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When people embrace the unpredictable nature of life, they walk with a deeper connection and purpose on this earth.
These words capture the guiding philosophy of Amazonian SkinFood ™ Company co-founders Rose and Shane - who met on their journeys from opposite sides of the equator in 2019 - are both driven by a desire for spiritual growth and life mindfully lived.
Rose, a solo mum backpacking from Brazil with her daughter Alanis, crossed paths with Shane in San Francisco while volunteering on the same social project. Their time together sparked long conversations about love, venturing into the unknown, natural medicine and intentional communities, and a new family arose.
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For the next two years, they traveled to the most beautiful destinations that nature has to offer and volunteered at farms and communes in California to learn more about sustainable living all while home-schooling Alanis and showing her what life has to offer when you open yourself up to the synchronicity's and endless possibilities that the open road and universe has to offer.
Four years ago, Shane, decided to leave his "normal" life on the East Coast behind. He sold all his possessions and bought a one-way ticket to San Francisco, CA, seeking a new purpose and adventure in his life. In 2018, he spent five months walking 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada via the Pacific Crest Trail and during this time he developed a deep connection with nature. This journey forever changed his path in life. Since then he has been focused on learning more about off-grid communities, eco-villages, gardening and permaculture, plant medicine, creative/ resource based economies and other thoughtful and sustainable ways of living.
From a young age, Rose learned that for centuries, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest had been using effective ingredients for treating skin, hair and for healing wounds. Rose was raised by a botanist in Santa Catarina, south of Brazil, whose knowledge of healing plants earned her Godmother the moniker of the neighborhood’s “pharmacist.” For her, there was no existence of doctors and pharmaceuticals, and everything always worked in harmony, improving community health. Rose has the first-hand experience of the power of natural medicine in healing all sorts of ailments and has used this knowledge as the foundation of Amazonian SkinFood™.
Perfecting the product formulation has been an exercise in patience, but well worth it. Rose and Shane had a long list of requirements to be accomplished before bringing their products to market: the product had to be safe enough to be used by a pregnant woman, environmentally friendly, vegan, cruelty-free, use no artificial fragrances, and had to use safe food grade preservatives. And most importantly, the product had to be highly effective.
Her sensitivities to toxic and ineffective skin products led her to put her two years of studying chemistry, her Masters’ Degree in Business, and ancestral background in herbalism to use. To fully research and develop natural formulas we partnered with expert scientists in the field of safer ingredients and natural solutions.
After almost 2 years, Amazonian SkinFood ™ skincare line is nothing short of amazing, creating luxurious products with high-quality ingredients for smooth and glowy skin that are as good for you on the inside as they feel on the outside.
The beauty industry is full of harsh chemicals and harmful ingredients that can cause different health problems. What we put on our body is just as important as what we put in our body. We want to take the confusion out of Clean Beauty. Clean beauty should be simple + safe + good for your skin and good for the earth. We opt for natural formulas that aren’t based on synthetic ingredients or artificial fragrances, but instead formulated with cold-pressed organic oils and butters from the most nutrient-rich plants on the planet.
We strive towards more sustainable packaging through the use of glass
components and responsibly sourced paper. We avoid plastic as much as we can, leaving it only in the lids and caps, as the industry still doesn’t supply a better solution for closures. But it isn’t enough; that’s only the beginning of the product’s life-cycle. We believe end-of-life is far more critical to ensure products don’t end up in a landfill.
