Preservative System and shelf life
Esse has developed a unique preservative system that uses cutting edge technology to ensure that our products are safe to use and won’t disrupt the delicate balance of microbes on your skin.
The preservative system is a combination of several ingredients that relies on an anti-microbial peptide that is isolated from bacterial cultures. Your body secretes anti-microbial peptides to keep the micoflora on your skin in balance. We have used a similar approach to keep microbes from spoiling our products.
As with any organic product the shelf life is not as long as conventional products but our products generally carry a shelf life of a year and a half. Conventional brands use mineral oil and other petrochemicals as the base of their products. These oils are inactive and are stable indefinitely so they have a longer shelf life. The oils that we use are cold pressed plant oils high in omega 3, 6 and 9 and these oils start to oxidise after 18 months on the shelf.
We believe that this is a small compromise given the vastly superior efficacy and skin compatibility that these oils offer.
