LOLI Beauty x Laurel & Reed Box

With origins in Southeast Asia, tea seed oil—from the seeds of the Camellia sinensis, the plant from which all teas are made—was adopted by Japanese geishas as a backstage staple to remove their iconic makeup and nourish their porcelain skin. For the modern beauty ritual, it’s the key ingredient in this skin-balancing elixir. An oily T-zone and parched patches everywhere else has always been a fundamentally tricky skin issue, but Tea Seed Elixir takes the burden off. It moisturizes and imparts a dewy glow that makes you look lit from within—totally different from that dreaded 2 p.m. shine. And with the perfect balance it brings comes a blemish-free complexion that’s primed for makeup, or radiant enough to go without.