MoonDance Botanicals

I sort of want to live in MoonDance, guys. It's a beautiful, cozy, warm place in Cap Hill with the most awesome vibes (sort of like the Herbery a few blocks West).

Candice, Kelly, and the rest of the staff are awesome--knowledgeable, friendly, and so passionate about what they do. Each product has a little "Created by _____" so you know who made the product you have. Oh, and everything is created in house.

I own the Apricot Rose Facial Cream and the Neroli Face Spritzer, and have tried most other products. I'm plan on owning more products soon. I especially love their recycle program: 15% off any repeat product you buy that you've put your fingers in (like a face cream) and 40% off those you don't put your hands in (like a face spritzer) when you bring the bottles back in.

Oh... and they do facials! Intimate spa parties where you're fed champagne spritzers and chocolate during your 8-step facial. Cheers to that!

I do not live in Colorado, but I first went to MoonDance 10 years ago on a trip to visit a friend and we went to MoonDance for great herbal body care products. I loved what I got back then and was happy to rediscover the newest iteration of this shop in the new location when I came back for a visit. In addition to their body care/self care herbal products - all made by the owner - there are unique jewelry items, curated vintage items, and unique works of art on offer. It was hard to narrow down my selection (for this trip!) but I was able to find some amazing soaps and skin care products for myself and some quirky gifts for friends and family. Looking forward to my next visit!

This place is the best for natural skincare! Candace is so helpful and knowledgeable! My skin is absolutely thriving from her products and they are all very reasonably priced! Also tried the tinctures that she gets from another small business and they were super effective! I love the sleepy time one and the one for menstrual cramps. Definitely check out this awesome spot

Wonderful place. Great precautions during COVID. I went there for handmade soaps and ended up buying much more. They have fun items you won't find anywhere else. I will be back! Highly recommend.

Every business should follow MoonDance. Candice is so kind, helpful, knowledgable, and fun. I buy her products for most of my friends birthdays. She ships quick. She'll deliver in denver within a few days. The products are amazing, clean, and great for sensitive skin.

You know how you feel really excited when you are about to introduce two people that you really like that you are just SURE are going to hit it off? That's how I felt tonight having set up the UYE for a Spa Party at MoonDance. Introducing my beloved and respected Yelpers to the wonder and joy of MoonDance had me all a-flutter.

In heaven, there is a spa party everyday. I've now attended 4 spa parties in the last 3 months, having arranged 2 of them myself. Eventhough I am no girly-girl, it's so relaxing and makes me feel so pretty I adore going there and pampering myself. I have to admit that since they are running a special that gives you your spa party for free when you arrange one for 6 or more, I've become an even bigger fan. As many of you know, arranging a UYE can be hard work and Tonja was amazing working with me as I changed our RSVP at least 5 times!

I really can't think of a better deal. $15 for several glasses of champagne, gouda cheese drizzled in honey with walnuts and crackers, delicious lavender blueberry chocolate and a 5 step self applied facial that makes you feel like a new woman/man (Dave the Brave, I'm talking about you there). My face feels so soft right now, I'm having a hard time keeping my hands to myself! I just keep pawing my myself and oohing and aahing about how soft and silky I am.

Since you get 20% off your purchase after the spa party, I've bought just about one of everything over these past few months. The headache oil really helps me with the stress headaches. I drip a few drops on my hoodie and it relaxes me all day long. The lavender silk skin cleanser is part of my nightly routine. The Rosewater Elixir is a big favorite at work! It's so refreshing! Each and every product is organic, made fresh weekly and knocks my socks off! Because they care about the environment, they will give you a 50% discount if you bring back the bottle of most items!!!

I love you MoonDance Botanicals. Thank you for making me and my friends feel so pretty!!!!

I had no idea what to write here, so I asked for some fairy guidance. Here goes:

I am a man. If you've taken biology, you know that men have skin, too. We may lack other vital things: the ability to put clothes in the hamper, fashion sense, shoes that don't smell, etc. But we make up for it. How else would you get the pickle jar open? Or for that matter, get it down from the top shelf of the cupboard? Or, when lost, who pushes on, WITHOUT WUSSING OUT AND GETTING DIRECTIONS, I might add, to find our destination just 6 hours late? Men. And all that goodness is covered up with skin. Rough, tough, dirty, unexfoliated, brimming with toxins SKIN...that may smell like something, but it sure ain't roses.

Well, Moondance Botanicals is just the place to change all of that.

When we first arrived, we were served our choice of champagne, red wine, juice of some sort, and water. Also, to nibble on, dark chocolate with lavender and blueberries, and some Gouda with walnuts, and honey drizzled over the top.

We then rubbed some kind of oil, (lavender, I think?) on our wrists, and then meditated with our heads down, smelling the oils for a couple of minutes. I, for one, could feel the fairies just putting the beat down on my stress. Take that, anxiety, take that, job insecurity, and take THAT, societal gender stereotypes! Vanquished, all. We concentrated on completing the phrase "I am" and had to finish it with one word. Others said "I am happy", "I am relaxed" "I am excited", etc. and though I have been walking around singing "I am beautiful" ever since, my phrase was "I am traveling". (my FIRST thought was actually "I am so happy I am in a room with so many beautiful women all to myself, eat that you mofos that laughed at me for getting a facial" but I it had to be one word.)

We then picked our fairy card, and pondered it's meaning for a moment, and then read the fairy book which offered further fairy guidance. Mine was "look within yourself", and my fairy guidance was to forget all the outward affirmations that I am a good person, to set aside all the things I do to take the place of love (such as new clothes, big TVs, advanced degrees, etc.) and to look within, and to see that I am truly a beautiful human being, worthy of love, respect, and affection.

Next step, exfoliation, with Quaker oats. OK, not Quaker oats, but it had an oatmeal smell and texture, I mixed with with water and I rubbed it all over my face. Though I looked like a toddler at breakfast, my skin was already starting to feel softer and revitalized.

We then washed our faces, most washed their own, but my good good friends Jenn and Maha took care of me and helped me...which also illustrated that I AM worthy of care and affection. We applied some more kind of oil, to soften and moisten the skin a bit. I wish I could remember it was, but this was like learning a new language here, the language of women...which is like learning a mix of Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin. Ask them what it was, it just felt good, that's all I know.

Then, the secret cult portion of the evening. we steamed open our pores with hot water in those bowls, towels over our heads until we couldn't stand it any more, or until everyone said "Dave, you can stop now". Yeah, baby, I did it the longest! What do I win?

Now, the MASK! Like Spiderman? No, MASQUE, Dave. Ahhh, OK. We had our choice of Dark Chocolate (antioxidant), Clay (best for your oily T zone, wherever that is. Red zone, I can find) and Red Rose, which, I think, pulls out toxins and moisturizes. Since rubbing chocolate was suddenly socially acceptable, that was my starting point. Not in your eyes, they said. OK. not in your mouth. WHAT?! (I snuck a little, not bad!). They said I could mix them any way I wished, all 3 if I like, so I added the clay, just to my oily T zone. We used whatever was left on our hands to cover our whole hands, front and back, because we also want beautiful soft hands...and there we all sat for several minutes. Maha told me I looked like a super hero, and Jenn agreed, stating that my towel was a cape! The man points started to trickle back in.

Once dry and cracking on our faces, we washed off our masques and applied another oil and a cream, whose ingredients again escape me, and we were basically done! Since we had done the facial as a group (you'll need at least 4, up to 15) we had a discount of 20% on all the products in the store. Many are hand made right in the store by a ravishing young woman. Again, names? No clue. One thing of many that I liked here was when I asked the owner what to do to help my eyes look better, the tips she gave me actually weren't sales pitches, she gave me actual USEFUL advice to help me, not to sell products. Only when I pushed on did they show me something to actually buy, and I respect that a lot. It builds credibility for me, and that's what I need to be a repeat customer. Yes, me, a man, a MANLY man, will return.

Okay, I wear a lot of dresses, but other than that I'm not super girlie. I mean I wash my face with bar soap, the kind of soap the commercials show leaving those streaks on your shower door and ask what you think it does to your body. Well, it's been doing my body just fine for decades so I'm just going to stick with it, thanks TV. But, I can rarely pass up the chance to hang out with Tara B so when she put together the spa party I said I was in.

There was 11 of us in the room. I'd recommend not having more than 8 because we crowded that room right up. But, since we were all so friendly it didn't really matter. You start off the evening with champagne or red wine (I'll give you one guess which I chose), chocolate and cheese. After they've loosened you up with all of these goodies you move on to the facial part.

There are lots of steps that I'm bad at remembering, but you get to apply masks made of chocolate or rose or other lovely concoctions. You get to steam your face over a large bowl of some sort of herb mixture until it becomes too hot under the towel or you're afraid of spilling all your secrets because it feels so safe. You get to moisturize and cleanse and so on and so on. Most people had soft, glowing skin. Even when I saw David S the next day he looked like a new man. My skin, used to not-so-nice ingredients became kind of red and blotchy. Stupid, sensitive skin. But, the experience was awesome and I bought some nice pillow spray that is supposed to make you have good dreams as well as some catnip that Littlest is mad about. She's been high all week. All in all, it's a lovely store and well worth the spa experience if you enjoy those sorts of things.

Three simple steps to a Botanicals spa party: Get drunk. Get facial. Get stuff.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

Dave is an added bonus, of course.

So here's an update, but it's not of another visit to the shop, it's of the products that I have now been using for a week. I mean a place like this is only as good as the products they sell, right?

At the spa party, I picked up Beautiful You starter kit including the Lavender Silk cleanser, Sacred Oils face serum, Neroli face spritz and Apricot Rose face cream. I also got the triple rose mask and Pulp Friction salt massage.

My daily routine is now cleanse with the lavender silk, shower, dab the sacred oil under my eye area (not RIGHT under but in the crows feet breeding grounds), mist with the neroli spritz and then all over with the apricot rose. Since starting the routine I have had zero breakouts and my skin looks better than it has in a LONG time.

The rose mask is superb, not overly drying and as a weekly addon I cleanse, use the mask, dampen my skin all over and hop in the (turned off) shower to scrub down with Pulp Friction.

The salt massage may be a little harsh for some people, but it's perfect for me and my ultra dry skin, weekly use keeps me from getting too flaky and dry and I tingle all over afterwards.

So since the proof is in the products and their continued use, my 4 star review is now a 5 star review. Moon Dance stuff is gentle enough for continued used on normal 30something skin (I can't speak to ultra sensitive) and I will be going back soon to replenish what I need

One note, I am finding that with most of these products a little goes a long way, so while the prices may seem high to some, the value will show itself over time.