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Dusk Oil
Rosehip & Himalayan Apricot Face Oil. Cold-pressed rosehip and apricot kernel, infused with saffron for eleven days before bottling. Sinks in; doesn’t sit.
For dry and normal skin, and for oily skin in winter.
Small batch · 400 bottles per press
Saanjh is four products, pressed in small batches in Haldwani from ingredients grown within three hundred kilometres of it. No actives we can’t explain. No range we can’t personally test.
Indian humidity and hard water
24 months, no synthetic preservative
Haldwani — 3–6 days pan-India
We restock when a batch is ready, not when it sells out. Sometimes that means waiting.
Bestseller · In stock
Rosehip & Himalayan Apricot Face Oil. Cold-pressed rosehip and apricot kernel, infused with saffron for eleven days before bottling. Sinks in; doesn’t sit.
For dry and normal skin, and for oily skin in winter.
In stock
1% Bakuchiol + 3% Niacinamide. Bakuchiol at 1% — the strength that has actual trial data behind it, not the 0.1% that lets a brand put it on the label.
Pairs with the Dusk Oil, not with prescription tretinoin.
In stock
Chickpea, Turmeric, Oat. You mix it in your palm. Chickpea flour, Kumaon turmeric, colloidal oat. No surfactants, so it won’t strip.
Twice a week, not daily.
Sold out — restocks 14 September
Rose hydrosol distilled in Kannauj and vetiver from Bharatpur.
For re-wetting skin before the oil, and for the last week of May.
Full formula · Nothing withheld
| % | Ingredient | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 42% | Rosehip seed oil (Rosa canina), cold-pressed | Linoleic acid, barrier repair |
| 28% | Himalayan apricot kernel oil (Prunus armeniaca) | Oleic acid, slip |
| 12% | Sea buckthorn fruit oil (Hippophae rhamnoides) | Carotenoids, tone |
| 9% | Sunflower seed oil, high-oleic | Carrier |
| 6% | Saffron infusion (Crocus sativus), 11-day cold macerate | Traditional brightening |
| 3% | Vitamin E (tocopherol) | Antioxidant, shelf stability |
Three to four drops on damp skin, at night, after the mist or after washing. Press it in rather than rubbing. In summer, two drops is plenty.
Behind the ear, 24 hours, before the first full use. Sea buckthorn is a common enough sensitiser that we’d rather you found out on your ear.
Prescription tretinoin on the same night. Leave 24 hours between. If you’re using both, the bot on this page can lay out a week.
The apricot kernels come from Sarmoli, above Munsyari in Pithoragarh, pressed by the women’s collective there between July and August. We buy the whole season’s kernel oil in one go and it sets what we can make that year — which is why the Dusk Oil is a 400-bottle batch and not a 4,000-bottle one.
Turmeric is from Kumaon, bought at Haldwani mandi. Rose hydrosol is the one thing that travels: Kannauj, because nobody in the hills distils rose at the quality we need. Sea buckthorn is Lahaul, in Himachal, which is 480 km away and the reason that line says “mostly.”
“I have combination skin and every oil I’d tried before sat on top and gave me closed comedones along my jaw within a week. Three weeks in with this one, none. I use two drops, not four — four is too much for Pune in June.”
“Bought this because retinol was making me peel in 80% humidity. It’s slower — I didn’t see anything for six weeks — but no peeling and my pigmentation from last year has faded maybe a third. Would like a 30ml size.”
“Our water is very hard and my face felt tight after every wash. The ubtan doesn’t do that. The turmeric does stain a light towel, be warned — I keep a separate one now.”