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Nº 01 — The Flagship Cleanser

this is
face wash.

Rose + Sandalwood powder face wash in a corked apothecary glass bottle, morning light
Rose + Sandalwood, 50 gSmall batch · India

A loose powder of nine botanicals — rose, sandalwood, oats, kaolin — pressed into a soft cream with water, fresh each morning. The way cleansers were made before plastic bottles needed preserving.

★4.88 from 91 reviews

Introductory ₹565 list ₹799 · 50 g

Shop Rose + Sandalwood — ₹565 Oily skin? Neem + Turmeric

Thirty seconds at the sink — · free shipping across India

The dossier — Nº 01Soap-free
Water content
0.0% — waterless by design
Preservatives
0 — none needed
Soap & sulphates
None. Low foam, on purpose
Field rating
★4.88 — 91 reviews
The Morning Press

Thirty seconds.
Three gestures.

No pump, no gel, no guesswork. The cleanser is finished in your palm — which is why nothing in the jar ever needs a preservative.

01 The pour

A teaspoon of powder, into a damp palm.

Rose, sandalwood, oats, kaolin. It smells like ingredients you have at home — because that is what it is.

02 The press

A few drops of water. Press.

The powder wakes into a soft, quiet cream. Low foam — by design, not by accident. Foam is a detergent's trick; it was never the point.

03 The rinse

Rinse. Nothing left behind.

No film. No squeak. None of that tight, pulled feeling — your skin simply feels like itself, clean.

“The powder formula is super gentle and turns into a soft lather when mixed with water.” — from the reviews

Try the press — ₹565
Rose + Sandalwood bottle beaded with water, powder pressed into a cream
No foam · no tightness · soap-free
Why powder

That squeaky-clean feeling isn't clean. It's stripped.

The tightness after washing is what harsh sulphate cleansers leave behind — skin scrubbed of the very oils it spent all night making. We simply never invited them in.

Our cleansers are waterless powders. Where there is no water, nothing spoils — so there is nothing to preserve. Zero preservatives, zero chemicals: ingredients so simple you could eat most of them.

Skincare can be 100% natural. That isn't a slogan; it's the entire company.

The Raw Alchemy credo — point one of three
Two formulas, one method

Choose your cleanser.

The same waterless press, tuned to two temperaments of skin. Introductory ₹565 each, shipped free.

Rose + Sandalwood powder face wash against a warm terracotta wall
Nº 01 — The original

Rose + Sandalwood

For dry & sensitive skin

Nine botanicals — rose, sandalwood, oats, kaolin — for skin that hates being stripped. No squeak, no tightness.

₹565 list ₹799introductory · free shipping Shop Nº 01

★ 4.88  ·  91 reviews
Neem + Turmeric powder face wash in a corked glass bottle
Nº 02 — Just launchedNew

Neem + Turmeric

For oily & acne-prone skin

The flagship's sharper twin: neem, turmeric, kasturi haldi. Oil control, without the squeak.

₹565 list ₹799introductory · free shipping Shop Nº 02

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From 91 verified reviews
4.88/ 5

An improbable number, for a face wash that arrives as powder.

The reviews, verbatim

Ninety-one people, on the record.

i.
Gently exfoliates and cleanses your skin, leaving an even shine… no preservatives and packaging is really cute.
Verified review — 5 stars
ii.
The powder formula is super gentle and turns into a soft lather when mixed with water… noticed a natural glow after a few weeks!
Verified review — 5 stars
iii.
Smells like actual ingredients that you have at home. Really happy.
Verified review — 5 stars
iv.
My skin feels extremely clean and hydrated for a long time after using this face wash.
Verified review — 5 stars
v.
Generates very less foam which protects from eyes burning. Easy to carry as a daily essential.
Verified review — 5 stars
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House Notes

Asked, answered. Briefly.

Anything longer, ask Anaya — our concierge on WhatsApp at rawalchemy.in.

Why is my face wash a powder?

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Because water is what spoils. A waterless powder needs no preservative system at all — you add the water yourself, seconds before it touches your skin. The cleanser is made fresh twice: once in our small batches, once in your palm.

Will it foam?

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A little — low foam, by design. Big foam comes from the same harsh sulphates that leave skin tight and squeaky. One reviewer put it plainly: “generates very less foam which protects from eyes burning.”

Is it really 100% natural?

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Yes. Zero chemicals, zero preservatives — ingredients so simple you could eat most of them. Every label reads like a pantry shelf: oats, rose, sandalwood, kaolin clay, hibiscus.

Which cleanser is mine?

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Skin that runs dry or sensitive: Rose + Sandalwood, Nº 01. Skin that runs oily or breakout-prone: Neem + Turmeric, Nº 02. Same press, same introductory price — ₹565.

What does delivery cost?

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Nothing. Shipping is free across India, on every order — no minimums, no codes to hunt for.

Hands in a soft robe holding the Rose + Sandalwood bottle
Made fresh, in small batches, in India
Where this comes from

Your grandmother would recognise every ingredient.

These are ubtan-era botanicals — the roses, sandalwoods and turmerics of a much older Indian dressing table — milled finer for the way we live now.

Everything is made fresh in small batches in India, and every formula is revisited monthly against what customers tell us. When something can be simpler, it gets simpler.

i.Skincare can — and should — be 100% natural.
ii.Ingredients so simple you could eat most of them. Zero chemicals, zero preservatives.
iii.Keep improving. Formulations iterate monthly on customer feedback.
The first gesture

Begin tomorrow morning.

Rose + Sandalwood if your skin runs dry or sensitive. Neem + Turmeric if it runs oily. Introductory ₹565 each, shipped free, made fresh when you order.

Shop Rose + Sandalwood — ₹565 Oily skin? Neem + Turmeric

★ 4.88 from 91 reviews · thirty seconds at the sink · free shipping