Sustainability in a glance quick video!

Today I was making a face toner for our client in Lancaster, watch video in a glance: from ingredients to shipping wrapping it is all with zero waste in mind. 

Watch step by step how we package our toners into sustainable, plastic free and eco-friendly packing.

Actual size of the bottle is quite decent - 250ml glass bottle. 

Here in Perfance we use only recycled paper for wrapping as most of our sales comes from online channels so we take a good care of shipping wrapping so your goods arrive safe and sound. 

Finally boxing - we do not add any marketing cards or advertisement in parcels that we send to you, just a thank you card and tell who we are. So in case you are ordering as a gift you won't get any receipts in your package. 

I'll be posting series of videos #HowTo make liquid castile soap 🤲🥽🥼

STEP 1: Prepare!

On the video are measured oils - Raw Organic Coconut and Extra virgin olive oil, bottles, protective gear: goggles and gloves, heat proof glass bowl.

When you are making soap very important to wear protective gear as everything is very hot!

Also very important to know when your soap is ready and reaches the trace so then you can turn your soap base into a liquid soap and bottle it.

Step 2: Mixing water and potash

Mixing water and potash: very important to add potash to water (do not pour water over potash, it will create dangerous splashes!) little by little as it heats up very quickly, once mixed well add it to your oils to create a soap.

Step 3: Adding potash to oils.

Oils have to be melted and mixed together.

Once potash is completely dissolved and water has cleared out add it to you oils and that's when the mixing is starting. Wear protective gear at all times! 

 Step 4: Mixing!

Get the process started and mix with hand mixer for at least five minutes. Heating up a mixture on marie bain will speed up the reaction, but you don't have to, eventually mixture will turn in to a thick blob which will be the base for your liquid castile soap. 

 Step 5: Do not let mixture to separate. 

Try mixing every 10 minutes until the whole thing is well incorporated and thick. Do not use any metal spoons and tableware as it will react with soap. 

Step 6: Reaching the trace.

After mixing several times mixture will reach the trace - small foam will appear and translucent blobs.

Step 7: Soap is completely translucent.

When soap is thick and translucent it's ready! It will reach amber colour and will be difficult to mix, foam will be gone and soap is ready! 

Step 8: Dissolving soap base in water to make it a liquid castile soap. 

Adding hot water little by little and after 15 hrs your soap will be completely dissolved. The best way is mixing consonantly, hand mixer will only create a foam. 

Step 9 Bottling and maturing.  

After 15 hrs of dissolving I strain and bottle soap ready to mature for 3 months. 

 I got couple of vintage bottles with tight closures and I store castile liquid soap in a dark place for 3 months.

Castile soap has many uses, head over here to read blog 12 uses for Castile Soap

After 3 months I bottle my soap into a glass 250ml bottles and use only aluminium caps.

No plastic and only sustainable inside and out! 

French Green clay - creamy and smell of Rose Water! Infused with Black Seed oil to make your skin matte and fresh! 

"I apply it every morning when I go through 'a bad skin week', it helps reduce inflamed acne or red spots and keep my skin matte when my skin oil production is on the peak." - Alina Perfance. 

Name of the mineral is ILLITE MONTMORILLONITE KAOLINITE or just a French Green Clay.

This mask is to creamy you can use it every morning to give your skin a boost of healthy look with zero shine and make up will lasts longer. 

Perfance is not only a sustainable brand, but most of our ingredients are edible and biodegradable!

For example the additive that we add to create our moisturiser is edible and used in baking and chilled desserts. 

Perfance Skincare is free from Mineral Oil, Petroleum, any types of Polymers or Texture Enhancers.

Perfance Skincare is Fragrance-Free and the scent of our products are the simple aromas of Raw Materials like Shea Butter and Essential Oils.

We do not use any type of Colourants or Colours - our face creams gain colour only from adding Oils: Skin Food Moisturiser is green from Tamanu Oil which is expressed naturally and remains Green with a Nutty scent.

Perfance Pure Skin Moisturiser is yellow due to Calendula oil which is made by soaking Calendula petals in Carrier Oils like Jojoba, Wheatgerm and Sunflower Oils in order to gain soothing and healing properties.  It is impossible to extract oil from Calendula flowers.

The Perfance face serum called Elixir No1 is rich in colour and aroma! The bright orange is from Sea Buckthorn pulp that is made into a paste and extracted with the help of CO2 to preserve most of the plant's natural goodness. The scent is from Rosemary Leaf paste, it doesn't smell of Rosemary but has a gentle flower-fruity scent. 

Neroli Toner is bright Yellow in colour due to Orange Flowers being organic and naturally derived by distillation. Orange Flower or Neroli is incredibly good for Oily and Combination skins as it really cleanses the skin and mattifies at the same time.

'Try to pour Toner into a small spray bottle and apply during the day and you'll see results straight away - skin is more matte in seconds.'

Another useful additive we use is Beeswax.

'I personally use it for Salves as I think it is much better than any other plant wax, it is more antiseptic and more healing than many other waxes.'

Foot Salve is a bright orangie-green due to the Virgin Olive Oil and Yellow Beeswax that we use. Actual Beeswax is very highly aromatic and has a sweet balsamic scent. It is incredibly healing on its own and with botanicals added it works almost instantly. You can also use it if you got any insect bites and it will soothe and stop itchiness almost instantly. Good stuff!

Perfance Face Masks are made from Mineral clays like Moroccan Lava Clay or Volcanic ash called Bentonite. Depending on the natural mineral structure Clay is Green, Yellow or Ashy Brown. All Face Masks are ready made and you can use them straight away. We do not use Kaolin in our Face Masks as it has very little use for skin - it just makes it tight!

Using our masks every day for a week will give you the effect of Dermabrasion and Microdermabrasion and improves skin texture, makes complexion even and skin firmer. For more information visit our Face Masks menu and choose your face mask!

Why we choose natural Ingredients for our skincare?

Back in the days when I was a customer I was always challenging myself to find the best product for my skin.

It was incredibly difficult to find a decent face cream that doesn't have one hundred and one ingredients in it... or face cream that doesn't come in a cheap plastic container.

When I started making my own face cream in 2016 I have used only the best raw materials that I had no doubts would do only good for my skin.

Handmade: hand poured, hand-bottled, hand-labelled and Castile.

Castile means made from Olives.

Olives green and amber, olives ripen in the sun of a happy summertime in Italy, salty-Mediterranean Greece, siesta-hot Spain.

Olives that happily absorbed the sun, the summer breeze and warmth of earth.

Squeezed into Extra Virgin Oil, full of flavour and fattiness.

Unrefined. 

Soap crafting is truly inspirational for me.

Doing everything by hand gives the merchandise a part of your own energy. 

Only wooden and glass tools are involved in this commodity. 

A ritual dress and fifteen hours of your pure attention, preparation and anticipation. 

How does Castile Soap smell?

Like a soaked wooden barrel left out in the sun, coarse but pure. 

Waiting for the trace is like waiting for miracle. 

The hazy pudding turns into an amber glossy liquid, and eventually turns to gold.

Soap Alchemy.