The Formulation Record.
Solaneve Studio began not as a commercial proposition, but as a private documentation exercise — a record of which body creams warranted continued use, and which daily vitamin formulations survived more than a single season of honest assessment.
That record became a catalogue. The catalogue became a resource. It remains, at its core, a private sensibility made public — organised around the conviction that the daily body care ritual deserves the same considered attention as any other sustained practice.
A catalogue that began with a notebook and a shelf of unlabelled jars.
The first iteration of what became the Solaneve Studio catalogue was a personal project — a notebook entry for each body cream and supplement that passed through a small EC1 studio in the early months of 2024. The entries were made without the intention of publication; they were observations recorded for the writer's own reference, organised by ingredient list and supplier origin where that information was available.
What emerged, after eighteen months of consistent addition and occasional deletion, was a document with a distinct character. It was not comprehensive — no such document can be, in a category as broad as body care and daily wellness supplements. It was selective. It reflected a particular sensibility about what constitutes nourishment, what constitutes a sustainable daily routine, and what constitutes honest communication from a supplier.
The decision to publish the catalogue as Solaneve Studio was taken in late 2025. The name — assembled from a private phonetic shorthand for "solar" and "neve" (the Italian word for snow, reflecting the cream-and-warmth palette of the original notebook cover) — was retained from the working title. It was not designed to signal anything beyond the studio's location and aesthetic inclination.
First public edition of the catalogue, London EC1.
Body care formulations and daily wellness supplements — reviewed separately, catalogued together.
All entries reviewed against the ingredient transparency criteria each year.
What the studio considers before listing an entry.
Ingredient transparency
The full ingredient list must be available. Where a supplier cannot provide a complete breakdown — citing proprietary formulation, commercial sensitivity, or simple unavailability — the entry is not listed in the catalogue. The record does not accommodate redaction.
Sourcing documentation
Where the origin of key ingredients can be independently observed — a cold-pressed oil from a named supplier, a botanical extract from a documented source — this is noted in the catalogue record. Where it cannot, that limitation is recorded rather than suppressed.
Absence of inflated claims
The catalogue does not list entries whose primary marketing proposition rests on claims the ingredient record cannot support. A nourishing body cream is described for what it does in a daily routine — not for what it promises to resolve. The supplement entries are described in terms of their nutritional contribution, not in terms of outcomes.
Relationship disclosure
Where the selection team has a commercial relationship with a supplier — direct or indirect — this is disclosed in the catalogue record at the time of listing and updated if the relationship changes.
"Solaneve Studio selects products under the following principles: each item in the catalogue is reviewed for ingredient transparency before listing, supplier documentation is requested where available, corrections are noted in the catalogue record, and the selection team discloses any commercial relationships that could influence inclusion."
Editorial Principles · Solaneve Studio, 2026A small EC1 studio with a specific and unhurried practice.
The Solaneve Studio operates from a small workspace in Baldwin Gardens, London EC1 — a quiet street in the Clerkenwell area that has housed independent creative practices for decades. The studio does not seek scale. The catalogue will not expand to accommodate a broader market; it will remain a record of what passes a consistent and deliberate review.
The selection team is small by design. A larger team does not improve the quality of a catalogue; it accelerates the rate at which compromise enters the selection process. The studio maintains a standing policy: no entry passes review without a complete ingredient record and independent sourcing observation where available.
The studio is reachable at the address below, by telephone during standard London office hours, and by email. Correspondence related to catalogue submissions, corrections, and commercial relationships is handled directly by the selection team, without delegation to an external communications function.
London EC1N 7RJ
United Kingdom
09:00 – 18:00
The body care and supplement catalogue, assembled with the same care as this record.