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Powerful Natural Ingredients

Harnessing the wisdom of Ayurveda for healthy skin

Pongamia Glabra

Pongamia Glabra

Sanskrit: Karanja | Family: Papilionaceae

A miraculous tree renowned for its powerful antibacterial, antifungal, and insecticidal properties, highly effective for chronic skin infections.

English Name
Indian Beech Tree
Ayurvedic Habitat
Common all over India, thriving from the central Himalayas down to southern India and Ceylon. Possesses six traditional varieties, including Karanjika (Kanta-karanja).
Parts Sourced & Properties
All parts are active. Possesses powerful vermicidal, insecticidal, and bactericidal properties, making it highly valuable in dermatological treatments.
Key Active Constituents
Seeds contain 27% to 36% fatty oils with traces of essential oil. Rich in three crystalline substances: karanjin, pongamol, and glabrin. Karanjin is responsible for the curative skin action.
Medicinal & Clinical Uses
Oil is directly applied to soothe and treat scabies, chronic sores, herpes, and eczema (often mixed with zinc oxide). Leaf juice destroys maggots and septic pathogens in ulcers and fistulous sores. Bark is used internally to treat bleeding piles.
Bees Wax

Bees Wax

Sanskrit: Madhujan | English: Cera Flava

Yellow beeswax functions as an emollient and preservative, locking in moisture and forming a soothing, non-clogging protective barrier.

Traditional Prep
Yellow beeswax is obtained by pressing organic honeycombs after honey extraction, melting them in hot spring water, and purifying them multiple times before molding.
Key Active Constituents
Contains 80% melissyl palmitate, 15% free cerotic acid, small quantities of aromatic esters, cerolin, and melissyl stearate.
Medicinal & Clinical Uses
Acts as a highly soothing emollient, demulcent, and natural preservative. It is widely used as a primary structural base in healing plasters and skin ointments, forming a mild, breathable protective sheath over irritated skin.
Sal Tree Resin

Sal Tree Resin

Sanskrit: Sarjarasa | Family: Dipterocarpaceae

A robust, tannin-rich natural resin that acts as an astringent and stimulant to accelerate healing and form a protective shield.

English Name
Sal Tree Resin (Shorea Robusta)
Ayurvedic Habitat
Sourced from the bark of Shorea Robusta trees natively growing in the sub-Himalayan region and the deep forest zones of West Bengal.
Key Active Constituents
The bark is exceptionally rich in natural tannic principles and yields a highly astringent herbal extract when boiled in pure water.
Medicinal & Clinical Uses
The purified exudate resin serves as a mild astringent and tissue stimulant. It unifies beautifully with fixed healing oils to build premium ointments for treating deep ulcers, chilblains, cracks, and painful skin lesions.
Coconut Oil

Coconut Oil

Sanskrit: Tranaraj | Family: Palmae

A time-tested Ayurvedic antiseptic base oil that deeply nourishes dry skin, reduces inflammation, and speeds up cellular recovery.

English Name
Coconut Palm Oil (Cocos Nucifera)
Ayurvedic Habitat
Sourced from majestic palms rising 60 to 90 feet, extensively cultivated in coastal zones across southern India and Ceylon.
Parts Sourced & Properties
Flowers, roots, fruits, pure oil, and ash are all traditionally used in Ayurvedic preparations for their rubefacient and antiseptic benefits.
Key Active Constituents
Contains free caprylic acid in addition to high-affinity glycerides of lauric, myristic, palmitic, and stearic acids that reinforce the skin's lipid barrier.
Medicinal & Clinical Uses
Extremely emollient, rubefacient, and antiseptic. Applied externally to speed wound closure, deeply hydrate dry skin conditions, and provide a clean, sterile lipid foundation for the therapeutic herbs.
Kaolin Clay

Kaolin Clay

Sanskrit: Gairika | Hindi: Chikmimati

A soft, refrigerant calcareous earth with hydrous silicates of alumina that detoxifies skin, reduces swelling, and absorbs impurities.

English Name
Kaolinite, Kaolin, Red Ochre (Red Lumber Stone)
Mineral Composition
A natural red earth refined by purifying native white feldspar. Pure Kaolin is comprised of 70% Alumina, 26% Silica, and 4% Iron Oxide.
Key Active Properties
Highly cooling (refrigerant), astringent, and acts as a powerful physical absorbent that binds and lifts bacterial toxins.
Medicinal & Clinical Uses
Used as a soothing paste for old, chronic septic wounds. Delivers exceptional, rapid results in tissue deodorization, swelling reduction, and skin protection. It removes septic elements from the skin safely, without the harsh irritation common to surgical chemical antiseptics.
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