Essential Care (recently renamed Odylique – which means ‘power of nature’) was launched as a family company in 2003. Margaret, one of the founders, began making skin care from natural ingredients over 30 years ago. ‘Conventional’ cosmetics didn’t suit her allergy-prone skin and she was desperate to find a remedy for her family’s eczema problems. She felt there must be a healthier, more effective way to make skin care than using petroleum and artificial additives. So, armed with qualifications in herbal medicine and aromatherapy, and a passion for the genius of nature, she set about creating truly effective formulations, based only on organic herbs, plant oils and natural active ingredients that were compatible with the most sensitive skin.

Odylique is hand-made in their Suffolk workshop – not outsourced to a factory. This is quite unusual in skin care manufacturing and it ensures you the highest level of product quality and freshness.

Their philosophy is simple: All ingredients must have therapeutic value, and the product must be a joy to use. This means they use actives - herbs and essential oils - in therapeutic concentrations for optimum benefit. Plant oils must be virgin and cold-pressed so that they have their full antioxidant vitamin-content intact, so as to actively nourish the skin and protect it from premature ageing.

 Odylique and Essential Care products are free from synthetic chemicals and are all certified to strict Soil Association organic standards. They were one of the first companies to create certified organic cosmetics and follow the precautionary principle to formulate the purest cosmetics possible.
Their products are tested on a panel of human volunteers who have sensitive and allergy-prone skin. They NEVER test on animals. They ensure that their raw materials suppliers and all their distributors follow the same policy.

Their ethics also encompass fair trade and responsible packaging.