Prepare for your at-home Forest Spa ritual:
* Fill your sink with hot water. Place the Nordic Water Activator Facial Sauna Pouch in the water and leave to diffuse for 20 - 30 minutes.
* This is the perfect time to make yourself a pot of herbal tea, slow down a little and embrace the time you’ve set aside.
* As the herbs release their natural goodness into the water, and the steam rises, enjoy the sensation of the herbal vapour rising to meet your skin and the aromatherapeutic benefits of the Forest Spa Water.
* Once the water has taken on a forest-like hue and the delicate, soothing scent of the birch and heather has been released, cleanse your face, then dip a clean, soft cloth into the water and use to remove cleanser.
Gently rinse your face with the soft Forest Spa Water, allowing the soothing vitamins, minerals and antioxidants from Nordic Birch and Heather– to revive, soothe, and purify the skin.
* To finish, bring the facial sauna pouch up to your face and take a few deep breaths in and out for an unsullied moment of purity + peace... transporting you to the heart of the Forest, through scent, steam and sensorial immersion.
* Gently pat skin dry and apply your Forest Spa Finland serum and moisturiser.

Other uses:

Forest Spa Skin Compress:

Squeeze excess water from the facial pouch and apply it to areas that need calming and purifying, such as open pores, blackheads, breakouts, redness, soreness, or simply hold in place at the temples for a moment of tranquility.
The plants’ super_natural astringent and anti-inflammatory properties work to calm irritation, reduce redness, and infuse the skin with natural humectant hydration.

Forest Spa Water Toner:

Create your own Forest Spa Water Toner by adding the Nordic Water Activator Facial Sauna Pouch to a bottle filled with boiled and slightly cooled hot water (around 100ml is ideal for each pouch).

Leave to infuse overnight and decant into a cosmetic bottle of choice.

Kept in the fridge where the Water Toner will last up to a week – use after cleansing to remove product, or in place of your usual toner. Alternatively, decant to a spray bottle and enjoy as a cooling and refreshing facial mist to bring the benefits of the Forest Spa to your skin throughout the day.

Elevate your at-home spa night with herbal infused forest water, steep the ‘sauna facial pouch’ in your sink or water bowl for 20 minutes, use with a facial cloth to remove cleanser, masks or scrubs.

Soothes, calms irritation, reduces redness, and supports recovery from stress-related flare-ups.

Softens, as it gently rehydrates and restores skin’s suppleness with plant-based humectants.

Purifies
by way of detoxifiying pores, balances skin, and provides antioxidant protection from modern environmental aggressors.

Connects
as it brings the grounding benefits of forest bathing and sauna to your daily skincare ritual.

Fully bio-degradeable, simply dispose as you would your bio-based waste.

Birch leaves:
Sustainably sourced from Finland’s pristine forests, birch leaves are a long-valued resource in Nordic skincare, celebrated for their purifying, soothing, and rejuvenating properties.
Rich in bioactive compounds—flavonoids, tannins, and saponins—they have been integral to Nordic wellness traditions for centuries.
Recent research confirms their potential to enhance circulation, reduce inflammation, and provide antioxidant protection.

Heather:
The vibrant, mauve-hued heather has deep roots in Nordic tradition. Described in The Magical World of Plants as a plant that “guides toward wisdom, provides comfort, and helps release old memories,” it has long been linked to emotional renewal.
This only sustainably-sourced heather, from pristine forest landscapes, is a versatile skincare ingredient that protects, nourishes, and balances.

Daniel Collins is the Founder and Director at Forest Spa Finland, a super-natural, sustainable, holistic skin-wellness brand powered by Nordic Forest plant extracts, to both counteract and protect against the effects of stress on the skin.
Having spent 30 years in leadership roles within the global beauty industry, working across leading brands and international markets from Asia, Europe to the Middle East and Africa, Daniel felt repeatedly disenchanted by the disconnect between inner wellness and outer beauty; and after some time spent working with a Nordic health brand, he embarked on his personal mission to create products that could bridge that gap.
Daniel spent three years researching the world’s most remarkable resilience-supporting adaptogens, and his search returned him, rather poetically, to his husband’s homeland: a place where he and his family and friends already spent time resting and replenishing every year to counteract the negative effects of their high-stress lifestyles – Finland.
Forest Spa Finland have launched their foundational skin wellness duo, an ingestible supplement paired with a topical skin serum with hero ingredients which are naturally high in proven antioxidant, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, anti-stress and anti-ageing compounds – providing skin with a replenishing dose of natural immunity that benefits you, inside and out.

Birch leaves (Betula pendula), heather (Calluna vulgaris)