Naked Bear Kukui Nut Oil

Name: Naked Bear Kukui Nut Oil
Brand: My Store
Price: 16.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$16.00

Kukui is the tree Hawaiians have turned to for centuries for skin worn down by sun, salt, and wind. It's the lightest oil we bottle — thin enough to disappear in seconds, gentle enough that it's traditionally been used on babies.

WHAT IT'S LIKE
The fastest-absorbing oil in the lineup. Nearly weightless, nearly scentless, gone before you've finished pressing it in. Skin looks soft, calm, and comfortable — never slick.

BEST FOR
Skin that runs dry, tight, sensitive, or sun-exposed, and anyone who's been put off by heavier oils. Good morning or night, good under makeup, good over a sunburn or windburn.

HOW TO USE
Warm three or four drops in your palms. Press into clean, slightly damp skin morning or night. Layer under moisturizer, or add a drop to whatever you already use.

WHAT'S IN IT
Aleurites Moluccanus (Kukui) Seed Oil. That's the whole list.

Daytime moisturizer

Light enough to wear under sunscreen and makeup without pilling.

After-sun lotion

What Hawaiians reached for after a day of sun, wind, and salt.

Face oil you gave up on

If oils have felt greasy or heavy, this is the one that doesn't.

Hawaii

Kukui means light.

Polynesian voyagers carried the kukui tree to Hawaii more than a thousand years ago as one of the canoe plants. The nuts are so oil-dense they were strung and burned as candles, which is where the name comes from. The same oil was used to anoint babies and to protect skin against sun, wind, and salt. It's been Hawaii's state tree since 1959.

It absorbs because of its shape.

Kukui is roughly 40% linoleic acid and another 25 to 30% alpha-linolenic — unusually high for a plant oil. Those fats have kinked carbon chains that can't pack tightly together, so the oil spreads thin and sinks in instead of sitting on top. The weightless feel isn't a formulation trick. It's the molecule.