Is a Mountain Magic face wrap a solution for wrinkles? We can’t promise miracles, but it certainly helps. The Mountain Magic face wrap nourishes the elastin that helps make your skin “bounce back” from stretching brought on by gravity and time. Elastin is composed of silica, and your body needs sulfur to metabolize that silica into the framework that holds collagen in place. The Mountain Magic face wrap provides these two essential elastin elements in abundance, and, thanks to the grinding action of glaciers over thousands of years, these elements have been naturally ground to very fine colloid particles that easily penetrate skin. Mountain Magic Glacial Milk Clay contains 29.5 percent silica and trace amounts of sulfur; Hot Springs H2O contains 35 percent silica, 2 percent sulfur.
How does the Mountain Magic face wrap compare to the Blue Lagoon mud mask from Iceland? There are geological similarities–both are harvested from ancient volcanic basins where hot springs bubble up to the surface. The Blue Lagoon is blue due to the presence of blue-green algae, which is not present in any of the Rocky Mountain hot springs. Otherwise Mountain Magic and Blue Lagoon are similar in a spectral analysis (see Documentation). The biggest difference is the price. A tube of Blue Lagoon clay costs $164; a Mountain Magic facial or body wrap kits cost $29.95 on Etsy.
How do I know your lotion contains natural vitamin E? Batch data analyses are available in the Documentation section of the website; we don’t just say it is natural vitamin E, we prove it. But the easiest way to tell is that it is brown. White lotions are like white bread: The oils have been refined, like white flour, and nutrients removed, then replaced with chemical substitutes. Lotions are white for the same reason milk is white, because homogenization suspends fats in the water, refracting light. Unfortunately for lotion chemistry, adding water requires an emulsifier to force the water to mix with oil as well as preservative chemicals to prevent bacteria growth. We conscientiously avoid this predicament. Wild-craft makes a waterless lotion with unrefined oils, rich in natural sources of vitamin E, an important skin antioxidant that also helps preserve the lotion. We craft the lotion in small, three-gallon batches and closely observe temperatures before introducing unrefined oils to ensure the vitamin E isomers stay intact. Natural vitamin E is six times more biovailable than the tocopherol acetate added to white lotions. Brown is better!
Isn’t wild flax oil just as good as hemp or jojoba oil? We use wild flax oil as a base in our skincare products because it has the optimal balance of omega 3s and omega 6s for human nutrition. This is superior to hemp or jojoba, which in other respects are excellent oils. We believe whatever is best for you to eat is also best for your skin. Nourish your skin naturally!
Why is the lotion container so small? Waterless lotions go much further than white lotions, which contain as much as 60% water. A little dab of waterless lotion will do you, so a 1-ounce container will last several months with daily use. The vitamin E in the lotion degrades slowly at room temperature, expiring between 6 months to a year from date of pressing, so running out of lotion within a year will encourage you to return for a re-fill. Reduce, re-use, recycle. Refrigerating the lotion extends its life.
Do you use preservatives? No. The salts and clay do not need preservatives because water and oil are kept separate from them. They are 100 percent pure and do not include anti-caking agents, so you will need to crush the packet before using to remove any lumps. Our cream is anhydrous (waterless). Laboratory test data on our products are available under “Documentation.” Check the “Best used by” date stamp when you use the cream. We recommend refrigerating it to preserve its vitamin E and to inhibit bacteria growth. This is a small price to pay for a completely chemical-free product.