Castor Oil
For the Earth Goddess — the one with a single bottle of oil on the nightstand and no interest whatsoever in a ten-step anything.
Castor oil is the remedy that outlasted the cabinet it came in. Every grandmother had a bottle; nobody could ever quite say where it came from or when it was bought, only that it was there, thick and slow and faintly amber, and that it worked on whatever was dry. This one is pressed clean and hexane free, which is the only modern improvement the stuff has ever needed. Everything else about it is exactly as it has been for a hundred years.
Warm a little between your palms first — it pours like honey in a cold room and behaves better once it has met some heat. Work it through the ends of your hair on a Sunday night, or into cuticles, elbows, heels, the shins that go dry every winter no matter what you do. A little is genuinely enough. Keep the 8 oz on the shelf and the 16 oz refill in the cupboard behind it, and bring the bottle back when it empties rather than buying another.
Hexane free · Refillable · 8 oz or 16 oz · Amber or clear glass with cap, or refill only