Article content A type of clarified butter, ghee is widely considered to be a staple in South Asian cuisine. The benefits of the golden-hued ingredient go far beyond food. Interested in exploring the nutritional value of ghee — it’s a — entrepreneurs and siblings Arati and Varun Sharma are putting it front and centre in their Toronto-based We caught up with the co-founders to learn more: Ghlee is the first ghee-based skin care brand.
We’re on a mission to use ghee where it is the most effective. We actually never set out to be skin-care founders — what we were more passionate about was innovating and working on the science behind ghee and its effectiveness on skin. So you won’t see us force-fitting ghee into products that won’t produce results for our customers.
Ghee offers a wealth of unique wellness and skin-care benefits. In Ayurvedic practices, ghee is prescribed topically for dry skin, burns, and is beneficial for hyperpigmentation. The challenge to bring it into modern skin care that can be used in a lip balm, or other forms, is shelf stability.
This is why we at the Ghlee team worked with our lab and skin-care chemist to create a first-of-its-kind formula that keeps ghee stable and a 12 month shelf life, comparable or higher than most skin-care products. Ghee is a type of clarified butter found in most South Asian kitchens around the world. Typically, ghee is used as a cooking oil and condiment — it is an extremely nourishing fat that is rich in fatty a.
