Jutta Lange

Born in Ger­many, Jutta grew up in France. How­ever, 18 years ago she moved to Cat­alo­nia for love, and love is cer­tainly the one thing she puts into every­thing she does.

After 30 years work­ing as a pro­ducer in com­mer­cial pro­duc­tion, three years ago she made her dream come true: mak­ing her own nat­ural cos­met­ics. She lives in Em­pordà and she feels priv­i­leged to live in such a de­light­ful place. In fact, her cos­metic recipes are all in­spired by the local na­ture, as well as the healthy spirit as­so­ci­ated with this beau­ti­ful re­gion of the coun­try.

Jutta works with nat­ural in­gre­di­ents, many of them oils, such as musk rose, sweet al­mond, argan, jo­joba, grenade seed, av­o­cado, olive, wheat germ, and marigold oil, dam­a­scene rose flower water, witch hazel water, wild car­rot water, vir­gin bees wax, and a long list of the all best that na­ture has to offer.

The shop is lo­cated in Gaüses, a small vil­lage be­tween Ca­mallera and Vilo­priu

1. Recipe book: her recipe book is her “bible”. She says that she is al­ways on the look­out for new nat­ural in­gre­di­ents and she makes good use of the tra­di­tional knowl­edge of na­ture's heal­ing pow­ers from all round the world.

2. Plants and flow­ers: Roses, bam­boo, laven­der, witch hazel, marigold, camomile are just some of the es­sen­tial in­gre­di­ents that make their way into her prod­ucts: “There is a plant for every need, on every con­ti­nent,” she told us.

3. Blos­som wa­ters: She says plants pos­sess a vast and com­plex ar­se­nal of ac­tive in­gre­di­ents (phy­to­chem­i­cals) that are not only able to soothe or smooth the skin, but ac­tively re­store, heal and pro­tect it.

4. Botan­i­cal oils: she also works with pre­cious plant oils, which she uses as nat­ural raw ma­te­ri­als for her cos­metic prod­ucts.

5. Tools: she uses these items to make her face and body creams, sham­poos, lip balms, fa­cial ton­ics, face and hair masks, as well as body oils.

6. Prod­ucts: she loves the cre­ativ­ity in­volved in pro­duc­ing cos­met­ics, which she sees as part of the de­vel­op­ment process. It's a kind of “al­chemist ex­pe­ri­ence,” she claims.

7. La­bels: a PVC pro­tec­tor and a cut­ter – a must for the la­bel­ing process.

8. Good luck charms: the first was a pre­sent from her hus­band: a neck pen­dant from San Cristóbal de las Casas (Mex­ico), made of amber with a small ele­phant to bring good for­tune, and a guardian angel of rose quartz, a gift from her sis­ter.

9. Green Tea: green tea is one of the health­i­est bev­er­ages on the planet. It's loaded with an­tiox­i­dants and nu­tri­ents with pow­er­ful ef­fects. She loves green tea but also uses it as an in­gre­di­ent in some of her prod­ucts.