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Ritika Sahni in a red saree with a lace blouse

Profile · Issue 01 · pages 26–27

Ritika Sahni

Ritika Sahni and the skincare brand she started in her kitchen

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She mixed her first batch of face oil in a steel pressure-cooker pot. Her brand now ships to eleven countries.

Ritika Sahni was working in advertising when she started mixing oils in her kitchen in Bandra, looking for something that would not irritate her skin in the Mumbai humidity.

"I made it because I could not find it," she says.

Friends asked for bottles. Then friends of friends. Seven years later her brand employs sixty people and ships to eleven countries, and the first formula is still on sale, unchanged.

“I made it because I could not find it.”