Every formula begins in a classical text
Kumkumadi is described in the Ashtanga Hridayam. Nalpamaradi comes from the Sahasrayogam. We keep their classical names so you can look them up yourself.
Our storyFrom the texts
From the texts
to your skin
How a Mayukh formula comes to be, in four chapters.
Sesame oil, warmed low for hours
Saffron and sixteen botanicals are infused into sesame oil over a gentle flame, the way the texts describe it. It takes time, so we give it time.
Ghee, washed in copper a hundred times
For Shatadhauta Ghrita, ghee is washed with cool water in a copper bowl, again and again, until it turns into a light, cool cream.
Three drops, pressed in at night
A ritual is two or three steps, morning or night. Nothing more is asked of you.
