Francine’s journey with Cascadia Skincare began more than a decade ago as she decided to move on from her career in the beauty industry as an aesthetician. Her career had been a vehicle to travel our globe while working with some of our worlds most highly recognized, luxury beauty brands. Coming back from her yoga trainings at an Ayurvedic centre in Southern India transformed her perspective of health, well-being, and lifestyle. What you expose yourself to becomes a part of your whole, whether it be the environment you live in, the food you ingest, or the beauty products you apply on your skin.

Joel Morassutti who was born on a small farm and vineyard in the South of France, observed his mère and grand-mère making soap the old fashioned way. The family tradition of an at-home apothecary goes back many generations. On the farm and vineyard, as each season arrived, the botanicals would be harvested and transformed into self-nourishing, healing preparations such as soaps, remedies, infusions, and teas. This tradition made its way to the Cascadia region as Joel’s family immigrated in the early 1960s and sometime after Joel, with his wife Maureen, birthed Cascadia Skincare on the lush, beautiful land of British Columbia, Canada. 

The family’s apothecary has been providing clean, plant-based soaps and skincare remedies in North America and beyond for more than 30 years. Francine took the reins almost a decade ago and she is proud to continue this Southern French lineage of the Morassutti family by continuing to formulate and create skincare remedies with only the purest quality, sustainable ingredients our Mother Earth has to offer.

Here are some of the amazing products of Cascadia!

Lift Face Serum

Leaving out the heavy weight barrier-creating plant-based oils and butters allows us to create this incredibly lightweight yet highly concentrated plant infusion with smaller molecules that naturally penetrate deeper into your skin’s cellular level: 

• Comfrey is key for our skin’s regeneration, also known for reducing skin pigmentation dark spots, soothing sensitive skins, and its anti-inflammatory activity assists in healing damaged skin
• Horsetail being naturally high in silica which helps form collagen in the skin increasing firmness, elasticity and smoothing fine lines
• Geranium tightens, lifts, and tones by contracting the skin muscles
• White Oak Bark is an incredible skin astringent with anti-wrinkle properties
• Aloe Leaf Juice hydrates by increasing your skin’s ability to lock in moisture and the natural occurring  polysaccharides add an incredible layer of protection for ultra-sensitive skin types
• Hibiscus is your skin’s daily boost of Vitamin C

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This is an amazing serum to have, as it gives you all the natural ingredients for moisture locking, hydration, as well as firmness and smoothing any lines on the face. This is a must have as it gets quickly absorped and helps the skin with all the natural ingredients. 

Skin Balancing Oil 

Our Skin Balancing Oil is an ancient blend of plant extracts, some dating back more than 4,000 years, known for their miraculous healing properties, and still being utilized today.

• Incredibly anti-inflammatory and soothing for skin sensitivities
• Excellent for treating acne, eczema, psoriasis, fungus, and even hair loss
• Replicates our skin’s natural oils and actually balances our skin oil production
• Extremely effective for balancing dry, combination, and acne skins
• An abundance of antioxidants smoothing wrinkles, fine lines, and  balancing skin tone

Apply a few drops daily for skin sebum balancing, aging gracefully, and skin relief from head to toe! Store at room temperature.

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This is a very good skin oil. A few drops go a long way and to incorporate it in your daily moisturizer is a good idea as it helps with smoothing the fine lines. We tried it with and without the moisturizer and felt that adding a few drops to the moisturizer really helped. 

Organic Rosehip Oil 

Rosehips are fully packed with Vitamin C plus many other antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals for treating dark spots, and hyper pigmentation. This unique oil feeds the skin vital nutrients to promote radiant, healthy looking skin. More reasons to love rosehip oil:

• Absorbs instantly allowing the skin to breath as it works
• Vitamin A to promote healthy skin cell rejuvenation
• EFAs to protect cell membranes
• Lycopene a powerful antioxidant for aging gracefully
• Beta Carotene an antioxidant which may help our skin resist UV radiation from the sun

Use evening and morning by massaging into face, neck, and areas of concern.

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This Organic Rosehip Oil is very helpful when you finish a facial as it helps in healing the skin! This can be used on any skin type and overall provides all the benefits of Rosehip Oil! 

Ultra Rich Skin Butter 

The complexion moisturizer uses liposomes technology to carry the moisture and these beneficial plant extracts deeper into the skin cells:

• Geranium tightens, lifts, and tones by contracting the skin muscles
• Vitamin A encourages skin cell reproduction maintaining a healthy dermis and epidermis
• Rosehip Oil is packed with Vitamin C and other antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals for treating dark spots, and hyper pigmentation
• Shea Butter restores your skin’s moisture while soothing sensitive irritated skin
• Lavender and Palmarosa combined are incredible antibacterials, soothing for extra sensitive skin, subtle aromas that are both calming, and de-stressing essential oils

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This is a thick and very strong moisturizing cream. If you feel you are really dry, then this cream is a healing cream. Especially in the winter, when the skin is dry due to the weather, this cream is a life saver! 

Arnica Muscle & Joint Massage Bar 

The Arnica Muscle & Joint Massage Bar is designed to soothe away the pain in your tired, aching joints and muscles.

• Arnica reduces inflammation in and around the muscles and joints
• An extremely effective and rapid healer for bruises
• Increases circulation which can naturally relieve pain and discomfort
• Added Menthol + Eucalyptus for a cooling heating effect on tired muscles
• Decongesting qualities on the lungs and nasal passageway

It’s SouthAsian Reviews: This is a magic bar! We tried the “Arnica Muscle & Joint Massage Bar” for the neck, calves, lower back and shoulder pain. And at all times this product works efficiently! Within a few minutes the pain vanishes and the muscles gets relaxed and you don’t feel any discomfort at all. That’s why we call is the magic bar, and it works like magic! 

Jouvence Body & Foot Butter

The Jouvence Body Perfume is such an indulged aroma which has inspired us to create this luxurious, ultra moisturizing body butter infused with the same indulgent aroma.

• Sensual, harmonizing, uplifting aroma
• Made with earth’s most luscious, organic unrefined Shea and cocoa butters
• Apply directly when you hop out of the bath or shower as your daily body butter
• Melts into your skin leaving you smelling of indulgence
• Excellent consistency for massaging yourself and your beloved

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This is a buttery, rich body butter bar which when massaged on to the body and feet and even hands, keeps the body soft and supple! The moisturizing body butter bar glides well on the body and provides that instant moisturizing feeling especially if you use it right after showering! 

Decadence 

Often referred to as the “caviar” of our soaps, we make Decadence by double French-milling our luxury goat milk soap in a process that takes no less than 12 months to make!

• Longest lasting soap bar
• Extremely mild on the skin
• Lover of both sexes
• Whipped cream like lather
• Excellent for shaving face, legs, and wherever else!
• Decadent sensual aroma  lavender + patchouli + cedarwood + sweet orange

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – First of the scent of this soap is amazing and has a good lather. Its a chunk size soap which lasts longer than other soaps. The aroma of the soap is a mix of sweet florals and is gentle on the skin! 

Jardin de Provence  

Our Jardin de Provence is an original South of France luxury. Often referred to as the “caviar” of our soaps, we make our this soap bar by double French-milling our luxury goat milk soap in a process that takes no less than 12 months to make!

• Longest lasting soap bar
• Extremely mild on the skin
• Whipped cream like lather
• Excellent for shaving face, legs, and wherever else!

The title alone describes the aroma of our Southern France roots with floral notes of lavender, rose, and bergamot balancing your mood back to the jardin.

It’s SouthAsian Reviews – This is another soap that is mild on the body and lathers very well. It’s a big size soap which means its equal to 3 regular soaps! The scent is like a breeze of cool roses and its exciting to use it every morning in the shower!