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Belly Expansion Ritual

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Belly Expansion Ritual

$250.00

  • Product Description

      A deeply nourishing ritual for the body making room for new life.

      Your body is changing by the week.

      Your belly stretches. Your breasts become fuller. Skin that once felt like yours without thought may suddenly feel tight, tender, itchy, unfamiliar.

      It is easy to look at pregnancy as a series of things happening to your body. Belly Expansion asks you to spend a little time inside it instead.

      Warm water. Rose. Slow hands. Rich oils and butters worked over the places stretching most. Your body is doing extraordinary work, and it deserves to be tended while it does it.

      What this ritual holds

      Five things for the body carrying all this change.

      Rose Botanical Soak

      A place to soften into the body you are in.

      Warm water, minerals and botanicals hold body that may feel increasingly stretched and sensitive, while rose turns an ordinary bath into time that belongs to you.

      Konjac Sponge

      One ingredient: konjac root.

      Softened in warm water, it glides gently across the skin with very little friction. A simple way to cleanse while bringing your attention back to the body beneath your hands.

      Tender Skin Serum

      For a facial massage and hormone-safe skin support

      A concentrated botanical oil serum for skin that is changing with hormonal shifts. Use as a massage medium and extra nourishment under your daily moisturizer for extra 

      Bump Butter

      The daily tending of your growing belly.

      Rich botanical butters and oils envelop stretching skin, supporting softness and suppleness as your body continues to expand.

      Apply it slowly over the belly, while the skin is still warm.

      Pink Butter

      Because pregnancy is happening to more than your belly.

      Rich, nourishing care for the rest of you. Neck, shoulders, arms, legs, anywhere that feels dry or simply wants attention. Including nipples and your perineal area as birth preparation. 

      Why these five belong together

      The Rose Soak begins with the whole body.

      The konjac sponge makes cleansing gentle and brings attention to the skin.

      Tender Skin Serum concentrates care to keep your face beautiful and nourished.

      Bump Butter follows over the growing belly, sealing in rich emollience and making slow touch part of daily care.

      Pink Butter returns attention to everything beyond the bump.

      Together, they turn pregnancy skincare from a collection of products into something much more useful:

      a repeated practice of caring for the body you are becoming.

      Belly Expansion is not about preserving your body exactly as it was. It is about tending it beautifully while it makes room for someone new.

  • Ingredients
    • Balancing Rose Botanical Soak:

      Sodium Chloride (Himalayan salt), Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom salt), Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking soda), Montmorillonite (French Clay-Pink), Buttermilk powder, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam seed) oil, Cetearyl Olivate, Sorbitan Olivate (Emulsifiers), Red Beet powder, Rose powder, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid (Vitamin C), Rose petals, Neroli/Orange flower petals, Essential oils, Neroli Fragrance Oil (Paraben, Phthalate, Lyral, and Lilial free)

      Bump Butter:

      Althaea Officinalis (Marshmallow) Root Extract*, Phyllanthus Emblica (Amla) Fruit Extract*, Centella Asiatica (Gotu Kola) Extract, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter*, Prunus Armeniaca (Apricot) Kernel Oil, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil*, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter*, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter*, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed Oil*,Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax*, Argania Spinosa (Argan) Kernel Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Calophyllum Inophyllum (Tamanu) Seed Oil, Tocopherol and a blend of essential oils

      Butter in Pink:

      Althaea Officinalis Root Extract*, Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Extract*, Theobroma Cacao (Cocoa) Seed Butter*, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil*, Mangifera Indica (Mango) Seed Butter*, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea) Butter*, Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed Oil*, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Oil*, Oenothera Biennis (Evening Primrose) Oil, Calophyllum Inophyllum Tamanu) Seed Oil, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax*, Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax*, Tocopherol, blend of essential oils at 0.5% volume (safe for babies 3 months of age and older

      Tender Skin Facial Serum:

      Cannabis Sativa (Hemp oil)*, Olive Squalane, Limnanthes alba (Meadowfoam oil), Simmondsia chinensis (Golden Jojoba oil)*, Prunus armeniaca (Apricot Kernel oil), Argania spinosa (Argan oil)*, Camellia oleifera (Camellia seed oil)*, Vanilla Bean Slices

      *organically grown ingredients

      Konjac Sponge:

      Konjac Root

      *organically grown ingredients
  • How to Use
    • The ritual

      Draw a warm bath and add the Rose Soak. Let water hold you for a while.
      Soften the konjac sponge in the water and move it slowly over your skin. Let the contact itself bring your attention to the places that have changed since the last time you really looked.
      Your belly may be rounder. Your breasts may feel different. Your hips may be widening. You may recognize your body completely, or some days you may barely recognize it at all.

      When you step out, pat your skin gently and begin with a facial massage with the Tender Skin Serum while your skin is still warm. Bump Butter over your belly. Take it to the places stretching most. Belly. Breasts. Hips. Thighs. Massage slowly, noticing where the skin feels tight or tender rather than rushing toward the next step.

      Then Pink Butter wherever the rest of you wants it. Shoulders. Arms. Legs. There is no perfect sequence and no required amount of time. The ritual is simply a reason to keep meeting your body while it changes.

      No oil or butter can promise you a body untouched by pregnancy, genetics play a role. The goal is to nourish the skin and keep it soft. Your skin is responding to growth, hormones, genetics, circulation, changing tissue and the extraordinary physical demands of making another human being. Some of those changes will disappear. Some may remain and fade with time.
      Belly Expansion is care without correction. It supports skin that feels dry, tight and stretched.

      What you may begin to notice

      Your skin feels softer after the bath. The tight places receive more attention. You connect with your baby and yourself to slow down and experience the moment. And for a few minutes, instead of looking ahead to the birth, you are connecting and getting to know your baby.
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