Fine Line Moisturizer

The seeds are cold-pressed to extract a highly concentrated oil, preserving its beneficial gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) content.

Borage Oil rejuvenates and deeply moisturizes the skin while providing strong soothing and calming benefits, making it an essential ingredient in Shankara’s nourishing products.

Ylang Ylang is steam-distilled from fresh flowers to capture its rich floral essence. This extraction process preserves the delicate aromatic compounds, delivering its sweet, exotic fragrance and therapeutic benefits.

Ylang Ylang relaxes the mind, uplifts mood, and purifies the skin. Known for its soothing and balancing properties, it is commonly used in aromatherapy blends and skincare formulations. This floral essence promotes relaxation, calms the mind, and helps balance oil production in the skin.

The precious essence of roses is captured through extraction methods like steam distillation, ensuring its numerous benefits are delivered directly to the skin. Steam distillation, in particular, preserves the delicate properties of rose petals, capturing their pure essence for use in skincare and wellness products. Whether used for their rejuvenating effects, uplifting fragrance, or emotional balancing properties, roses remain a beloved and essential ingredient in natural skincare.

Roses, revered for their beauty, fragrance, and therapeutic properties, are an essential skincare ingredient. Deeply moisturizing, antioxidant-rich, and naturally rejuvenating, they offer a multitude of benefits. Roses soothe and cool, making them particularly beneficial for dry, inflamed, irritated, or sensitive skin, helping to reduce redness and calm excess heat. Their high vitamin C content promotes collagen production, improving skin elasticity and reducing the appearance of fine lines. Furthermore, the antioxidant-rich nature of roses protects against environmental stressors, promoting a youthful and radiant complexion. These qualities make roses a cherished ingredient in various skincare routines, contributing to both skin health and a sense of well-being.

Cold pressing of evening primrose seeds produces an oil rich in gamma-linolenic acid, ensuring its hydrating and soothing properties are retained.

Evening primrose oil is a nutrient-dense elixir, rich in antioxidants and essential fatty acids that deeply nourish, hydrate, and restore the skin’s natural balance. Its soothing and replenishing properties help maintain a healthy, radiant complexion while supporting overall skin resilience and vitality.

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is native to South Asia, particularly India and Southeast Asia. It thrives in tropical climates with high rainfall and is widely cultivated in India, China, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and parts of Africa and Central America. India is the largest producer and exporter of turmeric, where it has been used for traditional medicine, cooking, and religious rituals.

Turmeric root, widely celebrated in Ayurveda for over 4,000 years, is a powerful natural remedy with holistic benefits for the body and skin. Known for its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, turmeric helps reduce hyperpigmentation, dark spots, and dullness, while promoting a radiant, even-toned complexion. It soothes irritation and sensitive skin conditions like eczema and rosacea, and its antibacterial properties fight acne, prevent breakouts, and reduce scars. Additionally, turmeric aids in wound healing, helping to repair cuts, scars, and minor burns. With its versatile skin benefits, turmeric is commonly found in face masks, serums, creams, and Ayurvedic skincare formulations for its radiance-boosting, healing, and anti-aging properties.

(Native to Southern Europe, Mediterranean region)
The vibrant calendula flowers are infused in a carrier oil over time, allowing their beneficial compounds to be gently drawn out. This method preserves calendula’s soothing and protective properties.

The Calendula plant provides us with a powerful anti-oxidant and unique skin soothing compound that naturally protects the skin against infections and speeds up healing. It is known for its ability to make skin feel softer, smoother and glowing with vitality, making it ideal for calming and hydrating skincare formulations that help pacify Pitta and restore balance.

The amla fruit is either cold-pressed or dried and powdered before being infused into herbal formulations to retain its potent antioxidant and vitamin C content.

Amla, a revered Ayurvedic ingredient strengthens the skin's barrier, purifies by removing toxins, and rejuvenates by promoting cell turnover, effectively reducing the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and age spots. This trifecta of benefits makes it a powerful component in protecting against free radical damage and promoting a youthful, healthy complexion.

The Ashrwagandha root is harvested, dried, and ground into a fine powder or extracted in an alcohol-free solution to preserve its adaptogenic and skin-rejuvenating properties.

Ashwagandha is rich in antioxidants synergistically enhances the effects of the other ingredients, and helps the skin adapt to stresses (from diet and lifestyle as well as the environment), making it an essential ingredient in Shankara’s balancing formulations.