My Story

In a corner of the old Levant, where desert winds meet the breath of the sea, the world's most enduring soap recipe was born.

A thousand years ago, trading caravans carved their paths from Nablus to Andalusia, from Aleppo to Venice, carrying golden bars of olive oil and laurel: the first hard soap humanity had ever known. In the laboratories of Baghdad and Damascus, alchemists stirred oil and lye in copper cauldrons over slow flames, drawing from the earth a luxury fit for the palaces of kings, the bathhouses of Córdoba, and the spice-scented markets of Venice.
I'm Mai, a daughter of the Levant in a faraway land, a mother who builds with her own hands what was never built for her. I am a certified organic skincare formulator, trained at Formula Botanica in the United Kingdom, with a Diploma in Organic Skincare Formulation and a Certificate in Natural Cosmetic Preservation. This is where ancient wisdom meets modern rigor.

I started Levantine Botanica in my small kitchen, blending oils the way women blended them a thousand years before me, but with the precision of a craft I have studied and the standards I have honored. Not simply to make soap, but to mend a thread that had nearly broken between me and my ancestors.
Levantine Botanica was born from passion, from that ancient memory, and from these two trained hands.

Every bar here is a small caravan.
It carries oud, the breath of kings, the perfume of caliphs' courts, the smoke that rose from incense burners in palaces of the East.

It carries jasmine that climbed the old walls of Damascus, Damask rose gathered at a dewy dawn, amber that crossed the seas in chests of fragrant wood, and the wisdom of olive oil aged a thousand years in clay jars.

We don't make products. We rewrite a recipe our ancestors wrote in ink of oil and perfume, with hands that know the past and eyes that see tomorrow.
Levantine Botanica. Where the soul of the past meets the spirit of tomorrow.