Hydrate, Heal, and
Protect Your Skin,
Naturally
Let Dr. Keenan Botanical Solutions feed your skin with organic, plant-based products that bring moisture, support its healing, and protect the skin from the environments around us.
Handcrafted
on the
Olympic Peninsula,
for the
Whole World
There’s a misunderstanding about life here on the North Olympic Peninsula. It goes something like this: With all the rain and fog and atmospheric moisture there’s no way one’s skin could get dry. We wish!
As outdoor-centered people, our skin barely has a chance. All of our outdoor activities--gardening, backpacking, 4-wheeling, wildlife-sighting, kayaking, hunting, surfing, biking, you name it--expose our skin to drying elements.
But staying cozy at home doesn't necessarily protect skin: Wood-fired stoves make the best heat, but the drying impact is real. Those who like to cook or bake know how drying our obsessions can be.
What’s more, anyone who’s worked in a climate-controlled office knows that the air, whether it’s heated, cooled, or just circulated is notoriously drying.
Frequent hand-washing typically leaves hands dry and unprotected from the elements. And climate changes bring ever more environmental challenges to our skin.
Of course, we don’t hold the market on wind, sunlight, salty air, campfires, and other skin challenges. Dry skin is universal.
Keeping skin hydrated and feeding the skin's microbiome play a powerful role in not just preventing dryness and irritation ( though, that alone would be enough, right? ), but also in strengthening skin's ability to heal wounds, fight inflammation, and assist our larger immune system in keeping us healthy.
Dr. Keenan is all about creating powerful, practical products to assist the skin in doing what it does best.
Products
Hydrate • Heal • Protect
From head to toe
WinterCitrus
Healing Herbs
Rosemary Mint
Coconut Orange
Pure Unscented
Lip balm is the go-to remedy for lip care, and Dr. Keenan has created a line of organic, botanical lip balms that soothe, soften, heal, and protect lips. Our lip balm series includes balms enhanced with organic essential oil blends that improve the healing power of the balms.
Lip Balm
With no oil glands of their own, lips are defenseless against the ravages of harsh weather, dry environments (from office buildings to windy beaches), aging, and, well, kissing! People on the Olympic Peninsula tend to lead outdoor-centered lifestyles, but nearly everything we all do for recreation or work or love puts our indispensable lips at risk of drying, chapping, cracking, and peeling.
Our botanical lip balms feature deeply hydrating hemp seed oil that soothes and gets right to work decreasing redness and inflammation. Rich in fatty acids, hemp seed oil goes on to help lips retain moisture and strengthens the skin barrier.
The addition of coconut oil further hydrates and protects by building that protective barrier so important for lips. This lush multi-tasking oil also aids in healing red and cracked skin while offering modest anti-microbial protection for cracks and cuts and wind rash. (Smells amazing, too, right?!)
The tiniest bit of beeswax solidifies and holds these two powerhouse oils together in the tube, but its work does not end there. Rich in Vitamin A it helps in cell regeneration for chapped lips and luscious beeswax lays down a breathable barrier to protect lips from the environment.
Lip balm, when made well, is a multi-skilled superhero, providing relief, healing, and protection for the most ravaged lips. Your lips will love Dr. Keenan’s lip balms.
Body Lotion
Mint
Sandalwood
Escalante Wind
Coconut Orange
Renaissance Blend
Deep Forest Campfire
With the synergy between organic sunflower oil and fresh distilled water playing a strong lead role, you're in good hands. As a seed oil, sunflower oil is the least allergenic of all plant-based oils. Friend to all. In a perfect trifecta for skin, sunflower oil hydrates, attracts moisture and prevents skin from drying.
Sunflower oil is rich in anti-oxidants, so it prevents inflammation and its co-occurring redness. Those anti-oxidants also protect the skin from sun damage and other environmental risks to the skin.
Similarly, high in vitamin E, sunflower oil helps the skin regenerate healthy cells. And as an added benefit, vitamin E, a natural preservative, helps keep our lotions fresh without added preservatives.
Sunflower oil won’t clog pores (non-comedogenic) and is recommended for all skin types, like oily, normal, dry, and even acne-prone skin.
Now, whether it has something to do with the unabashedly sunny flower the seeds grow up in, or the chemical alchemy of the oil—like an abundance of omega 3 fatty acids and anti-oxidants—sunflower oil has an uplifting effect on the spirits. Overachiever.
Other Ingredients:
Distilled Water
Our immensely hydrating lotion gets its power from pure, distilled water. There’s nothing like water for hydrating our skin. When combined with oil, its ability to hydrate the skin is strengthened.
Organic, Plant-Derived Stearic Acid
Itself a fatty acid found in our skin and in plants, stearic acid is an emollient, helping to keep the skin soft. In lotion, it also emulsifies, or blends, the oil and the water together to make lotion that spreads smoothly on the skin. So smooth.
Organic, Plant-Derived Emulsifying Wax
Emulsifying wax found in plants stabilizes the lotion as well so the hydrating water and nourishing, protective sunflower oil come together into a rich lotion that spreads evenly on the skin.
Organic Essential Oils
Each of the organic essential oils that we use have their own palette of healing properties as shown in the descriptions of the products that contain essential oils. In addition to specific healing properties, most essential oils play a natural role as a preservative in our products.
No Added Preservatives
Dr. Keenan Botanical Solutions lotions are fresh, and have no added preservatives. As such, they’ll serve you best if you: Use your lotion within three months of purchase and keep the jar in a cool, dark place, like a drawer or cupboard. Never leave it in the sun or on a warm surface. Remember, it’s from the North Olympic Peninsula.
Foot Powder
Dr. Keenan’s Foot Powder is packed with moisture wicking ingredients like cosmetic clay and corn starch. (NO talcum powder!!). These gently drying powders absorb sweat, keeping added moisture away from skin. Then, to deliver the two-pronged preventive punch to the funk, three of nature’s strongest fungicides, spearmint, sage, and cloves make feet, socks, and shoes very unfriendly places for funky fungus.
The aroma is amazing! This is what shoes should smell like! Gym bags, suitcases, and closets too.
It only takes a bit. Sprinkle in shoes, or socks, or right on feet (and give ‘em a good rub while you’re at it). Let the drying aspects do their work while the antifungals get to work curbing the fungus that leads to athletes foot, toe fungus, and most prevalent problem of all, world-round: funky, stinky shoes.
Also, friends, funky foot problems can be improved with the following as well:
• Live in sandals when you can. We prefer Birks on the Peninsula. And wool socks—which breath beautifully btw—make this possible year round. (Hahaha-no accounting for fashion)
• Change your socks daily.
• Wear shower sandals in gyms and campground showers.
• You love hiking, but best not to wear your boots, or any airtight shoes, all the time. Drying air flow is our friend in these parts.
Meet Dr. Keenan
Lynn Keenan has been making organic body products for her family and friends for more than 35 years.
Becoming a massage therapist after wrapping up a career as a social work professor brought a new focus to the craft. It expanded her knowledge and understanding of the science behind effective daily skin care and the reach of her products grew to massage clients, and beyond.
A message from Lynn Keenan:
Thank you for supporting Botanical Solutions! I'm eager to learn about your experience with my products. Please send me your thoughts.
Dr. Lynn Keenan
Doctor Keenan Botantical Solutions products are available exclusively at these locations:
Carlsborg Store
or by contacting Doctor Keenan directly