What is Plant-Based Skincare?

What do you mean by plant-based skin care? 

There are so many words bantered about in the skincare world. At Bombini, our description evolved from “Botanical” to “Natural” to “Green” to “Clean” and now “Plant-Based”. But what do all these words mean? Basically, it means skin care products created with ingredients obtained from plants. This only sounds strange to us because we’ve been led to believe that effective skin care is created using complex ingredients designed by chemists devoted to our forever youthful appearance. In reality, skincare all started with simple plant oils. Certainly you’ve heard of the plant -based diet and it’s health benefits? The benefits of nutritional plants can be experienced on the outside of your body just as well as on the inside.

The plant world offers a variety of plants which provide powerful medicine and dense nutrition. It makes sense that plants also benefit the skin. Plant-based skin-care comes in the form of lipids, essential oils, plant waters (hydrosol), plant extracts and dried powders. While I can go on and on about the benefits of each of those plant based ingredients, the super simple superstar here are the plant oils. Plant oils are mostly pressed from seeds. This is the place where sunlight is transformed into the possibility of new life for the plant. Seeds are nutrient storehouses. These miraculous plant seeds are then pressed into the oils we use on our skin. Many of the plant oils contain some of the same fatty acids found in our skin.

There is an exciting world of plant oils whose benefits are just being discovered.

Some of the oils available to us are made as a by-product of food production, minimizing waste. There are also many oils that can be sourced regionally like our beautiful local Raspberry Seed Oil. The oils we source from other parts of the world create a living wage for those families. We feel good about all of that.

At Bombini, almost everything we create began as a plant. We love this because it’s simple, sustainable and effective. We hope that you’ll love this concept too and that in turn, you will love the plants because if you love the plants, you will want to do what you can to protect them. Plant based skincare will over time, transform your skin and maybe in a small way, help in transforming our world too.