Core — Dry, a cushioning body moisturiser for dry skin

The middle of the three textures. Richer and more cushioning than the Flow, made for the body and for everyday use on skin that loses moisture easily. The same blend, carried at a higher oil load, so it sits and nourishes for longer.

Image brief: coast shot, the Core bottle with its Dry label.

At a glance

• Skin type: Dry
• Texture: Core, the middle of the three. Around 17% cold-pressed organic oil.
• Best for: the body, and everyday use
• Format: [size to supply] · [price to supply]
• Full formulation: published in full below

What it is, and who it's for

Dry skin on the body wants the same thing the face does, moisture put back and held, just in a texture with a little more substance. Core Dry is the same formula thinking as the Flow, with more cold-pressed oil, so it cushions and stays where you put it rather than sinking away quickly.

The blend is the familiar one for dry skin: replenishing evening primrose, softening jojoba, hydrating baobab, conditioning tamanu and nourishing sea buckthorn, with squalane, soothing allantoin, our Atlantic algae, and the prebiotic and postbiotic pairing. The actives hold steady. It is the oils that step up.

For the lightest version for the face, that is the Flow. For the driest areas, the Deep.

How to use

Massage a small amount into clean skin once or twice a day, until fully absorbed. A little is enough.

Image brief: a texture shot showing the Core is richer than the Flow.

Key ingredients

The same six, carried here at a higher oil load. Each links to its ingredient page.

Evening Primrose Oil — 4% One of the few plant oils with a meaningful amount of gamma-linolenic acid, a rare omega-6 fatty acid. The research credits it with supporting the skin's barrier, particularly where the skin struggles to hold moisture.

Jojoba Seed Oil — 3.5% A liquid wax rather than a true oil, with a structure unusually close to the skin's own sebum. The research credits it with supporting the barrier and holding moisture, and it is exceptionally stable and well tolerated.

Baobab Seed Oil — 4% A stable, conditioning oil rich in oleic and linoleic acids and in skin-friendly sterols. The evidence points to a role in supporting hydration and the skin barrier.

Squalane — 1% A lightweight, skin-identical oil, today derived from plants such as olive rather than the shark-derived squalane of the past. It absorbs well and keeps the richer Core texture from feeling heavy.

Atlantic Algae, Bladderwrack — 0.14% Our signature ingredient. Bladderwrack is the same Atlantic species, Fucus vesiculosus, that grows on the rocks below Welcombe, though the extract is produced in France from that species. It is rich in fucoidans and phlorotannins, and the research points to antioxidant activity. The Devon coast is the kinship, not the source.

Prebiotic and Postbiotic — Inulin 0.5%, Barley Seed Ferment 1% Inulin is a prebiotic, a substrate the research suggests can help support beneficial skin microbes. The barley seed ferment is a postbiotic, the filtered products of fermentation rather than live cultures. The skin evidence here is still developing, and we would rather say so.

Sea buckthorn is also in the blend at 1%. See the full list below.

The full formulation

We publish every ingredient and the exact percentage we use.

At a glance: water phase 75.3%, plant oils 17.5%, actives and texture 2.2%, olive-derived emulsifiers 5.0%. The higher oil figure is what makes this a Core.

Cold-pressed organic where marked. This one totals correctly.

A note on what's in it, and what isn't

We never use synthetic fragrance, and we never use "parfum" as a catch-all on the label. The formula contains one essential oil, vetiver, here at 0.10%, the lowest level we use anywhere. The research points to genuine benefits for the skin, and it carries none of the allergens that EU rules would require us to declare separately. It is on the label, as everything is.

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