the story

Six Flowers Alchemy is my passion project where creativity meets chemistry.

As a child I could be found playing in the yard making potions and elixirs out of sticks and mud, and I loved the kids’ toy that allowed me to make my own perfume. In high school I fell in love with chemistry, the science that came easiest and made the most sense to me. I thought a career in chemistry was my life path until I discovered that I didn’t want to spend all the daylight hours in a laboratory or experiment on animals.

Instead, I spent over 20 years working with plants in landscape design. I dabbled in aromatherapy and product creation for my own use for decades, and in 2020, armed with a Traditional East Asian Medicine acupuncture and herbal education, I developed products to soothe the rosacea that had overtaken my face for more than a decade. The product line quickly grew to provide remedies for friends and patients whose skincare needs were not being met elsewhere. Blemish Serum was developed for a friend’s daughter just starting to get acne, the Head Over Heels foot care products were created for a patient battling toe fungus since being in the Vietnam War, and Scar Balm was pure love for a dear friend having reconstructive surgery.

Six Flowers was named after the six most used flowers in Traditional Chinese Medicine Dermatology and because those flowers are so broadly used in my products. Alchemy comes from the precursor to chemistry, and its process of creation and transformation.