Botanical skin cream · Matte hair cream
Read the whole label. Then buy it anyway.
Two creams — one for face and body, one for hair. Every ingredient printed in full, for people who read the list before they buy.
Skin cream $88 · Hair cream $68 · Free U.S. shipping over $100
- All 20 named
- Every line explained
- No silicones
- No petroleum
- No added scent
- Made by hand
It warms at the first touch, softens, and disappears into the skin — and what stays is the quiet confidence of skin that feels looked‑after.
Named in full · Botanical Matte Hair Cream · the formulation
The label is the formula.
The entire label, by weight. Not the top of it — every ingredient, in order, each with the reason it is in there.
These are the locked formulation percentages, not estimates and not a range — but they are formulation targets rather than a weighed production card, and the exact INCI is finalized from the first weighed batch. Four figures are marked approximate: three because those ingredients arrive inside a supplier blend and are split here rather than weighed separately, and lactic acid because it is added to reach a measured pH. Two ingredients carry no figure at all: the preservative is a supplier blend of gluconolactone with sodium benzoate, 1.50% of the formula in total, and the manufacturer does not publish the split between the two — so the total is given and neither half is guessed. Nothing is left off the label. Fragrance-free: no essential oils, no synthetic “Parfum.”
The two creams
Two creams. One standard.
Both four ounces, made in Charlevoix, and printed front-to-back with everything inside. Choose one — or wear the pair.
Face + Body · 4 oz
Botanical Skin Cream
A triple-butter cream with olive squalane, niacinamide and bakuchiol. Rich, never greasy.
Scalp-safe styling · 4 oz
Botanical Matte Hair Cream
Silicone-free, for every kind of hair. Dense in the jar, then dries light.
The Meria Duo
Both creams, together — and shipping is on us. The whole routine, every ingredient named.
$140$156save $16
Free U.S. shipping · 4 oz each · ships in 3–7 business days
On the skin
A slow, deliberate minute for your skin.
Aloe
first on the skin cream, second on the hair cream.
Michigan
Where both creams are made.
100%
Of every formula, named on the label.
What you will never find inside
Made in Charlevoix, Michigan.
Notes · from the dispatch
Four short essays.
In long-form.
Meria writes about the ingredients, the formulation, and the craft — one piece at a time, never as a listicle.
01 · On formulation
Decoding moisturizers.
What actually goes into the $380 jar — five pillars that separate exceptional creams from expensive marketing.
Read the essay02 · On the label
How to read an INCI list.
The back of the jar is the brand. A short field guide to ingredient lists, in the order they actually appear.
Read the essay03 · On ingredients
Tremella mushroom in skincare.
Snow mushroom holds water with a branched molecule rather than a linear one, and sits alongside hyaluronic acid in the skin cream.
Read the essay04 · On fragrance
Natural vs synthetic fragrance.
Why Meria does not list “Parfum”. The difference between a single named extract and a 200-component fragrance blend.
Read the essayThe Dispatch · Occasional · Twice a Month at Most
A small dispatch from Meria.
An ingredient at a time. A formulation note now and then. The occasional editorial on what's wrong with the rest of the category. Sent only when there's something worth saying.
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Two creams · every ingredient named · made in Michigan
Start with the Meria Duo — $140Free U.S. shipping · Made in Charlevoix, Michigan