Men's hair, face & body oil · Small batch, Florida
One light oil for hair, face and body. Soft hair, moisturized skin, a healthy-looking glow. Never greasy.
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Through hair or beard, wet or dry. Tames, never crunchy.
Pressed into damp skin after the shower, it locks the water in.
Rosehip and olive for a healthy-looking sheen. Not shiny. Glowy.
Jojoba and moringa keep it light. Shirt on in a minute.
Pat dry, leave skin a little damp.
Pour small amounts to apply to each area of your body and hair.
It sinks in in about a minute. Get dressed, glow on.
For the man who doesn’t stay put. A summer on the coast, a winter inland, salt water whenever he can get it. Sun, salt, wind and dry air each treat your skin and hair differently, so one fixed formula can’t keep up. Every month we re-blend your can for your skin, your hair and the weather where you are. Thirty percent of every can is yours alone. Same clean base. Your name on the front. 10% off, always.
For your skin · about 15%.
Jojoba when it should be lighter. Kalahari melon and rosehip when skin feels dry. Set by your skin, your face, the air you’re in and how you want it to look.
For your hair and beard · about 15%.
Moringa and olive for coils, curls and beards. Jojoba for fine hair. Skin oils for a bald head. Tell us where you use it most and the split moves with you.
Your ZIP and the month tell us the air you’re in, and we look again every month. Eleven quick questions tell us the rest. In the sun months we go easy on rosehip, the most fragile oil in the can.
Question 1 of 13 · about a minute
Every plant oil is a mix of fatty acids, and that mix decides how it feels and what it does. Here's the house blend, by the numbers.
No water. No added fragrance. No fillers. Here is every one of them, and why it made the cut.
The one that makes it glide.
Pressed from the kernel of the sweet almond, a tree that has grown around the Mediterranean for thousands of years. It's the oil massage therapists reach for, because it spreads a long way and never turns tacky. It gets the biggest share of the can for one reason: one pour has to cover a whole man.
The oldest skin oil there is.
Greek athletes rubbed it in before they trained, then scraped it off with the dust. Romans carried it to the baths. It holds squalene, which also makes up about 12% of the oil your own skin makes. That's why it sits on you like it belongs there, and why it leaves a glow.
Born where it barely rains.
The wild ancestor of the watermelon grows in the Kalahari, where in the dry season it can be the only water around. In southern Africa its seed oil has gone on skin for generations. It runs about 62% linoleic acid, a building block of the lipids that hold water in your skin, and it's the lightest oil in the can. This is our signature. [12]
Not an oil. A liquid wax.
Jojoba is a shrub from the Sonoran Desert, and what comes out of its seed is about 98% wax esters. About a quarter of the oil your own skin makes is wax esters too, which is why jojoba feels like nothing once it's on. It barely goes off. When sperm whale oil was banned in the 1970s, this is the plant that took its place.
The seed inside a wild rose.
When the petals drop, the dog rose leaves a red fruit, and this oil is pressed from its seeds. It's the rare plant oil with omega-6 and omega-3 both in real amounts. It's also the most fragile thing we use: light and air break it down. That's one reason ROAM lives in an aluminum can and not a clear bottle.
The oil watchmakers trusted.
Pressed from the seeds of the moringa tree, which grows across the tropics, the Caribbean included. Its old name is ben oil. It resists going rancid so well that watchmakers ran their gears on it and perfumers used it to hold a scent. In the can it's the hair and beard specialist: silky, and it doesn't quit in the heat.
The bodyguard.
Plant oils go off when oxygen gets to them. Vitamin E takes that hit first. It's here for one job: keeping the six oils fresh.
Oily, breakout-prone skin has been measured running low on linoleic acid, so oily skin gets a lighter, jojoba-forward can and dry skin gets more rosehip. [1][3]
Tight coils have more weak points and lower moisture, so coils and beards get extra moringa. Fine hair gets jojoba so it doesn't go flat. [10]
Low humidity and cold lower skin barrier function, so dry places get more barrier lipids and humid places get a lighter pour. [11]
Winter brings rosehip up. Summer UV breaks down fragile oils, so summer cans lean on stable ones. [5][11]
Footnotes: [1] Downing et al. 1986 · [3] Letawe et al. 1998 · [5] Rosehip stability, Grasas y Aceites · [10] Hair fiber review, Cutis · [11] Engebretsen et al., JEADV 2016 · [12] Kalahari melon seed oil, OCL 2020. Fatty acid shares are typical values; every harvest varies a little. ROAM is a cosmetic moisturizer, not a treatment for any skin or scalp condition. Contains almond oil.
| Feature | One can | The Voyage |
|---|---|---|
| Price per can | $28.00 | $25.20 (10% off) |
| Formula | The standard blend | 30% of the can picked for your skin, hair and weather |
| Changes with the seasons | No | Yes, re-blended every month for your weather |
| Your name on the can | No | Yes |
| Skip, pause or cancel | Not needed | Anytime |
Used on your whole body every day, about four weeks. Used only on your face, hair or beard, a can lasts months, so skip months whenever you like.
No. Jojoba and moringa keep it light. Use it on damp skin and it sinks in in about a minute.
Yes. It's one oil for hair, face and body. If your face breaks out easily, try it on a small patch for a few days first.
70% of the can is the house base. The other 30% is more of the oils you need: eleven quick questions about your skin, hair and days decide it, together with the air where your can ships that month. It is never a new ingredient, only different amounts of the same seven. A card in the box tells you what went into your can and why.
It contains sweet almond oil, so skip it if you have a tree nut allergy. Patch test first if your skin is sensitive. External use only.
It keeps light out, which keeps the oils fresh, and it's lined inside so the oil never touches the metal.