As the founder of formulator of Creature Soleil, I wanted to introduce myself. I am a photographer living in the foothills of Santa Barbara County with a long history in the beauty business and an avid curiosity in the science of wellness and beauty. I have a non-linear background working with international brands such as Weleda, Cellex-C, C.O.Bigelow, L’Occitane, Les Bains du Marais, and now my own — co-founded with holistic lifestyle entrepreneur and educator, Anna Oster. I have studied and received degrees in culinary arts in Paris, herbalism in West Sonoma County, Photography in Savannah, Georgia — and had a proper upbringing in Virginia. California has been my home though for 30 years and where I have raised my two teen sons wolf dog.
I founded Creature Soleil with the singular desire to create a product for the bath that would actually benefit skin instead of drying it out. What developed was a product that not only transforms an ordinary soak into a replenishing skin treatment, but a formula that could transcend the tub alone, and provide the skin with actual nutrition, with actual visible and tactile results.
SUNBATH Serum Powder is a concentrated, bioavailable powder that simply mixes with warm water (5 scoops in the bath, or 2 scoops directly to warm, wet skin in shower or sauna) to provide a unique, absorbable, aqueous masque for skin that imparts benefit even after it rinses off. Its creamy, powder-to-serum formula gives skin an immediate hydrated, silky feel, and over time — creates glowing, firmer, healthier, more even-toned skin.
I source every ingredient with the highest purity and safety standards, held to the same rigor as supplements, and I mix in small batches in California. The ingredients of SUNBATH are natural, non-toxic, organic when possible, with deep regard for sustainability. The formula rinses clear and leaves no trace behind. You have to feel the silkiness of SUNBATH for yourself, and smell its hypnotizing scent of vetiver and eucalyptus. There is nothing like it.
If you're curious what's in SUNBATH, and why — I go deeply into the science, ingredient by ingredient, and with why traditional bath “salts” might be aging our skin in the first place.