Raspberry Tulsi | Soothing Face Serum

Think about what your skin is asking for.

Dry + Depleted

When skin feels tight, thirsty or lacking softness.

Sensitive + Reactive

When your skin prefers a gentle, considered approach.

Dull + Tired

When you want nourishment and a naturally healthy-looking luminosity.

Mature + Needing Suppleness

When skin benefits from a richer supply of nourishing lipids without a heavy finish.

Out of Balance

When your skin feels like it needs less intervention and more support.

This is a serum to slow down with.

After cleansing, mist your skin with Rama Rose. Damp skin gives the oils something to settle into and helps create that beautiful, supple finish.

Place 3–5 drops of Raspberry Tulsi onto your finger tips. Take a moment to warm the serum, then gently press and smooth it over your face, neck and décolletage.

Let the serum settle into your skin. Notice the rich raspberry, the soft hint of chocolate and the quieter herbal notes of Tulsi, Elderflower and Frankincense.

There is no need to rush this part.

Use morning, evening or whenever your skin feels like it needs a little more nourishment. With regular use, the ritual becomes less about fixing your skin and more about giving it what it needs to feel comfortable, soft and cared for.

A note on using Raspberry Tulsi

Raspberry Tulsi is wonderfully versatile. Use a few drops on its own, or layer it with Rama Rose or Resin while the skin is still damp.

Please store in a cool dry place out of direct sunlight and within 12 months of opening. Our serums are packaged in recyclable violet glass bottles to protect our delicate formula and extend the shelf life.

Mäesi Apothecary believes plants are more than a collection of isolated constituents.

For Raspberry Tulsi, we work with whole plants slowly infused into cold-pressed oils, allowing their naturally occurring compounds to become part of the formula alongside the oils themselves. This creates a broad, layered botanical preparation, one that feels nourishing, rather than engineered around a single hero ingredient.

We choose each plant for what it brings to the formula: its relationship with the skin, its traditional use, its constituents, its sensory qualities and the way it complements the plants around it.

The Carrier Oils

Raspberry Seed Oil
The namesake of our serum and the most distinctive oils. Naturally rich in essential fatty acids and tocopherols, Raspberry seed oil gives the serum its beautifully light, silky character while helping to soften and nourish the skin.

Camellia Seed Oil
A beautifully elegant oil with a naturally high oleic acid content. Camellia brings softness and slip to the formula, helping the serum glide across the skin and leave it supple rather than heavy.

Jojoba
Technically a liquid wax, jojoba has an affinity with the skin's natural sebum. It helps give Raspberry Tulsi its silky, easily absorbed finish while supporting the skin's natural lipid environment.

Cacay
A nutrient-rich seed oil naturally abundant in linoleic acid and tocopherols. Cacay contributes nourishment and a beautifully smooth skin feel while complementing the lighter oils in the formula.

Rosehip Seed Oil
Traditionally treasured in botanical skincare, Rosehip brings essential fatty acids and naturally occurring carotenoids to the blend. It contributes to the serum's nourishing, restorative character.

Watermelon Seed Oil
A naturally lightweight oil rich in linoleic acid, chosen for its ability to nourish without making the serum feel dense. It helps create the fluid, elegant texture that makes Raspberry Tulsi so easy to wear.

Meadowfoam Seed Oil
Exceptionally stable and wonderfully silky, Meadowfoam helps give the formula longevity while contributing a soft, cushiony feel to the skin.

Borage Seed Oil
One of the richest botanical sources of gamma-linolenic acid (GLA), Borage brings a valuable fatty acid profile to the formulation, particularly suited to skin that feels dry or compromised.

The Whole Plants

Tulsi
Tulsi has been treasured for centuries within Ayurvedic traditions. We include it for its rich botanical profile and its relationship with skin exposed to everyday environmental stress. In Raspberry Tulsi, it also brings the subtle green, aromatic note that gives the serum its final character.

Gotu Kola
A revered botanical traditionally associated with skin repair and resilience. Its naturally occurring triterpenes make it an especially interesting plant for a formula designed around supporting skin that feels fragile or depleted.

Elderflower
Delicate, soothing and traditionally used for sensitive skin, elderflower brings a gentler botanical presence to the formula. It helps balance some of the more nutrient-dense ingredients while contributing its own antioxidant compounds.

Rose
Rose brings more than its unmistakable beauty and scent. Its naturally occurring polyphenols and flavonoids contribute antioxidant activity, while its aromatic qualities make the serum feel like a ritual rather than simply another skincare step.

Calendula
One of our most trusted skin plants. Calendula is traditionally valued for its soothing and skin-supportive qualities and brings naturally occurring flavonoids and triterpenoids to the infusion.

Lavender
Here, lavender isn't included simply for its familiar fragrance. The whole plant brings a broader botanical profile to the infusion, complementing the soothing and aromatic character of the other plants.

Frankincense
Frankincense brings a beautiful resinous depth to Raspberry Tulsi. Traditionally treasured in both medicine and ritual, it contributes aromatic resin compounds and gives the finished serum its quiet, grounding finish.

Each plant and oil has a reason for being here. Together, they create a layered botanical preparation designed to nourish the skin as a whole.

This is what we mean by whole-plant skincare: slow, considered and deeply connected to the plants themselves.

Rubus idaeus (Raspberry) Oil*, Camellia oleifera (Camellia) Oil*, Simmondsia chinensis (Jojoba) Oil*, Limnanthes alba (Meadowfoam) Oil, Caryodendron orinocense (Cacay) Oil, Rosa caina (Rosehip) Oil*, Citrullus lanatus (Watermelon) Oil, Borago officinalis (Borage) Oil, and Rosmarinus officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract*.

In House Extracts of Boswellia carterii (Frankincense)*, Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi)^*, Centella asiatica (Gotu Kola)^*, Rosa Spp (Rose)^*, Calendula officinalis (Calendula)^*, and Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender)^*.

*Organic Ingredient ^Mäesi Grown