WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT

PhD Science Meets Ancestral Plant Knowledge
Formulated by Dr. Mary Wingo, a PhD biologist with more than 30 years of scientific study and experimentation and informed by over a decade of learning from traditional plant practitioners in Ecuador.

Plants — Not Petroleum
Our formulas are built around plant oils, carefully prepared botanical extracts and other plant-derived ingredients rather than conventional body-destroying yuck.

Our products are free of:

Petroleum-derived ingredients
Silicones
Synthetic polymers
Synthetic fragrances
Synthetic dyes and colorants
Sulfates
Parabens
Phthalates
PEGs and ethoxylated ingredients

And God knows what else…

Hardcore Plant Chemistry
We combine traditional botanical knowledge with modern biological science, using concentrated plant extracts and preparation methods designed around the chemistry of compounds such as alkaloids, terpenoids and antioxidant compounds. There are a lot of amazing things our products can do that can’t be found anywhere else.

Botanicals That Do More Than One Thing
Plants are chemically complicated. That’s the point. Rather than building formulas around a single fashionable “hero ingredient,” we combine Amazonian and Andean botanicals selected for mind-blowing curative effects on skin, scalp and body. If you get hungry, you can eat our products. We only produce products that are safe for babies, puppies, and humans to use and eat. Of course, we don’t recommend eating our skin cream, but you get the point….