What we use
We name all 236 ingredients we use
The whole list of what we put in, grouped into nine families, with how each one is pressed, dried or distilled.
Everything we put in, named and counted. The number beside each ingredient is how many of our 75 products use it.
249 ingredients · 9 families
What goes in
Turmeric you could hold. Almonds you could eat. Rose you could smell. Every ingredient below is one of those. The six we use most come first.
How we choose
Five rules decide what earns a place on the label:
- Cold-pressed carrier oils: pressed without heat, so the oil keeps what heat would strip out
- Whole botanicals: shade-dried and milled in small batches, not bought as extract powder
- Steam-distilled hydrosols and essential oils: petals and water, nothing standing in for either
- Classical recipes: kumkumadi, ubtan, daspushpadi, in proportions we did not invent
- Small batches: small enough for one person to check each one
Plant oils and butters
Cold-pressed seed, nut and fruit oils plus unrefined butters. The base of 53 of our 75 products.
Essential oils
Steam-distilled from flowers, leaves, resins and roots. Every GraceYes scent comes from these. There is no parfum.
Whole plants, powders and clays
Whole herbs, shade-dried powders, mineral clays and natural exfoliants, milled in small runs.
Hydrosols, juices and infusions
Steam-distilled floral waters, fresh juices and herb-infused bases: the water phase, when there is one.
Plant-derived functional actives
Actives taken from botanical sources rather than synthesised.
Emulsifiers, surfactants and structurers
Plant-derived processing ingredients that give a cream or wash its texture. Eco-certified where a certification exists.
Preservatives
Only in water-based formulas, and only one: Sensicare, an eco-certified preservative system. Water-free oils, balms and powders carry none.
Saponification and base ingredients
Lye (sodium hydroxide) turns oils into soap. None of it remains unreacted in a finished bar.
Animal-derived ingredients
From bees or dairy. These products are not vegan, and we say so on the label.