Ingredients on Mono Skin Care
Our ingredients were carefully selected over many months of tests to achieve the final recipe for our product.
Each oil and the beeswax are obtained from reliable sources that respect sustainable extraction of natural products.
With that in mind, our main ingredients are beeswax, copaíba oil, jojoba oil, shea butter, apricot kernel oil and arnica oil.
Beeswax
"Let us begin by considering the commonest matters, those which we believe to be the most distinctly comprehended, to wit, the bodies which we touch and see; not indeed bodies in general, for these general ideas are usually a little more confused, but let us consider one body in particular. Let us take, for example, this piece of wax: it has been taken quite freshly from the hive, and it has not yet lost the sweetness of the honey which it contains; it still retains somewhat of the odor of the flowers from which it has been culled; its colour, its figure, its size are apparent; it is hard, cold, easily handled, and if you strike it with the finger, it will emit a sound. Finally all the things which are requisite to cause us distinctly to recognize a body, are met with in it. But notice that while I speak and approach the fire what remained of the taste is exhaled, the smell evaporates, the colour alters, the figure is destroyed, the size increases, it becomes liquid, it heats, scarcely can one handle it, and when one strikes it, no sound is emitted. Does the same wax remain after this change? We must confess that it remains; none would judge otherwise. What then did I know so distinctly in this piece of wax? It could certainly be nothing of all that the senses brought to my notice, since all these things which fall under taste, smell, sight, touch, and hearing, are found to be changed, and yet the same wax remains."
René Descartes
Copaíba oil (Copaiffera langsdorfii)
Image from Kew Gardens Herbarium
Scientific Publication about skin-healing properties of Copaiba oil.
Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis.)
Image retrieved from Kew Gardens Herbarium
Arnica (Arnica montana)
Image retrieved from Kew Gardens Herbarium
Shea butter (Vitellaria paradoxa)
Shea butter is an extract from this African species. The extract contains different oils and fatty-acids, which when used on your skin helps hydrate and nourish its layers. It melts at body temperature and is easily absorbed by the skin.
Image retrieved from Kew Gardens Herbarium
Cannabidiol (CBD)
Here we present some recent studies regarding its benefits to the skin: