Rome kept time by habit and light; households moved from market to hearth and back again. We keep a similar rhythm in the lab. A formula is made, finished, and set aside. We call that discrete act a batch.
A batch begins, is mixed, is filled, and ends. We do not top up or fold one run into the next. We schedule the next on the Kalends (calendar).
Modern skincare is a balance: enough water to feel supple, acidity set so actives behave, oils kept fresh, texture kept even, scent present but quiet. Time and handling can nudge any of these. Smaller, dated pressings keep that in check; they let us compare one run to the next with clarity and correct anything that wandered.
Between runs we return to the bench. We hold reference jars from the first and last fills and watch them under controlled storage—how they look, how they move, how they smell. If something shifts, we note it and set it right before the next pressing.
Think of it as baking a familiar loaf each week. The recipe is the same; the proof and the bake are watched. You taste consistency because the pauses are respected. Batches are our pauses.
Each pressing appears on the product page and in our batch record with Latin month + year—Ianuarius, Martius, September—and any relevant notes. The language nods to our Roman lens; the function is plain: a precise, human-readable timestamp that needs no factory code.
The method is quiet by design: mix, fill, rest, record. The effect is not. Texture stays familiar; scent remains measured; the film on the skin is the same from one bottle to the next. When the run ends, we close the page and begin anew. The work moves forward without blurring its own edges.
A batch begins, is filled, and ends. When it concludes, we invite you to the next—no scarcity games, no endless “almost back” loops. The cadence is deliberate so the formula you meet is the formula we made.
In the Apotheca
The roadmap you see across the site is our table of contents. It shows where each formula sits in its life.
Apotheca is a Roman word for the store-room—a place for wines, oils, and jars. Later it becomes apothecary, the shop of measured preparations. We use apotheca for our internal shelf: the bench, the drafts, the materials under review. It is not a tease; it is a state of work.
• In apotheca — the formula is being examined or refined: materials verified, stability watched, scent and texture tuned with restraint.
○ Returning soon — the next pressing is scheduled; materials are in, the date is set.
● Available — the batch is on the shelf; the ledger entry is live with its Latin month and year.
The language is older than we are; the practice is current. A clear cadence, a public record, and a product that feels like itself from run to run—that is the point.
Each pressing is mixed to a fixed spec, filled within a short window, and rested. The result is a formula that reads the same on skin each time—texture even, scent restrained, oils fresh, actives behaving as intended. Quality here is repeatable.
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