No. 15 of 29
Olive: not an ingredient
It’s the name of a skin tone. See Our name.
- On the label as
- Nowhere, by name
- What it is
- A word people use for skin with a soft green or golden warmth. It shows up in white, brown and black skin alike.
- Why it’s there
- It isn’t. OLIVESKIN is named after a skin tone, not an ingredient. The sprig on the label is our mark, not a promise of what’s inside.
- Where it comes from
- A phrase people use about skin, not the tree.
- Found in
- None of our formulas, by name
In more words
- On our labels
- Not by name, on any of the nine
- The sprig
- Our mark, drawn once and kept
- The name
- A tone, not a target
No olive appears as an ingredient by name on any of our labels. We put it that carefully on purpose: a few everyday helpers in cosmetics, such as squalane and some emulsifiers, can be made from olives, and where a supplier doesn’t tell us the source, we won’t pretend to know it.
So the honest version is this. The name is borrowed from a skin tone. It is not an ingredient, not a promise and not a goal: nothing we make is meant to change the colour of your skin.
The only olive anywhere near our cabinet is the shadow of a branch on its doors in the morning. We liked it too much to move the cabinet.
