The five elements
The Wood Element
Everything that leans Wood — the scents, signatures and readings drawn to this nature.
18 readings
The Slight Acidity Your Skin Prefers, Read by Element
Skin keeps a faintly acid tone for a reason. See why a gentle pH keeps the surface at ease, and how each of the five natures reads that balance.
WoodYou are Wood
The Wood element reads as drive and firmness — the youth of the features. What this nature asks for, and what its skin keeps telling you about the way you live.
WoodThe rose, and the nature it answers
Three thousand petals for a single gram of essence: what the rose truly brings to the face, and the nature tradition once assigned to it.
WoodSalt, exfoliation, and the nature they were made for
The oldest care gesture in the world, and the most mistreated: what exfoliation actually does, and the facial nature that gains something from it.
WoodThe intense session, and who it was made for
Maximum effort is a good answer to a precise question. Not every nature asks that question, and the face says so before the body does.
WoodGreen clay, and the face it was blended for
Everything that makes green clay irreplaceable for facial skin — and the lesser-known reason it was never meant for every face.
Easing a Nature That Runs Tight
When your nature runs tense, tradition answers with movement, the sour taste, and spring air — small acts that loosen what has drawn tight.
WoodSigns You Might Be Wood
Drive, firmness, a jaw that sets under pressure, skin that runs oily — the Wood element, described so you might recognise a little of yourself in it.
WoodThe Shine That Keeps Returning to Your Temples
Oiliness and blackheads that come back at the temples are a familiar sign, and reading which element speaks in them begins with recognition.
WoodWhat a Wood nature pays when no one listens to it
An impulse that finds no outlet does not disappear: it turns inward. What tradition observed in a Wood nature lived against its current.
WoodYou Love Carrot Seed: What Your Element May Be
Carrot seed and its rooted green renewal — and why a love of it can be a quiet clue that Wood is the element that is yours.
WoodYou Love Rose: What Your Element May Be
A love of Rose is rarely idle: for a Wood nature it may be the note that answers something, and that pull is a clue worth reading.
WoodYou Love Rosemary: What Your Element May Be
Rosemary's bracing green-camphor note tends to call to a Wood nature, and a love of it can be a quiet clue to the element that is yours.
WoodYou Love Spearmint: What Your Element May Be
A love of soft green spearmint, cool without the ice, can be Wood quietly asking to be known.
WoodYou Love Bergamot: What Your Element May Be
The bright green-gold pull of bergamot is often a small clue to a Wood nature, and to what your element may be.
WoodYou Love Helichrysum: What Your Element May Be
The honeyed, curry-warm gold of helichrysum has a way of finding the Wood nature first — a scent that hints at which element is quietly yours.
WoodYou Love Cypress: What Your Element May Be
A love of cypress, that upright green stillness, is often a quiet clue that Wood is the element that is yours.
WoodWhen the Wood Element Asks You to Move
There are moments when the Wood element is most solicited — a season of movement and rising sap. Learn to read when yours asks to flow, not be forced.