Everything people ask us, and everything they ask Google, about one bottle of face oil. Short answers here; the long ones are linked.
By Jon Gore, founder, Berlin · Last reviewed
Three to four drops, morning and evening: start with three, use four if your skin drinks them. If your face still looks shiny a few minutes later, use fewer next time. How to use jojoba oil on your face
Damp. An oil adds no water of its own; pressed into damp skin, it slows the water already there from leaving. Why damp skin matters
Yes: rinse, let any sting pass, then three or four drops. If the skin is irritated, leave it out that day. Face oil after shaving
Work the drops through to the skin with your fingertips. It is a face oil; we promise nothing about the beard itself. Face oil under a beard
Both, or once a day if that is what you will keep up. A routine you abandon in March helps no one. Morning, evening, or both
No. There is no SPF in the bottle. Oil first, sunscreen on top.
Either. Alone it is the whole routine for many faces; if yours wants more in winter, cream first, oil on top. Face oil or moisturiser?
Yes, as with anything new: a drop on the inner arm for a few days. If the skin reacts, don't use it.
Not at three or four drops pressed into damp skin. If it still looks shiny after a few minutes, use fewer next time; the right amount is the one you can't see. How many drops, and when
We have not tested the finished oil for that, so we won't promise it either way. Start with fewer drops and stop if you notice a change you don't like.
No. Skin is skin. We made it for people who won't do routines; the bottle doesn't check who opens it.
A cosmetic oil is not a treatment, and we make no promise about any skin condition. For those, see a doctor or a pharmacist. What jojoba oil does not do
Yes, many people do. Our bottle is 82.5% jojoba with eight other ingredients; patch-test anything new. Jojoba oil, the whole sheet
Technically it is a liquid wax: mostly wax esters, not the triglycerides of olive or sunflower oil. It is why it feels light and keeps well. Why jojoba is a liquid wax
If pure jojoba suits you, buy it. Ours adds 15% rosehip seed oil and a 2% blend of five essential oils for its scent, in a 30 ml dropper, mixed by hand in Berlin. Jojoba or rosehip, and why both
Hagebuttenkernöl and Wildrosenöl are German names for oil pressed from wild-rose seeds; Rosenöl is an essential oil distilled from petals. Ours is Rosa Moschata Seed Oil, 15% of the bottle. Rosehip oil in German, name by name
Practically none. Vitamin C dissolves in water and stays in the fruit, not in the oil pressed from the seed. Rosehip seed oil, the whole sheet
No. Refined rosehip seed oil smells of very little. The scent comes from sandalwood, lavender, frankincense, cedar and tea tree, 2% together. Why rosehip seed oil has no rose scent
Together is what the bottle is: 82.5% jojoba as the light, stable base, and 15% rosehip seed oil, which is richer in linoleic and linolenic acid and keeps less well on its own. Jojoba vs rosehip oil
It is not certified organic. Nine ingredients, all printed on the label: eight plant oils and vitamin E, none from animals. All nine ingredients
About three months at three drops twice a day, a little less at four.
Nine months after opening: the open-jar symbol on the label says 9M. There is no water in the formula, and the amber glass keeps the light out. Why jojoba keeps well
DHL within Germany, €3.67, free from €50, sent within 2 working days. You have 14 days to withdraw from the day it arrives. Shipping and delivery
Only here, shipped within Germany. No shop shelf, no marketplace.
Doc Bankman is a character. The oil is real: Jon Gore mixes and fills it by hand in Berlin, batch by batch. The founders
A question not here? Write to jon@docbankman.com. The answer comes from the person who fills the bottles. The longer reading is in the guides and the Formulary.