SLNYT: An Organic Face Mask for a ‘Serious Glow’

With the mind of a chef, May Lindstrom crafts wholesome skin-care products with natural spices, salts, clays and oils. Credit Julia Stotz

By ABBYE CHURCHILL

Abbye Churchill, the editor of the biannual gardening magazine Wilder, meets makers whose primary resource is Mother Nature.

May Lindstrom's Honey Mud cleanser. Credit Julia Stotz May Lindstrom’s Easy Warming Enzyme Mask 1 tablespoon raw honey ½ tablespoon chlorella powder ¼ teaspoon true ceylon cinnamon 1 drop lavender essential oil 1. Blend all of the ingredients above in a small mixing bowl, adding a few drops of water if needed to create the desired consistency. 2. Using a facial mask brush, smooth the mixture over your face evenly. 3. Allow the active ingredients to go to work as the mask penetrates for 10 to 30 minutes. 4. Rinse thoroughly with warm water. 5. Follow with a face oil, massaging into wet skin to bring glow and deeply hydrate skin. May Lindstrom Skin Care can be found at Barneys New York in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago and Beverly Hills beginning this fall — or online at maylindstrom.com. A version of this article appears in print on October 18, 2015, on page ST3 of the New York edition with the headline: Positively Glowing. Each product is made, filled and packaged by hand in May Lindstrom’s Los Angeles studio. CreditJulia Stotz Lindstrom’s arsenal of all-natural ingredients. Julia Stotz Raw ingredients like cocoa butter are transformed into potent skin care. Julia Stotz As Lindstrom makes the Honey Mud cleanser, smells of cocoa and raw honey travel through her studio, which smells more like a bakery than an apothecary. Julia Stotz The Honey Mud cleanser has the consistency of a thick pudding.

-- Julia Stotz

Overcast trees and outfit below the knees

After months of sunny days, it rained a bit yesterday and today was overcast; nonetheless, the scenery was pretty as a picture. (Picture taken with my Kyocera Hydro Icon from FreedomPop and unretouched. Yes, I love to play with filters and contrast and brightness and saturation. My favorite Instagram filter is LO-FI and I pretty much use it exclusively after fidgeting with the image. I like the tone and the graininess.) Here is a highly manipulated image of what I wore this morning on the overcast-trees dog walk, taken after we got home:

#shoes ADIDAS (#costco 2010) #laces HICKIES (hickies.com 2015) #socks SOCK PANDA (#sockpanda 2015) #pajamas UNKNOWN (#nolabel #thriftscore 2015) #dog BABY (#animalshelter #maltipoo #butreallymaltiminipoo 2014)

A photo posted by Dana (rhymes with "banana") (@spazgirl) on Oct 8, 2015 at 11:01am PDT