Every civilisation that left written records left skincare records. And the same few plants keep appearing —
chosen long before anyone could explain why. Here's a deeper look at the plants in our serums and why we chose them.
The ingredient the Tang dynasty chose first.
Cultivated on the reserve, fruiting on mango logs under shade — the same method Chinese growers have used for centuries. Yang Guifei, the Tang emperor's consort "whose face puts flowers to shame," is the legend attached to it; the chemistry is the reason it survived. Tremella's polysaccharides hold up to 500× their weight in water, and their smaller molecular weight than hyaluronic acid lets them reach deeper into the skin rather than sit on it. Clinical work has measured a 12.4% reduction in transepidermal water loss, with documented effects on collagen I and elastin, and photoprotection and melanin reduction besides. In the bottle: the mist's hydrating heart. Hydration that survives cabin air and city heat.
One of Cleopatra's beauty secrets.
Known for her lavish use of cosmetics, Queen Cleopatra relied on more than just donkey milk to maintain her legendary beauty. According to ancient fragments of papyrus, she also used to massage her skin with aloe vera gel to rejuvenate it and restore her radiant complexion.
The gel creates a film comprising 99 % water with a pH of 4.5, which is the same as the skin, making it an incredibly useful skincare product.
Grown in our farm's beds, cut and used close to raw. Its mucopolysaccharides soothe heat-stressed skin — the plant tropical cultures have reached for whenever the sun won. In the bottle: the calming base. What sun and aircon take, aloe answers first.
Witch Hazel — Hamamelis The quiet astringent.
Distilled for its tannins, it tightens and tones without stripping — the difference between a refined distillate and the harsh drugstore versions of old. In the bottle: the mist's structure. It lets the tremella sit on clean skin and dry to nothing.
The healer of two ancient canons.
A medicinal herb native to Asia, used for centuries in both Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine for wound healing and skin repair — one of the few plants both traditions claimed independently. The modern name for it in skincare, cica, is now a category of its own.
Clinically studied for soothing redness and irritation, strengthening and repairing the skin barrier, and supporting hydration — which is why it earns its place for stressed skin in any climate, tropical or airconditioned. What heat and cabin air inflame, centella calms.
The tree that purifies water, pressed for skin.
Grown on the reserve, seeds cold-pressed on the farm. The same tree whose seeds have clarified drinking water for millennia across South Asia — its oil carries that antioxidant density: stable, rich, and naturally resistant to rancidity, which is why Egyptian perfume-makers used it as a base meant to last. In the bottle: the sealing half of the ritual. A weightless barrier-layer the way skin builds its own — light enough for a tropical day.
Squalane, as the cane fields make it.
Derived from sugarcane on neighbouring Thai farms — squalane identical at the molecular level to the squalene your skin produces itself, but stable where skin's own oxidises. It absorbs without film, carrying the other actives with it.In the bottle: the oil's spread and slip. Plant-powered, nothing shark-derived, nothing petroleum.
Every ingredient you've just read, grown on one reserve, pressed and blended into two bottles. Tremella Hydrating Mist — snow fungus extract holding 500× its weight in water, with witch hazel, aloe and centella. Hydration that survives the aircon. Moringa & Sugarcane Squalane Oil — cold-pressed tree-seed oil that seals what the mist restores, the way skin seals itself. Mist to hydrate. Oil to seal. Two steps, one formula's logic — the whole routine.
A new model for skincare. Natural, limited-edition, blended in the Thai countryside. Currently full.
The March Equinox is our next harvest. A limited number of places are reserved for new members. When the 250 are claimed, the ledger is full — and the next harvest waits for the Summer Solstice.
The Pair — $184 · single bottles- Mist: $100-Oil: $84
250 claims per harvest, members first.
Next harvest: March Equinox.