The Organic Day Crème: Nature's Most Precious Hydrating Botanicals, in One Powerful Formula

Meet the moisturizer built on 100% active, edible, certified organic ingredients, and the raw formulating philosophy behind it.

There's a moment every skincare lover eventually has: standing in front of the mirror, flipping a jar over, and actually reading the ingredient list. For a lot of "natural" and "clean" beauty brands, that moment doesn't hold up. For us, it's the whole point.

At Dr. Alkaitis Organics, we've been formulating one way since 1996: if you can't eat it, don't put it on your skin.™  It's not a tagline. It's the guideline our founder built an entire organic skincare philosophy around, and it's exactly why our Organic Day Crème looks, feels, and performs the way it does.

If you're searching for the best organic skincare brand, or simply trying to find genuinely clean, effective organic beauty products, here's what makes this crème — and the ethos behind it — different.

What Makes a Day Crème "100% Active"?

Most day creams and moisturizers on the market start with water. It's the cheapest ingredient in the formula, and it's usually the first one listed, meaning it makes up the bulk of what you're putting on your face.

Our Organic Day Crème starts differently. Instead of water, the base is organic aloe vera and organic shea butter — two deeply hydrating, nutrient-dense ingredients doing real work from the very first drop. That's what "100% active" means in our formulas: no filler, nothing diluting, nothing just sitting in the jar to bulk up the volume.

The result is a velvety-soft, lightweight crème that delivers deep, lasting hydration, strengthens the skin's natural barrier, minimizes the look of fine lines, and creates a smooth, radiant canvas for makeup, all without heaviness.

The Botanicals Behind the Glow

Every ingredient in the Organic Day Crème is chosen for a reason, and each one is certified organically grown, biodynamic, or ethically wild-crafted. A few of our favorites:

Organic Aloe Vera & Shea Butter

The hydrating foundation of the formula

Centella Asiatica & Tussilago Farfara (Coltsfoot)

Part of our signature herbal Skin Support Complex, working to defend skin against daily environmental stress

Borage Seed Oil

Supports and strengthens the skin's natural barrier

Sacha Inchi Seed Oil

One of nature's richest sources of Omega-3 fatty acids

Buriti Fruit Oil

Antioxidant-rich nourishment from the Amazon

Camu Camu & Acerola (Natural Vitamin C Complex)

Brightening support for a healthy, natural radiance

These botanicals don't work in isolation. They're extracted using techniques that preserve the raw, whole plant — root, stem, leaf, and flower — and blended into what we call signature complexes, designed to work in synergy rather than as a list of disconnected ingredients.

Raw, Not Cooked: Why Formulating Below Body Temperature Matters

Here's something most organic beauty products can't claim: ours are never heated above body temperature during manufacturing.

Heat is efficient for mass production, but it's not kind to plants. High heat breaks down the enzymatic activity and phytonutrients that give raw botanicals their therapeutic value in the first place. By keeping every batch raw, we preserve what the plant actually has to offer your skin, not a processed shadow of it.

This is also why we hand-manufacture every product in small batches, in our own lab in California. It's slower. It's more labor-intensive. It's also the only way we know to protect the integrity of ingredients this good.

Adaptogenic Skincare: Working With Your Skin, Not Against It

Dr. Alkaitis didn't formulate for fixed "skin types." His approach was rooted in a simple observation: when skin is dry, oily, sensitive, or acne-prone, it's not a category — it's a sign that skin is out of balance.

That's the idea behind adaptogenic skincare. Rather than pushing skin in one direction (stripping oil, forcing hydration, masking symptoms), our signature complexes are formulated to help skin find and maintain its own natural equilibrium. Think of the Organic Day Crème less like a product with one job, and more like health food for your skin.

Boutique Agriculture: Where Our Ingredients Come From Matters

We believe the life force of a plant is shaped by where, and how, it grows. That's why we source from small, trusted growers and wild crafters around the world, in relationships built over decades, rather than large commodity suppliers. We call this practice Boutique Agriculture — a commitment to living soil, clean growing conditions, and ingredients at their full potential.

Every ingredient is certified organic, biodynamic, or ethically wild-crafted. Every product is cruelty-free. Nothing is tested on animals.

How to Use the Organic Day Crème

Daily Ritual: After cleansing, toning, and any treatment products, apply 1–2 pumps using gentle upward strokes across the face and neck.

Expert Tip: For an extra layer of intensive moisture, blend a pump of Organic Day Crème with our Organic Nourishing Treatment Oil or Organic Ageless Facial Elixir. The two whip together into a rich, luxurious texture that melts effortlessly into skin.

The Bottom Line

Finding genuinely clean, effective organic skincare shouldn't mean choosing between results and ingredients you trust. Our Organic Day Crème is proof you don't have to.

• Raw, whole-plant ingredients
• 100% active formulas
• Small-batch manufacturing
• Founding philosophy that hasn't changed since 1996

This is what holistic, organic skincare looks like when it's done without shortcuts.

Explore the full Organic Day Crème formula and ingredient list here, and learn more about the philosophy behind every Dr. Alkaitis product on our About Us page.