Botanical ingredients in everyday skincare

Olive oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, oats, calendula, clay. These ingredients have been part of personal care traditions across continents for generations, long before anyone described them in technical terms.

They endure because they are useful and because they are pleasant to use. Butters bring richness and a comforting texture. Plant oils bring softness and slip. Botanical powders and infusions bring gentle texture and colour.

Growing up in Costa Rica, surrounded by an extraordinary abundance of plant life, made these ingredients feel familiar rather than exotic. Much of what we use is simply what people have always reached for.

We choose ingredients we can name and explain, and we use them in formulations where every element has a purpose.