Natural body care from Dr. Hauschka

The joy of a warm embrace

Celebrating Cosmetics Culture

Warmth and devoted attention. A little time to focus on yourself. To be mindful and relax to the very tips of your toes. Sound like a spa break? In some ways, it is. With the difference that you can enjoy it every day, morning and evening, in the comfort of your own home – while treating yourself to natural body care with Dr. Hauschka. After all, our daily body care routine is based on warmth, attention and your natural rhythm.

We were taught that our normal body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius and that a higher or lower temperature indicates that we are ill. Despite this, our core temperature is as rhythmic as everything else in life. It is the highest at 3 p.m. in the afternoon and the lowest at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Our entire body acts as a service provider for this basic 24-hour thermal rhythm, which is incidentally directly linked to our awareness.

In today’s world, however, we often lack the basic warmth – whether because our clothes are too thin or due to everyday stress. Our bodies have cooled down and this causes us problems with regard to falling and staying asleep. We remain wide-awake long into the night, perhaps yearning for a warm evening atmosphere. It’s simply impossible to fall asleep with cold feet.

We focus on natural rhythms and use natural skin care from Dr. Hauschka to help you achieve a healthy thermal rhythm. For example, when you get up in the morning, the blood vessels near the surface of your skin contract, allowing the warmth to become centred, or booting up internally. You connect to your inner self and feel awake. At this time of day, our Lemon Lemongrass products are the perfect choice for helping you feel centred and alert. When you head to bed at night, the warmth wants to flow back to the tips of your fingers and toes. Your blood vessels near the surface of the skin expand and your hands and feet warm up. A warm foot bath with a Dr. Hauschka Bath Essence in the evening assists this process. Regular foot baths can do much more than just briefly warm your feet. They help your body regulate its inner warmth with long-lasting effect.

The Bath Essences are complemented by our Body Oils, all-rounders that support our basic thermal rhythm. They can centre the warmth, release it and allow it to flow. Enjoy attentively applying a little Body Oil to your stomach or the soles of your feet. A little nightly ritual like a warm hug or a loving goodnight kiss. This is our Dr. Hauschka cosmetics culture for you.

Interview

An interview with Annette Greco, Head of Galenic Development, and Florian Junge, Group Head of Product Management for Body Care about warmth and rhythm in relation to body care

Annette, you develop various Dr. Hauschka skin care products for the face and body. Is the skin on the body different to that on the face? Won’t one cream suffice for everything?

Annette Greco: Our facial skin has very different needs to that on our body. It is an organ of the head, just like our sensory organs the eyes, mouth and nose. Rather than being highly metabolically active and warm, these are cool and associated with catabolic processes. Accordingly, our facial skin breaks down more. This is not followed by anabolic processes, explaining why our face is the part of our body where we tend to develop wrinkles. I don’t know anyone who complains about wrinkles on their thighs. However, no-one has ever said “I’ve got cellulite on my cheeks” either. My body experiences clear metabolic processes with heat development. My face experiences clear nervous/sensory processes with catabolic effect. The care products for the body and face therefore need to differ.

How do the facial and body care products differ?

Greco: When it comes to the face, I always have to strengthen the anabolic processes. With regard to body care, on the other hand, the focus is on the dynamics of warmth. When developing body care products, we ask ourselves how we can support the generation of body heat by externally applying products but also how we can distribute this heat and allow it to flow but also release it.

Florian Junge: Daily protection still plays an important role for facial care. I cover my body with clothes but my face is more exposed. I have to protect it differently. The preparation for the day ahead is different than with body care.

And what about the oil-free night care that you recommend for the face? Is this also important for the body? Should I avoid using oily body care products in the evenings?

Greco: No, that’s not necessary. If you view Dr. Hauschka as skin care that respects rhythms, the reason becomes clearer. The face and the body quite simply follow different rhythms. In the case of the face, we support the anabolic and catabolic rhythm. As the anabolic processes generally occur in the aqueous element, the anabolic night care for the face is purely aqueous. When it comes to the body, we follow this rhythm by supporting the great fluctuation in inner warmth. Body care is therefore all about warmth, which gives me a sense of inner comfort, but that I also radiate or release again. Whereas the focus for facial care products is whether or not they are oil-free, when it comes to body care, you need to see if they offer warmth. Warming products always incorporate oils. As such, you are fine to apply cream or oil to your body on an evening.

Despite this, some people still find that their skin feels drier in the morning if they have used a Body Oil the night before.

Greco: Yes. This shows us that our Body Oils not only care for the skin, but people as a whole. I therefore often apply a Body Oil followed by a Body Cream.

Dr. Hauschka Body Oils care for people as a whole? That sounds very unusual. Can you elaborate?

Greco: The Body Oils are the Dr. Hauschka products that directly address the body’s warmth. In fact, oil is nothing more than concentrated summer warmth, concentrated sunshine. The addition of medicinal plants enables the oil to be tailored to specific needs. I have to start by asking myself what I want to achieve with the oil. The six Dr. Hauschka Body Oils offer me a huge range of diversity. For example, if I want to centre warmth, I opt for Lemon Lemongrass Vitalising Body Oil, whereas Blackthorn Toning Body Oil helps me stimulate the generation of warmth in my body. I now have all of the Dr. Hauschka Body Oils at home and play with them like a keyboard. I sense what kind of oil I’m going to need for the day ahead or require at the end of each day.

That means that everyone has to find their own body care regime. Do you still focus on developing products for certain skin conditions though?

Greco: We tend to focus on the different conceptions of people instead. We’ve looked at the different human constitutions irrespective of body or facial care. How do we treat morning people with warmth and what about night owls? Which skin care rituals can be used to help people who struggle to maintain a healthy thermal rhythm? Warmth is incredibly inspirational for our work.

Is it possible for body and facial care to be separately considered at all when you are talking about people’s different constitutions?

Junge: No, but we unfortunately tend to always juxtapose facial and body care very abstractly or even present them as polar opposites. In fact, they intertwine very well. If I have a good centre and well-regulated warmth, then I also have a radiant appearance.

Greco: I’d even go a step further and really talk about the preservation of people’s health. Body care is the central element for maintaining or developing beauty. If I don’t strengthen my body’s original human destiny, I can do as much as I want to my face but my actions will have no effect. I can promote true beauty by caring for my body on a level that goes beyond simple skin care. This is not about saying whether the skin looks less flaky or has one more area of cellulite. This can be an aesthetic side-effect. It is about something that really makes people special as humans and about caring for this. And ultimately about something that leads to outer beauty via our inner being.

Nowadays, many people spend all day working at a computer and experience the sensation of their head getting ever warmer but their hands and feet ever colder. Can the right body care help with this?

Greco: Moor Lavender Calming Body Oil helps me in the mornings by offering me enveloping protection. In the evening, a foot bath with Moor Lavender Calming Bath Essence helps me digest the many thoughts in my crowded mind. However, body care is no substitute for me consciously focussing on myself. To believe that quickly warming my hands would make everything good would be a mere substitution. I need stimuli to help me independently restore my natural warmth balance. Cold hands are not my basic problem. The basic problem is that I have lost the sense of self-attention that shows me what is and isn’t good for me. When it comes to body care, for me it’s about restoring a sense of self-awareness.

Is the way I treat myself, listen to my body and care for myself part of the Dr. Hauschka cosmetics culture?

Junge: I believe so, yes. People today yearn to return to a skin care culture. But not through the profusion of applications offered by the spa industry. A sense of wellbeing can instead be created through omission, by me consciously enjoying something rather than just subjecting myself to a huge range of applications. The Dr. Hauschka products can help me experience situations with a sense of mindfulness. That is what I regard as this cosmetics culture that preserves good health or something that can help people as a life companion while also being contemporary. For me, it essentially comes down to the desire for mindfulness and to learn to be in touch with my body again. Perhaps it is also a cultural task.

Greco: Culture means nothing more than designing things. And I don’t have to paint pictures or make stone sculptures to do this. It’s also about shaping my own biography, my own everyday life. This is what I regard as culture. And when the manner in which I use skin care products can act as a stimulus for paying myself some attention and taking on a truly active design role, this is what I regard as cosmetics culture. But it’s also about my awareness towards the environment. For me, Dr. Hauschka cosmetics culture includes a sense of responsibility to nature, for processes and for applications. As well as taking responsibility for myself again and radiating senses of warmth, sociability and enthusiasm. After all, the way I treat myself can also impact my encounters with other people.

A foot bath with Dr. Hauschka Bath Essences

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Product Manager Florian Junge recommends a relaxing foot bath before bed

“I can’t get to sleep when my feet are cold. I therefore give myself a foot bath while sitting back and relaxing. I close my eyes and simply enjoy the experience for as long as I like. In total silence with no distractions.
If I want, I can also use Lemon Lemongrass Vitalising Bath Essence for an invigorating foot bath after hiking or prepare for foot and nail care through a foot bath with Rose Nurturing Bath Essence.”

Dr. Hauschka Quality

• Authentic 100% natural and organic skin care and make-up, certified to NATRUE standards
• Free from chemical/synthetic fragrances, dyes and preservatives
• Free from mineral oils, parabens, silicone and PEGs
• Dermatologically tested for sensitive skin
• Wherever possible, all raw materials come from controlled organic or biodynamic (Demeter certified) cultivation and are recovered under fair conditions
• We don’t test on animals, cruelty free cosmetics.

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The aromatic composition of Regenerating Hand Cream

Interview with Jörg Zimmermann

A special fragrance is created for each and every Dr. Hauschka product. Our in-house perfume specialist, Jörg Zimmermann, only works with purely natural fragrances from essential oils. We do not use synthetic chemical fragrances whatsoever.

Discover what inspired Jörg when developing the composition for Regenerating Hand Cream.

What role does fragrance play for you in a skin care product?

I sometimes compare the un-fragranced cream to a blank canvas. This acts as the ground where ‘Heaven’ and ‘Earth’ meet. Life already exists but the enlivening element is only added by the fragrance. The relationship that we build with the fragrance is often such a close one that it creates a certain sense of yearning. I ask myself what this cream needs and what I can do to give it a special personality. I wanted to take all of the things already contained in the basic composition of Regenerating Hand Cream and use positive synergies to enhance and sublimate them; to use the fragrance to extend beyond the product and enthuse. The fragrance gives the Hand Cream its own, unmistakeable language.

Is the fragrance meant to trigger something specific?

I’d instead say that it’s a motif that I want to make perceptible. Ideas, experiences and olfactory memories come together to form sensations and a certain atmosphere. Just as a sensory experience is made up of many different facets, a fragrance expresses a new material character through its novel combination of essential oils. I deploy my experience, intuition and imagination to check the use of the essential oils and slowly build up a picture, a fine impression. During this process, it is important to form transitions, a progression through the senses, a metamorphosis. The fragrance develops in front of you, from its head notes to its base ones, bringing part of the idea to life.

How would you describe the fragrance of Regenerating Hand Cream?

The products in the Dr. Hauschka Regenerating Skin Care range have been developed for demanding, mature skin. I quickly realised that Regenerating Hand Cream needed to have a very refined and rich fragrance. To preserve the close connection to other products from the Regenerating Skin Care range, I opted for an ambery basic note, which is already perceptible in Regenerating Body Cream and Regenerating Neck and Décolleté Cream. The ambery note comprises a mixture of warm, balsamic substances, which allow an association with amber and create a velvety depth. Vetiver, vanilla, sandalwood… are essential oils hidden within this. If you hold amber up to the sunlight, you will see a warm, enveloping shade that evokes a great sense of wellbeing. This note is in part the ‘basic tone’, which runs through the fragrance like a thread.

You can find the ambery fragrance family in the luxury segment of niche perfumery but also in the conventional sector. Most of the fragrances have sensual, oriental tones that remind us of Arabia. In the midst of these oriental jewels, the sensual rose appears as through from a garden from One Thousand and One Nights.

Dr. Hauschka Quality

• Authentic 100% natural and organic skin care and make-up, certified to NATRUE standards
• Free from chemical/synthetic fragrances, dyes and preservatives
• Free from mineral oils, parabens, silicone and PEGs
• Dermatologically tested for sensitive skin
• Wherever possible, all raw materials come from controlled organic or biodynamic (Demeter certified) cultivation and are recovered under fair conditions
• We don’t test on animals, cruelty free cosmetics.

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