Three friends from India, now living in three countries, bringing the botanicals we grew up with into body care built for the life we have here. Slow formulas, unfamiliar ingredients, nothing borrowed from the shelf that already exists.
Founder story goes here
Two or three paragraphs. Who the three of you are, how you know each other, and the specific moment this stopped being a conversation and became a thing you were actually doing.
Then why it has to exist: what you went looking for on a shelf here and could not find, and what you already knew was sitting on a shelf at home.
We are not translating India for anyone. We are just bringing what works, and most of it has never been on an American shelf.
खस
Chrysopogon zizanioides
The root of a grass that cools a room. Through a north Indian summer, khus screens are hung across open windows and kept wet; air that passes through arrives cool, and green, and slightly sweet. It is the smell of the hottest month being survived.
Rajasthan · Kerala
कोकम
Garcinia indica
A seed butter that sits hard as wax at room temperature and turns to oil the moment it meets skin. In the Konkan it has always been the answer to heels that have split open by the end of a dry season. It is not a delicate ingredient. It is a working one.
Western Ghats
We are still arguing with our chemist. When that ends, the list hears first and gets the first run at a price we will not repeat.