Our Laboratory

Today I want to tell you about the laboratory where our natural cosmetics are born and tell you about my day spent in this enchanting place observing up close how a cream is produced.

The laboratory is divided into various interconnected rooms, each dedicated to a specific function.

I put on a lab coat and a cap and enter the first room where I am immediately enveloped by an intense scent, lavender mixes with the delicate scent of dog rose and then with the balsamic and resinous scent of mastic and horsetail. Here the medicinal herbs in maceration, the hydrolates and the ready-made extracts are stored. They are there, closed in glass vials, neatly lined up, waiting to be used in cosmetic preparations.

We hand-pick the plants we use in our creams , respecting their seasonality in uncontaminated environments, far from smog and large industrial complexes.

Immediately after harvesting, the plants are processed. Some are macerated to extract the active ingredients and filtered to eliminate any remaining impurities, while others are distilled in steam currents to obtain hydrolates. It is a long process that requires patience and accuracy but the final result repays all the waiting, both the scent and the quality of the product are clearly superior to those cosmetics that are prepared with dry plants.

Then I arrive at the real heart of the laboratory, the place where the ingredients come together to create creams, emulsions and serums. The room is aseptic, everything is sterilized to avoid contamination. On long white tables are placed beakers and thermometers, scales and spatulas. The turboemulsifier stands out among all, the magic wand of the formulations that serves to combine two phases, oil and water, which would otherwise remain separate. The preparation of the cream in fact consists of several phases, the ingredients are weighed and mixed, they combine with each other giving life to new consistencies, and in each phase something is added: a thickener, an oil, an emulsifier, a humectant, and finally the active ingredients, the functional substances that act on the skin.

Each step is microbiologically tested up to primary packaging .

Furthermore, before placing the cosmetic on the market, stability tests are carried out to determine whether it maintains chemical-physical quality standards, functionality, safety and pleasantness; compatibility tests are also carried out between the packaging and the product itself, in order to ensure that the packaging does not alter the product with potential migrations of substances and vice versa.

A key figure is Luca , our cosmetologist, the mind and also the arm of the preparations who, thanks to his knowledge and skills, formulates and develops the products. A lot of know-how, but not only. The thing that struck me is that, despite the presence of cutting-edge technology in the laboratory, some steps of the manufacturing process are done by hand . It is meticulous, artisanal, even tiring work, but done with passion and love. The result is that each cream is unique, cared for in detail, it is not mass-produced like in an assembly line.

When the emulsion is ready it is transferred to another environment, at a controlled temperature, and is left to rest, indoors, undisturbed, for a few days; subsequently the cream will be packaged and labeled by hand and then finally it will be ready to be used. New paragraph