FROM SOIL TO SOUL
Raven Botanicals is an intelligent skincare brand for ethical beauty buyers.
From their rural apothecary, sisters Arabella and Charlotte create a unique range of products to care for and nourish the skin - at every stage in life.
"We lived a free-range childhood in the Borders of Scotland, surrounded by art and nature. Influenced by our Mum's encyclopaedic knowledge of plants and our Dad's landscape-inspired sculpture, we turned a childhood passion for plant-based potions into a botanical skincare range focused on skin health and positive self esteem.
With backgrounds in botany and fine art, we take plant extracts from the ancient Scottish land and coastline and blend them with the finest ethically sourced ingredients to create an unforgettable skincare experience, made to nourish skin and soul."
WHY THE RAVEN?
Our brand name is a nod to a unique childhood, having grown up alongside a series of characterful rescued corvids.
We're not focused on halting the natural ageing process, but on helping people to feel confident in their own skin. Self-worth is everything!
We hope you love our products as much as we love creating them for you.
Arabella & Charlotte
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.
