FROM SOIL TO SOUL
Raven Botanicals is a sister-led skincare brand with deep roots in love, resilience, and a profound respect for nature.
From their rural apothecary, Arabella and Charlotte create a unique range of products to care for and nourish the skin - at every stage in life.
OUR ROOTS
"Growing up, we were free-range kids canoeing down the river with our collie dog, gathering hedgerow herbs, and making potions inspired by our mum’s encyclopaedic knowledge of plants. Our dad, a sculptor, taught us to see the beauty in wildness. Ahead of his time, plastic was banned from our home. Art, nature, and care shaped everything."
From our rural-coastal apothecary in rural Scotland, we create high-performance, plant-based products that nourish skin and soul at every stage of life. Our skincare is more than skin deep; it’s a tribute to our upbringing, a love letter to the land, and a daily ritual of self-care focused on confidence and positive self esteem.
With backgrounds in botany and fine art, we’ve combined our passions to craft skincare that honours the Scottish landscape. Using extracts from the hills and coastline alongside the finest ethically sourced ingredients, our formulations are rooted in ritual and designed to support both skin health and self-esteem.
In a world where 72% of people struggle with low confidence linked to their skin, we’re here to change the story - one powerful product at a time.
WHY THE RAVEN?
As children, we rescued injured crows from traps along the riverbank. Two stayed with us long-term, becoming beloved members of our family. Their intelligence, resilience, and spirit left a lasting impression. Silhouettes of birds in flight - like this one, seen in our father’s sculpture - now shape our brand’s identity.
The raven is our symbol of transformation, connection, and care.
OUR VALUES
HIGH PERFORMANCE
We create beautiful products that are a pleasure to use, but most importantly WORK to address skin concerns. We don't use product bases and 'flavour' with essential oils or use white label ready-made formulations. Everything we make is formulated and handmade by us in our rural East Lothian studio.
PLANET POSITIVE
We partner with Ecologi to plant a tree for each product we sell and also make regular product donations to Women's Aid. We use many UK grown ingredients and support ethical supply chains for ingredients grown outside the UK. We also use circular ingredients like grape seed and raspberry seed oils in our luxurious products.
RESPONSIBLY SOURCED
From golden sea buckthorn hand-picked on the ancient East Lothian coastline to Scottish lavender grown just sixty miles away, we source ingredients locally and from the UK, where possible. UK grown ingredients we use include white poppy, arvensis, hemp, blackcurrant, sea buckthorn, borage, nettle, lavender and rosemary.
VEGAN & CRUELTY FREE
We are proudly accredited by Cruelty Free International and endorsed by the Compassionate Shopping Guide and will never use ingredients that have been tested on animals - or test our own products on animals. All of our products are vegan.
PALM OIL FREE
As well as being bad for biodiversity and eroding small farming communities, palm production is a major cause of deforestation, habitat loss, soil degradation and greenhouse gas emissions. Raven Botanicals is a palm oil free company.
REUSE, REFILL, RECYCLE
We supply our products in widely recyclable materials like glass and aluminium and all of our pumps and droppers are reusable. Our packaging is deliberately simple and we protect your products in transit with biodegradable plant-based packing peanuts which dissolve on contact with water.
