or 5 ways to bring botanicals into your bathroom
You can have a spa like retreat experience in your own bathroom. You don't need a luxury resort, or even a large bathroom, to create that feeling at home. A few thoughtfully chosen botanical products can turn an everyday bathroom into your own little Colorado-inspired spa.
At Colorado Aromatics, we like to think of a spa experience as beginning in the field. Many of the herbs we use are grown right here on our Colorado farm, where we cultivate, harvest, distill and extract botanicals for our skincare formulations.
Here's how we'd create a relaxing botanical retreat at home.
Start with lavender
A simple bouquet or two of dried lavender in your bathroom can set a relaxing and fragrant mood.
Lavender is one of those plants that immediately changes the feeling of a space. Its familiar herbal aroma is calming and its soft purple flowers bring a little of the Colorado sunshine indoors.
You can have a few stems in a simple vase or a small dried bouquet near the tub or sink where you can enjoy it whenever you walk into the room.
We grow lavender on our farm and use it in several Colorado Aromatics products, bringing the plant from our fields into your daily self-care rituals.
Spritz a botanical mist
A facial mist is an easy way to make an ordinary skincare routine feel more like a spa treatment.
Keep a bottle of Cucumber Face & Body Mist or Lavender Face & Body Mist beside the sink. After cleansing, spritz your face and let the cool botanical mist settle onto your skin.
You can also use a mist throughout the day whenever your skin needs a refreshing pick-me-up.
Cucumber gives the experience a fresh, clean feeling, while lavender adds a distinctly herbal, relaxing note.
And there's something especially satisfying about using a botanical mist knowing that the story began with plants rather than a laboratory full of synthetic fragrances.
Make exfoliation part of the ritual
Next, reach for Lavender & Rose Salt Scrub (or one of our other scents).
A good scrub can turn a quick shower into something that feels much more intentional. Massage the scrub gently over damp skin, concentrating on areas that tend to become rough or dry, then rinse.
The combination of mineral-rich salt, nourishing oils, rose and lavender creates a sensory experience as well as a skincare ritual.
You don't have to do this every day. Think of it as something to look forward to 2-3 times a week when you have a little extra time for yourself.
Give your face a little spa treatment
Now it's time for a mask.
Our Clay Mask is an easy addition to an at-home facial. Mix this powdered mask with a liquid; our hydrosol spritzers or some herb tea. Apply and give yourself a few quiet minutes while the mask does its work.
This is the part of the ritual to step away from your phone. Put on some music. Make a cup of tea. Sit beside a window.
Let this be time when you don't have to accomplish anything.
Follow with antioxidant-rich skincare
After rinsing your mask, refresh your skin with one of the botanical mists and follow with Springtide Gold Face Cream.
This is where the Colorado Aromatics approach to skincare brings together our two worlds: farm grown herbs and science.
Springtide Gold combines antioxidant-rich botanicals with scientifically selected skincare ingredients, including vitamin C ester, alpha lipoic acid, green tea, rosemary, calendula, fennel and peptides.
Our goal isn't simply to put herbs into a jar. We formulate with an understanding of skin biology and the chemistry of our ingredients, then combine that knowledge with the botanicals we love to grow.
That's what we mean by cultivated skincare.
Don't forget your hands and body
A spa experience doesn’t stop at your face.
Keep Lavender Mountain Mist Hand & Body Lotion near the sink or shower and massage it into your hands and body after bathing.
The lavender aroma brings the ritual full circle, while moisturizing your skin helps leave it feeling soft and comfortable.
It's especially nice at the end of the day, when you want your skincare routine to signal that it's time to slow down.
Put it all together
You don't need to buy everything at once. Start with one or two things that make your bathroom feel more inviting.
A lavender bouquet.
A botanical mist beside the sink.
A jar of botanical salt scrub in the shower.
A clay mask waiting for your next quiet evening.
A rich Springtide face cream on the counter.
A bottle of Mountain Mist lotion beside the bath.
Little details like these can transform a functional room into a place you look forward to spending time in. And perhaps that's the real luxury: creating a space at home where you can pause, breathe and take care of yourself.
Your Colorado Aromatics Spa Ritual Summarized
Set the scene: Lavender bouquet
Refresh: Cucumber Face & Body Mist or Lavender Face & Body Mist
Exfoliate: Lavender & Rose Salt Scrub
Treat: Clay Mask
Restore: Springtide Gold Face Cream
Moisturize: Lavender Mountain Mist Hand & Body Lotion
Enjoy: A few quiet minutes to yourself
From lavender growing in our Colorado fields to botanicals distilled and formulated into skincare, Colorado Aromatics brings a little piece of the farm into your daily rituals.
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