Sleep Stone Solid Body Moisturizer Starter Kit

Lotion is mostly water. That is the part nobody mentions on the bottle, and it is the part that evaporates within the hour, which is why the pump runs dry and the skin needs going over again by lunchtime.

Kate McLeod's Sleep Stone is a solid lotion bar with the water left out: cocoa butter holding sweet almond, apricot kernel, avocado and fractionated coconut oils in a puck you warm against your own skin. Nothing has to be thinned to pass through a nozzle, so what you rub on is nearly all active ingredient. The bar stays firm at room temperature and softens only where your hands are, which is why it sinks in rather than sitting on the surface. Lavender and chamomile oils are folded into the same mixture for scent, not dosed in afterwards as a separate fragrance.

The full size bar weighs 3.5 ounces and is rated for four to six weeks of daily use, a figure that only makes sense once you accept how little of it is filler. The starter kit wraps that bar in linen and gives it a reusable bamboo canister to live in. After that the canister stays and the puck gets replaced, with a refill sold on its own, and a mini a third of the size that carries two to three weeks of use for travel.