All-natural topical massage cream for the large muscle groups and joints. Sixteen natural and botanical ingredients. Every one named on the label.
Training loads the big movers first. Shoulders, back, hips, knees. Deep Tissue Cream is made for those areas, in a ninety-gram format built for massage rather than a dab.
The formula works in two stages. Black pepper and nutmeg build warmth as the cream is worked in. Peppermint and eucalyptus finish cool. Almond and grapeseed oils carry the actives and keep the cream moving under the hand through a long application, which is what makes it suited to the large areas and joints.
Sixteen ingredients. No proprietary blend, no undisclosed actives, nothing synthetic. What is in the tube is printed on the tube.
For external use only. Patch test before first use. Avoid contact with eyes. Do not apply to broken or infected skin. If you are pregnant, nursing, or taking any medication, speak to your healthcare professional before use. Keep out of reach of children. Store at room temperature, away from direct sunlight.
Plant compounds and the nerves that read temperature
Both sensations in Deep Tissue Cream come from plant compounds acting on temperature-sensing channels in the nerves of the skin. Between them, David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found the receptors that let nerves detect heat, cold and touch, work recognised by the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Each sensation in this cream has its own channel, one for cold and one for heat.
Menthol, the main aromatic compound in peppermint, activates TRPM8, a channel on sensory nerves that responds to cold. The same channel also responds to real cold, below about 26°C, so menthol reads as cold. Eucalyptus oil contains 1,8-cineole, which also activates human TRPM8. The cool you feel is a signal from the nerve. The skin does not have to get colder for you to feel it.
Piperine, the compound that gives black pepper its bite, activates TRPV1, the channel that responds to heat. TRPV1 is the channel capsaicin from chilli acts on, and it was first identified using capsaicin. Piperine reaches that same channel but is less potent than capsaicin, which fits black pepper's gentler warmth. The warmth is a signal from the nerve too.
Almond and grapeseed oils carry the botanicals in quickly, so the cream absorbs while you work. What's left is a soft, non-greasy finish, with no slick film left on your hands or your clothes. You can pull a shirt on, pick up a bag or get back to training straight away, without waiting around for it to sink in. Rub it in at the desk, at home or at the gym, and carry on.
Work it in before you train, after you finish, or at the end of a long day at the desk.
Deep Tissue Cream is a massage cream for the big areas: neck, shoulders, back, hips, knees, ankles and legs. Anywhere that works hard. It's made for proper hands-on massage, slow and with real pressure behind it. You don't need a training plan to have a reason to use it. A long day at the desk is reason enough.
Before training, massage it into the muscles and joints you're about to use, as part of your warm-up. Afterwards, use it again as part of the wind-down. If you haven't trained at all, use it that night after a long day sitting. Apply it as often as you like. It suits a morning session and a night on the couch equally well.
This one is made for longer massage. Almond and grapeseed oils keep the cream moving under your hands, and the honey and waxes give it some body, so you can work across a whole shoulder, hip or thigh in one go, without stopping partway. It suits slow, firm strokes as much as quick ones, whichever the muscle calls for.
Sixteen botanical and natural ingredients in a base of oils, honey and waxes, and every one is printed on the tube. No proprietary blend, no undisclosed actives, nothing synthetic. It was developed with physiotherapists in New Zealand for massage across large muscle groups, and it's made there from local and imported ingredients.
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