The House
Hand-blended in Fox Lake, Illinois. Eight plant oils. No filler. Every drop, intentional.
The Origin
We picked up a luxury body oil at a department store. Four ounces. Fifty-eight dollars. We turned the bottle around to read the ingredients.
Caprylic/capric triglyceride. Cyclopentasiloxane. Dimethicone. PPG-3 benzyl ether myristate. Synthetic ester after synthetic ester. The plant oils (the things people think they're paying for) were in the bottom half of the list. The first eighty percent of what I was holding was lab-synthesized slip agents.
Not bad ingredients. Just not the ingredients we were paying for.
We put the bottle back. That night, we started reading.
The Philosophy
Every Burnish & Bloom oil is a focused blend of plant carrier oils and a single fragrance, drawn from a palette of eight. A short list you can pronounce, and nothing you can't.
The ratios shift across the three formulas to create three distinct cosmetic finishes. Bare leads with grapeseed for a lightweight, matte-silk feel. Golden leads with sunflower for a silky, luminous finish. Midnight leads with jojoba for the richest, satin-dewy finish.
What we don't use: silicones, synthetic emollients, mineral oil, dimethicone, parabens, phthalates, artificial colorants.
Not because they're forbidden. Because the formulas don't need them.
The Production
Hand-blended in small batches in Fox Lake, Illinois. Every batch is carefully weighed, blended, checked, and bottled by hand.
Each batch is checked under raking light before it leaves. If a bottle has visible sediment, a misaligned label, or a cap that doesn't pour evenly, it doesn't go out. Quality control at this scale is human.
The Pricing
Burnish & Bloom oils are $19.99 for eight fluid ounces. The price is intentional: a restrained formula and a generous bottle without a traditional retail markup.
How: no retail markup, no distributor margin, no celebrity ambassador budget. Direct from the workspace to the customer. The savings get returned to the formula and to you.
The goal is not to be cheap. The goal is to be honest about what the formula actually costs to make.
Our Values
Eight plant oils in the palette. Plant-derived carriers, no synthetic filler. The label is short because the formula is honest.
Hand-blended in Illinois. Each batch is checked under raking light before it ships. No factory. A workspace.
Premium ingredients at indie prices. Twenty dollars for eight ounces. What the formula deserves, what you can afford.
The Collection
Built one at a time. Read each one, find yours.