BRAND SPOTLIGHT
Welcome to the Incicellar Indie Spotlight
At Incicellar, we’re passionate about more than just ingredients – we’re here to celebrate the indie brands and formulators who bring them to life. This new blog series is dedicated to giving small brands a platform to share their stories, showcase their creations, and let the world know why they love using our ingredients.
It’s all about connection: helping you get discovered by new customers, and highlighting the creativity and innovation within our growing indie community.
We’re excited to kick things off with a brand that embodies this beautifully – Dalia Botanique.
Introducing Dalia, founder and formulator of Dalia Botanique. Inspired by a love for the outdoors, she created her skincare range to repair, prevent and restore weather-damaged skin. Harnessing the power of British wildflowers, upcycled ingredients, and a true “garden to bottle” philosophy, each product is lovingly handcrafted in small batches in Yorkshire.
Why Dalia Loves Incicellar Ingredients
For Dalia, choosing ingredients goes beyond function, it’s about sourcing sustainably, supporting indie suppliers, and creating products that reflect her values. By working with upcycled and locally inspired botanicals, she ensures her formulations are both kind to the skin and to the planet.
Through Incicellar, Dalia has access to unique ingredients in smaller quantities, making it possible to craft innovative, natural skincare without the pressure of bulk buying. It’s this flexibility that allows Dalia Botanique to keep each product fresh, seasonal, and truly artisanal.
Let’s Talk Ingredients
For this post Dalia chose to talk about our water soluble rhubarb ingredient in her new face mist collection.
Orange Blossom, Rhubarb and Pea Peptide Brightening Facial Mist
A beautifully scented toner mist designed to refresh and brighten the skin.Orange Blossom, also known as Neroli, has a beautiful, delicate, sophisticated and uplifting scent which is said to boost your mood and brighten your skin.
The highlight of this toner is the Yorkshire Organically grown Rhubarb and Pea Peptide!
Together, these ingredients form the highlight of Dalia’s mist, a refreshing, brightening formula that embodies her ethos: from garden to bottle, harnessing the best of British botanicals for hardworking skin.
What Dalia Says
"Wakefield, Yorkshire, is famed for its Rhubarb and even holds an annual Rhubarb festival!When I started my skincare journey, back in 2020, I wanted to work with garden inspired ingredients and naturally began to look at what was available around me. I looked into Rhubarb and learnt how good it was for the skin, a natural source of Vitamin C, a mild exfoliator and a great antioxidant. My big local Rhubarb farm even supplied to some large skincare brands, but sadly, as an ingredient, it was out of my reach due to not having the facilities to be able to process it.
I was so happy to learn that Kezzia was stocking it! Especially as it was from Yorkshire! I began thinking of how I could use it in a product and worked out that it would be fantastic in a toner that had very mild exfoliating properties, and it would be a perfect ingredient to brighten up dull, mature skin. It's really easy to use as an ingredient, and I love how everything has been preserved and is at an optimal pH. It's results driven, ethically sourced, and the circle of production to sale is all supporting fellow small businesses."
Want to try rhubarb in your own formulations? At Incicellar, we have it available in both water-soluble and oil-solubleforms, making it easy to incorporate into a wide range of products. Explore this versatile British botanical and bring a touch of Yorkshire goodness into your skincare creations.
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