Beauty with Conscious Living

An older way to glow.

Small-batch botanical sticks, pressed by hand from recipes remembered by generations. Purposefully-crafted functional blends — inspired by ancient skincare secrets, made for modern skin.

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Rooted

In the old ways

Ancestral recipes, sourced from the hands and soils they've always grown in.

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Pure

Nothing borrowed

No synthetics. No fillers. Nothing hidden behind a pretty label.

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Radiant

By nature's design

Skin that remembers what it's meant to do — calm, balanced, quietly alive.

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Founder's Story

Business and conscious living are two sides of the same coin.

A warm, loving gift received during the 2022 holidays — in the form of handmade bar soap — transformed into today's Petals & Pods face wash sticks.

I have always been someone who has been a sincere explorer in the space of self-knowing. This business has become one of the ways my life expresses itself. This is also my quest to live and prove that business and conscious living are not extreme ends — but two sides of the same coin.

Founded on a 5,000-year-old skincare recipe, Nalupu / Ubtan from India — we are yet to explore more recipes.

Hand-pressed Cold-blended Small batch 5,000-year-old recipe
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The Collection

Two sticks.
Two rituals.

One belief — that the slowest, oldest way of making skincare is still the best one. Pressed by hand in the United States.

No. 01 · Best seller

Glass Skin Miracle

$38.99

2000 year old Nuruk Balhyo fermentation recipe inspired face wash

Fermented rose and goat's milk, with calendula, rice and rosehip — pressed into a glass-like finish.

Cleanser StickpH Balanced1.1 oz
No. 02 · New

Brightening One-Step Glow

$38.99

Inspired by Ayurvedic cleansing practices from 2000 BC in the Indus Valley

Turmeric, saffron and sandalwood, softened with honey and jasmine — for evening tone and quietly undoing what the sun remembers.

Cleanser StickBrightening1.1 oz
Food for Skin
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Ingredients sourced & ground.

Roots, petals and pods — traced back to the hands and soils they come from. Ground slowly, the way the recipe always asked.

How the Recipes Are Cooked
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Expert-guided mixing & blending.

Small batches, cold-pressed under expert hands. No high heat, no synthetics — just what the recipe asks for, and nothing it doesn't.

From the Earth's Oldest Recipes
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Quality check & packaging.

Every stick is quality-checked and packaged by hand before it reaches yours. Small batches. No exceptions.

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Every Ingredient Has a 1,000-Year Story

Every ingredient has a
1,000-year story.

Every ingredient has a 1,000-year story. That the earth has always known what skin needs — and the best thing we can do is get out of the way.

Rajasthan · India
Adaptogenic · Calming · Ancient

Ashwagandha

A 3,000-year-old Ayurvedic root. Calms inflammation, strengthens the skin barrier and restores a quiet, balanced glow.

Kashmir Valley
Hand-picked · Brightening · Rare

Saffron

Hand-picked threads revered in Ayurveda for restoring luminosity and gently lifting the appearance of dark spots.

Mediterranean · Kashmir
Nourishing · Softening · Timeless

Almonds

Rich in Vitamin E and fatty acids. Used for centuries across Ayurvedic traditions to deeply nourish and soften skin.

Zero Waste

The World We
Come Back To.

Everything that comes into existence dissolves back into the same existence without any trace, with a minimal to zero disruption. We are one step ahead in making it all happen.

What Our Community Says

Skin, remembered.

★★★★★

"It don't feel like I need a lot of other product on my face when I use it"

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Customer Review
Sprouts Market · San Francisco

More reviews coming soon — follow us @petalsandpods

Conscious Living

Bigger than
skin.

Essays on ritual, seasonality and slower living — from the hands that make your skincare.

Meditate with Us

Every breath, thought, and action — in alignment with Mother Nature. There's a lot that can be spoken, and yet there is nothing to be said. Silence and stillness is all there is. Meditate with us.

Sourced botanicalsIngredient
Spring · 04 Issue

The kitchen that became a skincare lab

On growing up with haldi in the medicine cabinet — and why every stick we press begins in a kitchen.

SaffronOrigins
Winter · 02 Issue

Letters from the saffron harvest

A week in the Kashmir Valley with the women who pick every thread by hand at first light.

Making processCraft
Winter · 01 Issue

Why we refuse to scale

Small batch is not a marketing story. It's a decision we make every Monday, when we start pressing the week's sticks.

Ashwagandha rootRitual
Spring · 03 Issue

A slower morning, in five gestures

How to turn cleansing into a quiet morning practice — the case for a single stick, a slow breath, and nothing else.

Pure ingredientsSeasonal
Autumn · 04 Issue

What the earth is doing right now

A quick letter on seasonal shifts — and the two or three things we do differently when the light changes.

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