Step no. 04
Orchard Face: the early list
Orchard Face◆Doors open October 23◆The early list sees it October 22
An autumn collection for the face
The bottles are red this year.
Five pieces, forehead to lip. Pear, fig, and the apple leaves from Tennessee.
The early list sees all five, the ingredients and the price by text on October 22, a full day before anyone else, and shops before the doors open.
The early list
Put me on the list.
Text first, so you hear the moment it is ready. Email as the backup. Either one works.
A friend sent you. You are both on the list.
Made in small batches◆When the season ends, so does it
What the list gets
Three things nobody else gets.
There is nothing to buy today. The list is for the people who want to be there first.
Oct 22
The bottles, by text
All five, the ingredients and the price, a full day before the rest of the world sees them.
First
First pick
You shop before the doors open to everyone. The small batch goes to the list first.
A night
Black Friday, early
The same list gets the Black Friday doors on Thanksgiving night, and first look at everything new between now and Christmas.
Orchard Face
Five pieces, forehead to lip. The names you can have now. The labels, the ingredients and the price stay under the blanket until the 22nd.
Step no. 06
Brightening Serum
Step no. 07
Hydrating Facial Balm
Step no. 05
Hydrating Toner
The last step
Luxe Lip Balm
From Jaime
I was not going to show you yet.
Then the labels came back from the printer, and I have been carrying one around the shop in my apron pocket all week.
Orchard Face is pear, fig, and the apple leaves we picked on a farm outside Franklin, Tennessee in August, which have been infusing in the shop ever since. It is the first time any of it has gone into the facial line. It is an autumn collection, made in small batches, and when the season ends, so does it.
Orchard Body was gone in days this August. A lot of you wrote to me afterward, and I had nothing left to send you. I do not want to write that email again. So this time the people who care the most see it first.
It is the prettiest thing we have ever made. I am a little nervous about it, which usually means it is good.
Jaime
The honest part
You will get one text on October 22 with the five bottles, the ingredients and the price, and one when the doors open on the 23rd. Then the Black Friday doors on Thanksgiving night. That is the whole list. Reply STOP any time and it stops.
Everything ships from the shop in Colorado when it is ready. Orders over $100 ship free.
THE ALCHEMY CODE · LONGEVITY SKINCARE
Your skin isn't broken. It's speaking.
Longevity skincare is the practice of supporting the skin's own intelligence instead of correcting it as if it were flawed. At The Alchemy Code, every formula is created by Jaime Cross, BCDNH (Board Certified Doctor of Natural Health) and Master Herbalist, whose waterless botanical formulas have reached over one million customers across sixteen years. We are the skin stewardship brand: while the industry corrects skin it treats as broken, we feed skin that is intelligent the raw materials it was designed to use.
The industry believes your skin is the problem.
Most skincare begins with one quiet assumption: that your skin is broken and needs to be fixed. Every wrinkle is a flaw, every breakout a battle, every year a thing to fight. We begin somewhere else entirely. Your skin is not the problem. Your skin is the messenger. It reflects your stress, your hormones, your nutrition, your environment, and your overall vitality. When it flushes, congests, or thins, it is not failing. It is telling you what it is missing. Our work is to listen, and then to feed it.
"Beauty isn't chased. It's cultivated."
The farmer's truth
A farmer cannot force a crop to grow. He cannot pull on the stem or command the soil. What he can do is create the conditions where growth happens on its own: healthy soil, clean water, sun, time. We think about your skin the same way. We are not here to override what your skin does. We are here to create the conditions where it can do it well.
The Four Laws of Skin Stewardship
01. Skin is intelligent.
It repairs, protects, renews, and adapts every hour of every day. Our job is to support those processes, never to override them.
02. Skin requires raw materials.
The body cannot build healthy tissue from nothing. Skin needs the nutrients, lipids, antioxidants, and botanical compounds it recognizes and can actually use.
03. The barrier is the linchpin.
A strong barrier holds moisture in and irritation out. Many products create a temporary result while quietly weakening the very function that keeps skin resilient. We feed the barrier instead of coating it.
04. Beauty emerges from health.
Lasting radiance is never applied from the outside in. It is the natural result of skin that is functioning the way it was designed to.
100% waterless.
Undiluted, by design.
We didn't join the waterless category. We created it. Conventional skincare is up to ninety-five percent water. Water demands preservatives, emulsifiers, and stabilizers to hold it together, and it dilutes everything you were hoping to put on your skin. Our formulas begin where theirs end: nutrient-dense oils, butters, resins, and whole botanicals, with zero water and one hundred percent botanical actives.
Waterless means nothing is diluted. Not the ingredients, not the results.
The scent is grown, not added.
Because nothing is diluted, there is no room for synthetic fragrance, the single most common irritant in clean skincare. What you smell is the formula: frankincense, rose, myrrh, and wild herbs in their rawest form. Every ritual is an aromatherapy sequence your skin and your nervous system both recognize. We do not add fragrance. We grow it.
Nothing diluted. Nothing hidden. Nothing your skin wasn't designed to use.
FAQ's
Skin stewardship is the belief that skin is intelligent and self-renewing, and that the role of skincare is to supply the raw materials skin needs to do its own work, rather than to correct or override it.
Waterless skincare is formulated with zero water as a base. Conventional products are up to ninety-five percent water; every drop of an Alchemy Code formula is a functional botanical active instead.
Every formula is created by Jaime Cross, BCDNH (Board Certified Doctor of Natural Health) and Master Herbalist, who has formulated for over sixteen years.
It can be, because removing water removes the need for the preservatives and emulsifiers that often irritate reactive skin. Always patch test when introducing any new botanical.
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