Botanical Ingredients

You may have always assumed that your fondness for vanilla was simply a matter of personal taste. However, the science suggests that your preference is shared by people almost everywhere. In a 2022 study published in Current Biology, researchers asked people from nine non-Western communities across three continents, along with a group from New York, to rank the pleasantness of a range of odours. The scent ranked most pleasant across these very different cultures was vanilla (

Long before laboratories and clinical trials, clove was already trusted. In the Ayurvedic tradition it is known as lavanga, and it has been used for over two thousand years as an antiseptic, a pain reliever, and a warming remedy for the body's quieter discomforts. The earliest written evidence of cloves being used as food or medicine dates back to around 300 BC.

What would it look like to build an exfoliant around forgiveness instead of force? The answer was sugar, and it has anchored every formula we have made since.

The bright, sunlit scent that fills the air is not just a pleasant memory: It is the beginning of everything sweet orange essential oil brings to your skin and your senses.

It is tempting to judge a natural product one ingredient at a time, oil by oil, note by note, the way you might read a perfume's notes off the box. But a formula is not a list. It is an architecture, and the carrier is the foundation everything else is built on. A remarkable essential oil poured into a poor carrier is a remarkable ingredient wasted, no matter how good it smelled in the bottle. That is the standard we hold every product in the YeşilGüzellik range to, long befo

It would be easy to treat ingredient sourcing as a story we tell after the formula is already finished. We do not work that way. Every sourcing decision at YeşilGüzellik starts with a question about your skin.

It is worth pausing to acknowledge that the cooling-warming paradox of ginger and mint is not something that was designed in a laboratory. These plants developed their active compounds — gingerols, shogaols, menthol — through millions of years of evolution, for their own survival purposes. We are borrowing a small portion of their chemical intelligence and applying it to our skin.