Body care from India
Rooted in India.Made for your ritual.
Our first product is a kokum butter balm for dry heels, elbows and knees. Four ingredients, every one of them explained.
- Four ingredients
- No water
- No preservatives
- No synthetic fragrance
- Not tested on animals
- Made in India
Who we are
Three friends from India, learning as we go.
We grew up with kokum in our kitchens and our homes. Now we live in Toronto, Dallas and Mumbai, and we're making the products we couldn't find here. None of us are chemists, so we test every sample on our own skin first.
What we believe
One botanical. One job.
Short ingredient lists
No fillers and no film-formers like dimethicone. If an ingredient doesn't have a job, it doesn't go in.
Every ingredient explained
We'll tell you what each ingredient does and why it's there, in plain English. Nothing hidden behind "fragrance" or "botanical blend."
Tested on us first
We're not chemists. Every sample goes on our own skin before it goes anywhere near yours.
Inside the jar
Two ingredients we grew up with.
Kokum and cinnamon do the main work. The other two are there to help them, and we explain every one.
Kokum butter Garcinia indica
A firm butter from the seed of the kokum fruit. It softens on warm skin and conditions dry, rough patches.
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Cinnamon leaf oil Cinnamomum zeylanicum
Dalchini, from almost every Indian spice box. Oil from the cinnamon leaf gives the balm its warm scent.
Learn moreFrom the Journal
Know what you're putting on.
Plain-English notes on our ingredients and on caring for dry skin, with our sources. All articles
What is kokum butter?
Most Indian families know kokum from the kitchen. Here is what it is, how the butter is made, and why it behaves the way it does on dry skin.
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Kokum butter vs. shea butter for dry feet
Shea is the butter most people know. Kokum is the one we grew up with. Here is how they actually differ, and why we chose kokum for our balm.
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A night routine for dry, cracked heels
A simple routine you can do before bed, built on what dermatologists recommend. It works with any rich balm, ours included.
ReadThe founders
Three cities. One spice box.
People ask why three men are making skin care. Heels crack, elbows get rough and knees dry out, whoever you are. So we make products for the skin everyone has.
Gaurav Sharma
Pratik Maganti
Rahul D'souza
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