Origin
We choose carefully, then we check the sourcing.
Most of what goes into a nudemood formula comes through cosmetic ingredient suppliers, not us traveling to pick it ourselves — but we choose those suppliers deliberately, and we ask where their raw materials actually come from.
From source to skin
Our process
01
Searched
We don't default to the easiest supplier — we look for ones who can actually tell us where their materials come from.
02
Chosen
Every ingredient has to earn its place — picked for what it actually does on skin, not what's trending.
03
Formulated
Mixed and refined in small batches, by hand, until the texture, scent, and feel are exactly right.
Where the search has taken us
Nature doesn’t stop at the border.
Shea butter from Ghana, worked the way it’s been worked for generations. A jojoba field in the Argentine desert. A single, ancient mastic tree on a Greek island, tapped for its resin the same unhurried way it was a thousand years ago. We didn’t want our ingredient list to stop at whatever’s easiest to order nearby — the world genuinely grows better things in some places than others, and that’s worth noticing, not hiding. Wander the map below.
Where it comes from
Ghana
Shea butter, made the way it's been made for generations — long before "shea butter" was a skincare buzzword.
Shea Butter