Gold is the lightest of Monastery's oils, sinking in fast enough to double as a base for makeup or a last step before bed. It carries the scent of India's most prized flowers, magnolia and jasmine chief among them, calming the senses as it works.
Sandalwood kernel oil brings ximenynic acid, one of nature's more potent anti-inflammatories, to calm redness from sun, irritation, or damage. Rosehip and rosewood oils round out a blend built to repair and nourish rather than simply sit on the skin's surface.
Suitable for all skin types.
Comes in a 50ml glass bottle with pump.
ABOUT the MAKER
Monastery Skincare
Athena Hewett spent twenty years as a master esthetician before she founded Monastery, frustrated by how often the products meant to help her clients' skin were doing the opposite. Her approach draws on childhood summers in Greece, gathering herbs with her grandmother and learning to work with the body rather than against it. That principle, support rather than override, still shapes every formula. Each product is made by hand, in small batches, at Monastery's studio in San Francisco. Plant oils and absolutes are chosen for how they nourish and balance rather than irritate, formulated to work with the skin's own repair processes instead of overriding them. Nothing synthetic. Nothing rushed. The company remains independently owned, with Athena and her team sourcing, testing, and bottling every batch themselves. At Tessuti, we carry a small selection of Monastery's essentials, the treatments we return to, the ones that reward patience and daily use. Skin, given the right conditions, knows how to heal itself.
