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RITUAL

ANCIENT ALL-BODY OIL

Myrrh, frankincense, cedar, clove.
Warm and dry. Closer to incense than cologne.

One oil for face, body, hair, and the skin right after a blade.
It replaces the moisturiser, the serum, and the aftershave.

FACE·BODY·HAIR·POST-SHAVE

$5060 ml · 2 fl oz

This batch ships AUGUST 14. You are ordering ahead.

60 days. Use half the bottle. Send back what's left.

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THE USES

FACE

Replaces moisturiser, serum, and aftershave in one step.

WHENAfter washing, while skin is still damp. Damp skin absorbs the oil faster than dry skin.

HOW MUCHTwo pumps. That is enough for the full face and neck.

HOWPress into skin with your palms. Do not rub — pressing pushes the oil in, rubbing just moves it around.

WAITThirty seconds before anything else goes on top. The oil needs a moment to absorb.

WHY IT WORKS

Jojoba is a wax ester, not an oil — it absorbs the way your skin's own wax does. Camellia is 80% oleic acid, which is what the skin barrier is built from. Neither sits on the surface.

WHAT IT ACTUALLY DOES

THE OUTCOMES

Not claims. Mechanisms. The ingredients are on the label — here is what each one is doing and why.

Razor bumps.

What actually causes them, and what stops them.

A razor bump is not a skin problem — it is a timing problem. The blade cuts the hair below the skin surface. As the skin closes back over the follicle, the hair tip curls inward and the body treats it as a foreign object. The bump you see is the immune response, not the original cut.

The oil does not prevent the cut. It changes what happens in the seconds after. Applied immediately, it keeps the follicle opening from closing too quickly around the re-entering hair. Castor — the occlusive in this formula — sits on the surface and slows water loss. Myrrh is astringent: it tightens the look of the follicle wall without blocking it.

Apply to damp skin right after the blade. Press, do not rub. The oil needs to get into the follicle, not sit on top of the skin.

Apply after, not before.The oil works in the window between the blade and the skin closing. Timing is the whole method.

CASTOR

Occlusive — it sits on the surface and slows water loss at the follicle opening. This is the ingredient that buys the window of time before the skin closes over a re-entering hair.

MYRRH

Astringent resin from Sanaag. Tightens the look of the follicle wall. The same property that made it a trade commodity for three thousand years.

SQUALANE

Already present in your sebum. Does not block the follicle. Fills the lipid gaps that shaving strips from the skin barrier.

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ORIGIN

Myrrh and frankincense come from the same region — Sanaag, in the Horn of Africa. Both are harvested by hand from trees that look, for most of the year, entirely dead.

A cut is made in the bark. The tree bleeds resin. The bead hardens in the sun for weeks before anyone collects it. That is the entire process, and it has not changed in three thousand years.

THE DETOUR

For centuries, these resins were carried north across the Red Sea and sold onward through middlemen. By the time they reached a European shop window, they had a French name and a French price.

The perfume industry did not discover these ingredients. It repackaged them. The origin was always Sanaag.

Ancient trade goods — myrrh and frankincense

THE RETURN

We source myrrh and frankincense directly from a named cooperative in Sanaag and print that name on the bottle. That is not a marketing choice — it is a commitment. Once a supplier's name is on the label, they cannot be quietly replaced with a cheaper one.

Same trade route. No detour.

THE MANIFEST

SPECIESORIGINWHAT IT DOES

JOJOBASimmondsia chinensis
SonoraTechnically a liquid wax, not an oil. That distinction matters because wax esters are what your skin naturally produces — jojoba absorbs without leaving the slick surface feel of a plant oil.

CAMELLIACamellia oleifera80% oleic acid, which is the dominant fatty acid in healthy skin. It absorbs quickly and leaves no film because the skin recognises it as its own building material.

SQUALANEolive-derivedAlready present in human sebum. Saturated, so it cannot go rancid. The skin does not have to process it as something foreign — it just absorbs.

CASTORRicinus communis
Ghana87% ricinoleic acid, which makes it occlusive — it sits on the surface and slows water loss. That is its job in this formula: hold moisture in while the other oils absorb.

MYRRHCommiphora myrrha
SanaagA resin tapped from trees in the Horn of Africa. Astringent — it tightens the look of skin and the follicle wall. The same property that made it valuable three thousand years ago.

FRANKINCENSEBoswellia carterii
SanaagAlso from Sanaag. The boswellic acid fraction calms the look of irritated skin. Lighter than myrrh in scent — almost citrus-adjacent on top of the resin base.

BENZOIN + AROMATICSStyrax benzoin
cedar orange cloveBenzoin is the fixative — it binds the aromatic molecules to the lipid layer of skin so the scent stays for hours instead of evaporating. Cedar, orange, and clove sit underneath it.

TOCOPHEROLvitamin EAntioxidant. It protects the oils in the bottle from oxidising before they reach your skin. That is all it claims. The benefit is the intact oil, not the tocopherol itself.

INGREDIENTS

Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Camellia Oleifera Seed Oil, Squalane, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Commiphora Myrrha Oil, Boswellia Carterii Oil, Juniperus Virginiana (Cedarwood) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Oil, Styrax Benzoin Resin Extract, Vanilla Planifolia Fruit Extract, Tocopherol, Eugenia Caryophyllus (Clove) Flower Oil, Limonene*, Linalool*, Eugenol*, Benzyl Benzoate*, Benzyl Cinnamate*, Citral*. *naturally occurring in essential oils.

THE METHOD

Myrrh resin has a fraction that will never fully dissolve in oil — in most products it slowly settles to the bottom. These four steps are what prevent that. Each one exists for a specific reason.

MACERATE

Myrrh and frankincense resins steep in the carrier oils for 42 days, dark and sealed. Castor does the dissolving — its molecular structure makes it the most effective natural solvent for resin compounds.

42 d

COLD-CRASH

The batch is held at 4°C for two days. Any resin particles that were going to fall out of suspension fall out now — in our tank, not in your bottle six weeks after you buy it.

4°C

FILTER

Filtered at one micron while still cold. One micron is smaller than a red blood cell. What passes through is fully dissolved and stays that way.

1 µm

FILL

Filled by hand under nitrogen gas. Nitrogen displaces the oxygen in the bottle before sealing. Oxygen is what turns oil rancid — removing it is why the oil stays stable on your shelf.

N₂

USE

Two pumps to damp skin. Press, do not rub. Anywhere skin is shaved, apply after. Hair: half a pump, ends only.

THE RECORD

What people say.

FIRST BATCH · RESULTS ACCUMULATING

I've tried everything for razor bumps. Serums, creams, prescription stuff. RITUAL is the only thing that actually prevents them rather than treating them after.

A. Mensah· VERIFIED

POST-SHAVE

Two pumps on damp skin after my shower. That's it. My face hasn't felt dry since.

K. Adeyemi· VERIFIED

FACE

I've shaved my head every day for twelve years. This is the first product that actually changed what my skin feels like the next morning.

D. Okafor· VERIFIED

POST-SHAVE

My beard was always itchy. I assumed that was just what beards felt like. It isn't.

M. Trujillo· VERIFIED

HAIR

The scent is not what I expected from an oil. It smells like something old and expensive. People ask what it is.

J. Washington· VERIFIED

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Used the oil? Tell us what you noticed. Reviews are published verbatim after verification — no editing, no cherry-picking.

COMMON QUESTIONS

Probably not — but it depends on which oil, not on oil in general. The eight ingredients here are all non-comedogenic, meaning none of them are known to clog pores. Jojoba behaves more like your skin's own wax than a cooking oil. Camellia and squalane are already present in healthy sebum. If your skin is acne-prone, apply a small amount to your jaw for two weeks before committing to your full face. That's the honest answer.

Ours doesn't. It's an airless pump — the oil sits in a collapsible pouch inside the bottle, and no air is drawn back in as you dispense. Each bottle is filled under nitrogen and sealed, so the oil never meets oxygen from the first press to the last. Two pumps on damp skin is all you need.

A little settling of myrrh is completely normal — it's a natural resin, not a synthetic solubiliser. If you notice any sediment, just give the bottle a gentle shake before use and the particles will disperse back into the oil.

The bottle doesn't say men. It says face, body, hair, post-shave. The scent is myrrh, frankincense, cedar, and clove — things that have been used by everyone for a few thousand years. If you like warm, dry, resinous scents, it's for you.

The ingredients are not cheap, but they're not what pushes the price. The most expensive line item is the independent consumer-perception study — the one that produced the numbers on the label. Across a first batch of 500 bottles, that study costs somewhere between eight and twenty dollars per bottle. It's what lets us say "83% reported smoother skin" instead of "leaves skin feeling smoother." The full formula is on the label, in order, by weight. Price it yourself.

Warm, dry, and resinous. Myrrh is the base — resinous, slightly medicinal, the kind of thing you'd smell in an old church or a spice market. Frankincense is lighter and almost citrusy on top of it. Cedar and clove sit underneath. It does not smell like a cologne. It smells like something that has been sitting in a jar for a long time — because it has.

BATCH BE-14-08 · 500 BOTTLES

When this batch is gone, the next one is forty-two days out.

That is not a marketing device. It is how long the resins take to dissolve. We cannot hurry it and we will not sell you a shorter maceration.

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IF IT IS NOT THE BEST OIL YOU HAVE OWNED,
SEND BACK WHAT IS LEFT.

THE USES

FACE

THE OUTCOMES

Razor bumps.

ORIGIN

THE DETOUR

THE RETURN

THE MANIFEST

THE METHOD

MACERATE

COLD-CRASH

FILTER

FILL

What people say.

SUBMIT YOUR EXPERIENCE

COMMON QUESTIONS

When this batch is gone, the next one is forty-two days out.

NOT READY. THAT'S FINE.