Available Sizes

2 oz / 60 ml

4 oz / 120 ml

8 oz / 240 ml

32 oz / 960 ml

Product Information

Ideal for travel, for easily congested skin, for hot humid environments.

Use in any climate condition for oily skin that clogs easily or is prone to slight breakouts, or dry skin that tolerates lotions and creams poorly.

The organic hydrosols soothe and brighten in this skin friendly formula that is easily carried for travel.

Key Benefits

Perfect for unstable skin

Well tolerated, stabilizing formula

Organic ingredients

Refreshing natural scent

Skin brightening

Fast, anytime moisturizing

Tack free

Targeted Skin Type

Skin subject to wide temperature changes and changing environments as occurs during travel or oily, congested, and dry skin in hot, humid climates.

Skincare Concerns

Visible aging and moisturize balance.

Formulation

Mist

Ingredients: White Label

Organic green tea, organic hydrosols of arnica, cucumber and yucca, kosher glycerine, polyquat 81, polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate, citrus extracts and camphor

Ingredients: Gray Label

Organic green tea, organic hydrosols of arnica, cucumber and yucca, kosher glycerine, polyquat 81, polysorbate 80, sodium benzoate

Ingredient Call Outs

Free of parabens, formaldehyde, formaldehyde releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates (SLS & SLES), triclocarban, triclosan. Gluten and cruelty free. Acid free. Glycol free.

Introduction

The combination of various organic hydrosols and surfactants in our CALMING MIST provides a very versatile platform for moisturizing, toning and brightening without an occlusive layering of ingredients.

CALMING MIST also serves to help spread our DROPS which are oil based and need wetted skin to apply evenly.

Skin weakens with age and weakens further with excessive topical product application. The need to limit the total ingredient load on the skin means rethinking what goes on and stays on the skin. Our REFERENCE TOPICS provide much background on this key skincare issue.

The use of CALMING MIST can substitute for emulsions in those instances where it is hot or cold and dry and the need for a refreshing spritz of effective moisturizing, not just water, is more practical, especially for those of you in stressful environments.

HOW TO USE: Moisturizing

1. Shake container before every use.

2. Best results if you allow to dry on skin without rub-in.

HOW TO USE: Applying Actives

1. Shake container before every use.

2. Mix with active AND also spritz skin area before applying active.

For your skin if these conditions exist:

All but dermatitis

Not for your skin if these conditions exist:

Dermatitis

Recommended frequency of use:

As needed

Actives while using CALMING MIST:

Any

Other leave-ons acceptable:

Any

Avoid:

Scrubs

Acid peels

Benzoyl peroxide

The use of moisturizers creates a whole new set of problems. Why? Moisturizers can weaken the skin.

From the 1930’s through to the early 1980’s moisturizers were essentially petrolatum (or Vaseline) mixed with water into an emulsion scented with rose. In terms of skin fatigue at the cellular level they were better than what is on the shelf today. Why? Because the grease did not absorb.

The skin wasted no energy hauling off metabolites (food) from topical products it could not use and in so doing did not sacrifice energy it needs. Energy needed to protect now goes to hauling things to a skin landfill - there are such things - we call them ‘pigment spots’ and they have skyrocketed in appearance.

This has given rise to the spot removal business using lasers. However, those same spots will return a few months later in the same place, post laser, because these are the skin’s reservoirs (landfills) for cellular waste, called lipofuscin - which resembles dried linseed oil.

Moisturizers can be difficult to formulate if you care about avoiding problems like adding to skin landfills, creating spots and premature aging.

302 Skincare moisturizers have very little in common with most other formulas today. The days of using petrolatum and mineral oil are over because consumers do not like the idea of straight chain hydrocarbons on their skin and the greasy feel.

Most formulas in skincare today however are built around the same architecture of 1955 except without the petrolatum and mineral oil. These formulas tend to be sticky and will ‘bleed out’ on a hot day. They are occlusive and use a variety of glycols to dilute the occlusive, heavy feel. Glycols are fine for car antifreeze, but not so much for skin.

302 Skincare does not use this formula architecture. We have found that we can keep things up on the surface without using grease. We rely on polymers sourced naturally to do this and some know-how in combining these with natural oils to keep those near the surface also.

We found also that the use of natural oils, whose chemistry resembles skin oils, tends to not be metabolized by the skin, just like petrolatum, and feels much better if these oils are not emulsified but simply suspended in a formula. Or just go freestyle and use only oils as a means to put desirable metabolites into the skin.

Choosing a moisturizer to avoid problems is what makes sense and 302 Skincare has several ways to go about this. Our CALMING MIST is very convenient. Our pure DROPS can be mixed with CALMING MIST for a very effective barrier that avoids all the emulsifiers and waxes and so on that only wastes skin energy.

Our polymer suspended formulas that look more traditional are very unique in their combination of barrier protection and light feel.

Learn more about this approach to skincare at our REFERENCE TOPICS.