The Body Oil: A Mist, a Glow, a Scent

A conversation with founder Brittney Capis

Body oil sounds heavy, and most of them are. This one isn't. It's a mist that gives you hydration, a soft gold glow, and a scent that stays with you all day. We sat down with our founder, a licensed cosmetologist who started Sol E'Ciel because clean beauty forgot to be beautiful, to get into what's in the Body Oil and the ways she actually uses it.

Most people picture body oil as heavy and greasy. This isn't that.

Right. It comes out as a fine mist, lighter than your lotion, and it sinks in fast. You get the hydration, a little gold shimmer, and the scent all at the same time, and it never sits on top of your skin or marks up your clothes. I can spray it on and pull a dress over my head a few seconds later.

There are a hundred body oils on the shelf. Why this one?

Honestly, because most of them are either so greasy they wreck your sheets or they're full of silicones that fake a soft finish and don't do much else. This is silicone-free and built on oils that actually absorb. Jojoba, which grows in the desert here in Arizona and sinks in like your skin already recognizes it. Apricot kernel and camellia for that slip. Sea buckthorn and elderberry for the antioxidants. Every oil is in there for what it does once it's on your skin.

What happens if someone uses it every day?

Your skin just starts behaving. The moisture comes back, the texture smooths out, it feels firmer. Sea buckthorn repairs damage you can't even see yet, and elderberry and vitamin E protect against the free radical stuff that ages you. After a couple of weeks you get that even, healthy look people usually only have the day after a beach trip. Dry skin sees it fastest, especially living somewhere like Phoenix where the air pulls every bit of moisture out of you.

Walk us through what's inside.

So jojoba and apricot kernel are doing the deep hydration without going greasy. Sea buckthorn softens and feeds collagen. Elderberry is loaded with phytonutrients, so it protects and firms. Camellia and coconut-derived oils moisturize and calm things down. Vitamin E heals and guards against free radical damage. Rose geranium and rose absolute balance the skin and settle you a little. The shimmer is bronze mica, which is real mineral, not glitter. And the scent comes from clean rose and labdanum fragrance oils. People always ask, so to be clear, clean for us means nontoxic and properly vetted, not synthetic-free. There are clean synthetics in here, like the light alkane base that makes the mist feel the way it does, and they made the cut because they work better than the natural version and still pass everything we test for. Nothing's in the bottle as filler.

Let's talk about that scent.

Dark rose and labdanum. Deep, a little sensual, not sweet at all. The fragrance oils are cruelty-free, vegan, and phthalate-free, and the thing I love is that they shift with your own skin, so it doesn't smell identical on two people. The rose geranium and rose absolute do something for your head too, this calm, settled feeling that kicks in about a minute after you spray it. It's the scent people stop me about.

How does it actually feel and look on?

It's a silky mist that dries down soft with the lightest gold to it. No chunks, no glitter, just skin that looks healthy and kind of expensive. You notice it on your collarbones at dinner, on your legs, on your shoulders when you move.

What's your favorite way to use it?

This is the one I tell everybody. Once I'm dressed and ready, the very last thing I do is spray it onto my skin and take the big fluffy brush and sweep it over my collarbones, my shoulders, my arms, down my shins. The shimmer catches the light, the scent comes up, and then I leave. It's the step that makes me feel actually put together instead of just dressed.

My other favorite is mixing a few sprays into a palmful of unscented lotion straight out of the shower. It carries the glow and the scent over my whole body and gives the lotion this gorgeous slip, so you end up soft and smelling incredible everywhere.

And the more practical placement in a routine?

Right after the shower while your skin's still damp, misted on and pressed in, so it locks the water in. Or save it for the end as that finishing layer when you want the glow and the scent in one move. Both are great. And if you wear perfume, spray the oil on first, because oil holds fragrance against your skin for hours.

Last one. The move people never think of.

The brush, honestly. Spraying it onto a brush instead of into your hands means you put the glow exactly where you want it and keep it off your palms. A pass over the shoulders before a backless dress, a little down the legs before you go out, a quick sweep across your chest when you want the scent close. Once it's part of your routine you stop reaching for a pile of other products, because this does most of it.