Author name: Elara Vossen

Elara Vossen is a certified cosmetic chemist and ethnobotanist with 12 years of hands-on formulation experience specializing in anhydrous body balms. She trained in Grasse with traditional perfumers, studied lipid-based delivery systems at ETH Zurich, and co-developed sustainable wild-harvest protocols for shea and murumuru butters across West Africa and the Amazon. Her work bridges ancestral emollient wisdom with modern stability science.