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Routine

A small bottle for every kind of week

Sunday league, the 7:42, ten rounds on the bag or a twelve-hour shift. How people fit a ten-second routine into very different days, with practical tips for each.

XSEED Journal2 November 20263 min read
A Sunday league touchline in drizzle with floodlights on and a kit bag on the bench

Magic Oil PURE was made to fit into a day rather than take one over. It is 10ml, it rolls on in seconds and it leaves nothing on your clothes. That means it ends up in some very different places. These are a few of them, with a practical tip or two for each.

Sunday league

Drizzle, mud and floodlights still on at nine in the morning. Grassroots football is built on routine: kit packed the night before, the same seat in the changing room, the same pre-match joke. The roll-on lives in the side pocket and comes out after the final whistle.

Tip: pack your bag in the order you'll use it. Our matchday kit bag checklist walks through it.

Sunday morning on the touchline.
Sunday morning on the touchline.

The 7:42

Coffee, headphones, a seat if you're lucky. Commuting days are long days. The bag you carry has to earn its space. A 10ml bottle takes up less room than a phone charger.

Tip: keep a second bottle in your desk drawer, so the routine doesn't depend on which bag you grabbed.

The boxing gym

Wraps on, ten rounds on the bag, then a slow massage once you're showered and changed. Combat sports reward discipline and repetition. So does any routine you want to keep.

Tip: hand wraps need drying out fully between sessions. Hang them up rather than leaving them balled in your bag.

Wraps on. Ten rounds on the bag.
Wraps on. Ten rounds on the bag.

Cold water at dawn

Open-water swimming has a devoted following across the UK, from lidos to lakes to the sea. The ritual afterwards matters as much as the swim: wetsuit off, towel round the shoulders, warm layers on fast.

Tip: never swim alone, check the conditions and get warm quickly afterwards. Organised groups and lifeguarded venues are the best way to start.

Cold water at dawn.
Cold water at dawn.

The climbing wall and the crag

Chalk, shoes, crash pad. Climbing bags are small and full. Anything extra has to be light and leak-proof, which is exactly where a roll-on beats a dropper bottle.

Tip: wash the chalk off your hands before using any skincare. Clean, dry skin is always the starting point.

Eighteen holes

A pocket full of tees, a scorecard and four or five hours on your feet. Golf bags have more pockets than anyone needs. One of them can hold a 10ml roll-on.

Eighteen holes and a pocket full of tees.
Eighteen holes and a pocket full of tees.

Courtside

Towel, racket, two balls and a bottle of water. Tennis players are famously particular about their bags. Ours earned its place by being small and staying shut.

Hours at the barre

Dancers spend more time on their feet than almost anyone. After class, a slow, quiet massage is part of the wind-down for a lot of them. Two ingredients, nothing added.

Hours at the barre.
Hours at the barre.

Eighty minutes on a muddy pitch

Rugby has its own changing room culture, its own kit bag and its own cool-down rituals. One small bottle fits alongside the scrum cap and the gum shield.

And the days that aren't sport at all

Not everyone who uses Magic Oil PURE plays anything. Chefs finishing a twelve-hour service. Tradespeople locking the van at the end of the day. Anyone shutting the laptop and putting their phone down. The routine is the same in every case: clean skin, a few strokes, a slow massage, done when it's gone.

The full step-by-step is in How to use a roll-on oil.

Magic Oil PURE 10ml cobalt-blue glass roll-on, studio photograph
The oil behind the journal

Magic Oil PURE

Cold-pressed hemp seed oil and a multi-strain hemp extract in a 10ml cobalt-blue glass roll-on. Two ingredients. Nothing added for scent, colour or shelf life.

Two ingredientsCannabinoids not detectedUKAS lab testedCPSR certifiedMade in the UK
£4510ml · Free UK shipping
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