The remarkable story of India’s rarest skincare gem 'Shata Dhauta Ghrita', a 5,000-year-old Ayurvedic cream is an eye-opener! This ghee cream is so rare that most people in India have never heard of or even held a jar of Shata Dhauta Ghrita, even when it is a part of rich Indian Ayurveda culture!
What Is Shata Dhauta Ghrita?
Literally meaning “100 times washed ghee”, this cream is made by washing pure cow’s ghee 100 times in a copper vessel with cool water, an intensive Ayurvedic process described in ancient texts like Charaka Samhita. The result is a silken, cooling, and deeply nourishing cream that penetrates the skin at the deepest cellular level.
The World is Looking at this Cream, why Indians are not?
Why Is Shata Dhauta Ghrita so Rare and Mostly Exported?
Most of Shata Dhauta Ghrita is often sold as luxury skincare at high-end boutiques in Europe and the U.S, because:
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Shata Dhauta Ghrita is a labor‑intensive, time‑consuming and pricey process that requires huge quantity of ghee to process a few bottles of this face cream. It has been quite unaffordable in India for a long time.
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Making Shata Dhauta Ghrita is an elaborate process that may take over 10 hours to process ghee into this luxurious face cream, and it is done entirely by hand and the quantity produced is very less, only made by few artisans in India.
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The raw materials alone including pure desi cow’s ghee and copper vessel need to be high quality, which adds to its high cost.
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Only a few Ayurvedic practitioners in India retain the knowledge to make it authentically making it a rare face cream.
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Increase in Shata Dhauta Ghrita's global demand, especially from overseas wellness and skincare markets (USA, Europe, Japan), means many artisans or small manufacturers dedicate most of their stock to exports, where they can command higher prices.
These facts came as a part of research when SVARASYA started making Shata Dhauta Ghrita using the classical method, despite its rarity.
Why You Should Try It?
- One solution for most skin conditions including hyperpigmentation, premature aging, wrinkles, dry rough skin, skin moisturization.
- Safe for kids, for people with sensitive skin, and for chronic skin conditions
- Treats burns, rashes, eczema, hyperpigmentation, and premature aging
- Free of endocrine disrupting chemicals such as parabens, phthalates and SLS