanicals · 1 oz tin
Gentle lymphatic support for detox and movement.
A botanical blend of gotu kola, mugwort, plantain, sesame, and castor oil.
1 oz tin
Antimicrobial and antifungal foot salve.
Blue turmeric, neem, guava, noni, māmakī, lemongrass, and coconut oil.
1 oz tin
A warming Korean red ginseng formula for vitality, circulation, and ritual anointing.
1 oz tin
Made with the high desert
After four years in close communion with the high desert plants, I felt the matter-of-fact desire to wear them on my skin, allowing them to directly interact with my body and its needs.
That’s how DesertSkin was born: handcrafted in devotion to the wild, connecting people to the exquisite support of plants.
Wild Salves
For very dry, itchy, scratched, or sun-parched skin. With wild yarrow, plantain, mullein, comfrey, olive oil, coconut oil, beeswax, and shea butter.
A botanical salve for humid climates. Juniper, horsetail, piñon resin, olive and coconut oils, cacao butter, and beeswax.
A comforting salve created for intentional moments of gentleness and presence during sacred moon time.
A renewing face and neck salve made with horsetail, rosehips, comfrey, coconut and olive oils, shea butter, and local beeswax.
A massage salve with desert botanicals, juniper, chaparral, rosemary, horsetail, ocotillo, yarrow, comfrey, and piñon resin.
Ceremonial cacao with wild rose hip and artemisia, created to nourish skin and invite warmth.
A ritual salve blending blue lotus, butterfly pea, ocotillo, wild yarrow, cacao butter, apricot kernel oil, olive oil, and local beeswax. External use only; avoid eyes, mouth, and broken skin.
DesertSkin · Wild salves made in devotion to place
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Currently carried in Big Island boutiques and at ManaFoods on Maui. Wholesale inquiries welcome.
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