How To Use Our Skin Boost Oils | Philosophia Botanica

How To Use Philosophia Botanica
Skin Booster Face Oils

Cleanse. Feed. Regenerate. Glow.

Our Skin Booster Face Oils bring together nourishing botanicals and adaptogens to support your skin’s natural balance, hydration and radiance.

We believe in regenerative beauty: a mindful, less-is-more approach that feeds the skin with powerful plant-based ingredients and supports its changing needs through every cycle and season. Just a few drops can help replenish, soften and comfort the skin, leaving it feeling nourished, balanced and naturally luminous.

Explore our suggestions below to discover the ritual that feels right for your skin.

We see the skin through the lens of Chinese medicine, and as a reflection of inner balance, wellbeing and vitality. Our formulations are guided by cycles and seasons, bringing together powerful botanicals and adaptogens to support your skin as it changes, helping you move through each stage with nourishment, balance and ease.

Listen to your skin, adapt your ritual to the season and its changing needs, and remember: less is more.

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Green Botanical Boosters

Botanical Qi Face Serum

Powered by adaptogens and plant-based retinol. It deeply nourishes and supports the skin through changing seasons and cycles, helping maintain the skin barrier, hydration and a healthy-looking radiance.

Botanical Qi is especially beautiful during seasonal transitions or moments when your skin needs additional nourishment and comfort. Use it after cleansing, morning or evening, whenever your skin feels depleted, dull, dry or in need of extra support.

- Best used after a Gua Sha ritual with our FEMME or GODDESS+ stones, or a gentle tapping session to awaken the skin and activate the botanical ingredients.

SIR Face Oil

Created especially for men’s skin, SIR is a concentrated botanical oil for skin that feels dry, depleted or in need of targeted nourishment. Use a few drops after cleansing, alone or layered beneath a richer formula, to support the skin barrier and restore a healthy-looking glow.

Skin Booster Face Oil

A versatile formula for daily nourishment, facial massage and seasonal skin support. A small drop is more than enough.

- Best used under makeup or as a nourishing booster during your facial yoga massage routine.

How to Use Our Skin Boosters

After cleansing, add our formulas to your skincare routine as targeted skin boosters.

Apply lighter formulas first, followed by richer formulas as nourishing final layers. Apply 2–3 drops to clean skin, including the face, neck and décolleté, avoiding the eye area. Layer lighter serums first, followed by richer oils or balms. Use morning or evening according to your skin’s needs, introducing more active formulas gradually. During the day, always finish with sun protection. Keep your oils stored away from direct sunlight and heat, and remember that a little goes a long way.

We believe in a less-is-more approach: a few drops are enough to activate the formula, nourish the skin and support a healthy-looking glow. Our skincare oils can help replenish the skin with botanical lipids, vitamins, antioxidants and adaptogens, while helping protect against free radicals and environmental oxidative stress.

Botanical Vitamin Boosters

Antioxidant Face Oil

A gentle, vitamin-rich oil suitable for every season. Ideal for daily nourishment and self-care facial massage, especially when the skin needs added softness, comfort and radiance.

- Best used under makeup or as a nourishing booster during your facial yoga massage routine.

Bloom Vitamin C Face Serum

A highly vitaminic botanical booster, naturally rich in vitamin C. It is a beautiful choice during life stages when the skin appears dull, tired or less radiant, including menopause. Vitamin C helps support antioxidant protection, collagen production and a brighter-looking complexion. It can be used day or night, although daytime application is especially beneficial.

Multivitamin Face Balm

A deeply nourishing, highly adaptogenic balm enriched with goji berries and schisandra berries. Ideal when the skin feels dry, depleted or in need of extra comfort. Can be used day or night, and in combination with the Bloom Vitamin C Face Serum as a weekly night mask.

Face Serum Gold Edition

A luxurious botanical serum designed to nourish, replenish and illuminate the skin.

- Pair it with our Acu-Beauty Activator Pens or Flow Kit to enhance your facial ritual and reveal a softer, more radiant glow.

Port’Oro Face Serum

A concentrated face oil serum created to feed the skin with powerful botanicals and adaptogenic support whenever it needs added vitality, nourishment and radiance.

- Best used with our Acu-Beauty Activator Pens or Flow Kit to enhance your facial ritual and help awaken the skin’s natural radiance.

Our botanical oils can be used in various ways. Just a couple of drops are enough to activate the formula, support the skin barrier, help neutralise free radicals and boost the skin’s intake of botanical vitamins and antioxidants, leaving the complexion nourished, radiant and revitalised.

As skin boosters, layered into your existing routine
As nourishing final layers, to seal in moisture and comfort the skin
As stand-alone facial oils, when a simple, minimal ritual is all your skin needs

Gently press or massage a few drops into clean skin, allowing the formula to absorb.

Listen to your skin, adapt your ritual to the season and its changing needs, and remember: less is more.

Gentle Formulas

Skin Sensitive Face Serum

A gentle, comforting formula for delicate, reactive or easily stressed skin. It can also be used around the delicate eye area; apply a very small amount with your ring finger, gently pressing around the orbital bone and avoiding direct contact with the eyes.

- Use morning or evening after cleansing, alone or beneath a richer oil or balm.

Phyto-Retinol Face Oil

Phyto-Retinol Face Oil is a botanical alternative to traditional retinol, formulated to support the skin’s natural renewal process while nourishing and replenishing the skin barrier. It helps improve the appearance of tone, texture and radiance, leaving the complexion feeling smoother, softer and more revitalised.

- Use in the evening after cleansing, applying just a few drops to the face, neck and décolleté. It can be used alone or layered beneath a richer balm. Introduce it gradually, especially if your skin is sensitive, and use daytime sun protection as part of your routine.

Embrace the Art of Regenerative Beauty

In Chinese medicine, beauty is understood as an expression of balance, vitality and the relationship between the skin and the whole person. Our regenerative beauty approach reflects this perspective through considered formulations, seasonal rituals and a less-is-more philosophy. Each application becomes an opportunity to nourish the skin, support its natural vitality and reconnect with the rhythms of your own cycles, simply, mindfully and consistently.

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