Our Story
Born of the forest. Built by hand.
Vanaushadhi is a quiet rebellion against everything modern skincare has become.
Our work is rooted in vanaspati chikitsa — the medicine of forest plants: knowing which leaves to pick at sunrise, which roots to dig in monsoon, and which flowers have to wait for the moon. Formulas like these — slow, seasonal, alive — rarely make it onto a mass-market shelf. They are too patient for the modern marketplace.
We started Vanaushadhi to bring that patience back. Our soaps are cured slowly, our oils are given time to mature, and our ubtans are ground fresh, in small batches, by hands that learned the work from someone who learned it from someone before.
We aren't a brand chasing scale. We're an apothecary keeping a 5,000-year-old conversation alive — between the forest, the body, and the rituals that connect them.
— The Vanaushadhi family
Our Promise
- · Never synthetic fragrance, parabens, sulphates or silicones
- · Never animal-tested, never gelatin, never compromise
- · Always wild-harvested under fair-trade partnerships
- · Always traceable from forest to bottle, with batch numbers you can verify
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Source
We work with small family farms in the Himalayan foothills, favouring wild-grown and traditionally cultivated herbs.
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Craft
Cold-pressed oils. Stone-ground powders. Slow-cured soaps. Nothing is rushed — because the medicine isn't either.
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Care
Thoughtful packaging, honest labels, and shipping across India.
A note on Ayurveda
Not a trend. A 5,000-year-old science.
Every formula we make is rooted in the Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita — the foundational Sanskrit texts of Ayurvedic medicine — and reviewed by qualified Ayurvedic practitioners before it leaves our workshop.