Notes from the
lab and the coast
What we grow, how we test, and how to look after skin that lives outside. Written by the people who make the formulas.
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The rules we pick by
A third of a plant, never the same stretch twice, only in season. How we take from a coast we want to keep.
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A winter routine for wind-dried skin
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Why our jars are heavy
Thick glass is meant to be kept. The refill pods that click inside it are how we use less of everything else.
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How to read an Aune label
A number, a name, a size and a dose. What every line on the bottle tells you, and why we print it.
“If an ingredient is on the label, it is there to do something.”
Inês Marques, formulator and co-founder
